Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

They want to open new offices, generate more revenue, and ultimately, secure higher profitability. . And the revenue from your existing customers alone may not be enough to cut it. . They want to snowball their customer acquisition, attracting thousands of new people to the brand, and reach diverse new audiences in new locations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2022

After many years of working with angel investors seriously trying to find new ventures worthy of their hard-earned money, I find their frustration often exceeds that of entrepreneurs sincerely looking for financial help. At these stages, it’s all about you, and your ability to communicate and execute effectively.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2017

And the desire to raise capital (whether from an individual “angel” investor or a venture capital firm) is often the key motivator in the business planning process. But how exactly will your business plan persuade investors to sign a check? Detail all revenue streams. Be sure to include all revenue streams.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Instead, watch payback period for acquisition efficiency, watch retention for product/market fit, watch expansion revenue for long-term growth, and watch gross margin for long-term profitability. The “boring” but established, large market is where revenue is easy and competition is old, slow, and has something to lose.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Ice Angels chair Michael Murphy liked what StockTrim were doing and was happy to become chair of StockTrim’s board of directors and become one of the first investors. “He He got us in front of the Ice Angels and a number of them invested,” Sutton says. “I Some guys just won’t write small cheques.”. Lesson 10.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2018

Investors in particular want to fund only scalable or ready to scale businesses. Your business model must show the potential to increase the revenue with minimal expenditure in the coming months or years. All of these factors contribute to a scalable business model, which in turn, helps attract investors. Angel investors.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 18, 2014

Startups tend to rely on capital that comes via angel investors or venture capital firms while small business operations may rely on loans and grants. “Startups looking for angel investors or venture capital (VC) absolutely need an exit strategy because investors require it. ” – Tim Berry.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Flash Pack turned over its first £ 1 million in 2016/17 and grew to £4 million revenue in 2017/18. The rest is history. We took an initial seed round from Angel investors of 250k back in 2016. Flash Pack’s co-founders and husband and wife team, Radha Vyas & Lee Thompson. So business and romance can mix.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2020

I support their summary of the seven capital assets that are the core required to create a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem, and produce real economic value for your startup and the rest of us: Intellectual capital – ideas, information, technologies. Financial capital – revenue, equity, debt, funding.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

There are two reasons to raise money: You have a killer idea that is only partially validated, that you think can get to $50M+ of revenue in 5 years with 80%+ gross margins (if margins are lower, you need a lot more revenue)and you need money to get to product-market fit, or. At the high-end pre-seed angel funds might invest.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 13, 2022

At that point, the options are converted just before the sale, and the shares are then sold with the rest of the firm. nominal versus market price), this is seen as quick revenue. Typically, option holders elect to defer conversion until a departure occurs. The following are the general tax regulations.

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Up and Running

JULY 23, 2014

The exit strategy isn’t about you, it’s about your investors. Startups looking for angel investors or venture capital (VC) absolutely need an exit strategy because investors require it. The company brings in money and the investors get money out. The exit is what gives them a return.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2020

After many years of working with angel investors seriously trying to find new ventures worthy of their hard-earned money, I find their frustration often exceeds that of entrepreneurs sincerely looking for financial help. At these stages, it’s all about you, and your ability to communicate and execute effectively.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

But with the added benefit of having people you trust handling the rest. Most entrepreneurs are not looking to launch a startup, pitch to angel investors or financial institutions, and land multiple rounds of capital. You can be increasing revenue, growing sales, and maybe even cutting costs. Consider financing early.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 13, 2012

Getting funding from angel investors is the same way. Because the most important time you spend influencing potential investors is done long before you present to them, even long before you even contact them; it's done when you prepare your company for funding. But rest assured, competitors will copy your idea, once proven.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. Don’t count on finding investors supporting growth alone on your new startup. Investors will look at competitors in your industry for the norms.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

By connecting Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and the rest of the state into a Texas S tartup Megatropolis we can unlock billions of dollars in capital and unleash thousands of diverse entrepreneurs. More connections means more business, more investors, more revenue, and more growth.

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Transformify

JULY 13, 2019

Maybe I will be able to identify the problem and rest of the team may see the solution and vice versa. We take entrepreneurs generating less than a million in revenue and help them to scale, raise funding or get them into accelerators. Lilia Stoyanov is CEO and angel investor at Transformify. About the author.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 16, 2019

We want to offer seed investors the opportunity to be part of our success before institutional VC’s take all the allocation. We plan to raise a limited amount from SeedInvest first, and then get institutional investors for the rest as we scale revenue.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Myspace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. When their deep pockets went empty, Google stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. Don’t count on finding investors supporting growth alone on your new startup. Investors will look at competitors in your industry for the norms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. Don’t count on finding investors supporting growth alone on your new startup. Investors will look at competitors in your industry for the norms.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 5, 2020

Carbon farming is coming upon us rapidly it’s progress is already under the transforming influence of technological innovation, and rapidly gaining widespread attention among Venture Capitalists and angel investors. It helped them to engage already existing customers with the brand and kept the revenues steady. 16- Coffee.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The web and technology bubble has a lot in common with the rest of the business world in that there are essentially two disparate groups — the haves and the have nots. Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Twitter, for example, doesn’t have much of a revenue model today, and they are growing, but I’m not sure who can ever sell 140 character tweets. Don’t count on finding investors for that model on your new startup. Yet it took almost six years to become profitable, with revenue only from advertising. Marty Zwilling.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

But if you want to build a scalable startup you need to be asking how you can you get enough customers/users/payers to build a business that can grow revenues past several $100M/year. startups ignore the rest of the world until they scale in their own country. With 317 million people the U.S. has a large enough market that most U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. In this section, you need to be passionate about revenue, profit, and volume growth. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Funding requirements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2016

After many years of working with angel investors seriously trying to find new ventures worthy of their hard-earned money, I find their frustration often exceeds that of entrepreneurs sincerely looking for financial help. At these stages, it’s all about you, and your ability to communicate and execute effectively.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2011

Twitter, for example, doesn’t have a real revenue model today, and they are growing, but I’m not sure who can ever sell 140 character tweets. Don’t count on finding investors for that model on your new startup. It actually is still only marginally profitable, with revenue only from advertising. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

We still have some collective scar tissue: the idea conjures up the hordes of dot-com hopefuls that descended on VC’s and angel investors with little more than a business plan. I hear similar things for pre-revenue startups that are on schedule, on time, and on budget - even though they are busy building something that nobody wants. (In

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

When the need is high… For the rest of us, desiring to build large, valuable enterprises quickly, the need for outside capital is high on our list of requirements and even the source for some sleepless nights as we worry over the availability and cost of capital. Often private equity investors will want control of the business as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. In this section, you need to be passionate about revenue, profit, and volume growth. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Funding requirements.

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Gust

JANUARY 15, 2013

Earlier, entrepreneurs didn’t need a real monetization strategy,” said Brian O’Malley, an early investor at Battery Ventures. They could punt on revenue indefinitely because their investment dollars were their revenue. Angel investors seed businesses with small sums, often less than $1.5 What do you think? .

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