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8 Keys To Starting A Venture With Minimal Equity Loss

Startup Professionals Musings

With one of the many new tools , and a dose of sweat equity, you can create a website for almost nothing -- and you are on your way to success with ecommerce, your latest invention or personal services. Keep expenses down, but keep customer visibility and sensitivity as a top priority. Practice living on a shoestring budget.

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Use creative fundraising instead of equity or debt?

Berkonomics

Use creative fundraising instead of equity or debt? So, I went to visit several customer CEOs, told them my story, and asked them to advance some amount against their future billing from me. Strategic partnerships with suppliers, customers and others sometimes are an attractive way to share the risk and fund an operation.

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5 Equity Distribution Parameters For Key Contributors

Startup Professionals Musings

So, the first question I usually get is what percent of the company or equity is that person worth? Just because it was your idea doesn’t mean you “deserve” 90% of the equity. The value in a startup is all about tangible results, so I see no equity value in the idea alone. Key to required patents or trade secrets.

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5 Keys To Personalized Team And Customer Connections

Startup Professionals Musings

With interactive social media and video everywhere, everyone needs to feel they have a relationship with their leaders, and every brand needs leader personification for customers to relate. He speaks from a wealth of personal experience in private equity, as well as top executive positions at American Express, Sears, and Citigroup.

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Maury Microwave Acquired By Private Equity Investor

socalTECH

Ontario, California-based Maury Microwave, a developer of RF calibration, measurement, and modeling products, said on Thursday that it has been acquired by private equity investor Artemis Capital Partners. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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JMI Equity Leads $35M Investment In Lytics

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San Diego-based private equity investor JMI Equity is the lead investor in Lytics , a developer of marketing personalization software, in a $35M, Series C investment announced by Lytics on Thursday. The company said the funding will go towards strategic growth initiatives in the product development and "customer success" areas.

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Financing with grants, not equity or debt

Berkonomics

A company like this grows in value to its customers and to prospective buyers of the business, but without any dilution of control or ownership for the founders. The post Financing with grants, not equity or debt first appeared on BERKONOMICS. No dilution to shareholders or the founders. How refreshing! How grants are considered.

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