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Building a High-Tech Startup Team

Business Plan Blog

Furthermore, when faced with adversity only great teams can respond to competitors, markets, funding environments, staff departures, PR disasters and the like. This helps to better divide the work, make people accountable, and show investors just why each founder/hire is key to the organization. Don’t make everyone a founder.

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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

Both Sides of the Table

A reminder that it is important for all entrepreneurs is to remember to be careful about “deal drift.” But we weren’t optimizing for dilution – we were building a $1 billion+ company and we wanted the runway to succeed. Conversely I offered the same deal to another entrepreneur who decided to shop around longer.

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Is Crowdfunding for Startups a Good Idea?

ReadWriteStart

Joe Flanagan, Founder, 90s Fashion World No, Too Many Lenders While the idea of sourcing capital from multiple smaller sources is an enticing one, the reality is far less pleasant. It also allows entrepreneurs to create awareness around their product or service and provides an opportunity to engage a larger audience of potential customers.

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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

Both Sides of the Table

For starters let me use “CEO” as a proxy to include her “inner circle” which might mean co-founders or might just mean senior execs of the business. The Mind of the Founder. The mind of a founder is wired differently than most people. The startup CEO was not the original founder.

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10 Tips for Making your Startup More Attractive for Investors [Presentation]

VC Cafe

A fter years of talking with many of you in the Israeli startup industry, investors and entrepreneurs alike, I was invited to present some tips for entrepreneurs at the Launch48 conference in London this weekend. Very cool concept and I want to thank the founder Adil Mohammed for inviting me to take part in it. Be a salesman.

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

www.inc.com

Entrepreneur news from reporter Eric Markowitz. These days, start-up entrepreneurs like Parker do sometimes use equity not only to motivate key employees but also to help pay for consulting and other services. Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C., Learn how from the experts at PR Newswire.

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90 Things I've Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies

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It has been awesome, flattering, and humbling to see that post went viral and has been seen by so many thousands of people — mainly aspiring entrepreneurs — and has been translated into many languages. Have amazing co-founders who are better at what they do than you could ever be. I’m a deeply emotional person.