Up and Running

JANUARY 2, 2013

Impress the investors with what you and your team have accomplished to date (sales, contracts, key hires, product launches, etc.). Customer Acquisition : This is usually one of the most skipped sections of an investor pitch and a full business plan. Your financials should easily allow you to calculate your customer acquisition costs.

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Up and Running

MAY 17, 2017

Plus, you’ll always be prepared in case an opportunity or desire to sell arises in the future—it’s a smart idea to have an exit strategy. The sad reality is that many business acquisitions do not work out as hoped. To make your business ripe for acquisition, make your business appealing to potential buyers.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Reasons for funding. ? Scale up your operations. One of the most prominent reasons for funding is to scale up your operations, for expansion and achieve economies of scale. Now you may want to scale up your operations or expand your presence. The third reason is to fund your short term operational expenses or working capital.

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mashable.com

MARCH 20, 2014

Whats your exit strategy? Before accepting an offer with a startup, ask what their exit strategy is, and make sure youre on board. If theyre all about acquisition, ask about time frame goals. If its not about exit, dig into specific growth plans for the years to come. What is the sales strategy?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Yet one of the first things a potential equity investor asks about is your exit strategy. Here are three important reasons for the question: Good investment paybacks normally require an exit event. Investors know that the fun of a startup turns into managing production processes, sales processes, and personnel in a few years.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 9, 2016

For a young entrepreneur, the mergers and acquisitions process can be exciting and potentially lucrative but it can also be the source of considerable stress. And, at the conclusion of your company’s sale, that you have achieved the post-deal involvement that you wanted, without leaving money on the table.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2020

Yet one of the first things a potential equity investor asks about is your exit strategy. Here are three important reasons for the question: Good investment paybacks normally require an exit event. Investors know that the fun of a startup turns into managing production processes, sales processes, and personnel in a few years.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 13, 2011

So, the first question Shutterfly would have asked itself when considering the acquisition is the "build or buy" question. For example, your strategic plan MUST include building operational systems that an acquirer would value. The process of preparing your company for sale is called "exit strategy planning."

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

In addition, current investors want to see every startup go public or be acquired, as an exit event, so they can get their due return for that investment which has been tied up for the last few years. For these reasons, I always look for an overt exit strategy in every startup I might consider for an angel investment.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

billion for a company with less than $50 million in sales. Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. The Rise of Mergers and Acquisitions -– March 2003 -2008 After the dot.com bubble collapsed, the IPO market (and most tech M&A deals) shutdown for technology companies. billion.) So what’s left?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2016

Despite the fact that the number of IPOs (Initial Public Offerings) for startups have continued to decrease, I still hear it touted often as the preferred exit strategy. You better have lined up a major international expansion, some major acquisition candidates, or a wealth of unfilled orders. Analysts want escalating profits.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Growth Strategies. Office and Operations. Pricing Strategy. Exit Strategies. Strategy and Planning. SALES & MARKETING. Even with the turmoil in the capital markets in the second half of 2007, it was another record year for merger and acquisition activity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Yet one of the first things a potential equity investor asks about is your exit strategy. Here are three important reasons for the question: Good investment paybacks normally require an exit event. Investors know that the fun of a startup turns into managing production processes, sales processes, and personnel in a few years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2016

Yet one of the first things a potential equity investor asks about is your exit strategy. Here are three important reasons for the question: Good investment paybacks normally require an exit event. Investors know that the fun of a startup turns into managing production processes, sales processes, and personnel in a few years.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Depending on the circumstances, they can shape the fundamentals of an exit, redistribute value among stakeholders, or even kill a deal altogether. Read on for a fuller explanation. Intermix had acquired their previous online marketing startup, ResponseBase, and they remained a cohesive group. Intermix and its advisors weren’t fools.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Marketing and sales plan. Operations. The target market section of your subscription box business plan identifies which subset of people you will focus your marketing and sales plan on. Creating a buyer persona puts you in the customer’s shoes to guide marketing and sales decisions. Marketing and sales plan.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2020

Demonstrate an understanding of business operation realities. If you insist on projecting $100 million in sales the first year, smart investors will likely run for the nearest exit. Define an exit strategy for investors to liquidate their share.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Tailor your marketing and sales plan to attract more people like your ideal customer. Components of this section include: Your marketing and sales plan. Your operations plan. Your funding ask and exit strategy, if applicable. Marketing and sales plan. Operations. Number of visits per sale.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. We are also seeing technology evaluation as an increasingly important part of LP operational due diligence. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

He is the founder of Peterson Acquisitions and the author of Swinging Doors: A Guide to Selling Your Company. Doesn’t mean you need to be working every day to make sure it’s sellable but you should have an exit strategy in mind because you’re not going to live there forever. This is John Jantsch.

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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. by operating online). We tried to leverage our small operation as much as we could.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 20, 2018

I was at a crossroads in my career and debating about starting my own sales and marketing consulting business. In my refreshed state, I reviewed what others said I had accomplished which was; empowering businesses with the ability to manifest sales results. Thanks to Jonas Sickler, Reputation Management ! #4- 4- Created a new word.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

As I said, I have a very small operation and I’m able to make much more than the average person. The biggest deal I’ve ever done was a sale of a $100,000 website. If you decide to follow a blog acquisition strategy, you’re not going to write the blog yourself, not very likely. The money has been really good.

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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2018

Nerdy term: Acquisition cost for new customers (sometimes referred to as CAC, or “customer acquisition cost”). Nerdy term: Sales lifecycle. The monthly cost of operating the business. Describe your exit strategy. This means before they bought your product, how much direct or indirect cost did you incur?

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

(Not logged on) | Register | Log On Home Discuss Jobs About The Business of Software A community discussing the business of software, from the smallest shareware operation to Microsoft. There is also an industry of people who put up "independent" review sites and drive a lot of affiliate sales through PPC.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Most startups operate close to themargin of failure, and the distraction of having to deal with clientscould be enough to put you over the edge. Theyll only considercompanies that have an exit strategy—meaning companies that couldget bought or go public. Its thesame with acquisitions.

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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. Not to mention the quarter million dollar sale of the business as our exit. It was an unplanned, but profitable exit strategy for us.

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