YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Here are seven ways that advisors can immediately help your small business achieve the next level of success: Assist With Strategies & Connections to Have Record Revenue & Profit in 2016. Have an Experienced CFO Advisor Analyze & Immediately Improve Your Financials.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2016

These need to go beyond the traditional revenue, cost, and volume metrics which may not yet have data, and can mislead you about real customer acceptance. Build an inside advisory board of influencers and experts. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 06/14/2016. Visibility increases over time are traction.

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Metrics Advisory Board Startup Lean 143

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2016

In my role as an advisory board member for several startups, I’m always excited to see that initial surge of revenue from a great rollout campaign. An initial revenue surge, or a major cash advance from investors often leads to a mentality of building a large customer base at any cost.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 2, 2016

I’ve written before about our LP meetings – if you want to check those out before hearing about 2016’s version, here you go: Homebrew Annual Meeting 2014. Advisory Board lunch w our largest investors followed by a State of Homebrew, State of the Market, State of our Portfolio presentation. So what do we know?

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Advisory Board LP Institutional Investors Portfolio 48

Hunter Walker

MAY 2, 2016

I’ve written before about our LP meetings – if you want to check those out before hearing about 2016’s version, here you go: Homebrew Annual Meeting 2014. Advisory Board lunch w our largest investors followed by a State of Homebrew, State of the Market, State of our Portfolio presentation. So what do we know?

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Advisory Board LP Institutional Investors Portfolio 48

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2017

If a company is doing this, it is typically doubling in revenue every year for three to five years, and sometimes longer. Supergrowers” – companies whose growth was greater than 60 percent when they reached $100 million in revenues – were eight times more likely to reach $1 billion in revenues than those growing less than 20 percent. (5)

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Advisory Board Revenue Vertical Business Model 138

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2016

These could include customer penetration, revenue growth, budget guidelines, and industry visibility. It’s time for the executive team and advisory board to commit the necessary funds and people resources to complete the plan. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 07/15/2016. A dream is not enough.

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