Mon.Nov 12, 2018

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The Realities of Being Self-Employed

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Written for EO by Ken Boyd, a former CPA who creates accounting and personal finance content. . “Opportunity is missed by most people, because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”. This quote , attributed to Thomas Edison, captures the reality of being self-employed. Working for yourself allows you to capitalize on opportunities that may not be available to you as an employee.

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Quickly Unpacking SAP’s $8B Acquisition Of Qualtrics

Haystack

Qualtrics recently filed to go public. Last night, SAP bought the company before it could IPO. There are plenty of well-deserved articles by Axios and Forbes and tweets of praise for Qualtrics (must read Utah-based VC Bryce Roberts’ storm here ), which you can and should read. By all accounts, the Utah-HQ’d company did everything the right way, was an overnight success 16 years in the making, and only raised venture capital as a growth company after years of bootstrapping.