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7 Attributes of An Entrepreneur's Startup Dream Team

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus the top priority of every entrepreneur who wants funding should be to build and highlight their “dream team” of co-founders, executives and advisers, to attract the biggest and best investors. Even if your product is a technological marvel, I look for balanced strength on the team in finance, marketing and operations.

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Beware The Consultant

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There is an inherent conflict in a consultant’s business model and the needs of a startup. Thus, as your startup matures, many of your operational functions can be successfully outsourced. Yet, it does nothing to help you execute your business model. Startups cannot afford such scapegoat luxuries. 4 Comments.

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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

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Piercing the Corporate Veil – Sweat Equity Consulting. « Thanks but No Thanks – Things to Avoid When Recruiting Co-founders Why is Cyber Squatter a Bad Word? But much like becoming a co-founder, getting paid sweat equity is essentially becoming an investor in the company.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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Like Edison and the lightbulb, like Gates and the pc operating system, I would launch a revolution that would transform society while bringing me wealth and fame. When a co-founder walks out of a company — as was the case for me — you’ve already been dealt a heavy blow. We had the wrong business model.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

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Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. That means the vast majority of privately held companies are still very dependent on venture money to stay in business. Especially since even Youtube is still struggling to try find a viable business model.