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Cash Crunch? 5 Unconventional Ways To Fund Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

by Daniel Pigg , director of business engagement and an instructor at Indiana State University. Innovators can lean on both traditional and unexpected methods to secure seed funding ethically and legally. In general, they’ll be happy to ditch the day-to-day operations in exchange for having occasional creative input in the company.

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Mission Creep: How Nonprofits Can Stay True to Their Missions

Board Effect

The term mission creep originated with military operations where military leaders decided to shift operations to adapt to new information or changing circumstances. Focus started to lean too heavily on housing which was only a part of their original mission. Examples of Mission Creep Where Nonprofits Crept Back.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

13:58) Advice for companies who think it's too late to start looking for new ways to operate, including some examples from Austin, Texas. (15:55) And the truth is that's yesterday and you don't really have the ability to change what you did yesterday, but what you do have the ability today, is to lean into this. Carl Liebert : Yeah.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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based companies initially funded by venture capital between 2006 and 2011, 84% now are closely held and operating independently, 11% were acquired or made initial public offerings of stock and 4% went out of business, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs. Languishing businesses were counted as survivors.

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Out of the Crisis #2: Mark Cuban on putting people first, the Dallas Mavericks, and what we'll want on the other side

Startup Lessons Learned

In the mid-90s, late '94, early '95 my buddy and I were trying to figure out the best way to listen to Indiana basketball and we had to have a speakerphone where we had one set up in Bloomington, Indiana, one in Dallas, Texas. You really have to lean in and say, "Okay. But this is not a standard operating procedure.

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The Hard Thing About a Hard City: Why I Support Kathryn Garcia for Mayor of NYC

This is going to be BIG.

Unlike being the Mayor of, let’s say, South Bend Indiana, it’s not exactly the kind of thing you can learn on the job. So no matter what my political leanings might be, I have a minimum bar for experience that I’m requiring for my vote—especially when the devil is really in the details. Andrew Yang , on the other hand, has not.

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