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Managing Your Startup Board?—?A Short Presentation

Both Sides of the Table

Managing Your Startup Board?—?A My talk was about “ managing your startup board ” and the full deck is on that SlideShare link and embedded below. Summary Boards are organizations that need managing just as you would do for your management team. link] Managing Your Startup Board?—?A

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Ways for Startups to Limit Liability in Company Car Crashes

The Startup Magazine

Still, the right commercial auto insurance policy provides confidence to focus on core operations, not liability risk. This diligence pays dividends in accident prevention down the line. This policy works to improve fleet management while holding employees accountable for their actions when driving the organization’s vehicles.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the Lean Startup, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. So is John Rice, the head of Global Operations along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Innovation at GE was on a roll.

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How Great, Operationally-Focused CFO’s Can Transform Your Business

Both Sides of the Table

For a well-funded seed company I have controversially recommended hiring a great office manager that doubles as an administrative assistant. I told Sam that it would pay dividends in spades because he could focus on innovation and not put as much personal time into process & planning. We brought on board David Lapter at MakeSpace.

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Corporation or LLC? Business Organizations for Tech Startups.

YoungUpstarts

This can also vary as you grow and as some owners pull back from managing the LLC. Owners of corporations also pay taxes when they are paid dividends or profit from sale of the stock, which is why it is common to say that corporations are “double-taxed.” Management. When an LLC allocates income to owners (i.e.

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6 Keys To Managing Funding From People Close To You

Startup Professionals Musings

Cohen and John Kador, in their classic book “ What Every Angel Investor Wants You to Know ,” includes these great points of practical advice on this subject: Manage expectations before the fact. In the interim, there is no market for the shares, and no dividends or interest. Tie payments to your product or service revenue.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

As two fund managers employing Flexible VC, we think it is a healthy addition to the ecosystem and will yield more predictable and stable healthy returns for investors. Too often, investment structures force the management team to make decisions between misaligned growth and investment (return) objectives. Flexible VC: Blended Return.