Entreprenuer 101
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
This post is part of our ReadWriteStart channel, which is dedicated to helping savvy entrepreneurs start and grow new businesses with resources, tips, insight and analysis. The channel is sponsored by TriNet . This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here . You did it all: you built a valuable venture and sold it. The contract was signed... finally!
Congratulations! What's Next?
This post is part of our ReadWriteStart channel, which is dedicated to helping savvy entrepreneurs start and grow new businesses with resources, tips, insight and analysis. The channel is sponsored by TriNet . This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here . There are two schools of thought about founders as CEOs. One school says that founders rarely make good CEOs: the skill sets are simply different.
When and How Founders Should Hire a Professional CEO
This post is part of our ReadWriteStart channel, which is dedicated to helping savvy entrepreneurs start and grow new businesses with resources, tips, insight and analysis. The channel is sponsored by TriNet . This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here . If you have raised money from investors, you will need to sell the company at some point for them to get a financial return. It's simple: if you don't want to sell your company, then don't raise external equity capital; if you want to maintain control indefinitely, then opt to incur debt instead (and meet your debt covenants).
Planning Your Exit
Maintain Focus, Health, and Passion During the Grind-It-Out Phase
This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here . When you first start out, you will find it amazing that anyone will even listen attentively to your idea.
This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here . There comes a time for every venture when the owners have to decide whether hockey-stick-like growth is feasible or not.
How to Scale Without Losing Your Shirt
Three Steps to Building an Online Brand
This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here . You need to do many things on the cheap. but there is one thing on which you should spend as much money as you can afford. Spend for it in cash if you have it.How to Build Age-Appropriate Processes
This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here . If you have kids, you will often hear (or use) the phrase, "That is not age-appropriate behavior." Young ventures need age-appropriate systems and processes, too. Too little process, and the venture descends into chaos. Too much process, and the venture becomes a slow-moving bureaucracy, and that is equally deadly.
This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here . The language of business is numbers, not concepts. All kinds of numbers exist, profit being the most obvious.
How to Hit Your Numbers
Build an Insanely Great Web Service
This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here . First, the good news: building a website today is ten times cheaper and faster than it was 10 years ago. Now, the bad news: building a website today is ten times cheaper and faster than it was 10 years ago. You are entering an incredibly crowded marketplace. You have to get and keep people's attention extremely fast, because hundreds of other services are just a click away.