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Recruiting Should Be Your #1 Priority From Day 1

YoungUpstarts

For example, if you run a tech startup , you will know how hard it is to find good software engineers. Your internal team creates your external results, such as new products and increased revenues. Felix manages sales, marketing and finance at Talkative, and often writes about technology, startups and marketing.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

Zendesk is heavily financed by Benchmark and Charles River and has 10,000 customers. Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. In fact, they generated $100k in revenues over the last year, since they first pitched at one of our roundtables.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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More Tech Startups are LLCs

Austin Startup

C-Corp largely because (i) VCs have historically favored C-Corps for nuanced tax and other reasons, and (ii) virtually all of the standardized legal infrastructure around startup finance and equity compensation assumes a C-Corp. However, times are changing. But not all VCs think that way. It requires real financial, tax, legal, etc.

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Propensity Modeling: Using Data (and Expertise) to Predict Behavior

ConversionXL

There might be several scenarios where real experiments are not possible: sometimes management may be unwilling to risk short-term revenue losses by assigning sales to random customers. Edwin Chen, Software Engineer at Google, summarizes the process in more detail: Edwin Chen: First, select which variables to use as features.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 39: Jeremy Johnson and Michael Eidsaune

Steve Blank

Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide. Michael Eidsaune , co-founder of Carely , a software platform that facilitates communication among families caring for sick or elderly relatives. Jeremy Johnson.

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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their Business Goals for 2019

Hearpreneur

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. It’s a new year and right after the ball drops, it’s time to go to work. Often entrepreneurs and business owners create their New Year’s Resolutions around their business.