Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Myspace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. Build a business plan for profitability in your lifetime.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. Build a business plan for profitability in your lifetime.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Twitter, for example, doesn’t have much of a revenue model today, and they are growing, but I’m not sure who can ever sell 140 character tweets. Twitter has no model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2011

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1M each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Twitter, for example, doesn’t have a real revenue model today, and they are growing, but I’m not sure who can ever sell 140 character tweets. Twitter has no model.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Ninkasi Brewing began in 2006 on a 15-barrel system and produced 1,650 barrels. Now we are growing based on the projections our wholesale partners give us annually in sales. For Falling Sky, that includes a strategic decision to focus on location sales instead of wider distribution. Relationships. Brewing is not a solo endeavor.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

From live & on demand video with endless interactive overlays, through 2nd screen, synchronized & social experiences, to brilliant mobile apps that may function in all connectivity environments and support every possible business model. Now your SD content can be turned into True HD. FanGager - Company Website.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2010

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1M each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Twitter, for example, has no revenue model today, and they are growing, but I’m not sure who can ever sell 140 character tweets. It’s hard to find investors for that model today.

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2015

Unfortunately, a series of bad judgments followed, including firing the company’s long-time ad agency, laying off 10% of its corporate staff and thousands of middle managers, and ridding the stores of sales and discounts. The company saw its revenue drop by 25% in 2012, and Johnson was unceremoniously ousted from his position in April 2013.

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

To supplement this guide, I interviewed an expert in the home health care field: Carol Byrne is the National Sales Director for 21st Century Health Care Consultants, a consulting firm which serves home health care agencies throughout the United States. See Also: 30 Small Business Ideas (for When You Don’t Know What Business to Start).

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The Goods: Your Business Toolbox | Thursdays. Todays Small Business News | Daily. Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Writing A Business Plan. Selling A Business. SALES & MARKETING. Internet and Online Business. Business Software. Finance | Tuesdays. Innovation | Fridays. Email address: Home.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. at 11:09 AM. Great list!

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 1, 2016

Especially this time of year - when so many of us are assembling and committing to our professional resolutions and goals, questions arise as how to best develop financial (growth, revenues, and profits) projections for our businesses. to proposals, to sales, to retention, to ongoing revenue. How Big is My M arket?

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

The fact that SaaS valuations are being more affected by the downturn than the Nasdaq can be surprising given the supposed resiliency of the SaaS model (recurring revenues) but it translates the public investors belief that SMB software spend is going to be hit very hard by this recession. With this decline, the average EV/08 rev.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

AMF’s decision to streamline production and slash the workforce resulted in labor strikes, low quality motorcycles, and declining sales. During the late ’90s, Apple was struggling to meet sales goals and internal power struggles were greatly to blame. Crew, was once on the fritz with plummeting sales and branding issues.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 20, 2015

Especially this time of year - when so many of us are assembling and committing to our professional resolutions and goals, questions arise as how to best develop financial (growth, revenues, and profits) projections for our businesses. to proposals, to sales, to retention, to ongoing revenue. How Big is My M arket?

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

The Deutsche Bank report has a very interesting chart on the topic presenting the Free Cash Flow margins vs. the revenue growth four years post IPO for select software leaders: As you can see, with 20% Free Cash Flow margin and a 50% growth rate, Salesforce is well positioned in the pack! sales and marketing. (10). anecdotes. (13).

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2012

These social entrepreneurs use their know-how and business savvy to make the world a better place, combining a traditional business model with a pressing social mission in ways that have been helping to make big changes in places around the world for decades. Blake Mycoskie. million for literacy funding.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 7, 2010

The company’s assets will be put on sale as the company only retained five employees for maintenance reasons. Pudding Media was founded in 2006 by brothers Ariel and Ruben Maislos. Pudding Media let go 25 employees this morning and announced it will cease its operations in Israel. So what went wrong?

