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Top 10 Most Expensive Mistakes New Restaurant Owners Make

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The high cost of marketing, salaries, appliances, ambiance, and so on will dry up incoming revenue instantly. Attend events to scout for any opportunities of vertical and horizontal mergers and tie-ups. Taking the idea that “you have to spend money to make money” too far.

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How I Started, Grew & Sold An E-commerce Business For Quarter Million Dollars ($250,000)

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

In my previous post, Why Leave A Six Figure Salaried Career For Online Entrepreneurship , I wrote about the various business ventures I have tried and tested over the years. The realization of my idea started on an international trip when I was working as a consultant in mergers and acquisitions. Little did I know back then though.

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How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees

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The salary offered (and accepted) was quite low. If the gestalt of the merger is expected to be significantly greater than the sum of the company values and cash, then the difference may be used as founders’ shares and split appropriately. After all, you have to build a business and generate your own salary.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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Options and future value are great ‘add ons’ but not for a welfare check salary until ‘this great idea makes it.’ link] SEO India Wonderful!! Seems like a hell of a lot of advantage to have, on top of a great founding team, when heading into a startup. Maybe I’m wrong or just know all the wrong people.

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Why Leave A Six Figure Corporate Job For Internet Entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Right out of Graduate School, I started my career with one of the big four accounting firms in their M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions) practice. I handled everything from a technical perspective of course (website, SEO and marketing) while she focused on web content. The lost salary simply doesn’t matter enough anymore at that point.