Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2012

Investors like $1B markets with double-digit growth rates. Business model. In this section, you need to be passionate about recurring revenue, profit margin, and volume growth. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. Financial projections.

Elevator Pitch 247

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 247

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

How the solution and business model work to fund the business. Every customer understands that your solution has to generate more revenue than cost, but you should not put that data in a customer pitch. Investors will impatiently expect a winning business model, customer segment definitions and volume projections.

Product 120

Product Intellectual Property Liquidity Event Burn Rate 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2011

Investors like $1B markets with double-digit growth rates. Business model. In this section, you need to be passionate about recurring revenue, profit margin, and volume growth. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. Financial projections.

Elevator Pitch 234

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 234

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

And, oh by the way, we also really like the idea of the 1M/1M entrepreneurs building valuation and negotiating leverage through these business development efforts, instead of signing off large chunks of their company in form of equity early on. The business is already profitable with $2.9 million in revenue.

Dilution 114

Dilution Revenue Finance Entrepreneur 114

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2010

Investors like $1B markets with double-digit growth rates. Business model. In this section, you need to be passionate about recurring revenue, profit margin, and volume growth. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. Financial projections.

Elevator Pitch 235

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 235

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2015

Even non-profits require money to operate, so every startup needs a business model with plans to bring in income. This means delegating tasks and not micro-managing, as well as more time spent working on the business, rather than in the business. Calculate and manage your financials.

Elevator Pitch 120

Elevator Pitch Burn Rate Startup Metrics 120

Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

Investors like $1B markets with double-digit growth rates. Business model. In this section, you need to be passionate about recurring revenue, profit margin, and volume growth. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. Financial projections.

Elevator Pitch 146

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 146

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Benchmarks are typically specific to stage/business model/geo. In Rob Go’s words: For seed and Series A deals, investors will also need to see a high-potential team with founder/market fit , a large and attractive market opportunity , and a business model with increasing returns to scale. Consumer apps and services.

B2C 141

B2C Technical Review Startup Retention 141

Professor VC

JULY 31, 2008

This whole process got me thinking about the textbook business model. of the sale price, respectively, according to the National Association of College Stores. One of the shrewdest groups in the music business and way ahead of their time was the Grateful Dead. Labels: business models , Grateful Dead , textbook.

San Jose 28

San Jose Software Review Angel Investor Silicon Valley 28

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2013

Otherwise, sales, marketing, and operational costs will kill you. Next comes sales volume by channel. Your “burn rate” or net cash flow out is usually the single most important survival parameter to a startup. The holy grail is break-even, when revenues first catch up with the outflow. Cash flow is king.

Forecast 238

Forecast Business Plan Burn Rate .Net 238

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2012

Otherwise, sales, marketing, and operational costs will kill you. Next comes sales volume by channel. Your “burn rate” or net cash flow out is usually the single most important survival parameter to a startup. The holy grail is break-even, when revenues first catch up with the outflow. Cash flow is king.

Forecast 238

Forecast Burn Rate .Net Business Model 238

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2011

Otherwise, sales, marketing, and operational costs will kill you. Next comes sales volume by channel. Your “burn rate” or net cash flow out is usually the single most important survival parameter to a startup. The holy grail is break-even, when revenues first catch up with the outflow. Cash flow is king.

Forecast 230

Forecast Burn Rate Startup .Net 230

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?

Silicon Valley 35

Silicon Valley San Jose Hockey Stick Venture Capital 35

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2010

Otherwise, sales, marketing, and operational costs will kill you. Next comes sales volume by channel. Your “burn rate” or net cash flow out is usually the single most important survival parameter to a startup. The holy grail is break-even, when revenues first catch up with the outflow. Cash flow is king.

Forecast 151

Forecast Startup Burn Rate .Net 151

Up and Running

MAY 22, 2018

Every successful small business goes through four stages during its entire existence: Existence : expanding from pilot production to broad-scale production. Survival : generating enough cash flow to stay in business. Success : business model works and is stable, but there is still untapped potential. Nerdy Term: Margin.

Exit Strategy 90

Exit Strategy Angel Investor Search Elevator Pitch 90