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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. I always remind this to journalists who ask me about public stocks. They got a bigger office space so their employees would feel comfortable and they could improve employee retention.

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The Acquihire Market for Early Stage Startups is Ice Cold. One Better Strategy? Announce You’re For Sale.

Hunter Walker

Sometimes you’d even get lucky and receive stock in the acquirer, which was how I gained pre-IPO equity in high growth stars like Pinterest and Facebook. And when they’re giving stock to existing shareholders instead of cash it’s at high 2021 valuations, buried below a preference stack.

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What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?

Both Sides of the Table

Just as I was getting the swing of things the world shifted beneath my feet and the stock market went into a free fall and venture capital all but shut down for nearly a year. Defensible IP becomes insanely valuable?—?particularly Over the past 2.5 particularly as you achieve scale.

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How Great, Operationally-Focused CFO’s Can Transform Your Business

Both Sides of the Table

Stock option top-ups after a few years are vital retention mechanisms. Legal threats from other IP holders? than to have to deal with healthcare benefit options, vacation policies, health-and-safety regulations and so forth. Yet being a buttoned up company requires all this. And it turns out that employee reviews matter.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. Between day one and your first confrontations with those issues, particularly if you’ve raised any outside capital, you will have formed a board and stocked it with people you can really get to work on your behalf.

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Why Content Personalization Is Not Web Personalization (and What to Do About It)

ConversionXL

The onboarding process brought more people to the core value, thus increasing revenue and improving retention. For instance, my IP address would show that I’m from a high-tech company in Boston, so they could offer me relevant case studies from other respected high-tech firms in Boston. Low in stock alerts. Search results.

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The Direct-to-Consumer Checklist

Austin Startup

Being able to staff your customer service team to respond quickly to customers, often directly on these social channels, will increase retention and repeat purchasing and also serve to drown out negative feedback. Have you thought about how potential IP theft would impact your business? You’ll need to invest more here than you think.