StartupNation

APRIL 26, 2021

Here are five financial musts to consider before jumping into entrepreneurship: Assess your financial resources. During your assessment, make sure to document all of your goals and the time frame and priority of each. StartupNation has partnered with Yottled to provide the fastest way to bring your business online.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 29, 2025

The Power of AI Agents in Behavioral Health Eleos AI agents fundamentally change the workflow of behavioral health practitioners, improving time-consuming tasks such as clinical documentation, compliance monitoring, and patient engagement. These changes are allowing healthcare providers to spend more time with patients and less on paperwork.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2016

When I was helping to create a document outlining our company’s values, we listed examples of how we understand each value, gave an example of how we could demonstrate it, and shared why it was important to us. The post What No One Ever Tells You About Entrepreneurship appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Given that convertible debt financing has become the de facto standard for small (<$1MM), early stage deals in recent years, I thought I would write a primer on the elements of a term sheet and definitive documents for entrepreneurs looking at the earliest stage financing rounds. Let’s take it from the top: Why convertible notes?

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 16, 2025

Unlike general AI tools, Collides platform integrates retrieval augmented generation (RAG) with a proprietary knowledge base that spans technical papers, internal operations documents, and an extensive Q&A library tailored to oil and gas professionals. The result?

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Forward Cities

JULY 27, 2020

We add another proposal to the mix: use unemployment insurance to encourage entrepreneurship as well as traditional employment. But that model only partially makes sense, as opportunities for entrepreneurship are often more readily available — with vast amounts of information accessible online to guide aspiring business-starters.

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

The ERISA “Prudent Man” Rule (1970s) Two policy changes occurred in the 1970s that significantly improved the environment for entrepreneurship and venture capital to thrive—opening up both the supply and demand channels. Through the policy change, it was reduced dramatically to 20 percent throughout the first half of the 1980s.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I don’t feel like canceling LinkedIn just because occasionally a well-meaning but slightly not-clued-in person from a faraway place wants me to be their personal mentor, answer 3-questions for their high-school entrepreneurship project or take a sales pitch for their recruiting services.

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

In Part I , I gave a quick summary of the who, when and why of forming and documenting a new startup company. Continuing my medical analogy from Part I, the documents are like powerful prescription medications and your lawyer plays the role of the physician. Appoint Newco’s initial Board of Directors.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 8, 2022

If the bridge documents do not specify anything in this situation, the noteholders will only get their money back, plus interest, in a sale. The ideal discount is between 10% and 20% and so the time frame for the various discounts should be set with that in mind.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JUNE 20, 2020

Collaborative research focused on developing the field of ecosystem building would allow the field to identify the principles and practices that are most effective for fostering successful entrepreneurship. It’s imperative that we occasionally slow down to ensure intentional documenting of processes, methodologies and results.

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StartupNation

MARCH 8, 2021

Entrepreneurship is one of the best tools for challenging bias and accelerating parity. If you’re a solopreneur creating these documents for the first time, make sure they’re inclusive from the start. How can you use entrepreneurship to usher in a more equal and unbiased world? Eliminate bias from the hiring process.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 30, 2025

With over 15 years of experience in digital marketing and entrepreneurship, David has grown Local Falcon to serve over 100,000 users worldwide, delivering innovative AI-powered tools to simplify and optimize local search strategies. Thank you so much for joiningus!

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

It’s easier than ever to find example documents on the Internet, use a service to file your certificate of incorporation or trademark application, and so forth. In next week’s post, I will get into specific documents. The advantage of using documents you find online or through a document service is largely illusory.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 19, 2011

It's a function that I find the kids in my entrepreneurship classes at Fordham would be increasingly uncomfortable with, because they're not good with new people in person. My job basically revolves around strangers and technology--letting people I've never met that wind up in my inbox come into my office to pitch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2022

The storied venture firm is known to react to macroeconomic events with grand memos aimed at portfolio companies and sometimes the entrepreneurship scene at large. ” The document reads like a follow-up course to its infamously ill-timed “Coronavirus: The Black Swan of 2020” memo of March 2020.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

It is possible to embrace entrepreneurship without starting a new business. I could feel a path to entrepreneurship opening up before me. I presented the leadership with more documentation about how I could lead this business to success. What about entrepreneurs that don’t start their business from scratch? I said “Yes!”

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 24, 2022

4) Document systems and processes. Systemise and document everything. Methodically work through the key areas of your business, tidying and documenting your databases, systems and processes. Look for ways to increase sales and reduce your costs.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

From Tobacco & manufacturing to entrepreneurship. In doing this work, there has been a significant amount of investment of both funds and time in moving entrepreneurship activities forward. We will vigorously document the structure, projects, programs, relationships, strategies and tactics used by the coordinator.

