Up and Running

JULY 22, 2014

This is a financial statement that goes by a few different names—profit and loss statement, income statement, pro forma income statement, P&L (short for “profit and loss”)—but no matter what you call it, it’s an essential report and very important to understand. your gross margin, which is your revenue less your COGS. how you make money.

Balance Sheet 148

Balance Sheet Forecast Equity .Net 148

David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2015

It’s misleadingly precise to have two digits to the right of the decimal in a CAC/LTV multiple for year 3 of your forecast (“Customer Acquisition Cost”/”LifeTime Value of Customer”). 6) Title your file in a format like [Company Name] [Forecast] [yyyymmdd], e.g., “[Company Name] Forecast 20150524″. 7) Organize your tabs.

Balance Sheet 60

Balance Sheet Software Review Forecast Acquisition 60

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. You are now entering the rollout stage , with money required for marketing, hiring a full-time team, and a production process.

Angel Investor 232

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 232

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

How does your business model make money? Good causes such as feeding the world’s hungry may help your marketing but may not sustain a business. The business model has to clearly define who is your customer, market penetration expected, how much customers pay versus total costs and the investment required to sustain cash flow.

Sweat Equity 120

Sweat Equity Advisory Board Liquidity Event Startup 120

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

It’s meant to support and grow a business until an “exit” in the form of an IPO, a merger or acquisition, or in less than ideal scenarios, a company shutdown. But, I am fascinated by the new “cloud kitchens” type models that are being formed and am hopeful that maybe they will crack the code on this.

Lean 108

Lean Venture Capital Conversion IPO 108

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

After the dot.com bubble collapsed, venture investors spent the next three years doing triage, sorting through the rubble to find companies that weren’t bleeding cash and could actually be turned into businesses. Tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups.

Internet 335

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 335

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. You are now entering the rollout stage , with money required for marketing, hiring a full-time team, and a production process.

Matching 120

Matching Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers 120

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Writing A Business Plan. Running A Home-Based Business. Naming a Business. Financing a Small Business. Buying a Small Business. RUNNING A BUSINESS. Even with the turmoil in the capital markets in the second half of 2007, it was another record year for merger and acquisition activity.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Founded in 2008, Shanghai-based CooTek is the company behind TouchPal X Keyboard and TouchPal Contacts , which lets you type contact names directly on your smartphone’s dial pad. That’s why the free business model is so popular in China. billion acquisition of app store 91 Wireless is a classic example.

China 122

China Developer Intellectual Property Mobile 122

Professor VC

DECEMBER 8, 2015

one company running out of cash and another with cash but searching for a business model). One of the first I was exposed to was the merger between Peter Thiel's Confinity/PayPal and Elon Musk's X.com. Not surprisingly, the merger was highly dilutive, particularly to Confinity/PayPal shareholders.

Merger 28

Merger LP IPO Redemption 28

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

The realization of my idea started on an international trip when I was working as a consultant in mergers and acquisitions. I don’t exactly remember today how I thought about the Sam’s Club concept , but maybe because our family had shopped there for years it had come to mind among the mix of various other business models.

SEO 86

SEO PPC America Design 86

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

For now, Sunil answers the question of why leave a well paying corporate job to become an online entrepreneur… My name is Sunil and the title of this blog post refers to me. My Mom and Dad are not formally educated, but they self-taught how to practice business.

Internet 80

Internet Technical Review Stock Due Diligence 80

ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

Buffett, when thinking of low-cost production moats, uses GEICO (another Berkshire Hathaway acquisition) as an example. A business model that requires a strong network effect is a long play. The primary goal is user acquisition. When geography is the determining factor, efficient scale relies on mergers and acquisitions.

Non-Compete 122

Non-Compete United States Networking Acquisition 122

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You used to be able to raise venture money based on an idea and a team, but those days are long gone unless your name is Ev Williams or something similar. WOW, I hate the name. Nosake From nothing to losing money every month with no business model in sight. Hopefully your idea of business model isn’t “ad revenue based”.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84