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How should I finance my new venture? - Startups and angels: Along.

Tim Keane

This seems like an easy topic – debt where there is appropriate cash flow, equity when there isn’t.    And, while debt is less costly than equity, it can bankrupt a company more quickly than more expensive equity might. This is an equity example, of course.  This is also now an equity situation. 

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The Partnership Dilemma: Six Factors Every Consultant Should Consider Before Tying The Knot 

YoungUpstarts

When you find yourself struggling to manage a massive workload, it’s time to at least consider forming a partnership. We decided that because I had more equity and eight years in the company, I would maintain slightly more than half of the ownership. But once the business really starts rolling in, that may need to change.

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Top 25+ Staffing Agencies to Help You Hire Fast

Transformify

Managing the employment of more than 1 million workers, Kelly Services has won numerous awards, including Intel Corporation’s Certified Supplier Quality Award and Johnson & Johnson’s Supplier Diversity Partnership Award. They offer video interviewing, workforce management, and temporary staffing solutions.

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Long term thinking -- for entrepreneurs - Startups and angels: Along.

Tim Keane

If they mailed the catalogs at each individual city location from southern Illinois no northern Wisconsin, they'd get there in time.   This whole thing was funded with a home equity line of credit and resulted in a substantial loss for the year of 1989. Managing Company Growth. September 2011. March 2011. October 2010.

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Bootstrap your venture - Startups and angels: Along the way to.

Tim Keane

  A successfully bootstrapped start-up allows the entrepreneur to retain more equity (Gianforte hung on to 60% up to the IPO) and provides a lot more control and freedom from competing goals of various investors.  Managing Company Growth. Wisconsin Angel Network Find Information about all of the networks in Wisconsin here!

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

Good investors use the valuation discussions to gauge the business savvy of the management team and to understand their ability to appreciate and deal with economic market forces that set values.   For individual angels and others investing their own money, this may be more fluid than for someone with responsibility for a managed fund.

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What's Your Alternative? - Startups and angels: Along the way to.

Tim Keane

  Other times, early success means keeping the equity "in the family" of entrepreneur and colleagues.   Other times, early success means keeping the equity "in the family" of entrepreneur and colleagues. Managing Company Growth.   (Remember Vermeer?    Look it up.)