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Preparing Your Startup for the Next M&A Wave

Revolution

Startup founders can start positioning themselves now to be acquired in that wave. As an active board member across several companies, I often advise against acquisitions that require additional investments to actualize value. A second non-traditional way to enter the M&A stream is through strategic board enhancements.

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Opinion: It’s a startup world

NZ Entrepreneur

It is our startup sector which will drive this innovative progress. Startup founders are our ambitious problem solvers. To generate growth in a startup, it is almost always necessary to raise external capital to run the necessary. In order to understand startup governance, you need to understand risk and reward.

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DataJoy raises $6M seed to help SaaS companies track key business metrics

TechCrunch

Every business needs to track fundamental financial information, but the data typically lives in a variety of silos making it a constant challenge to understand a company’s overall financial health. DataJoy , an early stage startup, wants to solve that issue. “I spend my life in the board meetings.

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Daily Crunch: Did Bolt Mobility bolt? The startup left equipment and confused customers in its wake

TechCrunch

In my distant past as a startup founder, long before I became a writer at TechCrunch, exhibiting at TechCrunch Disrupt turned out to be a huge moment for my first startup. Build a solid deck for your quarterly board meetings. Build a solid deck for your quarterly board meetings. You can sign up here.).

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Complete helps startups think through the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of employee pay

TechCrunch

For early-stage startups looking to hire new talent, it’s not enough to make one-off decisions about pay as each new employee comes on board. I would say that the fidelity of information that we’re most focused on is actually how your compensation is constructed, or what we call total rewards,” Mavram said.

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Canvas lands $20M so tech’s biggest companies can find diverse talent

TechCrunch

About 87% of candidates on its platform disclose their demographic information (which it says is 7x the industry standard), according to the startup. It’s not about getting someone’s gender or ethnicity based off of their name, or to inform the hiring decision without candidates knowing,” Herman told TechCrunch. “It’s

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High Performing Virtual Teams Have 8 Key Attributes

Gust

Experts on this subject, including Yael Zofi, in her book, “ A Manager’s Guide to Virtual Teams ,” has identified eight key characteristics of high-performing virtual teams that I have observed, and every startup founder should understand and enable: Members exhibit a global mindset – they look outward, not inward.

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