Posts with keyword: funding

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Starting a High Tech Business: Paying Yourself

Sat May 2 18:55:00 2009

I'm starting a new business called Kynetx. As I go through some of the things I do, I'm planning to blog them. The whole series will be here. This is the seventeenth installment. You may find my efforts instructive. Or you may know a better way--if so, please let me know! When you start a business you put a lot of yourself into it: time, ideas, and, of course, money for things like servers, supplies, and people. In addition to whatever money you put into the business, you also are spending money just living. Starting a business is not
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Starting a High Tech Business: Getting Five Clients

Fri Apr 18 08:10:00 2008

I’m starting a new business called Kynetx. As I go through some of the things I do, I’m planning to blog them. The whole series will be here. This is the fourteenth installment. You may find my efforts instructive. Or you may know a better way—if so, please let me know! Most days lately, I've been getting dressed up and talking to people about Kynetx. I'd rather be in jeans writing code, but when you're raising money you're going to dress up more and code less. Raising money is a distraction from running a business and so should be
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Starting a High Tech Business: What's Your Story

Mon Mar 17 07:00:00 2008

I'm starting a new business called Kynetx. As I go through some of the things I do, I'm planning to blog them. The whole series will be here. This is the eleventh installment. You may find my efforts instructive. Or you may know a better way--if so, please let me know! When you talk to someone who's starting a business, ask them what they do--you can tell how far along they are by the answer you get. Every business has a story and it takes time to get that story straight. If they stumble around, say "it's hard to
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