Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue).

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Addressing real world problems, they thrive in uncertainty, generating new jobs and new revenue streams in new markets. Underpinning this growth is good governance. In order to understand startup governance, you need to understand risk and reward. Risk and reward. These things being people, the law and the company itself.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

The primary source of your funds should be your paying customers, i.e., your business should generate enough revenues and profits to fund the growth and expansion. Reasons for funding. ? These usually play a role in the very early stage of your business, primarily pre-revenue. Government programs. Stages of Funding.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2024

They might not understand how a pre-revenue startup could be worth anything, let alone be valued at $5mm. Governance Moreso than a lot of actual VCs, a lot of high-net-worth folks tend to ask for board representation—even in the super early stages of a company where boards tend to be a little less formal. Can they lose this money?

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

Dozens of outreach programs across the military now offer quick revenue to early-stage companies. Historically, more than 80% of new entrants exit the defense market before they have a chance to see recurring revenue. Is the company prepared to endure revenue gaps? billion in early funding. Recently public enterprise-AI firm C3.ai

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue).

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad. Flexible VC: Revenue -based. Of the Inc.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Say your objective is to increase sales revenue from your existing customer base, and your key result is to generate an additional $500k from these customers by the end of Q2. Your hypothesis might be that if you remove the promo code field at the checkout, cart abandonment will go down, and revenue from existing customers will increase.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

There is a complete process that governs the startup lifecycle including inception to exit. How much revenue are you generating on an annual basis? Further Customer Acquisition. You need to improve your customer acquisition process. These partnerships need to bring in more revenue. Acquisition.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 29, 2014

CPA’s also can represent clients in case of an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) audit. How do I sell my products to the federal government? federal government purchases billions of dollars of goods and services each year, hundreds of millions of that is from small businesses in rural areas.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

He published revenue figures even when they were still pathetic , he pledged loudly and eagerly to give away lots of free copies to non-profits, and he revealed all his (remarkably effective) marketing strategies (updated here ) even though it meant competitors would learn them too. But one story beats a pile of AdWords A/B tests.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In my daily work with ecommerce brands, I see two types of companies: The first type focuses on acquisition and conversion. Overall acquisition costs for both B2C and B2B have gone up by 50% in the past five years. Cohort analysis can be done for revenue, churn, viral word of mouth, support costs, or any other metric you care about.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 21, 2013

With full-fledged financial deleveraging occurring in the private sector, lower levels of spending and income growth at the consumer level, and government policy decisions in the balance, the appetite of business leaders to invest in growth has waned. the confidence to act quickly whenever necessary; B.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

This introductory phase includes early development of business and financial plans, gathering information and research on the sector and registering with the government as a legal entity. At this point, a business may even begin looking for acquisition opportunities or areas to expand, either geographically or economically.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 23, 2013

Situation #3: One Revenue Stream One of the biggest mistakes many businesses make is relying too heavily on one customer or revenue stream. Most companies will work with different clients and customers, but may rely on one specific client for the majority of their revenue. Revenue sources need to be analyzed.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In Singapore, the government has been extremely supportive, and there is entrepreneurial activity, although we have not yet seen very significant companies emerge. The bulk of our discussion today was around scaling and customer acquisition strategies. We are also seeing significant companies come out of Europe. CustomerDiscovery.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

What seems to be the best way to create customers and revenue may result in a business model that is out of vogue with the investment world and shortchanges you on enterprise valuation. If you bill for your technology services on a percentage of ad spend, you are guaranteed to look like an agency that deserves a revenue multiple of 1–2X.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue).

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 16, 2019

After the implementation of ACA, more hospitals and health systems entered into affiliations, acquisitions, membership substitutions, join ventures, and clinical affiliations. These shifts have necessitated major changes to the hospital governing board structure as we’ve known it in the past.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

Technical Review 127

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

More than 70 percent of the In-Q-Tel portfolio companies have never before done business with the government. In the 21 st century the DOD/IC community have realized that adversaries are moving at a speed that our traditional acquisition systems could not keep up with. The Educator Class: What We Learned.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and 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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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

There’s a lot of buzz about the Amazon acquisition of TWITCH this week. After that it quickly gained credibility and spread throughout government, and corporate America. Angel Investor Drupal founder PHP Revenue Growth SaaS Scalability startup startup CEO venture Cash Flow CEOing leadership scalability tom nora venture capital'

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 16, 2020

Data collection or acquisition is the first step in a Data Science project. It is full of rules and models that govern what data should be collected. It allows organizations to create new business opportunities, predict future trends, generate more revenue, produce actionable insights and optimize current operational efforts.

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Berkonomics

MAY 10, 2018

Long term debt is taken on for the acquisition of fixed assets such as equipment, cars, facilities and acquisitions of companies or their assets. Typically, companies may arrange to borrow between 70% and 80% of those non-government receivables that have not aged past 60 days from invoice, up to a maximum amount, or “credit line”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue).

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Agile VC

AUGUST 9, 2012

We also know lots of valid reasons why the company could be valued at far less than it once was including: Stalled Growth – revenue essentially flat over the last 4 quarters. Zynga’s trailing revenue is nearly $1.2B trailing revenue multiple. That much we all know.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 12, 2017

billion acquisition of high-end food retailer Whole Foods, the retailing behemoth has also been quietly setting itself apart by finding a way to include low-income shoppers too. Further, Amazon took its marketing to the next level by pricing Prime subscriptions at a nearly 50 percent discount for people on government assistance.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 18, 2015

The time saved can be put towards revenue-generating activities and possibly go well past paying the charge of the CPA. They will be more meticulous in tracking down any unseen cash flows and corresponding with sophisticated government requirements. Make sure to find an attorney with experience in mergers and acquisitions.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

#tearsofpain One way of removing silos and focusing on the entire business is to leverage Acquisition, Behavior and Outcome metrics. A small change I’ll make in this post is that when I recommend the metrics, I’ll follow the Outcomes | Behavior | Acquisition structure throughout this post. Hence that’s the macro-outcome.

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Up and Running

MAY 3, 2012

Entrepreneurship continues to be a sexy topic for governments, with every country worth its salt trying to create its own tech hub, mimicking Silicon Valley. The appeal of promoting entrepreneurship is obvious. We need to insist that they set goals and milestones, create cash flow forecasts and devise ways to test their assumptions. ??

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

In other words, how can we adapt the Business Model Canvas when the metrics of success for an organization is not revenue? From Revenue Streams to Mission Achievement. What if you’re a government or a military organization or part of the intelligence community? Revenue Streams changes to Mission Achievement.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

More than 70 percent of the In-Q-Tel portfolio companies have never before done business with the government. In the 21 st century the DOD/IC community have realized that adversaries are moving at a speed that our traditional acquisition systems could not keep up with. The Educator Class: What We Learned.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

He also looked at calculating the cost of a customer acquisition (COCA) and a customer’s lifetime value (LTV), as well as the customer happiness index (CHI) which is a good indicator of how long they will stay your customer. Simplicity is mostly a way to avoid looking like you’re releasing a product that lacks features.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

work (collection, processing, reporting, analysis), processes, org structure, governance models, last-mile gaps , metrics ladders of awesomeness , and… so… much… more. Remember, tools, work, processes, org structure, governance models, last-mile gaps, metrics ladders of awesomeness, and… so… much… more. The Implications of Complexity.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Bayh-Dole allowed for private ownership of government funded intellectual property developed in universities while the Orphan Drug Act created incentives for developing drugs for disorders afflicting fewer than 200,000 Americans. But scaling customer acquisition may take the same amount of dollars as a traditional software startup. ).

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