Startups need lawyers, but how do you choose the right ones? And are you maximizing your lawyers, or simply wasting your money? Why do startups hate lawyers? Disclaimer: I have worked with over 30 different lawyers throughout my career to date. A few have been awesome, and some have really sucked. They were all expensive.
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Startups are rightly concerned about their competitors. But are you focusing on your competitors in a constructive way, or simply wasting your time?
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Understanding my key responsibilities as CEO of a B2B software startup was critical if I wanted to support the startup to massive growth.
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As founder, I pretended that giving up equity wasn’t the same as selling part of my company, but it really is. Here’s my experience.
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LA-based startup Barpay secures $300k in early funding and strategic partnership with LogicBoost Labs Seed and early stage investing is down in LA but Barpay is ready for when bars re-open Los Angeles, CA – April 22, 2020: Seed and early stage startup investments, which typically represent sentiment with riskier investors, have plummeted in Los
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How do you give up equity in your software startup? Should you do it? And if so, how much? Consider the outcome of these options.
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Maybe you are fund raising or considering selling a portion of your startup to an investor. Either way you need to value your startup to figure out a fair price for the equity being sold and money being added to the business or being taken out by you. There are a few approaches to valuation
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There are so many business books out there and you have limited learning time with your startup. It is hard to know where to begin but learning is absolutely essential to your journey. There are many ways to learn: You can figure things out on your own by making mistakesYou can learn by watching your
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Let’s go through the thought process to decide if you should bootstrap your software startup. What is bootstrapping? Bootstrapping in the business world is the practice of starting your business without any external capital (money). The business is forced to operate with very minimal expenses and uses its own revenue to grow. How much money
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Common advice given to founders is to be the sales person in their startup and only hire sales people later. This makes some sense as the founder is usually the best person to sell the startup’s product/service. This is because they are passionate about the problem area and really understand the industry. This makes them one
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