Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2016

Revenue and profit projections are not credible. Attractive businesses to investors may show revenues that double every year but don’t exceed the gross national product of your country. Real customer revenue and thousands of new users represent traction and are the best indication of fundability.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Some of the finalists were generating revenues already and/or have very promising strategic partnerships lined up. Raise more money than you need because your business model may change. The business model for residential solar panel company: contract with customer, local rebates, and tax benefits.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Some of the finalists were generating revenues already and/or have very promising strategic partnerships lined up. Raise more money than you need because your business model may change. The business model for residential solar panel company: contract with customer, local rebates, and tax benefits.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

What makes me really proud though is we’ve been 100% bootstrapped for our 3.5 The key ingredient was learning to say no to all the opportunities that did not fit that model in order to create space for businesses that I could bring on and help succeed. Thanks to Joe Sinkwitz, Intellifluence ! #3- 3- Publishing a book.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

She has a separate team, with its own culture and office, and a mandate straight from top management to innovate without regard to the company’s historic products, channels, or supply chain. And so the spreadsheet is built with conservative assumptions, including a final revenue target. So far, so good.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 25, 2011

I explained the 1M/1M Twitter strategy , followed by how 1M/1M premium members can use our Twitter channel. Now, for the 1M/1M premium members, we have just opened up this Twitter+Facebook+LinkedIn channel to promote their brands and products. We encourage you to take advantage of it. Interesting company, excellent execution so far.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Hello, Alice is a free data driven and multi-channel platform helping small business owners on their entrepreneurial journey by providing access to relevant funding networks and technical assistance tools while creating owner success rate, increasing owner success rates would be a better way to say that. Business model.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Diving in a bit more into some thoughts here: 1b) Ad-based revenue streams generally have terrible unit economics. A typical ad-based revenue stream on a media website is around $5 per 1000 eyeballs ($5m CPM and give or take $1-$20ish CPMs). Another way is to have unique promotion channels, but these must be scalable.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Diving in a bit more into some thoughts here: 1b) Ad-based revenue streams generally have terrible unit economics. A typical ad-based revenue stream on a media website is around $5 per 1000 eyeballs ($5m CPM and give or take $1-$20ish CPMs). Another way is to have unique promotion channels, but these must be scalable.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

To avoid these extremes, there are several questions which we use at Subbly whenever someone is either considering a subscription business model or just getting started. Is your business idea focused mainly on product promotion, or the service through careful experience design? So, the planning stage can feel high stakes.

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Bryce Dot VC

JANUARY 5, 2015

VC funding can great for some companies, but it comes with a certain set of expectations that have an impact on everything from business model to company culture. My partner Tim bootstrapped his business to 9 figures in revenue without taking any outside investment. And revenue better still. .

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. The one-page pitch format is also more suitable for SaaS businesses that are constantly testing new ideas. The business model. Domain Names and Trademark Law.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Edwin: Oh sorry, so the business model. Edwin: The business model is that the organizer has to pay. Patrick: You can channel Cathy Sierra on this and say that the users, you become a Meeting King. I think another thing you wanted to talk about was the whole keep bootstrapping or raise money question.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 24, 2006

As an example, we had an advanced manufacturing business that achieved excellent early results. However, the distribution channel we had planned to use lacked the sophistication ultimately required by the product design, and the manufacturers adoption cycle was insufficient. Bootstrapping. If it does not work, get out.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

you can now have the engineer who is also decent in business or a laywer who can be an entrepreneur and all these other crosspollinations. Jones This is roughly how I bootstrapped my current startup (just raised a decent series B so things seem to be on the right track). Twitter is an excellent distribution channel for us. (B)

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. 1M/1M Program has a bold mission. This is where numerous ventures fail.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

I have come to believe during my time as an operator, entrepreneur and investor that the balance of these skills is so important to the long-term health of a business that if balance is not achieved early then the impact later can be profound - sometimes terminal. Spencer Fry , Founder of two bootstrapped companies.

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