Instead, if your company is not a good candidate for a public offering, a better option may mean to avoid VC money altogether and look at capitalizing on a niche.
Angels, like venture capitalists, will expect a good chunk of your company for their cash.
It used to be you were a good company if your employees scored high on job satisfaction.
Click on The Research Exchange to find out whether any of the listed field studies might be a good fit for your company.
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The company is offering to paint your entire house, although a good part of that paint job will be the company logo and contact information.
Your years of experience in an industry, particular position, company, location, and how good you are at your job all contribute to how much commission you can earn.
There have to be at least one or two good things about your old company, right?
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Will you be obese, broke, your company in that corporate graveyard littered with good, but never-executed, product ideas?
The key is to run relevant pander-free promotions that reward customers, make them feel good about doing business with your company, and encourage them to do more of the same.
They were a big company, and they got in your life pretty good.
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For every minute you spend helping keep bad things from happening at your company, you should spend ten trying to make good things happen.
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Failure to adapt to these new market conditions will result in a drop of profits at best and, at worst, will make your company irrelevant, erode your customer-base, and ultimately force you to close your doors for good.
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Just to keep it fresh in your brainpan, the good people at Metaliq (a company which specializes in developing Flash websites) have been kind enough to host the event, and we'll have refreshments courtesy of PGP, free Engadget t-shirts for the first 100 people who show up, and tons of sweet prizes from Motorola, Microsoft, Nokia, OQO, Sonos, and more.
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Find yourself a hard-core engineer, either in your company, or maybe a consultant, and ask not what is good about Windows 8, but what is bad.
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Your company may offer model portfolios or target date funds that can be a good way to start if you are not comfortable choosing specific funds.
''It comes as a welcome surprise that brands like Corn Pops and Froot Loops can actually be good for your health, '' said a spokesman for the company at the time.
As leaders, a good first step to consider is surveying the breadth of causes your company supports with an eye towards prioritizing those that synch up well with core business needs.
If however, you joined for any other reason (e.g. interest in your work topic, growth opportunity, good compensation, meaningful opportunity to make a difference in the company, etc.) then the coolness factor is just not a big factor.
If your product is good enough, you can make a big impact even if you are a small or unknown company.
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If you have no idea what kind of assets the fund or management company is investing in or if you can't tell from your statement, that's not a good sign.
What it means for you: Even if your company seems to be too small to be targeted by a state-sponsored hacker attack, now is a good time to beef up your digital security, in case the situation gets worse.
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The good news is you can avoid the perils and pitfalls of the annual report process, move your company out of the dinosaur age and produce a highly effective and engaging annual report, one that communicates your company's messages more powerfully and precisely, earns you accolades and widens and deepens your understanding of the business and management's strategic mind-set.
Corporate pensions also violate a basic rule of good portfolio management that your pay cheque and your retirement savings should not depend on the same company.
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