Remaking Capitalism: The interdependence of business has not traditionally been part of business vernacular. However now, especially in post pandemic...
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Growth and Maturity
Growth and Maturity: These Insights take you further down the road from startup, when the business looks as though it will survive, though you the founder, now have new ideas about the next stages. Maybe some of the finance you were able to get at the outset needs supplementing. There are certainly sources that were not open to you as a fledgling business. There is a wider range of collaboration and support available from organizations and people.
In a more steady state, the business is established and may have new horizons to explore and you, the founder or founders have a wider range of interests to pursue. If the enterprise if to continue to flourish, it may be in a different way or indeed, maybe even without you. This is something I gave not a moment of thought about at the beginning of my journey. I wish at least, possibilities had been at the back of my head.
After 11 years of creating, building and making profitable my principal business, with a great team of people, I felt I needed something different and guess I was a bit tired. After many trials and errors, including mergers, selling to an associated business on an ‘earn-out’, my co-founder and I decided to sell the business to the 30 or so people who had helped to build it—for a symbolic £1 sterling (it was a UK business). Since you, also are pursuing the building of a startup with purpose beyond dollars and cents, you need to know that there are many ways of moving on. Here you will find some of them.
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Finance Is More Than Money
Need and Uses of Capital
Purposeful Startup Dazz—Bubbles with Intent
Purposeful Startup: David Shahan, is the founder of SunState Laboratories, based in Broomfield, Colorado, having previously worked with Jani-King, a...
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Spin Out Startup Hidden Entrepreneurs Come Out and Flourish
Spin Out Startup: the experience of three women who created their startup from the ashes of their former employer's business...
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Sources of Funding
Directory of Funding for Female Founders—USA Growing Sources of Finance for Women-led Startups
Funding for Female Founders: This Directory of Funding for Female Founders aims to help increase these numbers. It is inevitably...
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Bootstrap Startup Finance Expediency That Helps Keep the Business Lean
Bootstrap Startup Finance is a craft that is very widely used in the creation of new ventures. In tough economic...
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Corporate Venture Capital Directory—USA Many Corporates Have Venture Capital Arms Investing in Innovations in Their Sector
Corporate Venture Capital Directory—USA: The Corporate Venture Capital Directory—USA lists most of the big corporate investors. Corporate Venture Capital (CVC)...
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Community Round: Let Thousands Invest in Your Startup Customers, Friends & Supporters at the Same Time as Angels & VCs
Examples of Community Round Investors Let Thousands Invest in Your Startup: Use a Community Round, which lets thousands of your...
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Equity Crowdfunding Directory—USA Not All Crowdfunding Sites Can Be Used for Raising Capital
Equity Crowdfunding Directory—USA: Equity-based crowdfunding allows people to invest in an early-stage, private company (a company that is not listed...
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Equity Crowdfunding for Purposeful Startups Wefunder is the Best Way to Raise Equity Capital by Entrepreneurs on a Mission
Equity Crowdfunding for Purposeful Startups: Wefunder is simply the best way to raise capital from people who share your intent...
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Partnership
Co-opetition Benefits for Partners and Customers
'Co-opetition': 'Co-opetition' is an increasing popular behavior among both multinationals and entrepreneurial businesses alike. It is a function of competing...
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Cash and Risk
Small Profits and Quick Returns Twelve Ways for Early Startup Survival
Small Profits and Quick Returns (SPQR): Think as big as a Roman Emperor and start with small steps towards building...
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Support For New Entrepreneurs
Federal, State, Local Government
Small Town Startup 35 Million Rural Americans Consider They Could Start a Business
Small town startup: People in rural communities and small towns across America are just as likely to be entrepreneurs as...
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Public Contracts for Small Business Big Revenue for Entrepreneurs
Public Contracts for Small Business: It is amazing how few startups think about going after business from Federal Government, States,...
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Commercial and Nonprofit Services
Nearsourcing Advantages of Costa Rica
Nearsourcing: Nearsourcing is a way of outsourcing that brings subcontracted services nearer to the client company. Nearer can be in...
