Tim Keane

JUNE 21, 2011

How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan. " "What are your assumptions about how long it will take to get customers?" " "Where do you expect to find these customers?" "  "What's the current solution these potential customers are using today?"

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Global revenue from mobile advertising increased by 92 percent from 2012 to 2013, growing from $10.1 With advancements such as push notifications, brands have the opportunity to alert potential customers with time-sensitive messages. a leading information technology research and advisory firm, forecasts mobile ad spending to reach $41.9

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

In comparison, the overall technology sector growth was projected at 9-10% in early 2010 and this forecast did not change significantly today. ► 2012. (1). SaaS companies projected to grow 18% over this period in January 2010 and this projection moved up only to 20% today. Online Gaming. (1). Portfolio. (3). software. (10).

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

In general, IP protection will do nothing to prevent others from independently developing something similar, copying the overall business model, targeting similar customers or end users, and perhaps even mimicking the product’s look and feel. Financial, technical and operational plans and forecasts of all kinds (trade secret).

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In fact, during June 2012, five separate companies reached a landmark 1 billion views of their online video ad, according to comScore. In fact, according to media forecasters BIA/Kelsey, social media advertisements are up 21 percent year over year. According to Internet Retailer, online shoppers will spend $262 billion dollars in 2012.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2013

billion for 35 funds during the first quarter of 2013, an increase of 22 percent compared to the level of dollar commitments during the fourth quarter of 2012, according to a report from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). That should be true even if your customer is really a distributor.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Early planning for Black Friday’s frenzy can help you meet the needs and expectations of your customers, plus give you an advantage over the competition. There were 89 million shoppers on Black Friday in 2012, and 86 million in 2011. Without a sales forecast, it will be hard for you to guide your company in the right direction.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

Painting the scenario of how things will evolve, Cort Isernhagen of IDC Insights forecasted at the recent Infocomm Technology Roadmap Symposium 2012 that the ICT landscape over the next 10 years needs to consider four macro trends supported by four key pillars of technology. How will these trends impact the way we work, live and play?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2012

Marketers see it as a better way to target customers, but the current consumer offerings have been slow to deliver. If you think location-based services are a long way from mainstream, take a look at the new 2012 Digital Study. But entrepreneurs need to look more broadly into the B2B space for more lucrative opportunities.

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Up and Running

APRIL 28, 2016

So, if you’re interested in bringing new customers through the doors, or in getting existing customers to spend more (and attend more), this guide should give you insight into what you can do to run a highly profitable restaurant business. If you think it’s the drinks alone that draw customers in, think again.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

So, here is the first edition, including the recent Q4 2009 earnings and the updated 2010 forecast. If we consider that 2009 was probably the worst year in the past 5 years, forecasting the same growth for 2010 is not very encouraging. ► 2012. (1). Online Gaming. (1). Portfolio. (3). sales and marketing. (10). software. (10).

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Small Business Force

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

We were going to miss our forecast by 25%. Be honest not just with employees, but customers and suppliers alike. Between 2012 and 2016, Lego added 7,000 new employees. As we approached the end of the new quarter, suddenly, we realized we weren’t going to make our numbers. And, frankly, we simply took our eye off the ball.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

After the 2012 conference I viewed it as an opportunity to reflect on the growth and evolution of the movement as a whole. BetaBrand building apparel MVPs and testing them quickly with targeted customer communities. That new book is about to hit bookstores everywhere. Social entrepreneurs take note!) It's a big tent.

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A Crowded Space

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

I first met Nick and Arean in late 2012. They underpromise and overdeliver, with a happy tendency to exceed forecast. That is intentional - the company is always laser-focused on the customer. OfferUp has had truly explosive growth over the last 3 years from a tiny base to a staggering $14B+ in GMV this year.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan » March 09, 2011. But, what constitutes success for the parties involved – investors, entrepreneurs, employees, and customers – can vary dramatically. Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 16, 2016

It might be the products or the customers they deal with, or it could even be the fact that they are the ones in charge of it all. Small business live and die by great customer service and great marketing. My goal is to add positivity to my customer’s day. Basically, customers want instant gratification with little effort.

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Tim Keane

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

(OVP Venture Partners) My own take on this is that a business plan with a bottom up forecast demonstrates an understanding of the potential market that investors love.  It welcomes feedback from potential customers and experts, reduces the cost and risk of the startup and can potentially drive success quickly.    Why?) 

