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5 Equity Distribution Parameters For Key Contributors

Startup Professionals Musings

You need to find the skills or experience you don’t have in business, technology, or money. The next default of waiting until later is equally bad, since partners who bow out early will still expect an equal share of that first billion you make later. Giving a cofounder a salary won’t get you the “fire in the belly” you want.

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8 Tactics For Every Entrepreneur To Manage Technology

Startup Professionals Musings

Technology is so key to every business these days that experienced business-smart but non-tech entrepreneurs are feeling deeper and deeper in the hole. Should they go after high-tech nerds for partners, or professional technologists? Should they go after high-tech nerds for partners, or professional technologists?

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How The Covid-19 Pandemic Boosted Adoption Of Emerging Technologies In Southeast Asia

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As Southeast Asia drives ahead with digitisation, its eagerness and receptiveness to emerging technologies have encouraged the rising adoption of digital finance and the growing demand for re-skilling the workforce in digital technologies such as blockchain. .

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4 Keys To A Successful Integrity Check With Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

That might start with the CEO giving the investor pitch to the whole organization, and distributing the current business plan document to everyone. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. Make sure all business processes are documented and integrated. If everyone has a different view of reality, you have no reality.

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6 Ways To Win By Creative Partnering With Competitors

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s very unusual for two competitors to have exactly the same strengths – in development, marketing, distribution, or customer support. Capitalize on shared costs and common distribution. Similar companies, even though competitors, usually face economies of scale and overlapping distribution channels.

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Evolving Customer Needs – Not Technology – Drives Disruption And Innovation

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Conventional wisdom says that technology is propelling the disruption that is roiling the markets. To make personalization affordable, leaders must think completely differently about offerings, create flexible operations – like distributed manufacturing and separate supply chains – and reduce waste. But this belief is dead wrong.

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How To Prepare Your New Venture For Investor Scrutiny

Startup Professionals Musings

That might start with the CEO giving the investor pitch to the whole organization, and distributing the current business plan document to everyone. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. Make sure all business processes are documented and integrated. If everyone has a different view of reality, you have no reality.