Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2021

Of course, you can find these elements embodied in many of the business plan templates and tools out there, such as the Business Model Canvas. Provide initial and long-term sources of revenue. Free” is not an exciting business model for investor interest. Identify your intellectual property or “secret sauce.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2021

Other entrepreneurs skip just a couple of the elements outlined in my original article, “ These 10 Key Elements Make a Business Plan Fundable. Investors know that first-time entrepreneurs who start a business without a good written plan almost always fail. Investors bet on the team, more than the business plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

If the founders are not experienced, find a couple of advisors from the business sector to fill the gap. Define some intellectual property. File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property. Prepare an investment-grade business plan. This is called “validating the business model.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2022

That approach may work for an entrepreneur who just sold a successful business for a huge profit, but it doesn’t work for the rest of us who are not proven successes yet, or don’t even have a business yet. Undefined business model or very low gross margins. Lack of intellectual property.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2016

Investors look for entrepreneurs who talk about building a sustainable business, rather than highlighting the breakthrough elegance of the technology or the need for social change. Even social entrepreneurs need milestones, quantifiable results, and revenue to sustain their value. Plan includes a business model with good margins.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2021

According to most definitions, anyone who starts a business is an entrepreneur , but most people don’t realize there are many startup types out there, and picking the wrong one can be just as disastrous as being stuck in a cubicle at work, or doing things with no interest and no skills. Aspire to be in control of your own domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Most technologists have little interest in the mechanics of starting and building a business. That’s why I recommend that they find a co-founder who loves business challenges, including marketing and finance. Outside investors are most interested in scaling a proven business model, not research and development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

If the founders are not experienced, find a couple of advisors from the business sector to fill the gap. Define some intellectual property. File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property. Prepare an investment-grade business plan. This is called “validating the business model.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2020

That approach may work for an entrepreneur who just sold a successful business for a huge profit, but it doesn’t work for the rest of us who are not proven successes yet, or don’t even have a business yet. Undefined business model or very low gross margins. Lack of intellectual property.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Companies horde cash and squeeze the most revenue and margin from the money they use. The first will be commodity businesses that are valued for their ability to execute their current business model. The second class will be firms with a demonstrated ability to continually innovate and reinvent their business models.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 15, 2024

Initially, many publishers were slow to recognize the internet’s impact on their business model as distribution and the classifieds and ad worlds split – or what Ben Thompson calls the “ Great Unbundling ”. It could help bring back some of that classified ad revenue that was lost. What do you think?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2016

First priority is real revenue, customers and contracts. If you have a proven business model with some sales, it’s credible to apply a multiplier of five to 10 times this number for the first element of valuation. Thus, $100,000 of gross revenue in the last 12 months might be extrapolated to $500,000 to $1 million in valuation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

If the founders are not experienced, find a couple of advisors from the business sector to fill the gap. Define some intellectual property. File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property. Prepare an investment-grade business plan. This is called “validating the business model.”

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2013

Other entrepreneurs skip just a couple of the elements outlined in my previous article, “ These 10 Key Elements Make a Business Plan Fundable. Investors know that entrepreneurs who start a business without a good written plan almost always fail. Investors bet on the team, more than the business plan. Inexperienced team.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2019

If you can prove a business model, traction, and potential for a tremendous scale with the right backing, you could be a ripe target to be acquired. . Intellectual property is one of the most valuable assets acquirers seek in startups. Acquiring revenues can be very important. Yet, investors and analysts demand it.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2018

You have to align your business model to the needs of the market, find competent staff to execute your plans, develop a high-quality product, invest in marketing and set up a corporate network that can boost growth and revenue. – Protecting the company’s intellectual property.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2012

Investors know that entrepreneurs who start a business without a good written plan almost always fail. Investors bet on the team, more than the business plan. Your business model may be very attractive, but if you are new to this, you may not be fundable. Inexperienced team. No sustainable competitive advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2016

If you and your team have no experience in your chosen domain or no credentials starting a business, you will have trouble attracting investors. A solution would be to find a co-founder with the requisite background or investors who know you. Business is a good cause, but has limited returns.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2016

