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    Help with Structuring Licensing Deal

    I'm in the middle of negotiating a licensing deal where I will gain merchandising rights to someone else's IP and use it to make a product. I'm seeking ways to make an attractive offer without exposing myself to too much risk, and I'm getting hung up in the details of the minimum guarantee. I...
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    Seeking Feedback on a Coffee-tasting "Experience"

    Hello friends, I'm curious to get some feedback on an idea that I had a few months ago and dismissed as too risky. I work at a winery. The idea is to essentially apply the idea of a winery (from the tourist/novelty/wine tasting perspective) to the coffee industry. There are a lot of coffee...
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    Advice Needed - How to Build a Facebook Following from Nothing

    MARKETING 
    Hi all, I've been having trouble finding an answer to my question online and around the forum, so hopefully some of you will have some ideas or experiences with this. I'm starting a business (aren't we all). It's a unique product, custom design, requires a license to create, and is quite...
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    General Q's about Filing LLC for e-commerce site

    I've tried using the search function and have spent some time reading articles from Nolo and other legal advice websites, but I still have a few unanswered questions that I'm hoping somebody can help to address from their own experience. Background: - Live and work in California - Business is...
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    Slowlane Mentality Going Strong in School (a bit of a rant)

    SLOWLANE 
    My accounting professor just worked out the math on how much we'll have in retirement if we want to be able to spend 80% of our 30-year salary, and people are it all up. "I'll have $6,000,000 in 30 years?! I'll only be 55!" No. You won't. We assumed a $60,000 starting salary will become...
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    10 Little-Known Facts About Quitting Your Corporate Job

    https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140918135658-28553584-10-little-known-facts-about-quitting-your-corporate-job?_mSplash=1 Saw this article on LinkedIn today. Check it out.
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    Newbie-friendly website platform

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    From your experience, what has been a very user-friendly website platform for starting an e-commerce website? I've played around with WordPress and Magento, and I found it easier to set up a webpage that looked like an actual store with Magento, but now I'm struggling to figure out how to...
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    How to Gauge Competition and Know When and When Not to Pull the Trigger?

    Like the title suggests, I'm struggling to decide whether to pull the trigger on a business idea of mine. The idea has essentially been validated by a soon-to-be competitor (they haven't entered this specific niche, but have stated that they intend to within the next year, and already operate...
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    Question About Seeking Advice

    Hi everyone. I think this is an appropriate category for this thread, but I apologize if it belongs somewhere else. Basically, I'm gearing up to launch my first business venture, which involves selling customers a subscription whereby each month they will receive a product. My business will...
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    Questions about FDA Approval

    I've been looking through the FDA and Alchol & Tobacco Tax & Trade Bureau websites and they're proving difficult to navigate and a bit unclear for my specific questions. I'm hoping somebody here might have some idea about what kind of hoops I would need to jump through to get a business idea...
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    Hey Everyone

    INTRO 
    Hey everybody! I'm very excited to be here and joining this community. I'm 23 years old, living in the North Bay, California. I have a bachelor's degree in economics and I'm starting a 1-year master's program in accountancy this September. I'm currently a financial analyst intern (it's paid...

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