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Taxes Are Good, Actually

YoungUpstarts

In business terms, the United States is wildly overleveraged, while insisting on cutting its revenue. But still the tax cuts come, and we’re forced to borrow more and more and more money.

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The Long And Short Of Rebranding Your Business

YoungUpstarts

HP Merger With Compaq. In 2002, Hewlett Packard signed a merger agreement with Compaq that would bring together the computer hardware businesses of the two businesses, each with revenues of over $40 billion. The first step was PR. This strategy is essentially dependent on your motivation behind the exercise.

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Twitter Link Roundup #155 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

6 Ways You Can Improve Churn Rate and Increase Revenue | KISSmetrics blog - [link]. 6 Ways You Can Improve Churn Rate and Increase Revenue | KISSmetrics blog - [link]. The Ugly Numbers Behind The Viggle-GetGlue Merger | TechCrunch – [link]. This Year, What Is Your Small Business Thankful For? – [link].

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Should Startups Announce Their Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

Understanding “The Funding Angle” I sit at enough board meetings to hear conflicting advice given to entrepreneurs about how to handle PR and announcements at startups. In stead of doing my typical big long post with 10 PR tips (like I did there), I’m going to break them up into individual (I hope more digestible) chunks.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. With Netscape’s IPO , there was suddenly a public market for companies with limited revenue and no profit. 1970 – 1995: The Golden Age. Thus began the 5-year dot-com bubble.

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Will Work for Equity - Investing in Clients - Arizona Bay

www.inc.com

But with the help of Grahams company, which specializes in creating tech systems for start-ups, Jumpstart grew to more than $50 million in revenue--enough to make it an attractive acquisition for media conglomerate Hachette Filipacchi. Arizona Bay has also blended equity payments with revenue-sharing deals. Will yours be next?

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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

Both Sides of the Table

In the startup journey if you have success in your early product launches, fund raising and PR you’re likely to get “inbound interest” from likely acquirers. Sure, our revenue is growing, but is that enough to raise an internal round? I’d like to give you a few examples that are more nuanced: 1.

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