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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Hockey Stick Exit Strategy Technical Review Due Diligence 164

Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Depending on the type of business, these may include sales of products/services, referral revenues, advertising sales, licensing/royalty fees, and/or data sales. Provide a clear exit strategy. Be sure to provide comparable examples of firms who have successfully exited. Detail all revenue streams.

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Venture Capital Business Plan Technical Review Private Placement 129

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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Acquisition Technical Review Revenue Exit Strategy 92

Reid Hoffman

JULY 23, 2020

This week, I’d like to turn to the question of how current market conditions affect the approach entrepreneurs should take towards their exit strategy. Companies make acquisitions based on strategic goal that are aligned with their inner workings. If you win that market, you’re going to be valuable as an acquisition.

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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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Technical Review Software Review Exit Strategy San Francisco 103

YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

What market are you targeting and how are you going to get sales? Is there an exit strategy? Further Customer Acquisition. You need to improve your customer acquisition process. Acquisition. You can also go for an acquisition like Instagram, WhatsApp, and LinkedIn. What is your business going to be?

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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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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Instead of funding, you pay the investors a structured royalty, which is a portion of the sales. The bridge or exit stage is generally of very large transactions and for companies with substantial valuation. These phases are focused on inorganic growth, mergers, buyouts, acquisitions, and exit preparation for the business.

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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. The process of preparing your company for sale is called "exit strategy planning." We recently formalized our exit strategy planning consulting service. read more. read more.

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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. and abroad.

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Technical Review Due Diligence San Francisco Merger 100

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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Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2014

To demonstrate traction you might recruit a good management team, start making sales, build an advisory board or secure strategic partnerships. This is where the ‘exit strategy’ comes in. An exit strategy is not your plan for when the business fails, but rather, your strategy for returning money to investors.

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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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YFS Magazine

MARCH 12, 2018

We knew if we could continue to double our sales, we could hold off, keep scaling the business, and in the end be in a much better place to sell. And we did just that.

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Acquisition Sales Exit Strategy Merger 110

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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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

It has been at least a decade since going public via an Initial Public Offering (IPO) has been considered a credible exit strategy for startups. Do you need the IPO for your acquisitions strategy? Of course, you’re going to have to perform well to make that stock useful in the acquisitions process.

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IPO Social Media Media Exit Strategy 223

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.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

by Christopher Wallace, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Amsterdam Printing. For years, the most desirable exit strategy for startup companies was to go public through an initial public offering. eBay was ultimately unable to generate sufficient profits and synergies from the acquisition. Low profitability.

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IPO Exit Strategy San Francisco Startup 162

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

Customers may be attracted to your marketing message, but investors look harder at the startup team, seeking superior expertise in the key areas of growing a business, product domain, financial, marketing and sales. Specific elements of your marketing and sales plans. Potential investor return calculation and exit strategy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

What are your specific marketing and sales plans? 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).

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Sweat Equity Advisory Board Liquidity Event Startup 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

Include marketing, sales, and customer rollout plans. Set specific targets on the sales channels and marketing initiatives you need, including the use of social media, brand building, franchising, trade shows, affiliates, and distributors. Outline a viable exit strategy for you and investors.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. 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. The Goods: Your Business Toolbox | Thursdays.

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Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

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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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2015

For example, in most third-party sales with a business broker or investment banking firm, a commission or “success fee” will be charged as a percentage of the sales price. ESOPs generally increase the after-tax proceeds of a sale. The company can also take a tax deduction of up to 25% of payroll by making an ESOP contribution.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 8, 2015

I’ve sold two companies, and the sales were vastly different experiences, with wildly different results. When I was approached about the sale of my first company, I wasn’t looking to sell. Fast forward a few years to the sale of my second company. My first sale – the most profitable one – took two months.

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Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Exit Strategy Sales 60

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. The MySpace founders took some money off the table in the Redpoint deal, albeit at a $35 million pre-money valuation. Intermix and its advisors weren’t fools.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

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.

Equity 120

Equity Exit Strategy Private Equity Startup 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

Exit strategy. What’s most realistic these days is an exit via sale to an existing major company for which you solve a meaningful problem. That means merger and acquisition (M&A), not initial public offering (IPO). Shooting for that sort of exit over a three to five year period is usually the best strategy.

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Cram Down Angel Investor Intellectual Property Venture Capital 269

VC Cafe

MARCH 10, 2010

The proceeds of this round has been earmarked for sales and marketing as well as five new sales offices in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, London & Bombay. Todacell, the mobile ad optimization network based in Tel Aviv, has announced a second funding round of $1 million, led by AfterDox, the company’s previous backers.

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Los Angeles Exit Strategy Europe Mobile 76

Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Nelson suggests creating a projected sales forecast and planning how you’ll achieve it, realizing of course that you’ll make adjustments to these numbers as you grow. She notes that if you’re considering acquisition as an exit strategy, creating and maintaining relationships is going to be key.

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Bootstrapping Cofounder Portland Burn Rate 107

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2016

The most important thing that you can in order to maximize the sales price of your e-commerce business is to widen your profit margin as much as you can. The final sales price is directly proportional to your annual profit, so the higher your profit, the higher your sales price. What Not to Do.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2020

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. Assume margins and prices that are realistic in your target market.

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Liquidity Event Forecast Exit Strategy Bootstrapping 308

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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Technical Review PPC Due Diligence Exit Strategy 71

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 funding ask and exit strategy, if applicable. Marketing and sales plan. You will want to know the average sales and rental prices in the area.

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El Paso Business Plan Technical Review Forecast 61

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Marketing and sales plan. 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. Operations.

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Business Plan Curation Balance Sheet Intellectual Property 63

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. Many VC funds rely on general-purpose CRM and sales funnel solutions like Copper , Pipedrive, Salesforce , Streak , and ZenDesk. We can use technology to make sales far more efficient. . She is a model for us all!

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

what’s behind your financials, your go-to-market strategy, your current traction in the marketplace, your competition and why you’re better, your intellectual property or “secret sauce,” your exit strategy, etc.). Keep your strategy, tactics, numbers, and stories in alignment. Tweet This Tip.

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Angel Investor Technical Review Due Diligence Startup 161