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Why Startup Management is NOT like Running an Established Company

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by Eric | May 11, 2010, 2:47pm EST

(What follows is a guest post by one of our resident interns Christopher Calder.) Startups are surprisingly different from their well-established corporate cousins. This difference extends beyond the symptomatic traits and into the core of each organization’s purpose. While a large company mainly works to efficiently implement a proven business model, a startup seeks to [...]

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Startup Venture Capital – Best Eight VC Questions

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by Eric | Apr 15, 2010, 5:21am EST

Raising venture capital can be both exhilarating and a thoroughly thought provoking experience.  Glen Kelman, the CEO of Redfin, an online real estate brokerage startup, weighs in on the best eight questions he was asked while raising his last venture round.  A very good read and questions we should all be asking ourselves in our [...]

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Startup Business Accounting – Why it Must Change

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by Eric | Feb 24, 2010, 8:49am EST

Startup business accounting is for the most part completely misdirected.  As I have discussed in previous post, the main job of a startup CEO is to manage cash, and cash is what should be watched most closely in a startup.  While a balance  sheet is basically useless for a small company, knowing how your marketing [...]

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