Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2013

If your primary dream is to help the starving people around the world, or prevent global warming, you might consider a non-profit, academic, on government role, rather be an entrepreneur. Most customers today won’t pay you five times the cost of alternatives, just because yours is “green.” Making a profit does not imply greed.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Accumulating the resources necessary to hire an in-house data and analytics team pays regular dividends as your firm keeps growing. Deliveries can be planned in the most efficient manner ensuring that customer goodwill is acquired or retained through impressive delivery times. Workflow System.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2017

When you adopt proven hiring strategies, you can finally retain a steady flow of talent to fill open job positions and replace underperforming employees quickly. If you’re hiring for a customer service role, he can help solve a customer’s problem. Plus, the extra work usually falls on your already-overflowing plate.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

Assuming there are 3 founders and they own an equal amount (33%) then they’ve just taken $4 million each in profits and note that this is at a qualified dividend tax rate (currently 15%) versus an income tax rate (35%). No VC is interested in dividends – they want growth. That’s the right answer for VCs.

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Start Up Blog

MARCH 7, 2019

They’ve earned free global media attention and further ensconced themselves as innovators. Just compare the unit sales, price earnings ratios and valuations of firms serving the same set of customers: Automobiles: Tesla makes 245k cars per year, and has a PE ratio of infinity (no dividends yet), and a market cap of $48 billion.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 11, 2019

In the entrepreneur world we hear a lot of talk about entrepreneurs and businesses needing to be “global from day one” Investors and business commentators lament our lack of large global businesses and say the “three-B” (bach, ‘Beemer’ and boat) mentality of Kiwi business owners is holding us back.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

A combination of competition for top talent and an effort to bring employees back to the office drove startups in Israel to throw extravagant parties and all-inclusive retreats abroad. The press took notice, especially since just a few months later startups were laying off employees en-masse to cut costs. Need for Speed, indeed.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

As a veteran of many disasters in which improvising in the moment to meet an immediate need led to innovative solutions, Carl has been impressed by how many businesses, small and large, have reinvented the way they serve their customers during the pandemic. Then they've gotten to work. It's member-owned.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2014

It’s a risk and it will make many aspects of running a business harder: getting loans; attracting investors; paying suppliers and employees, and growing the business. First add up incoming cash from operations : cash received from the sale of goods, services, receivables from customers, cash interest and dividends.

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Up and Running

JUNE 19, 2012

Bankers cite high loan losses as the reason, but behind the scenes, most are taking the funds at hand and gambling on the global bond market. There are roughly 6 million small business enterprises that have employees in America. It is often said that if each firm hired one more employee, we would be out of our current predicament.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

This value-based model bringing all the right customers to their yard is called demand generation. But when executed right, it pays dividends. In today’s market ( 8,000 martech products alone ), it’s easier to attract the right customer with material they value than it is to chase down and convert a prospect who isn’t ready to buy.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 10, 2021

You can quickly develop a custom integration with Active Directory yourself—when you take advantage of the AD integration tools offered by the most established SaaS applications and platforms. Reduce the Time Spent Onboarding New Employees. Onboarding goes beyond hiring new employees. Integration #3.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2015

Previously, you may not have been aware how a country on the other side of the world treated its employees, carried out daily operations or communicated with close contacts, but all these aspects of business can now be understood. It is also significant for aspiring entrepreneurs that have a desire to succeed on a global scale.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 20, 2018

When you treat your people well — catch them doing things right, praise them when they are doing well, and redirect them when they get off track; when you empower them to bring their brains to work and make decisions — they will treat your customers well. Your company’s bottom line will improve and that will please the shareholders or owners.

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