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Startup Mentor Checklist Make Sure of Getting Value from the Relationship
Startup Mentor Checklist: Mentors can be invaluable to a founder to act as a sounding board for ideas and planned...
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Founder Services Services for Startups
Founder Services help make your startup easier. They are available all over the place and often at high cost. Busy...
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Corporate Entrepreneurship
Support for Entrepreneurs with Disability Entrepreneurship Resources and Special Programs
Note—You might want to read the page on Startup Business with Disability, before you read this page. Support for Entrepreneurs...
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Corporate Venture Capital Directory—USA Many Corporates Have Venture Capital Arms Investing in Innovations in Their Sector
Corporate Venture Capital Directory—USA: The Corporate Venture Capital Directory—USA lists most of the big corporate investors. Corporate Venture Capital (CVC)...
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Mentors and Sponsors
Grassroots Startup Barriers Identifying Ways to Support Rural Startups
Grassroots Startup Barriers: Determined rural entrepreneurs will make it, whatever barriers stand in their way. More than 68 per cent...
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Dangers of Startup Mentors Mentors Can Be Hugely Beneficial, but the Relationship Has Risks, too
Dangers of Startup Mentors: I was a startup mentor for many years. So, why would I warn entrepreneurs about the...
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Scale, Pivot, Next Steps
Size and Place
Size and Place Business Purpose: Priorities & Models Remaking Capitalism—Future Economy Change Direction Benefit Venture Blog
Startup Growth On Purpose Right-Size Your New Venture
Startup Growth on Purpose: Do all entrepreneurs want to grow fast and/or big? The answer is no. There are many...
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Startup—Small Is Beautiful Extractive or Productive
Startup—Small is Beautiful: Mindful entrepreneurs scale to the right size for good. Investors seek scale fast to maximize investment. Over...
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Keeping Score
Breakeven Analysis for Entrepreneurs Calculate Your Startup's Move Into Profit
Breakeven analysis for entrepreneurs sounds very dry and like hard work for the founder who's in love with her idea....
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Variance Analysis Identify Reasons for Differences Between Expected and Actual Amounts
Variance Analysis: The monthly activity of comparing either/both of forecast/budget numbers with actual out-turn proved for me to be a...
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Value Proposition Matrix Test All the Components of the Value Proposition Across the Whole Value Chain
Value Proposition summarizes the reason to buy a product/service, convincing a prospective customer that it will add more value or...
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Key Performance Indicators Metrics to Connect Strategy and Outcomes
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are metrics that will measure outcomes against strategies set at the level of the whole venture,...
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Change Direction
Startup Exit Strategy Founders Can Plan Their Exit—or Ignore It
Startup Exit Strategy: Founders can plan their exit—or ignore it till it happens and maybe face unexpected challenges. If you...
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Size and Place Business Purpose: Priorities & Models Remaking Capitalism—Future Economy Change Direction Benefit Venture Blog
Startup Growth On Purpose Right-Size Your New Venture
Startup Growth on Purpose: Do all entrepreneurs want to grow fast and/or big? The answer is no. There are many...
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Expansion or Extension Stretch a Bit, Strengthen a Lot
Expansion or Extension: Management 'specialists' talk about Stretch Goals, or even Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals, or BHAGs. Venture capitalists, with...
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Transformation or Exit
Startup Exit Strategy Founders Can Plan Their Exit—or Ignore It
Startup Exit Strategy: Founders can plan their exit—or ignore it till it happens and maybe face unexpected challenges. If you...
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Spin Out Startup Hidden Entrepreneurs Come Out and Flourish
Spin Out Startup: the experience of three women who created their startup from the ashes of their former employer's business...
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Exit Strategy by ESOP or Co-op Creative Ways for Founders to Sell Their Startups
Exit Strategy by ESOP or Co-op: An Employee Stock Ownership Plan or Co-operative Ownership are both increasingly popular options as...
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