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7 Business Mistakes Serial Entrepreneurs Never Make (Twice)

InfoChachkie

Evaluate their sincerity by asking them to accept equity in exchange for all or a portion of their overall compensation. Your commitments to investors must be significant enough to compel them to write you a check. Grant Exclusivity. Puffery works in marketing, so I will deploy it when I promote my startup. Fallacy: Yes.

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Ten Rookie Startup Mistakes You Won’t Make

InfoChachkie

5) Allow Partners To Write Your Agreements. Thus, I will let my Big Dumb Company (BDC) partner write our agreement. Ask them to accept equity in exchange for all or a portion of their overall compensation. In Beware The Consultant , I describe how you can structure such equity-based relationships. 8 ) Grant Exclusivity.

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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

socalTECH

Instead, they outsource to an expert like Edegcast. Software-as-a-service companies write good software, and network companies build good networks, but rarely do you find both that do that well as the same time. We're privately funded today, with some equity from Menlo Ventures and Steamboat Ventures.

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Carving An Internet Niche With FamousBirthdays.com

socalTECH

We also sold one of our largest sites to a private equity firm in the real estate niche, and narrowed our focus down to FamousBirthdays.com. We never have to worry about monetization, and outsource that to Google. That might be good if you''re writing a book report, but people love quick facts. Our revenue is solid.

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In 15 Years From Now Half of US Universities May Be in Bankruptcy. My Surprise Discussion with @ClayChristensen

Both Sides of the Table

In many ways I think general purpose writing & thinking skills are as valuable as math skills. But “on capital employed” encourages companies to push more off balance sheet and thus into offshore & outsourced situations. ” Money is not debt or equity but a “license to use their capital.”

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register?

Frank Addante

Outsourcing ▼ April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Smart move on Googles part and congratulations to the geniuses at the private equity firms (Hellman & Friedman and JMI Equity) that identified this hole in the market and bought DoubleClick for a fraction of what they sold it for. A BIG THANK YOU.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

We had to write a CRM to keep track of them all. equity debate. Converts versus equity deals - Chris Dixon , August 31, 2010 There has been a debate going on the past few days over whether seed deals should be funded using equity or convertible notes (converts). What’s going to happen in the future?'

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