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5 Steps To Finding The Best Investor For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. Invite the investor to dinner or fun-related activity. Personal funds imply the most commitment, and offshore funding is most suspect.

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5 Keys To Vetting Investors Before You Accept Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. Invite the investor to dinner or fun-related activity. Personal funds imply the most commitment, and offshore funding is most suspect.

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Finding Developers is Tough Again

SoCal CTO

in terms of the activity, with not only jobs aplenty, but offers and counter-offers hitting good talent. I’ll leave that for another discussion as the inquiry that I keep getting is more about local talent than offshore talent. One recruiter tells me it’s “like 1999? I’m sure we’d all like to hear about it.

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Size Up Your Investors Before Accepting Their Money

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. Invite the investor to dinner or fun-related activity. Personal funds imply the most commitment, and offshore funding is most suspect.

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5 Ways To Check Your Investor Intent Before Signing

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course you need to discount any investor competitive positioning, but local investment group leaders will quickly tell you the strengths and terms of active investors in your area. Invite the investor to dinner or fun-related activity. Personal funds imply the most commitment, and offshore funding is most suspect.

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How to Design an Effective Bonus Plan

The Quigley Report

What can change - and likely should - is the specific activity or result that the bonus will be based on. The next quarter, all of her bonus might be based on opening an offshore development center by a certain date.

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Startups Need International, Without the Pitfalls

Startup Professionals Musings

By Ernst Gemassmer Fortune 500 companies such as IBM, Proctor and Gamble and others derive more than half of their revenues from international activities. We have heard that there are significant tax advantages in doing business offshore. Manufacturing offshore could impact intellectual property.

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