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Business Prenup: What To Do Before You Start A Company With A Partner

YoungUpstarts

Here are a few tips to ensure that you and your partners start out on the right foot. If you stop working for the company, how will that impact your voting and distribution rights? Consider regular face-to-face meetings with prospective partners, so you can gauge body language and “listen between the lines.” Congratulations!

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How Remote Startups are Changing the Game for Everyone

ReadWriteStart

To be fair, many businesses had distributed teams even before COVID-19 blindsided us. Although there are many collaboration tools (like Slack and Trello) available, they do have a learning curve that can be hard for non-technical folks. They also complain about managers favoring in-office staff, even if they are less competent.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

Traditional video had very high costs of distribution due to limited time slots of broadcast TV (we only had enough spectrum to support 3-4 channels). The number of channels grew with cable & satellite TV but we still have limitations that makes distributing content high. But distribution is now unlimited. Not so fast.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Since NewTV won’t be making the content, they will be licensing from and partnering with traditional entertainment producers. NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. After the crash, venture capital was scarce to non-existent. Will these third parties produce something people will watch?

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

For each of these, there is a human element (non-scaleable) and the possibility of a tech layer (which any one VC will only have implemented to varying extents). We have insight on the competencies of our companies’ personnel, and who is hiring or shrinking. This is roughly comparable to PRNewswire’s distribution service.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. Image source ).

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Should Startups Care About Profitability?

Both Sides of the Table

Is the revenue dependent on a concentrated set of distribution partners or platforms that put future revenue at risk? Let’s consider the following two competing software companies, both of which have 66% gross margins and they decide to run their company exactly the same in year one. For example, look at the following graph.