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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

Lately I’ve been having to say things I thought I’d never have to remind people, like, “getting to positive gross margin in several territories is a very low bar to claim success” or “profitable excluding marketing costs” is not actually a real thing. But not doing basic research makes no sense.

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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

Startups need to understand how to manage the seed money they receive from investors and VCs. They also need to decide whether to structure terms as an equity deal or a convertible security deal. ” The Cost of Financing. Convertible Securities. Debt or convertible securities (e.g.,

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Start Up Business Grants 101: Meaning, Funding & Tips

Board Effect

They simply don’t have the seed money to get a business or organization off the ground. Grant money usually comes with limitations on how organizations can use it. It may also be worthwhile to consider hiring a grant writer to champion the process. How to Increase Your Chances of Securing a Startup Business Grant.

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Timing: When to raise seed funding.

Scalable Startup

High growth startup companies need seed money to get things going. They need the money to rent offices, hire staff, and establish their initial presence (website, incorporation, marketing). PreCog Security, a company I am currently helping to build as cofounder, is taking this approach.

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Entrepreneurs: The Funding Landscape Has Changed.

Berkonomics

Independent Third Parties: This area for securing business loans has witnessed the greatest degree of change, primarily due to removal of communication barriers using the Internet. There are a host of companies that can be accessed through web-search engines that can provide both secured and unsecured financing.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

page, can -- despite the occasional new release from Adobe -- be considered a dead language, with all that this entails (difficulty finding and retaining good developers, vendor lock-in, horrendous cost, poor support, porting nightmares, infrastructure constraints). One can, however, make these arguments about different frameworks.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

A lawyer I asked about it said: When the company goes public, the SEC will carefully study all prior issuances of stock by the company and demand that it take immediate action to cure any past violations of securities laws. It wasnt because they werent accredited investors that I didntask my parents for seed money, though.