Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

Government grants. This could work to get you legal or accounting services, but won’t get you cash to pay employee salaries. A non-profit is still a business, maybe even tougher than for-profit to run successfully, so the best angel is a great entrepreneur at the helm for fund-raising, as well as operations.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Presumably, some will and some won’t ever figure out a business model, but the point is that their position as “winners of the market” is due to being an excellent virus in a Darwinian sense, not due to possessing an excellent business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2011

Government grants. This could work to get you legal or accounting services, but won’t get you cash to pay employee salaries. A non-profit is still a business, maybe even tougher than for-profit to run successfully, so the best angel is a great entrepreneur at the helm for fund-raising, as well as operations.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Flexible VCs have created structures based on other company performance metrics than revenues, such as profits or founder salaries. Similarly, when Flexible VC structures are based off of the founder’s own compensation (often via salary or dividends), investors are specifically tying their returns to the financial success of the founder.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

Government grants. This could work to get you legal or accounting services, but won’t get you cash to pay employee salaries. A non-profit is still a business, maybe even tougher than for-profit to run successfully, so the best angel is a great entrepreneur at the helm for fund-raising, as well as operations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

These questions should always include the following: How realistic is your business opportunity today? Your idea may indeed be a worthy cause, like feeding the hungry, but hungry people rarely have any money, and third-world governments are not a viable market. Keep alternative business models on the table.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

In contrast, earning an MBA or working as a management consultant is less a final destination and more a way station on the way to a better future, usually with a vigorous salary. (As But what I wasn’t doing was trying to earn a credential or boost my salary. Nothing gets in the way of their pursuit of startup success.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

In contrast, earning an MBA or working as a management consultant is less a final destination and more a way station on the way to a better future, usually with a vigorous salary. (As But what I wasn’t doing was trying to earn a credential or boost my salary. Nothing gets in the way of their pursuit of startup success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2010

Government grants. This could work to get you legal or accounting services, but won’t get you cash to pay employee salaries. A non-profit is still a business, so the best angel is a great entrepreneur at the helm for fund-raising, as well as operations.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2017

You want to review all the different components of your business model. This description should basically be an elevator pitch for potential partners and business investors to get excited about what you’re offering and your unique location, philosophy, and approach. What is your business model? How will you grow?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 1, 2023

The businesses should find the most profitable revenue channels using unit economics, then guard both the revenue sources and the profits they produce. This could entail changing the business model, improving the pricing strategies, and deciding to eliminate clients, goods, or services that do not produce significant profits for the company.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis has caused many businesses of all sizes to re-evaluate their plans and pivot their business models. If your company has been suffering from losses or is exposed to risks because of this pandemic, you may want to consider changing your business entity. by Dustin Ray of Incfile.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

– Forte has developed an innovative structure to finance vocational reskilling at no cost to individuals or governments. The founding team earned a good salary during most of their ride; they’ll probably be OK. Invest in business models that otherwise could not access VC. I listed some examples above.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2013

Lean Start-up Connection: Business Model Canvas. We figured our key partners would include consumers (to contribute data much like Wikipedia’s users), manufacturers (to keep their product information updated) and the US government (to supply datasets to power our content). An Untested Hypothesis. By 2009, I was fed up.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

One of the many challenges facing the world’s governments is the fact that no one really knows how this virus behaves. Thus, the world’s scientists, medical experts, and governments are in new territory, determining what works and what doesn’t work as each country moves through the peaks and troughs of this pandemic.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. Unlike many RBI investors, a full 50% of our investment activity is in non-tech businesses. As your business grows we calculate what we call “Founder Earnings” and Earnest is paid a percentage. to 3.0x.”. “As

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Up and Running

APRIL 6, 2020

You’ll also have variable expenses such as salaries, travel, supplies, and other services you use to run your business. If the downturn is going to be extended, you may need to reconfigure your business and explore different business models. Help is available with government-backed loans.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 9, 2020

Do you know how you can sustain your business, improve sales, and pay-off salaries even during the pandemic? Almost all national governments had advised their citizens to stay indoors to prevent the COVID-19 virus. Help create New Sales channels and Revenue generating models.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

There were no sales people in the USSR – the government just decided what to produce and in which quantities, – so I pretty much have an anti-­sales­-and­-marketing background. There is logic behind your thinking of how to determine which CAC is right for your business model. Step 3: Test your channels.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2019

