Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2013

It shows a return to cautious optimism despite growth lower than expected in 2012, and much improved perspective from the record-high pessimism of the last few years. Add new revenue streams, and more aggressive marketing. These initiatives, in concert with current findings, support economists’ forecast that the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2011

Add new revenue streams, and more aggressive marketing. At the same time, 62% plan to invest more in marketing and advertising, while 50% will invest in expansion and 46% will pursue new revenue streams. These initiatives, in concert with current findings, support economists’ forecast that the U.S. One out of two U.S.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. 3]   However, if they are built bottom up, they demonstrate and make explicit a range of business model assumptions the entrepreneur is using to think about his business and its revenue model.   In a bottom up approach, the forecast is built from actual user projections.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Predicting the future is notoriously difficult, and the volatile world of high-tech startups don’t make things any easier. Startup accelerators were a big story in 2012. That means more funding for startups targeting the enterprise in 2013, less funding for startups aimed at consumers. What a concept.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 14, 2008

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. Now, as their revenue grows substantially, its time to make the shift toward a more quantitative management environment. As one example, think about forecasting sales based on market potential and competition, rather than simply on historical results by salesperson.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

As you may recall from last year, the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (called the JOBS Act) was passed and signed by President Obama in April, 2012. This was predicated on the SEC writing the crowdfunding regulations by December 31 2012 like they were supposed to. But this never happened. Remember that.

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Tim Keane

AUGUST 21, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. As the venture progresses from financing to revenue (whether financed by an investor or the entrepreneur) that first big, critical issue has to be the first miss on projections. Posted at 03:14 AM in Startup ideas | Permalink. « Listening to Entrepreneurs | Main.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Develop a forecast: Basic forecasts and budgets are critical; And tracking them is even more so. This form of planning condensed the business model onto one page and is most useful for high-growth, technically focused startups (think Silicon Valley). Do startups have a manual? Lean Planning is born.

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

From the beginning and all along the way, careful planning has guided the business from revenues of $35,000 in 2011, to $400,000 in 2014, and estimates of $700,000 for 2015. Like any business startup, the Philips faced challenges; plus, the trade-off of skipping shortcuts is having a harder road. The little cart that could.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 13, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. 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. Posted at 05:08 AM in Funding startups | Permalink.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

As we have seen with the recent speed bumps at highfliers like Groupon and Zynga, taking “lean startups” from foundation to creating sustainable, scalable, profitable business models is a very rare and special task. Expedia grew to account for roughly one third of the company’s revenues. Really hard. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.

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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. CMRR (contracted monthly recurring revenue) grow 100% y/y. FOMO was NOMO.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

No matter its size or age, every brewery was once a startup. Most small businesses and startups that are looking to grow— hire a new employee , or buy a new piece of equipment, or open a new location —need to think hard about cash flow, or making sure they have enough money in the bank to meet payroll and other financial obligations.

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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. Develop a forecast: Basic forecasts and budgets are critical; tracking them is even more so. Do startups have a manual? There’s nothing wrong with planning—it’s just that the tools and methods for planning needed to evolve.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Small” IPOs — companies with less than $50m in annual revenue at the time of IPO – have declined from more than 50% of all IPOs in the 1980-2000 timeframe to about 25% of IPOs from 2001-2016; Companies are staying private much longer — the median time to IPO from founding hovered around 6.5

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Transformify

JUNE 6, 2019

Running a technology startup is always a challenge, especially in the early days when the brand is unknown and it is hard to attract top talent. If your startup or small business is still short of written processes, it is time to have at least the basics in place. How to apply it to your business? Where to start?

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 9, 2012

The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (called the JOBS Act) was passed with support from Republicans and Democrats alike and signed by President Obama in April, 2012. You will have more data available to work into your plan and forecast. Remember that. It will also take some time to craft your presentation and pitch.

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