Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2012

Yet a creative collaboration with your biggest competitor may be the best opportunity for revenue and survival. As a result of our increased coverage and wider range of solutions, we both gained revenue and credibility, while reducing marketing and development. You have to take the risk, but keep your wits about you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2011

Yet a creative collaboration with your biggest competitor may be the best opportunity for revenue and survival. As a result of our increased coverage and wider range of solutions, we both gained revenue and credibility, while reducing marketing and development. You have to take the risk, but keep your wits about you.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 17, 2023

The acquisition will help Sheela Foam enter the fast-growing branded furniture market and expand its presence in the furniture industry. The platform has raised over $225 million through equity and debt financing to date. In the financial year ending in March this year, the startup generated a revenue of $18.5

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The investment round also featured participation from existing investors Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Clal Tech, Harel Insurance and Finance, and Greycroft. In total, the prolific app developer has accumulated over 500 million downloads worldwide across Android and Apple users, bringing its 2021 revenue to date up to the $200 million mark.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. There was now a public market for companies with no revenue, no profit and big claims.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

17:07] I’m seeing more and more agencies talk about growth through acquisition – is that a good way to grow? I, you know, if it doesn't okay, you know, it doesn't work, but I'm gonna give somebody my life and my finances and, you know, trust is gonna be a big deal. Is that fraught with lots of challenges? [19:44] Blumer CPAs.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Bow String Advisors specialize in Mergers and Acquisitions, Raising Capital, and providing Financial and Strategic Advisory services to the Health Care Staffing Industry. . The truth is economies change, revenues change, and sometimes things just happen. The impact of a decrease in price is a reduction in profit.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2015

This compensation can come in the form of a stock option , a stock appreciation right, or a similar financial instrument, which can potentially be quite lucrative for employees at the time of a merger, acquisition or initial public offering (IPO). A company can have value, even if there is no current income or revenue.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

Until 1995 startups going public typically had a track record of revenue and profits. Suddenly there was a public market for companies with limited revenue and no profit. 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.

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Last week , we took the plunge and began dissecting an example term sheet for a convertible debt financing round piece by piece. In Part II, we looked at the mandatory conversion language that is at the heart of any convertible debt financing. Same, except at the option of the noteholders (per the term sheet example above).

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Finance | Tuesdays. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. 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 Bay has also blended equity payments with revenue-sharing deals.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Using licensees is an excellent way to boost your revenue without the need to hire and external sales force. 3 Mergers, Partnerships and Acquisitions. However, many banking institutions refuse to finance small business operations because of their risk profile. Finding Funding for Your Growth. Wrapping Up.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. The cap is irrelevant if the next equity financing is at a valuation below the cap amount.) Read on for a fuller explanation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. Venture Financing.

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Up and Running

JULY 20, 2015

Most simply, cash flow statements very quickly tell the story of how much revenue a company has coming in (inflows), and how much it has going out (outflows). Your organization’s operating activities include everything that relates to how you generate revenue. Financing activities. Operating activities.

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Federated shares Lijit’s focus on publishers (“the best of the independent web”), but unlike Lijit, who helps publishers generate revenue through better monitizing their non-premium inventory, Federated sells unique, high value premium inventory across their federated group of publishers.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Financing, that is.I One truth of start-up financing is that it generally takes twice as long and twice as much money to accomplish your milestones. But of course, the model had us requiring only $10M equity to breakeven and to achieve $185M in revenues in 2008 (the magic Year 5 in all business plans). ProfessorVC.

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Federated shares Lijit’s focus on publishers (“the best of the independent web”), but unlike Lijit, who helps publishers generate revenue through better monitizing their non-premium inventory, Federated sells unique, high value premium inventory across their federated group of publishers.

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Jason Ball

JANUARY 24, 2011

I always kick off the year with a quick retrospective of M&A activity, with graphics thanks to my friends at ICON Corporate Finance , based here in sunny London. Remember that Playfish was acquired by EA in 2009 for $300M, which was reported to be 4x revenues.). January… a month for reflecting and prioritizing the new year.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

We will invest pre-revenue and even pre-product if we have discovered the right team in the right kind of market. You had a very interesting perspective on the AOL/Time Warner merger. With this strategic position, and their prescient understanding of where the industry was going, it is hard to argue with the concept of the merger.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

M&A and Finance. Social media audiences have effectively become another universe of prospects to tap, which means measurement and tracking is essential to yielding from these visitors both direct and indirect revenue. Finance/Accounting. Mergers and Acquisitions. Assn/Non-Profit. B2B: Business Media. CMS Insights.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The new generation of public SaaS companies is also growing faster, reaching a $100 million revenue run rate in five to seven years today versus 10 to 15 years a decade ago. Finance, Market cap as of Oct 2009 and Oct 7, 2019 This public market momentum is continuing to accelerate with 24 SaaS IPOs in 2018-19 compared to 17 in 2015-17.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Small” IPOs — companies with less than $50m in annual revenue at the time of IPO – have declined from more than 50% of all IPOs in the 1980-2000 timeframe to about 25% of IPOs from 2001-2016; Companies are staying private much longer — the median time to IPO from founding hovered around 6.5 Performance has been more un-even.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Shamir Optical reported revenues of $142 million in 2009, generated mainly in Europe and the United States, and has about 1,400 employees. In 2008, the company, which employs about 30,000 worldwide, reported revenues of $28.8 In 2009 it boasted revenue of $4.49 iSkoot is Qualcomm’s first acquisition in Israel.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

Professionally, I am a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), may also be called a Chartered Accountant (CA) on your side of the globe, a Finance Charter-holder and a Certified Financial Planner. 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.

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