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Giving Up Salary for Equity After VC Funding
I got a great question the other day which highlights the tension that can emerge in an early stage company between VCs and entrepreneurs.
Board Meeting Rules
Following are some board meeting rules that were recently presented to me and my fellow board members by a CEO at one of his first board meetings at a newly funded early stage company. I thought they were brilliant. Feel free to pass them out at your next board meeting.
Whats The Best Corporate Structure For An Early Stage Company
I got the following question from a reader a week ago.
Do I Practice What I Preach?
At dinner I was pondering the answer I gave on the post How An Entrepreneur Can Protect Himself Post-Funding. Something was bothering me about it and I thought to myself “do I practice what I preach?” (Amy suggested that I should be bothered by my title of the post, which should have been “… Can Protect Himself or Herself …”)
The "Oh Shit" Board Meeting
Peter Rip has a funny (and painfully familiar) comment about the near-inevitable "Oh shit" moment that comes at the first board meeting of a newly-financed early-stage company:

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Giving Up Salary for Equity After VC Funding
I got a great question the other day which highlights the tension that can emerge in an early stage company between VCs and entrepreneurs.
What Type Of Company Should I set Up UK
When setting up your company you need to decide at an early stage how you intend to structure it. What type of company legally beneficial - a Limited Company, a Partnership, Limited Liability Partnership or Sole Trader?
MARKETING YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW FOR BUSINESSES DEVELOPMENT.
Marketing concept has evolved over the years. It has gone through some sort of evolution to where we are today. There have been marked stages and these stages are the following: Industrial revolution: at this stage specialization took place, with the industrial revolution, wages were introduced. At this stage the farmers could produce and sell to the industrial workers. The marketing and the business concept was simple at this stage but later become more complicated eventually. In marketing this stage is called the production stage, it took a while and Henry Ford perfected it. He came up with the car assembly and mass market was born. At this stage there was limited choice for the customer.

Three Stages of a Sales Agent
Sales agents and advisors have a life cycle, similar to that of the life cycle of a franchisee. There's a beginning stage, an intermediate stage, and the final result stage. Most agents and advisors behave in a similar fashion during the first two stages, but their behavior can differ dramatically in the final result stage. But I'm getting ahead of myself…
Reorganization protects entrepreneurs prior to the company turns out to be in utter distress.
Restructuring a company in distress, prior to the stage, when a company falls into low financial waters is conceived as a cogent option, which requires following the requisite legal procedure as would achieve the ultimate objectives.

Entrepreneurs Raising Early Stage Venture Capital are in a Beauty Contest
Startup and Early Stage entrepreneurs must compete for the attention and limited capital available from angel investors and early stage venture capitalists. In many ways it can be compared to a Beauty Contest. The business fundamentals of a successful business are in place, but to be "picked" from the other companies also pitching those investors, that company must be the most attractive to that investor, that judge who will decide if the company qualifies to go to the next stage in the process.

Selling from the Page Is the New Social Media Marketing Behavior
Most people do not like to be sold from the stage. Yet social media has redefined selling from the stage to selling from the page.

Killer Closes (From the Go for the Gold Summit)
This is the first time I’ve shared my easy formula for selling from the stage and creating more sales through public speaking. Here are 6 things you can do to market from the stage, including my Killer Close: the Back-of-the-Room Formula.
Dealing with Prospects in the 'Untroubled/Unaware' Stage
The most difficult challenge in sales is talking to prospect who need your product or service - but don't know it. They do not see the trouble or the need to change, so we call this the Untroubled/Unaware stage. This article explains how to deal with people in this stage.
Useful PR tips for start-ups
For most start-up businesses the outlay of external costs need to be kept to a minimum to safeguard the finances of the company during this embryonic stage, but it is also crucial that externally promoting a business should not be forgotten even if budget isn’t available. With this in mind, below is a step-by-step guide of PR tips businesses can utilise internally to promote their brand or company launch.

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