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Kristin Marquet, Founder, Tech/Analytics/PR Expert, Academic Finance Background, Marquet Media

Startup Blogpost

This interview is with Kristin Marquet , Founder, Tech/Analytics/PR Expert, Academic Finance Background at Marquet Media. I’ve spent the past 15 years working in public relations, branding, and digital marketing, building a career that intersects several passions of mine—startups, health and wellness, and, most recently, parenting.

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Oh, go ahead and ask for $5M for your startup.  

Berkonomics

First, few startups can use that much money today with all the virtual services available and increasingly inexpensive methods of development, prototyping and marketing. Third (if you’re keeping score), it is not wise to dilute the founder’s ownership greatly in the first round of financing. Four reasons you should reconsider.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa.

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How to Manage a Startup Through Troubling Times

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Like the downturns in 2008 and 2001, this has been a very trying time for entrepreneurs running startups. While some level of stress is inevitable if you are running a startup, times like this can ramp up the stress factor considerably. Here is advice I collected for dealing with the stress of running a startup: 1.

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Your Fractional Finance and Accounting Team

With our comprehensive bookkeeping and precise accounting expertise with decades of experience across diverse financial roles, our team offers tailor-made services ranging from essential bookkeeping to strategic fractional CFO support, catered specifically to the unique challenges of technology companies, startups, and SMEs.

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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. Startup founders always need help. You need both.

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Making Sense of the Stock Market Drops in Relation to Venture Financing

Both Sides of the Table

It will make follow-on financings much harder and people will have to consider whether or not to do inside rounds. These are all normal things but in this big run since 2009 we’ve all gotten used to nearly 100% follow-on financing rates, valuations only moving up, deals clearly the convertible note caps and low mortality rates.

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How Top Tech CFOs Solve Annual Planning’s Biggest Challenges

Learn from senior executives at high-growth tech startups as they outline financial planning strategies, align CEO and board goals, and coordinate budgets across departments.