Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

People are even talking about “decacorns" -- investable companies with net worth now exceeding $10 billion -- like Dropbox and Pinterest. Overvalued stocks have been called "frothy’" for some time, but now the term is being tossed around in lieu of the word "bubble" in the new world of perceived overvalued startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Gross Profit (also called Gross Margin or sometimes “Net Revenue”). I always remind this to journalists who ask me about public stocks. And assuming they both had the same net profit margins (profit / revenue) then the former company would be much better off at the end of the year. Simplifying: Revenue -.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Running payroll This involves calculating gross pay, withholding taxes and deductions, and determining net pay. This can take from minutes to days, depending on whether payroll is done manually or using software. For example, you can use a time tracking software or app to track your employees' hours, attendance, and overtime.

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

They take stock of the board’s current skills, abilities and talents. Technology can be a substantial help in taking stock of the board’s future needs. In addition to reviewing the board’s existing talent base, nomination committees need to be concerned with planning for a leadership pipeline within the board.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

He has also been an outspoken advocate for the power of collaboration and open-source software. Their innovation lay not just in their product, but their viral video marketing campaign involving slamming raw eggs on their mattress to show that they wouldn’t break due to their mattresses’ high-tech cushioning. 17- Improbable.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Trevor Betenson, our CFO here at Palo Alto Software, offers this insight about reading your balance sheet: “By subtracting liabilities from assets, you can determine your company’s net worth at any given point in time.”. In this article, I’ll review: The components of a balance sheet. Balance sheet examples.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. What accelerated this was the collapse of the public stock markets.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 13, 2014

Typically, an Income Statement is a list of revenue and expenses, with the companys net profit listed at the end. In this article, Ill review: The purpose of an income statement in your business plan. Net Profit: Net profit, also referred to as net income or net earnings, is the proverbial bottom line.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2017

John Imlay of MSA occasionally took me on road shows with analysts to talk about his new acquisition Peachtree Software. I will always remember his pre-speech pep talk: “Dyer, your entire net worth rides on not screwing this up.” But, credit is due to all these CEO’s for perseverance. I got the message.

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Up and Running

JULY 15, 2015

It’s a precious commodity; your investment into your own company stock. Creating a scorecard can be as easy as creating your own Excel spreadsheet, or as elaborate as using marketing dashboards provided through your CRM or conversion software. You need it to perform. You need it to help grow your company.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. Kayak Software Corporation. 2010 Net Income: $8 million. One can infer valuations based on per share prices of preferred stock and oustanding common shares (~5.3M

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. As a product manager at HomeAway (part of the Expedia, Inc.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2017

You want to review all the different components of your business model. Make sure to find out if it is a gross or net rate. Gross includes everything, but net doesn’t include the following: Property taxes. Up-to-code kitchen with three-compartment sink and grease trap. Software costs. What sets you apart?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 29, 2014

A study co-sponsored by Crawford International and HR.com in Palo Alto, California in 2006 found that “companies that create adaptive corporate cultures outperform companies with non-adaptive cultures by a factor of 900 to 1 as measured by long term net income and stock price growth.” What employee actions are rewarded or punished?

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 24, 2011

5 Mistakes You Can’t Afford to Make with Stock Options – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Innovative net design that can save 7 million tons of fish per year – [link]. Website Traffic or Conversions: Which Is More Important?

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Software By Rob

MAY 4, 2009

A recent discussion in the Micropreneur Academy surrounded the topic of starting an online business selling physical products as opposed to software. But there are two downfalls of selling physical products compared to software: 1. Since I’ve worked on both sides of the fence I have a lot to say on the subject.

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Go there now » Sign up or log in to mint.com Updates Drop Your Debt to Win 2 comments How To The Top 5 Customer Complaint Letters — And What You Can Learn From Them 5 comments Investing In Graphics: What Is a Stock? What is your net outflow per month? 2 comments Mint Life Know your money. Live your life.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

Sure language has iterated, been redefined, shortened, coded… but the conversations are real and the more meaning and ideas are being exchanged. The Sticky Institute represents zine culture in a way that culture jams the old industry due to a lack of legacy infrastructure. Forget the net – launch with mobile.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

After putting our family’s net worth into a spreadsheet one day, I was shocked to find out that my net worth was – $250,000. So I decided to become an Entrepreneur and start my own company for people who wanted to learn about trading in the Stock Market. #5 – Teaching. Image Credit: Jason Bond.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In a traditional series A round, before the VCs invest theymake the company set aside a block of stock for future hires—usuallybetween 10 and 30% of the company. 13 ] The final thing founders want is to be able to sell some oftheir own stock in later rounds. The futureis simple deals with standard terms, done quickly.

