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What Your Nonprofit Board Should Know About Pay Equity  

Board Effect

We’ll review the challenges with pay equity and offer ways your board can improve it. Racial Equity in Nonprofit Compensation . Racial equity has been an issue in business, society, and nonprofits. Ultimately to achieve pay equity, nonprofits must also achieve racial equity. Nonprofit Salary Transparency .

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How Startups Can Prepare For Their First Tax Audit

YoungUpstarts

They spend a lot of time, effort and resources on developing a business plan, and even more time and effort on raising capital, finding the right people and developing strategic partners. California and Massachusetts have state minimum taxes, whereas states such as Alabama and Tennessee impose franchise tax based on capital/equity.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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5 People You Should Talk With Before Starting a Business

Up and Running

Arney is a business mentor and lawyer in Tennessee. Maybe you borrowed money from one of your peers in exchange for equity in the business, or maybe you plan to start a company with several partners—whatever the situation, you’ll want legal documents to set boundaries and minimize future disputes, Arney says. An accountant.

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New Microfund Launched

The Entrepreneurial Mind

Solidus Company announced today the formation of a microfund to support local entrepreneurs and to help accelerate the growth of start-ups in the Middle Tennessee area. JumpStart Foundry will focus on very early-stage concepts. healthcare, music, & transaction processing) to spur innovation."

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Episode 14: Be Your Own Boss, Restaurant Owners, and Friendliest Cities for Businesses | The Bcast

Up and Running

You can go so far in a single direction with too much freedom that maybe that’s not the best for people around you, or employees, or partners. Find those partners, find people who are strong where you’re weak so you can be well rounded, so you’re not doing it all yourself. Peter: Oh, Knoxville Tennessee, also.

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Lessons from the Front Line of a Microfund

The Entrepreneurial Mind

The goal was to support local entrepreneurs and to help accelerate the growth of start-ups in the Middle Tennessee area. Each of the selected concepts for our first year of operating this microfund received $15,000 in equity capital and special arrangements with participating partners for marketing, accounting, legal and technology services.