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Gust

JULY 18, 2012

If things are properly documented, the Board can take action by unanimous written consent rather than actually holding a meeting. The Board meets formally for the first time, often called an “ organizational meeting ,” to take care of a long list of corporate housekeeping matters. ” and “A.F.”

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 28, 2021

This principle, surprisingly, can be applied to entrepreneurship, as well. As has been documented by books like “ The E-Myth ,” most people find that starting a business ends up involving a lot more administrative and managerial work than expected. Step 6 : Label each task as “easily documented” or “not easily documented.”

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

LawCloud offers free legal documents through the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization. These documents are helpful for forming a new company, running your company, maintaining good corporate governance, and more. Startup Grind’s Student Program is a community for students looking to delve into entrepreneurship.

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Impact Hub

JUNE 19, 2024

World Refugee Day: Navigating the challenges of refugee employment and entrepreneurship This World Refugee Day, lets look beyond the numbers to understand the challenges refugees face in accessing employment and entrepreneurship opportunities. Life was hard, especially in a new place. I did not have enough to eat.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2021

” It’s a matter-of-fact document, aiming to emphasize the importance of community in building a forward-looking startup, while highlighting the concept’s elasticity. When done right, community enables and improves customer acquisition, streamlines support and success, bolsters retention, and provides crucial product insights.

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Onevest

MAY 14, 2015

At a social entrepreneurship conference last fall, Ben Cohen of the fabled Ben & Jerry’s ice cream brand told Entrepreneur that their success really stemmed from choosing to “make our friendship the most important thing.” No one expects relationships or their startups to go sour.

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Founder Bounty

APRIL 4, 2023

A business plan is a document that outlines your company’s mission, goals, market analysis, target customers, financial projections, and strategies for success. Attend industry events, join entrepreneurship organizations, and network with other entrepreneurs, investors, and professionals in your industry.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

He is an adviser and investor focusing on high-impact entrepreneurship in emerging markets and has worked with the World Bank, International Finance Corporation, as well as numerous funds and startups focusing on developing countries.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

A typical enterprise grapples with hundreds or thousands of agreements, contracts and other legal documents every year, and it usually engages costly legal counsel either inside or outside the company to assess those documents on their behalf. In all, Ontra is processing some 20,000 NDAs monthly at the moment.

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Y Combinator

JULY 20, 2022

Outside of the YC community, little has been documented on best practices to be an effective CEO. We’ve experimented a lot: strategy docs, all-hands, documenting our 5Ss (the five most important initiatives across the company), and OKRs. One area covered extensively is how to scale as a CEO of a growth-stage company.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 26, 2019

Alex’s epic athletic achievement is documented in the film Free Solo , which portrays his journey through training, fear, indecision and finally successfully scaling El Capitan. What parallels did you draw between the challenges of climbing and entrepreneurship? Sean Dandley, entrepreneur and retired telecom executive.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 3, 2024

Human Resources Consulting : addresses the personnel needs of a growing company that includes documentation, job descriptions, hiring processes, benefits, company manual, and more. The post Hiring a Small Business Consultant appeared first on American Entrepreneurship Today®.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2024

A shared patient record enables the seamless exchange of information in real-time, including clinical documents, current health status, social determinants of health (such as food, housing and transportation) and contact information. Providers can effectively communicate, execute a care plan and make up-to-date, informed decisions.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

If you plan on applying for a more traditional loan, such as a microloan or line of credit, you will most likely be asked to complete an application with basic personal and business information while also providing certain documents such as: Personal credit score and credit report. Financial business plan. Copy of your commercial lease.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

These documents are used by Y Combinator, angel investors and most early-stage funds. You should raise on post-money SAFEs using standard documents created by YC. Standard documents have consistent terms that have been drafted to be fair to both investors and founders. Post-money SAFEs are the most common way to raise funding.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

When founders take the formal leap into entrepreneurship, there’s a whole host of (sometimes tedious) work that needs to be done — legally and professionally. And startup lawyers, specializing in the niche documents and processes behind startup-building, can be useful resources. But that’s not where the story stops.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

Three out of five respondents said their companies don’t have a documented plan to handle a leadership change, even though, by that same ratio, they acknowledge that a documented plan is the biggest determinant in seamless transitions. But this documented history cannot be a hagiography of the departing CEO.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

They build that picture through a series of data and information requests to try and answer these important questions: Cap tables are one of the most important documents your company should maintain. During due diligence, every investor is looking for an accurate view of your business performance, value and potential.

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