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Startups Should Make Their First Dollar Before They Raise Their First Dollar

ReadWriteStart

Small business leaders salivating at the idea of getting a big cash injection from an angel investor need to slow things down a bit and focus on their own company first. The answer to the age-old question of whether your business should be trying to make money or raise money is almost universally the latter.

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Startups Should Make Their First Dollar Before They Raise Their First Dollar

ReadWriteStart

Small business leaders salivating at the idea of getting a big cash injection from an angel investor need to slow things down a bit and focus on their own company first. The answer to the age-old question of whether your business should be trying to make money or raise money is almost universally the latter.

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11 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2018

Hearpreneur

We’ve also improved productivity through some helpful tips to our employees, and become a more streamlined and efficient small business overall. Thanks to Andrew Schrage, Money Crashers ! #3- My pest control technician came to service my house and I pitched an idea for a pest control business to him.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

A lawyer I asked about it said: When the company goes public, the SEC will carefully study all prior issuances of stock by the company and demand that it take immediate action to cure any past violations of securities laws. Of course the odds of any given startup doing an IPO are small.But not as small as they might seem.