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5 Things You Need to Learn Before Launching a Startup

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When you get funding, you need to monitor the burn rate in order not to go bankrupt or understand if you need to raise more money. When you pitch investors, show that your product is in demand by presenting the number of active users and its growth. There are a lot of things to be nervous about for both investors and employees.

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22 Entrepreneurs Share Their Thoughts on The Future of Entrepreneurship

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What this means is that those who previously were W2 employees will now be 1099 contract workers. It is a big win for corporations because they avoid payroll, social security, and unemployment taxes. Companies will and should put more emphasis on the employees. I think the trend in entrepreneurship is solopreneurship.

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

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Social networking finally came of age connected the planet and leading to enormous wealth creation for Facebook employees and investors. Smart phones finally took off leading to enormous wealth creation for Apple employees and investors but also helped propel Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp and others.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). During this year they.