Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Getting investors to trust you with their money is always a challenge, and it’s even more difficult in the early stages, where you don’t have a significant revenue stream, a few customers, or maybe even a product yet. At these stages, it’s all about you, and your ability to communicate and execute effectively.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

I don’t like distributed development teams in early stage businesses. Even if they feel it gives them some less productive time it will pay huge dividends down the line in human connectedness. I prefer that early stage companies not offshore development. What about call centers?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2020

Getting investors to trust you with their money is always a challenge, and it’s even more difficult in the early stages, where you don’t have a significant revenue stream, a few customers, or maybe even a product yet. At these stages, it’s all about you, and your ability to communicate and execute effectively.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

What I love about my job is getting to see teams of super-early-stage companies develop ideas that while raw have potential to make an impact on the market. And it turns out that employee reviews matter. Didn’t have employees sign non-solicitation agreements? It literally can put you out of business. Shame on you.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

It is probable that in the early stages, you will have to take a pay cut. Taking the time to study how things such as businesses expenses and dividends work is essential. This is perhaps when running your own business really starts to pay dividends. A Higher Income. It is however important to be realistic.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2014

PR is an insanely valuable activity in early-stage companies. When you’re an early-stage business every dollar matters and because many startup teams these days are very product & technology centric they often miscalculate the importance of PR. PR pays dividends in Biz Dev. Business is going well.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. On Launching and Finding Early Traction. It can help you be a strong athlete, which makes you an attractive early-stage player.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

I recently developed a more human framework for early-stage startups to define their startup DNA and lay some foundations for a sustainable business. Too much talking, not enough listening Perhaps it’s because funding is so important to early-stage startups that they soon get good at perfecting their sales pitch.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 28, 2022

Dividends paid and capital gains realized on a per-share basis provide ordinary shareholders with a way to participate in the profits stream of the company. The establishment of a dividend policy. Splitting the shares allows you to earn from your employees’ skills to grow the company. Equity for Employees.

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

As a quick review, most startups begin life as corporations with a single class of equity securities, referred to as Common Stock , issued to founders, employees, and outside service providers. Options and warrants, when issued, are also typically exercisable for shares of Common Stock.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

  Note that this applies only to earl stage Series A-type equity financings and assumes no cash dividends are paid to investors.   First , dividends. In some cases, dividends are often paid at the discretion of the board and not required by the terms.   A cumulative dividend compounds annually.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2016

Getting investors to trust you with their money is always a challenge, and it’s even more difficult in the early stages, where you don’t have a significant revenue stream, a few customers, or maybe even a product yet. At these stages, it’s all about you, and your ability to communicate and execute effectively.

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Up and Running

MARCH 20, 2017

While in the business planning process or the early stages of operation, business owners will undoubtedly write off some non-essentials as unnecessary, too expensive, or earmark them for some time “down the road.”. Everything from employee perks to how you work makes up your company culture. The ROI of High Employee Morale.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

So spending time thinking about what your leadership style is, whether it’s effective and what you could do to improve it can yield dividends. They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.” It’s a new year – 2016. A Sense of Purpose.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2014

It’s a risk and it will make many aspects of running a business harder: getting loans; attracting investors; paying suppliers and employees, and growing the business. Not to mention the mental stress of having to make back every dollar you spent in the early stages of setting up your business. How do I calculate cash flow?

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In the early stages of a company, this can be critical. Selling the company will result in a one time payoff, but owning the company can pay dividends for years. In the very early stages of a technology company, one of the biggest unnecessary cash sinks is office space.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. And there are also modern examples of investors beating the founders and employees out the door.

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Small Business Force

MARCH 27, 2014

The culture an entrepreneur creates can be the single biggest factor in not only driving success, but attracting the employees and customers it needs to sustain that success. From the "get-go," every decision an entrepreneur makes, especially around how employees and customers are treated, virtually, becomes policy.

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