Category: Emerging Growth

Governance Tips: Planning Out a Roadmap to a Startup’s Board of Directors

Setting up a board of directors with independent directors takes a startup to another level—a level that will assure prospective investors of your young company’s commitment to its future, backed by accountability and …

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Corporate Governance Best Practices for Startups

Startup corporate governance is not at the very top of every company’s priority list, and it’s understandable why: Developing the product, establishing a new brand, hiring employees, gaining traction in the marketplace…

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How to Get an Investor to Say Yes

Chances are, you are passionate about your company and its growth prospects, and you think everyone else should be too. Companies embarking on their first round of pitches to investors go in with this attitude and may be s…

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How to Pitch an Angel Investor

After family and friends, startups tend to turn to angel investors to help them fund the company’s growth. To gain these investors’ trust and confidence, emerging growth companies need to make a stronger case for why a…

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Growth Strategies for Startups

High on the agenda of your startup is likely growth—you may have found this article when searching specifically for startup growth strategies. You have many options in front of you, depending on what you have in mind: su…

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Expansionist Strategy: How to Prepare Your Startup for Bigger, Better Things

Very likely you have great plans for your emerging growth company—every great company leader/entrepreneur should. But how you get to that point and whether that end goal is realistic is another matter altogether. Growth …

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Transaction Advisory Services for Startups

Whether your startup is looking to sell or is being courted, you will need to have an understanding of available transaction advisory services.  Buying or selling a company, or pursuing an initial public offering (IPO) ar…

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The Benefits of Outsourcing Finance: Cleaning Up the Books

The financial side is sometimes a lagging concern for emerging growth companies as they work toward getting their product or service off the ground—but it soon becomes an issue once the bills pile up, future cash flow be…

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Strategic Initiatives for Emerging Growth

When startups graduate from being in “survival mode” to strengthening their foundation and exploring opportunities, the focus turns to potential strategic growth initiatives. Whether they are organic or inorganic, incr…

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Scaling for Growth: Tips to Help You Do It Right

Growth is a persistent goal by most companies, but scaling for growth is what successful companies have managed to do well. When a startup has shown its mettle in the marketplace—its first couple of years have proven tha…

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