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How Successful Entrepreneurs Launch A Startup In A Recession

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New business applications are the highest since 2008, reports the Wall Street Journal. When I started CFOshare, my UX friend told me the website had too many words, my SEO consultant told me we needed more words, and my accountability partner told me the website was not even important for a service businesses.

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Strategy Roundtable: Open Opportunities in Cloud Computing and Rural BPO

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Whether it is credit or equity, funding is very, very tight. I call it drip-financing. Most entrepreneurs have no choice but to avail of this sort of financing along with the mentoring and the contacts that could come with it (doesn't always come along, though). In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers.

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The Pros and Cons of Founding a Startup During a Recession

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Further still are the discussions that we may eventually be stuck–similar to the Great Recession of 2008–in a recovery that excludes jobs as we emerge from this cluster. And, if a founder is seeking investor financing , the probability of investor funding is significantly lower and investors become much more pitch-picky.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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And finally, you may be able to avoid diluting your equity. Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. Increasingly, people who were only available as full-time, equity-position founders or [.]

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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

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How can I go about looking for a (very) good programmer willing to do this as sweat equity? You can find a technologist to join you as a partner, for half of the company’s equity. It’s common for a college student to do a sweat equity partnership with another college student. So you see my dilemma.

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The rise of the “successful” unsustainable company

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

After I sold Smart Bear, that division has increased revenue and profit every year, for five years, even through the 2008/2009 economic disaster. After all, before the house of cards inevitably tumbles, private equity investors get a tidy return. And the same thing happened after we sold IT WatchDogs in 2005.

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

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At today's roundtable we had some intensive discussions around market sizing and its impact on financing. So, please note the TAM Analysis is a vitally important aspect of building any financing strategy. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing. He is willing to give up 33% of equity for this $1 million investment.