Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

By focusing on reducing human touches and automating the sales and recruitment process, Angelichio and the Judge Group are able to minimize the cost associated with hiring additional internal staff while meeting their market demand in record time! So what does a blooming staffing company need to do in order to implement automation?

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In this case, the convertible debt document doesn’t allow the debt to convert into anything, but at the same time mandates that upon a sale the debt must be paid off. So the lenders don’t see any of the upside on the acquisition. Our strong advice is to address how the debt will be handled in an acquisition in the documents.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Investors know that the fun of a startup turns into managing production processes, sales processes, and personnel in a few years. According to National Venture Capital Association statistics , only 16% of venture-backed startups recently used this alternative, due to high liability concerns, demanding shareholders, and high costs.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2017

Take sales tax, for instance. If you sell a product, the state where you’ve established nexus needs to be determined, as does whether sales tax applies to your product there. Each state regulates sales tax differently, so keeping track of regulations yourself can be challenging.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

At this stage, your startup better be selling a commercial offering, have price and cost validated, with significant customer sales and a real revenue stream. At this stage, you need investment bankers to negotiate a merger or acquisition (M&A), go private, or help you go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2020

Investors know that the fun of a startup turns into managing production processes, sales processes, and personnel in a few years. According to National Venture Capital Association statistics , only 16% of venture-backed startups recently used this alternative, due to high liability concerns, demanding shareholders, and high costs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

Include marketing, sales, and customer rollout plans. Don’t let your passion convince you that word-of-mouth and viral marketing will suffice against well-funded competitors and ever more demanding customers. The options here include going public (IPO), merger/acquisition, liquidate, or no exit, just paying off investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2010

At this stage, your startup better be selling a commercial offering, have price and cost validated, with significant customer sales and a real revenue stream. At this stage, you need investment bankers to negotiate a merger or acquisition (M&A), go private, or help you go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO).

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

The size of the red bars (IPO’s) versus blue (mergers and acquisitions) illustrates that while venture-backed startups did get acquired, the IPO market was booming. But unlike an IPO where you sold stock to the public and got to run your company, in an acquisition your company is gone, and the odds are in a year or so you will be too.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

And in order to compete against the big guys, the Deloittes, the McKinseys, the Accentures, our niche became large scale change projects, anything from mergers and acquisitions to large scale system integration work. A lot of our customers brought their packaging back in-house, there wasn’t as much demand.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

At this stage, your startup better be selling a commercial offering, have price and cost validated, with significant customer sales and a real revenue stream. At this stage, you need investment bankers to negotiate a merger or acquisition (M&A), go private, or help you go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO).

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Gust

OCTOBER 21, 2011

For convertible notes, the only liquidity event we need be concerned with is an acquisition of the startup in the near future, before the maturity date; otherwise, the notes will convert to equity of one kind or another, and the eventual sale of that equity (in a public offering, acquisition, or private sale) is a different subject for another day.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Investors know that the fun of a startup turns into managing production processes, sales processes, and personnel in a few years. According to recent National Venture Capital Association statistics , only 20% of venture-backed startups now use this alternative, due to high liability concerns, demanding shareholders, and high costs.

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abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

If you are looking past or through Covid — and why not, all of Wall Street is — the topic du jour in Silicon Valley is Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, or SPACs. The traditional IPO process does not use a market-based approach (like an order -matching system ) to efficiently match supply and demand and to discover price.

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Diego Basch

JUNE 21, 2012

When a partner at GiganticTree Ventures asks them how they plan to reach sales of 100M/year, they have all the right answers. Because they will keep 20% equity each at the time of the acquisition, that means $6M each before taxes and vesting. They like their jobs and they don’t want to be fired over a stupid acquisition.

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Transformify

AUGUST 1, 2022

The hindsight is that by entering a new market your business may face cultural differences the marketing and sales teams have not been prepared for. Cutting talent acquisition costs, the time to fill a role and increasing the retention rate have a positive effect on both the quality of products or services and profit margins.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2016

Investors know that the fun of a startup turns into managing production processes, sales processes, and personnel in a few years. According to recent National Venture Capital Association statistics , only 16% of venture-backed startups now use this alternative, due to high liability concerns, demanding shareholders, and high costs.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

Sales reps are also likely to be familiar with Salesforce because it’s the most widely used CRM, reducing onboarding costs for companies that use it. Buffett, when thinking of low-cost production moats, uses GEICO (another Berkshire Hathaway acquisition) as an example. The primary goal is user acquisition. Dig a deep moat.

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Transformify

JANUARY 24, 2021

Those businesses hiring remote teams face a common challenge – their service providers and freelancers demand to be paid in either local currency or some preferred foreign currency like USD, GBP, EUR, etc. Message sales@transformify.org. Creating Payouts in Multiple Currencies. How Does Transformify Self-billing Module Work?

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 10, 2011

This article picks up from that point onward, discussing the challenges we ran into once we went into operation mode, the invaluable lessons that only first-hand experience can teach, the exit strategy which was the $250,000 sale of the website, and finally my overall concluding thoughts on the entire experience.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 27, 2015

We worked together to make some very significant increases in their sales and profits. This year in particular, there have been movie nights skipped, trips missed or cut short, game night invitations declined because my business demanded my intense attention. Image Credit : Marty Wolff.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Acquiring a growth-stage private startup can provide a faster ROI at lower risk than the acquisition of an early- stage startup. For example, Google’s acquisition of Nest (which had customers, revenue and a distribution channel) allowed it to enter the connected home market immediately.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

One of those ventures was the creation, establishment, growth and sale of an e-commerce business. The realization of my idea started on an international trip when I was working as a consultant in mergers and acquisitions. In further pursuit of this idea, I came to learn that designer merchandise is a high-demand market.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Second, by better matching supply and demand, direct listings have generally mitigated the magnitude of IPO Pops, thus engendering better overall price discovery. The de-SPAC process is essentially the process that occurs after a SPAC has agreed to terms with an acquisition target where the two entities are fully merged. 1990-1998 13.3%

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I know one company demanding something like 15K just to use his product in my portal. Seems like a hell of a lot of advantage to have, on top of a great founding team, when heading into a startup. Seriously mean it too. Anti Matter Also raising 25K is just as hard as 250K. Thus if you cannot build it for 5K or less. I am like dude WTF.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

Right out of Graduate School, I started my career with one of the big four accounting firms in their M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions) practice. I was trading real heavy hours for heavy dollars, and led a very mobile, demanding and by choice, a pressure packed lifestyle. In “normal” market conditions, 20% is the norm.

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