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David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

Addepar is precisely trying to collect and convert into software these best practices. (ff For family offices / high net worth investors: the fact that some funds succeed with high returns motivates those with gambler mentalities to chase hot managers or to think that they can use their luck / smarts / intelligence to find the best managers.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

To find out what people are complaining about, read forums, turn to your social media accounts, and read reviews. Drop into a store that you think would be a great candidate for stocking your product in the future. At Palo Alto Software, we use the One-Page Pitch feature in LivePlan to quickly validate new business ideas.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. If I had a startupand Steve Jobs wanted to invest in it, Id give him the stock for$10, just to be able to brag that he was an investor.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

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Up and Running

JULY 22, 2014

It’s a table that lists all of your revenue streams and all of your expenses—typically for a three-month period—and lists at the very bottom the total amount of net profit or loss. Consider this: What happens when you send out an invoice to a client, but they don’t pay it by the due date?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I didn’t mean to be so insulting and I didn’t mean for the net to be cast so wide that many people wondered whether I was talking about them when I was speaking of “job hoppers.&# I learned a lot from reading the comments. But in these years I learned how to sell software – necessity is the mother of all invention.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 22, 2015

So, investors look for businesses that will grow fast and sell out to a bigger business, or register their stock for trading on one of the public stock markets, which is when the early investors cash out. Please, get a clue: Real businesses usually turn out net profits in single digits, and only rarely up as high as 20%.

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paulgraham.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Writing software is a great way to solve (b), but you can still end up constrained in (a). If you write software to teach Tibetan to Hungarian speakers, youll be able to reach most of the people who want it, but there wont be many of them. If you make software to teach English to Chinese speakers, however, youre in startup territory.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 12, 2016

There are a ton KPIs you can track, but below are the most important for reviewing the health of your SaaS. So, Net MRR = New MRR + Expansion MRR – Churned MRR. Common acquisition expenses are: paid ads, staff salaries, CRM, marketing automation software licenses, sponsorships, content marketing, and social media.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Do that – nothing else but one product / company / focus and get to $1M in sales with atleast $15% net profit. Don’t wait to fill the void before letting him go (but obviously get all the code / usernames / password). Friends & Family – High net-worth individuals with a passion for you and your industry. do something else.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

It’s also an uncertain exit for the entrepreneurs, as they are typically restricted to sell any of their stock in the first 180 days following the IPO, and even then they can sell no more than 1% of stock a month. Eyeblaster is trying to raise $115 million by selling stock. Net income did however increase to $9.8

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

of all Analyst careers fail due to a lack of this critical last mile skill! Don't make a deal with the devil, stock photos are evil. Don't make a deal with the devil, stock photos are evil. And, that's one big problem with stock photos. Show them a stock photo. This is why stock photos suck.

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ConversionXL

MAY 30, 2017

The reason to focus on those elements is that they represent the primary source of friction and funnel dropouts (in this specific case), so solving issues in these spots can net a substantial increase in number of conversions. Offer discount codes or some other benefits in exchange for a visitor’s email address.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. Now let me clarify — NET is a dandy language. ” Don’t get me wrong: NET on your resume isn’t an instant showstopper. Skill is harder, but really only requires hard work — a lot of people can get that.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 17, 2012

This email is relatively simple to setup: if you sell online software, determine which customers naturally upgrade to a higher tier plan or annual billing then setup an automated email that targets future users that meet these criteria. That call to action can be super powerful. Guess what? Email is no different! lenses for a camera).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

I was writing some software, I was doing some product management stuff. Git is another decentralized protocol really for version control and software. ER : Don't get me started about stock exchanges. This is Out Of the Crisis. What are institutions for? BA : Yeah, at that time, Coinbase really was founded in June of 2012.

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