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 27, 2015

Another scenario: you’ve been optimizing for 12 months and your revenue per customer has increased by 2%. In 2012, MarketingSherpa posed the question , “Did optimization or testing demonstrate ROI in 2011?” One of our (CRO only) agency partners plans, with all their customers, to refuse to optimize more than 90% of traffic.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Consider the following example from 34 years ago that included the exact same type of prediction error: “In 1980, McKinsey & Company was commissioned by AT&T (whose Bell Labs had invented cellular telephony) to forecast cell phone penetration in the U.S. These “opens” represent eager unfulfilled customers. Undiscovered Clues.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Startup accelerators were a big story in 2012. Big data startups were a big deal in 2012. ” As clean-tech startups were revealed to be unsuccessful in 2012, Kedrosky forecasted 2013 will be the year that exposes big data startups. Accelerators Will Slow Down. Big Data Will Crash. ’ That proved to be wrong. .’

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Tim Keane

APRIL 14, 2008

As one example, think about forecasting sales based on market potential and competition, rather than simply on historical results by salesperson. If that leads us to needing additional sales people, can we forecast the benchmark for productivity based on past results? Build our internal capacity to grow?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Instead of encouraging entrepreneurs to focus on developing long and in-depth, static business plans, Tim advocated for a simpler approach: Define your business identity: What’s your value proposition to your customers? Determine your target market: You need to know and understand your customers.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

The company had the chance of selling a very sticky product to large customers paying upfront, so there was no need to improve the sales bonuses based on cash collection and multi-year contracts. Upsells are typically worth more than renewal and less than new customers so we found that 50% of new MRR worked pretty well. ► 2012.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 24, 2013

A : LivePlan is highly customizable and can be used to create financial forecasts (sales, payroll, expenses, Cash Flow, Profit and Loss, etc) for most any company. You can customize the inputs to show whatever level of detail you need. Is this the software for me? Q: There are a lot of sample Business Plans available in LivePlan.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

That idea – a way to organize, in the cloud, every aspect of your physical mail – is the crux of the two men’s venture, called Outbox, that is opening up to public beta in San Francisco on February 26 after a 6-month test in Austin, Texas, in 2012. Outbox seems remarkably simple – for $4.99

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

  In a bottom up approach, the forecast is built from actual user projections.   In a bottom up approach, the forecast is built from actual user projections. October 2012. This is why a bottom up approach is more credible. This is why a bottom up approach is more credible.   Search. Signup for email updates.

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

On the retail side, Stuart watches per-customer spend and same-day sales comparisons. We use the revenue forecasting tools to not only plan, but to then set benchmarks to check ourselves as we progress. that were authorized by Congress in the 2012 Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 13, 2006

In other words, if you are forecasting 100 orders in the next quarter, at $10,000 each, I’d ask how many potential orders there are in the market, whether there is any existing competitive experience, and how you derived your timing. In our first startup, my partners and I built a customer acquisition model and tested it.

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Up and Running

MARCH 13, 2019

If your product or service doesn’t solve a problem that potential customers have, you don’t have a viable business model. As long as you, as an entrepreneur, are solving a problem that customers have, you can build a business. What do your customers already spend? How to build a winning elevator pitch in 7 steps: 1.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Lean Planning is a concept that we introduced back in 2012 as an evolution in business planning. Instead of encouraging entrepreneurs to focus on developing long, in-depth, static business plans, Berry advocated for a simpler approach: Define your business identity: What’s your value proposition to your customers?

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Bearman held the position of Head of Business for HSBC UK for over two decades, where he was responsible for setting the strategic direction and growing HSBC’s UK small business customer base. Since 2012, it has delivered more than 67,000 loans to business owners across the UK amounting to more than £534 million.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? Know your customers and your financials. Step 4: Building relationships with vendors and the local community.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

If you want to see what was on my mind – I started foreshadowing change publicly in October 2015 with a forecast of what I expected in 2016 VC funding markets at a presentation I gave at the annual Cendana VC/LP conference hosted by Michael Kim. Total customers grew 20% year/year. Congratulations Team Invoca.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Asset management also shows the traditional earmarks of an industry ripe for disruption — most obviously, unhappy customers and extremely profitable incumbents. Almost every other industry collectively does what it promises; the restaurant industry does give all its customers food.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

The chart below shows their financial performance over the last few years, with forecasted 2012 revenue of $767M and EBITDA of $339M. Content is free and supplied by consumers who write reviews voluntarily. These consumers allow this content and their own engagement to be monetized without asking for anything in return.

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Up and Running

MARCH 17, 2020

The problem: A description of the problem or need your customers have and any relevant data that supports your claim. Business model : How you will make money, including the costs of production and selling, and the price that customers will pay. Target market : Who is your customer and how many of them are there.

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Mike Michalowicz

APRIL 4, 2016

How can you more towards forecasting and predicting how your business financials will be? As a result, she founded the profession’s popular IC Opportunities events in 2012. TSheets – The #1 customer rated time tracking solution! How often should you be meeting with them? Tune in! .’

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