To keep it simple, I’ll recommend that you incorporate in the state that you are physically located in, and that you’ll do most of your business in. . This option takes greatest advantage of your knowledge of your state and its laws, the helpful local people you know, and the ability to physically visit government offices if needed.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2016

government has gotten in on the act. Whether yours is an employer/employee, franchisor/franchisee, or distributor/dealer business model, the following tips will help you integrate the customer experience into your own compensation structure: Get buy-in for the new customer experience performance measurement system.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

They’re looking to be paid properly in the context of the overall salary structure, including cash, benefits, and equity, and to be paid commensurate with performance. Board and Governance issues arise from day one in most startups. They also observe who is pulling his or her weight and who is not. Are the logistics manageable?

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

The structural role of a board of directors is corporate governance, specifically, making sure that the company is managed in accordance with the interest of the shareholders (and if liabilities exceed assets, the interest of debtholders), and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. WHAT DOES A BOARD OF DIRECTORS DO?

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

If your business model (i.e., “how If you are raising money to start or grow your business, you need to include the details of what you need in the executive summary. For example, if you are producing a medical device, you will have milestones associated with clinical testing and government approval processes.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2015

This is hidden by significant flows of Federal research funds to universities (mainly in the sciences and engineering), but these monies almost never pay for faculty salaries during the academic school year, and teaching represents only a small fraction of faculty members full-time work commitment. The business model is ready for a fall.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 30, 2019

Business lunches. The government will pay 50% of your business lunches, as long as the expense can be substantiated ( just check the small print first ). Most entrepreneurs won’t give themselves a salary. The problem with this ethos is that it creates an unsustainable business model and an unworkable financial picture.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2014

Yet 72 percent said that the classes they’d taken didn’t adequately prepare them to start a business, and most didn’t think enough support was available from the government and banks. Whether Millennials, our largest generation at 80 million strong, can harness their enthusiasm into viable businesses models remains to be seen.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

"When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Write to Deborah Gage at deborah.gage@dowjones.com.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

It doesn’t mean that you should change your business model because one person suggested it, but listed to the feedback and if you see similar patterns over and over again, make changes. Patents are nice but… in a consumer Internet business, it’s most likely that you aren’t re-inventing the wheel.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

No matter who occupies the White House, entrepreneurial small business owners will have to rely on who we’ve always relied on to be successful: ourselves, our employees, and our customers. Whoever heads up our government will have only a minimal impact on the small businesses that form the backbone of our nation.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 7, 2020

government mandates that employers offer placement services to their former employees. This is because while it is an expensive service, $5,000 to $15,000 for multiple month commitment, the cost of coaching is a small fraction of C level salaries. . Terawatt uses the marketplace business model to make coaching affordable.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 10, 2020

He also had a natural talent for people and understood the power of human resources; therefore he prioritized his employees salary during the wartime like nobody else. It ushered in a new business model, and has since been expanding its network. In turn, for the travellers, it has changed the expectations forever.

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Governance: Many governance issues can be addressed in the social enterprise’s corporate bylaws. Similar to a non-profit, there is the heightened responsibility for moral governance of your organization as to fulfilling the organization’s mission.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 12, 2012

This post is a translation of the article: « Pigeons » : le cri d'alarme d'un fonds américain published on LaTribune (12/10/2012) and is a response to the proposed tax law proposed by the government of Francois Hollande, suggesting to tax all capital gain at the same level than salaries or 60%. So why twelve years?

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

was OK a few months ago, the hurdle is now higher and should be close to CAC>1 – Keep only reps making quota and cut marketing activities with lower ROI Customer Lifetime Value (CLTV) >0 – Adjust operations, RD and GA to make your business model profitable 3. Is Government a good idea?

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Sacrificing Users to (Supposed) Profit When I said at the beginning that if you make something users want,youll be fine, you may have noticed I didnt mention anything abouthaving the right business model. It is irresponsible not to think about business models. 10 ]Yes, actually: dealing with the government.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

Of course people said they may be participating in this because what they really care about is how much they increase their salary and all the rest of that, and what is opportunity flow. Maybe even what your business model is in its mature, large form. Digital Service – serving in government to help government with technology.

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