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

This year, Martin Cove Brewing Company will gross $520,000 in sales. Ninkasi Brewing began in 2006 on a 15-barrel system and produced 1,650 barrels. For Falling Sky, that includes a strategic decision to focus on location sales instead of wider distribution. There’s no one model—or one business plan—for breweries.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

Saturday, December 16, 2006. It is true that the SaaS model faces some challenges like service reliability, data privacy, lower level of customization, integration with existing applications, vendor viability concerns. Cracking The Code. Why I disagree with Tony Zingale on the future of SaaS.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The mom-and-pop business became an instant success and its annual sales continued to skyrocket each year. Despite its success and growth as a partnership, Party Pieces has maintained its family business model and Carole continues to be involved in the sourcing and developing of new party products. Wrigley Company.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2014

Castlewood Group, first established in Dubai in 2006 but later relocated its headquarters to Singapore, offers investors an opportunity to own a part of Nikki Beach Hotel & Spa in Phuket that’s due to officially open in early 2015 as the first of its five projects here in Asia. And that demand is expected to continue.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghoshs research. Languishing businesses were counted as survivors. Find opportunities in our business and franchise databases.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

Our direct sales group markets and sells our solutions primarily using the telephone and web-based demonstrations. From April 2001 through June 30, 2006, we achieved 21 consecutive quarters of revenue growth. During the years ended March 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006, we achieved positive operating cash flows of $0.3

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

In 2006, Kapor founded Foxmarks, a popular Firefox Firefox add-on later renamed Xmarks Xmarks. “I pre-stage my investments by developing my own ideas of great business models & frameworks — when I meet a founder doing something similar I can make a quick decision,&# says Craig.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

» September 18, 2006. In a lot of startups (especially good ones) the founder/CEO/leader is a customer-oriented sales person. But.for a company with investors who expect a "harvest," just as things get good on the revenue side, the strategic plan for the companys future becomes very important. How much synergy?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Klaviyo is a platform that helps growth-focused eCommerce brands drive more sales with super-targeted, highly relevant email, Facebook and Instagram marketing. I used to, because I’ve had a marketing business, I used to run a lot of ads in newsprint. That was a huge revenue. Transcript. This is John Jantsch.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

This highest quality of the traffic information, never achieved before, together with the perfect applications generate significant revenues for the operator and maintain customers’ loyalty. Improves customer experience during sale, after sale and support interactions while generating revenues and reducing operational costs.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 22, 2006

How to assure yourself that no professional investor will ever want to invest in your venture: » June 22, 2006. If lowered risk translates into higher valuations when the business either attracts investors or is sold, then lowering risk for the lowest possible dollars creates very high returns. Testing to Increase Valuations.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 13, 2006

» June 13, 2006. Of course, it goes without saying that no one would bottom-up an expense budget then fill in revenue to make it “come out,” right?). Then, on the expense side, I’d like to begin to understand how the growth in the business will drive costs as complexity increases. A budget discussion with an entrepreneur.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

My first blog post on the topic of CIA was on 14th Aug 2006! Every website in the world has a unique business strategy. Is Getty really competing with these sites, given its business model? Or is this a gap in their business approach they should fix in some other way? Is it someone else?

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Tim Keane

APRIL 24, 2006

The Equality Conundrum: Where 50-50 equals Zero » April 24, 2006. Last night, Bob Zieserl, Venture Capitalist, and general partner at Stratus Ventures, was the keynote speaker at the Marquette University Business Plan Competition. We sold the business and it subsequently performed about as we expected. Books I Like.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 2, 2015

It’s true, again at the business level, with sales, flash sales, selling one product versus another, pricing points, and that kind of thing. It rained yesterday, and sales were down yesterday. Could you sell advertising and find new revenue streams against that because you built an audience?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You lost credibility with your statement: “The problem is that many programmers have loads of talent with no product sense and business students have great designs with no way to implement them.&# Take the top 10 largest tech innovators (take your pick of largest by revenue or largest by idea) of the last 20 years in Silicon Valley.

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