Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2015

How do you convince investors that your business model will really work, before you have a revenue stream that exceeds your expenses? Even if you are bootstrapping your business, and you are the only investor, you should be asking yourself the same question. Plan for a real revenue model.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

First up was Brad Barrett presenting GrillGrate , a grill accessory with which Brad has built a year-to-date revenue of $400,000. Then Jeanne Chinn with JCLABoutique.com presented an upcoming e-commerce company that is planning to sell $210 tote bags for carrying pets. GrillGrate. JCLABoutique.com. PowerStores.in.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Well, 1M/1M is focused on helping businesses generate $1M in annual revenue, whatever be the nature of the business. We see a lot of businesses that can be characterized as social enterprises, ranging from education to rural development businesses. Also, the business model for the business is unclear.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

s roundtable, I started with a presentation on blue sky opportunities in cloud computing based on our Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing (TLCC) research. I took the audience through five cloud-based business ideas, discussed why they are relevant and pointed them to the sources I derived those ideas from.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

They already have several customers including some telcos, and are at about $350,000 in revenues. And EVEN if you ARE an experienced entrepreneur, all but just a few VCs still want to see customer validation, business model validation and traction, before they will invest. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 3, 2017

If your answers starts with, “We have multiple revenue streams…” that’s a bad thing. What I really hear is, “ We have no idea what the most significant revenue driver will be. “ Is this a big enough market to support a venture funded business? The best meetings are just conversations, not presentations.

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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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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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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

I have discussed at length why revenue sharing channel deals may serve as perfectly fine alternatives to raising equity (or even complements) because of their non-dilutive nature. Persistent is breaking out of the mold of labor arbitrage, and looking at new and exciting business models. million in revenue. SOCO Games.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

And so the spreadsheet is built with conservative assumptions, including a final revenue target. No matter how low we make the revenue projections for this new product, it’s extremely unlikely that they are achievable. That’s because the model is based on assumptions about customers that are totally unproven.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

What makes me really proud though is we’ve been 100% bootstrapped for our 3.5 Entering our 4th year of business, we doubled our headcount, became a certified B Corporation, and released our revenue model which aligned with our becoming a 1% for the Planet member. Thanks to Joe Sinkwitz, Intellifluence ! #3-

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 19, 2018

Earlier this year at the FUND Conference in Austin, Texas, over 100 startups presented their early-stage companies in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders. We have been revenue positive since day one. Has going through the process of trying to raise capital impacted your vision and strategy for your business?

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

First up at this week's Strategy Roundtable was Cheryl Yeoh presenting CityPockets , an online destination, and an app for managing daily deals across a wide range of sites. Next Anuj Mishra with Gnosis India presented an idea of doing highly technical workshops (CAD, Robotics) for students all around India, including rural India.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

If you’ve never written a business plan before, take a look at these sample medical startup business plans. At first, you need to focus on developing your business model and validating it. If you don’t have the right customers, your business simply won’t survive. You will need to demonstrate the results as well.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 25, 2011

Also at today's roundtable, Sharon Wood from Ridgefield, Connecticut, presented Stone Creek Entertainment's Karizmac games , a casual gaming company for the female demographic. Most important, Sharon has created a good business model for attracting sponsors who help fund the development and marketing of games on a revenue-sharing basis.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

  Investors sometimes “present” the terms they’d like and expect the entrepreneurs to react. Now that I’m more often on the other side of the term-sheet, I’ve tried to present term-sheets to entrepreneurs accompanied by a philosophical explanation of what I’m proposing, and why. This is why a bottom up approach is more credible.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. Then you present to them your lean business plan, which shows strategy, tactics and concrete specifics. Investors love traction. They love milestones.

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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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David Cohen

JULY 28, 2013

In fact, I met Brad on one of his random days, when I presented the idea for Techstars to him. There’s also a lot more scrutiny of the business model, as opposed to just finding good people with a good idea. The idea for random days comes from Brad Feld , who has held them regularly for years.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Entrepreneurs put together their funding presentation by extracting the key ideas from their business plan, putting them on PowerPoint/Keynote and pitching the company – until they get funded or exhausted.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 21, 2011

How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan. First develop a business model.  By this time (in six months) we will be getting 20 orders per day from these two callers and our revenue will stabilize at that rate. This is also the way I'd present it. First develop a business model.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 8, 2012

While it isn't always top of mind for entrepreneurs caught up in the rush of running and growing their businesses, long term thinking, including thinking about relationships, is pretty important. I attended a business presentation last week at Marquette University 's College of Business. Bootstrapping.

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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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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

I took a look back at our original financial model we presented to VCs in 2004. The business model (OEM through broadband and home security companies for mass distribution) if not specific product functionality has remained largely the same. Bootstrapping 101. Survey says VC's invest on Gut Instinct.

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Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

To that last one, there is certainly some truth as the standard time vs. revenue chart in most business plans looks like this: Im not teaching Entrepreneurial Finance this semester for the first time since Fall 2007. Is the model consistent with the business plan? Does the business model make sense?

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Tim Keane

JUNE 13, 2006

« How do you present your venture to an investor? Of course, it goes without saying that no one would bottom-up an expense budget then fill in revenue to make it “come out,” right?). Then, on the expense side, I’d like to begin to understand how the growth in the business will drive costs as complexity increases.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

The more complex the operating structure of a business, the more information and time required.”. From land use to public taste, where you base your brewery will present you with crucial decisions. Friends and family are the most common backers, and many startups bootstrap. Each brewery will have its own unique model and plan.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Different market opportunities present radically different startup risks and costs. Bootstrap for years! You can bootstrap without VC money. “vertical&# works perfectly fine in quickly telling you about a general direction of a company’s business model. Yeah, I said. Order Here.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

On the topic of business models, Spencer proposed building traffic and then selling the company, which I pushed back on. We spent considerable time exploring ways to verticalize the app and creating an ad-supported business model instead, which would also broaden his exit options considerably. could be your companion.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

or just present your crappy, first-run code to investors then pay someone to re-write the entire thing. 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. Nosake From nothing to losing money every month with no business model in sight.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

The Bizme2 homepage, caters for conference attendees, presenters and organizers. Yair Margolin: I always come back from a conference with 400 business cards, but only end up doing something with two. Companies can also add their products, services, press releases, share information by : pictures, presentations and videos.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Real Estate. Semiconductors. Telecommunications. Transportation. Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

In modern business Steve Jobs is probably the only person who even comes close, which arguably took him 25+ years. You can argue that the DNA created by Microsoft's over emphasis on distribution (Steve) and development (Bill), has ultimately cost it $50bn or more in lost revenue, market share and market capitalization.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

A prototype can be a series of hand-drawn sketches or a click-thru presentation using keynote or powerpoint. The programmer will probably not understand your business model, and therefore cant help you point out anything that doesnt make sense in the requirements. Complexity often hides a poor business model.

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