For Business Owners Needing Investors, Understanding SEC Rules Is Crucial. Failure to Understand What Constitutes a Security vs. a Private Placement or General Solicitation Can Get You into Hot Water.
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Perfecting the 10-Minute Pitch Is the Art of Conveying Emotion Alongside Information. It’s Clear Which Founders Excel in Creating a Personal Connection, Evoking Empathy, And Maximizing Every Minute of Their Pitch. Learn to Make Every Minute Count.
Many Business Owners Will Face the Issue of Whether or Not to Make an Additional Business Investment in Their Venture. But Is It the Right Thing to Do or Are They Just Throwing Good Money After Bad?
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Most business cultures follow a rather predictable business evolution as they progress and grow. There are four stages that a business must go through from birth to death.
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The Journey That A Band Goes Through Turns Out to Be Very Similar to A Business Founder’s Entrepreneurial Journey. Founders Can Expect to Encounter Many of The Same Issues and Challenges That A Typical Band Goes Through on Their Way to Stardom.
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A Critical Lesson Can Be Gleaned About A Person’s Entrepreneurial Mindset Based Upon Their Actions If Asked to Think About What They Would Do It Given Just A Single Ear of Corn.
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When it comes to pitching investors or customers and high-stakes presentations, there are a number of mistakes presenters often make.
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What is operating leverage and why should you care? Ignoring the financial mumbo-jumbo, operating leverage represents how having debt can affect a company’s bottom line profit. In some cases, Operating leverage can improve a company’s profits and in others, it can destroy it.
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A business can create value even before the business has revenue. This is important when giving equity to early-stage partners and investors.
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Leap of faith assumptions needs to be identified and tested early on so that the company can make better decisions instead of incurring significant expenses by going down the wrong path. Unfortunately, our government does not subscribe to testing assumptions before spending billions of dollars of taxpayer money. For example, take the main assumption that
When I grew up in Massachusetts, I remember reading a story about Joe Kennedy. He would go up to owners of older drafty apartments in downtown Boston and make them a unique proposition. Many of the units were poorly insulated and cost a small fortune to heat in the winter. Joe would agree to insulate
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It is always good to have some investment funds so you have the ability to execute when you see a good deal. One of my boys bought his motorcycle with cash after he bought a Ford Ranger with a blown engine the owner could not afford to fix. He bought the truck for $500 and
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Most People Play It Safe With Their Money, But Entrepreneurs Take a Different Approach. Discover How a Shift in Thinking Could Change Your Financial Future.
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How You Think About Money Can Shape Your Financial Future. Learn Why Millionaires Choose Delayed Gratification Over Spending and How You Can Do the Same.
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I think we would all agree that making a profit is the incentive to take risk through investments. Moreover, it takes investments to stimulate innovation. But innovation creates productivity gains, which in turn eat into profit. For example, a tractor that costs as much as the labor cost for 150 workers, but which can do
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The rule of 72 is a simple tool to calculate how long it takes to double your money. Your money will double in value if the product of multiplying the interest rate by time equals 72. The formula is Interest x Time = 72. So given a 10% annual investment rate it will take 7.2
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Investments made in your own business or in the stock market have investment risks that can be broken down into seven distinct types of risk.
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3 types of Investment risk. Greater risk = great rewards. Range = Inventory, least risk/reward, thru production equipment, to innovation most risk/reward.
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Robert Kiyosaki, the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, uses a model he calls the Cash Flow Quadrant to explain different ways income is generated. The last quadrant is Investor. As an investor, it is all about having your money work for you. As an investor, you can spread your investment money around to achieve
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Take This Quick One-Question Test to Discover If You Have the Mindset of an Entrepreneur. Your First Reaction Might Reveal More About You Than You Think.
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