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How Do You Want to Spend Your Next 4 Years of Your Life?

Steve Blank

Now that you’ve gotten to know your potential channel and customers, regardless of how much money you’re going to make, will you enjoy working with these customers for the next 3 or 4 years? Or is it something that can grow to a size that will result in an acquisition or some liquidity event? ——– 1.

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Quickly Unpacking The $1.4B Acquisition of Harry’s

Haystack

Any billion-dollar liquidity event is a rare event, so it will get the Haystack blog treatment. Harry’s reportedly captured single-digit percentages of that market, but it is such a large and steady market (and channel for pushing other home goods through) that it could support not one, but two, large outcomes like this.

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8 Ways An Investor Pitch Differs From A Product Pitch

Startup Professionals Musings

Partnerships, distribution channels and pricing models should be included. “If Startup investments are extremely risky, primarily because the stock has no value until a future liquidity event, such as an acquisition or public offering. Specific elements of your marketing and sales plans.

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10 Answers That Make Your Startup Plan Investable

Startup Professionals Musings

You need to identify pricing details, sales channels, strategic partners and a customized marketing plan consistent with your industry and target segment. Technically, this is your exit strategy, usually a merger and acquisition (M&A) or initial public stock offering (IPO). What are your specific marketing and sales plans?

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Everything you do adds or reduces company value

Berkonomics

But each commitment of resources of any substantial size for acquisition of new products, talent, even new companies, changes the value of your enterprise perhaps to a great degree. Should I make an acquisition to increase value? Let’s analyze the effect of a potential acquisition upon the value of your company.

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Does raising money mean you should start scaling?

The Next Web

You’re tinkering with your marketing and sales channels. What sources of traffic are converting, and which channels are profitable, which aren’t? Investors are always thinking about growth mode because that’s the path to where they want to go – liquidity event. How it applies to your marketing channels.

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Think of your exit as you commit your resources along the way.

Berkonomics

But each commitment of resources of any substantial size for acquisition of new products, talent, even new companies, changes the value of your enterprise perhaps to a great degree. Let’s analyze the effect of a potential acquisition upon the value of your company.