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Business Prenup: What To Do Before You Start A Company With A Partner

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Here are a few tips to ensure that you and your partners start out on the right foot. You should also understand that you may be liable for certain acts or omissions as a manager, officer or director, but shielded from liability as a member (in a manager-managed LLC) or shareholder. Congratulations! Hire professionals. Bankruptcy?

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The Next Entrepreneurs And Startups

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Trade businesses like carpentry and plumbing have often lagged behind other services in embracing disruptive practices, but the changes in behavior they are facing now mean they should be looking to partner with startups that can offer creative solutions. Traditional startup best practices remain timeless.

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8 Steps To Starting A New Venture With Limited Funds

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The cost of rolling out a business has never been lower – it only takes a few hundred dollars to incorporate a Limited Liability Corp (LLC) online, create your own website, use social media to get attention, and you are in business. You need to recruit advisors, key partners, and cofounders well before approaching investors.

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4 Questions Entrepreneurs Can Challenge Themselves With To Grow Their Business

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by Jeffrey Kadlic, co-founder & managing partner of Evolution Capital Partners. Jeffrey Kadlic is the co-founder and managing partner of Evolution Capital Partners LLC, a small business private equity fund investing growth equity nationwide in Second Stage Companies.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

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Founded it as a California LLC but your potential VC wants a Delaware C-Corp? Focus on the partner you would be working with. One issue he talked about was working with partners. I also like to work with partners. But I also know it’s not realistic for the partners to do all of the work. Get to know them.

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6 Steps To Move From Inspiration To Business Reality

Startup Professionals Musings

This means staffing and delivering the business legally as an LLC or corporation, completing a website and business licensing, and arranging for manufacturing, distribution, and support. This is the point where you must manage to metrics, work on the culture of the organization, and look for partner-based growth.

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Do You Have What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur?

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Kurt Olender, managing partner at OlenderFeldman LLP, believes an entrepreneur must be flexible and adept at problem solving. Steven Raz, co-founder and managing partner of Cornerstone Search Group, LLC, believes successful entrepreneurs need the ability to “operate and make decisions with incomplete information.”