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Don’t Pay Bribes to Get International Expansion

Startup Professionals Musings

All distributors are obliged to sign documents stating that they would not use any of their commissions for payments to foreign officials. Distributors willingly signed the required documents, since they were threatened by corporate with cancellation if they did not comply. However, in reality the U.S.

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Sensitive Payments in the International Arena

Startup Professionals Musings

All distributors are obliged to sign documents stating that they would not use any of their commissions for payments to foreign officials. Distributors willingly signed the required documents, since they were threatened by corporate with cancellation if they did not comply.

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Don’t Cede Control: Why You Need to Cut out Middle Men in Negotiations

Both Sides of the Table

They outsource the critical negotiations and “trust their advisors to handle the details.&# You can’t outsource this to a recruiter. You thought it was going to be as easy as just having term sheet transferred to a longer form document. You name it. And yes, VC’s, too. We need them all. Trust me, that happens.

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7 Good Entrepreneurial Habits That Turn Bad

Startup Professionals Musings

Most begin by doing the product development, marketing and sales alone, but struggle making the transition to hiring and coaching others, defining repeatable processes and focusing on future strategy. For example, there once was a social network called Friendster , often credited with starting the social networking boom way back in 2002.