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10 Cash-Flow Surprises That Could Kill Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, you can’t predict everything, but writing down what you know will identify existing problems sooner, and allow other team members to help. If you try to vary the number of employees to match, that costs even more cash for hiring, firing, and layoffs. You can be on budget, and still run out of cash.

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Is Your Startup Growing Too Quickly For Cash Flow?

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, you can’t predict everything, but writing down what you know will identify existing problems sooner, and allow other team members to help. If you try to vary the number of employees to match, that costs even more cash for hiring, firing, and layoffs. You can be on budget, and still run out of cash.

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Entrepreneurship Is A Compulsion, Not A Choice

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In your own startup, you might experience lean times, but you never will be crushed in a stampede, like a middle-manager in a corporate layoff. Keep your write-ups to a single page. State the anticipated name of your product/service. How will your product/service look like? In your startup, you control your destiny.

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Interview with Josh Stomel, ResumeBucket

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Plus, we will provide resume writing services. Josh Stomel: We're seeing more and more layoffs every day. So to understand this correctly--when you show a resume, you also show ads? Josh Stomel: Yes, we show ads relevant to the keywords and the resume. We also blend in ads with our job results page.

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Freelancers Are The New Entrepreneurs For Services

Startup Professionals Musings

Self-employed services specialists are just as important, and most often operate remotely (from anywhere in the world) in this age of the Internet. Writing specialists. Tomorrow, a similar change is likely to happen to sales personnel, customer service, even manufacturing and construction jobs. Marty Zwilling.

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Entrepreneurs Can Thrive on Services or Products

Startup Professionals Musings

Self-employed services specialists are just as important, and are a growing part of this new “ age of the entrepreneur ” that I discussed last week. Writing specialists. Tomorrow, a similar change is likely to happen to sales personnel, customer service, even manufacturing and construction jobs. Marty Zwilling.

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Entrepreneurs can be Specialists or Generalists

Startup Professionals Musings

Writing specialists. Whether you are in manufacturing or software, you need experienced writers who can document your latest technology, write patents, and efficiently manage the multitude of data formats required by printing companies and advertisers. The days when these roles were stable careers for company employees are gone.