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Essential Skills for Building a Successful Startup

The Startup Magazine

Financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting are all necessary components of financial analysis, and understanding these aspects can give you a better overview of the state of your business. Running a business will likely mean simultaneously juggling between different projects, especially during the early stages.

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Seizing the Moment: Why Experts Believe Now is the Golden Opportunity for Investing in Israel

VC Cafe

credit rating forecast dropped in November, and since then the S&P 500 index has jumped by 15%. In an era where political leadership is waning, invest where creativity is already tested against the challenges of the future. Investors do not give the credit rating the same attention as before.

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McLaren Strategic Ventures Sajan Pillai Discusses the Top Five Trends for Advancing Global Technology in 2022 

The Startup Magazine

Gartner forecasts 51% of global knowledge workers will be remote by the end of 2021. — Sajan Pillai is the CEO and Managing Partner of Season Two Ventures, an early-stage venture fund based in Southern California. As the mobility of the global workforce increases, more employers are sourcing talent from around the world.

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Journeymen, Mavericks & Superstars: Understanding Salespeople at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Very few of them are started, in my experience, by sales people and very few early stage companies really understand sales. a) they don’t tend to make great heads of sales departments and b) they aren’t the people you want early in your company. And in my experience Journeyman are not good in two scenarios.

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Scaling Sales: Arming & Aiming – A’s, B’s & C’s

Both Sides of the Table

In the early days of selling it can sometimes be an advantage to not have rigid pricing schedules, complex service level agreements (SLAs), hard-and-fast rate limits, etc. As a very early-stage startup person you’re used to rigorous prioritization. A’s, B’s & C’s.

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How to Survive Four Common Worst Case Scenarios

Startup Professionals Musings

Stretch” goals in early-stage are not advised. Make it clear that you intend to re-forecast your plan every three months, and communicate changes proudly to your team, rather than apologetically. To get competitive leadership, you can’t be an industry follower. Too slow or too fast to change.

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Four Common Startup Issues Which Threaten Survival

Startup Professionals Musings

Stretch” goals in early-stage are not advised. Make it clear that you intend to re-forecast your plan every three months, and communicate changes proudly to your team, rather than apologetically. To get competitive leadership, you can’t be an industry follower. Too slow or too fast to change.