Women Entrepreneurs Can

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Depending on the type of property you purchase, you may also benefit from tax deductions or additional revenue streams through tenant renting fees. However, it’s important to be mindful when investing in these products since they are associated with higher levels of risk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2016

If the company has been around for more than a couple of years, and still has no product or revenue flow, there better be a good explanation. Every startup should have at least a couple of outside advisors who are not major investors or family members, anxious to talk to new investors and key new hires.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Plan to deliver a family of products, rather than a one-trick pony. Even a great initial product, with no follow-on, won’t keep you ahead of competitors very long. A smarter risk is to build a plan, with associated greater resources, that will put you in position to expand your product line and keep one step ahead of competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2015

If the company has been around for more than a couple of years, and still has no product or revenue flow, there better be a good explanation. Every startup should have at least a couple of outside advisors who are not major investors or family members, anxious to talk to new investors and key new hires.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

It was a stock option incentive related “expense” but I bet you didn’t know that because in an era where we only read the headlines — they must be a train wreck losing billions. If you don’t have a strong balance sheet and can’t hire more people that’s fine — but understand this may lead to slower growth. Two-f **g-billion!

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2014

10 Massively Successful Minimum Viable Products – crowdspring.co/1mVcFD5. “the people you fire are more important to your [company''s] culture than the people you hire.” “the people you fire are more important to your [company''s] culture than the people you hire.” ” – crowdspring.co/1slKVZ2.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

We’re hitting record revenue months, weeks, and margins. Be honest with yourself VCs are now going to be looking closer at margins, cost structures and true sales, and product market fit. Don’t be afraid to pivot The collapse of SVB spurred us to do a deep evaluation of how we’re generating revenue and value for customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 22, 2010

I never hire job hoppers. You have tough choices to make about whom you hire on your team. Google offers your product for free. Your revenues are “just around the corner.&# Your angel investors are nervous because the VCs aren’t moving that fast to fund your next round. They make terrible employees.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 12, 2013

At 6Wunderkinder, our motivation is a combination of passion for what we’re doing (creating the best productivity software in the world) as well as our strong and endless will to build up an impressive team and business. I launched a product, and everything went wrong. Within weeks of starting the company we already launched a product.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Should be overwhelm prospective employees with stock options and perks? Well, here are rules to make money work for you in recruiting AND to better control its use after you’ve hired your candidate(s). And there are some industries where tools such as stock options are considered mandatory for a company to be competitive.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I have spent a great deal of time studying the fundamentals of stocks, option trades, goal-setting, and public speaking. I’ve got to trust the team I’ve hired to do their job, so I can do the things that only I can do and not get caught up in minutiae. All my studying and hard work has resulted in a breakthrough.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

They need the money to rent offices, hire staff, and establish their initial presence (website, incorporation, marketing). when you are just starting, probably no product or service yet. Option Two: Once your product or service is up and running and gaining traction. Without funding most tech startups will die.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

9 months seems like a lifetime but given how long it will take to ship your V1 product (5 months) and how long it will take to raise your next round (3-4 months) there isn’t a lot of room for error. How can you show “traction” on a product that just launched? They want the end product. Are tacking.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2015

But it’s an important consideration, especially for companies that plan to offer alternative compensation such as employee stock options, which will usually require a 409A valuation. Why is it important to hire an experienced valuation firm? A company can have value, even if there is no current income or revenue.

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Eric Friedman

JUNE 11, 2019

Whether a fundraising event, hiring, or sales/partnership opportunity- these can be especially useful to make all parties move faster. Partnership Forcing Functions can be tricky because they typically don’t involve revenue, which drives most business decisions, but there are other reasons to do the deal.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

For instance, if a consultant proposes to help you with public relations, pay them a commission equivalent to the greater of a flat fee per story placed or a percentage of revenue generated from the PR coverage. Performance-based deals can effectively mitigate your monetary risk of entering into a non-productive consulting relationship.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

My original post was directed at hiring managers. It said that I didn’t believe it was a good idea to hire job hoppers. My view still stands – for many hiring managers a large factor in looking through resumes of somebody who is 30+ and has never worked somewhere for more than 18 months will be the job hopping element.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

At its height, the company employed more than 130 people and their products reached customers in dozens of countries. But, tragically, 3 years after their apex, this firm sold for less than their annual revenue, laid off nearly the entire staff, and left common stock shareholders, my friends included, with nothing.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And as the company grows, it brings on new people and may decide to issue stock options to attract new staff and funding from investors. For instance, the cap table will help you with various possibilities while running business activities like available options and pre-money valuations faster. Total share ownership.

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www.startupnorth.ca

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Being an early hire at a startup gives an individual the ability to make tremendous impact on an organization as it grows – and both the founders and those hires should know it.” This should force companies to think about building value with each early hire, and not just filling a position. It’s just unfeasible.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Deal with company admin: 409a valuations, approve stock options, vote on key measures (15%). should we charge for our product or be freemium? should we ramp up sales hires now or wait for more traction? should we charge SaaS revenue, ad revenue or volumetric billing revenue? Ineffecient Board Meeting.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. We started with the product about three years ago, development, a year later we released it. A lot has happened since then.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

The conventional wisdom says a startup CEO should make way for a professional CEO once the company has achieved product-market fit. Salmon points out that “not a single one of the 12 [candidates] is a CEO who was hired to run a company by its board of directors.”. These innovations are product cycles.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 23, 2019

You’ve hired all these smart recent grads from Ivy League schools, how do you then keep them once you get them there? At one point, there was a sentiment that it’s easier to get hired here in the first place than it is to move to another team, because there are a lot of variables that have to happen internally.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Then you can gradually transformyourself from a consulting company into a product company, and haveyour clients pay your development expenses. There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. To be a startup, a company hasto be a product business, not a service business. No, not generally.A

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

So for this first post, here’s the best advice I can give you: join an awesome founding team and get your product out the door ASAP. But six months in, you’re gonna cry when you see someone else put out that same product you’re pitching me right now. Like I said, forget everything else and just get your product out the door.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 15, 2012

To learn more about how your startup can find, hire and keep the top talent and quality workers it needs to succeed, download this free ReadWriteWeb Report: The Talent Wars: Today’s Toughest Startup Challenge.). Virtual Productivity Works When Recruiting. Instead, give them a revenue or profit-sharing option.

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Up and Running

JUNE 19, 2015

Jonathan: That’s right, and Alex started the Startup podcast because he’s co-founded Gimlet Media which is a new production company that produces podcast shows, so they’ve got two that they’ve had out for a year now, and they’ve got a new one coming out as well. Peter: Cool. That’s my dream.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 17, 2011

Should your company make Vice President the top title or should you have Chief Marketing Officers, Chief Revenue Officers, Chief People Officer’s, and Chief Snack Officers? Andreessen argues that people ask for many things from a company: salary, bonus, stock options, span of control, and titles. Yes, definitely.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 13, 2015

My boss and mentor from Open Market, Gary Eichhorn , made the entire management team read it in the 1990s to hammer home its important lessons as we stumbled through the chasm on our way to scaling from zero to nearly $100 million in revenue in a few years. The first version of the go to market team is hired (i.e.,

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