That approach may work for an entrepreneur who just sold a successful business for a huge profit, but it doesn’t work for the rest of us who are not proven successes yet, or don’t even have a business yet. Undefined business model or very low gross margins. Lack of intellectual property.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. Russell Rothstein, Founder and CEO, IT Central Station , a product review site, said, “We see VCs on our site very often. 3) Raise capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2015

According to most definitions, anyone who starts a business is an entrepreneur , but most people don’t realize there are many startup types out there, and picking the wrong one can be just as disastrous as being stuck in a cubicle at work, or doing things with no interest and no skills. Aspire to be in control of your own domain.

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Gust

DECEMBER 16, 2012

If the founders are not experienced, find a couple of advisors from the business sector to fill the gap. Define some intellectual property. File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property. Prepare an investment-grade business plan. This is called “validating the business model.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2011

Investors know that entrepreneurs who start a business without a written plan almost always fail. Investors bet on the team, more than the business plan. Your business model may be very attractive, but if you are new to this, you may not be fundable. Inexperienced team. No sustainable competitive advantage.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

I have confirmed with the founders that none of the information contained herein is deemed confidential and is therefore fair game for me to share in this post. The founders of the company — Arlo Faria and AJ Shankar — were PhD students in Computer Science at UC Berkeley. In April 2008, I was introduced to Ugmode, Inc.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Word of mouth is no substitute for market research, says Ben Price, co-founder of Hard Knocks Brewing, a small brewpub in its second year of operation. The single biggest mistake I have made was locating my business in a town that could not care less about craft beer,” says Ben. There’s no one model—or one business plan—for breweries.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Internet and Online Business. Business Software. Intellectual Property. Last spring, Dave Graham , founder of software consulting firm Arizona Bay, learned that a major client, Jumpstart Automotive Media, had been acquired for more than $80 million. Computer Security. Telecom and Wireless. Technology. INNOVATION.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2010

Investors know that entrepreneurs who start a business without a written plan almost always fail. Investors bet on the team, more than the business plan. Your business model may be very attractive, but if you are new to this, you may not be fundable. Inexperienced team. No sustainable competitive advantage.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Interestingly enough, CooTek’s co-founder and CEO, Michael Wong , who was formerly from Microsoft’s R&D unit, took an unconventional route by launching in the Western market first. That’s why the free business model is so popular in China. They don’t have a good IP (intellectual property) to defend their technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Founders who avoid the use of the term “profit” had better have deep pockets of their own. The best advantage includes intellectual property to provide a barrier to entry or incent acquisition. Investors look for a team with business, financial, marketing, and operational skills, as well as a social passion.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

There is an inherent conflict in a consultant’s business model and the needs of a startup. For instance, if a consultant proposes to help you with public relations, pay them a commission equivalent to the greater of a flat fee per story placed or a percentage of revenue generated from the PR coverage. from the Wharton School.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 27, 2015

He has served as advisor to and member of numerous financial exchanges, and was the founder and CEO of Arthur Lipper Corporation and co-founder and Chairman of New York & Foreign Securities Corporation. The businesses frequently were the owner-manager’s only major asset.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

3]   However, if they are built bottom up, they demonstrate and make explicit a range of business model assumptions the entrepreneur is using to think about his business and its revenue model. These include: ·       Vesting of Founder Stock.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

Word of mouth is no substitute for market research , says Ben Price, co-founder of Hard Knocks Brewing, a small brewpub in its second year of operation. The single biggest mistake I have made was locating my business in a town that could not care less about craft beer,” says Ben. Hire the right team.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

The only thing that seemed to be consistent about my growth was that my revenue was relatively flat while my user base kept growing. I asked CrazyEgg co-founder Hiten Shah why they decided to drop their free plan back then. This turned out to be a good move since it doubled their revenue that month. His reason for doing this?

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And since a startup thatsucceeds ordinarily makes its founders rich, that implies gettingrich is doable too. A lot ofwould-be startup founders think the key to the whole process is theinitial idea, and from that point all you have to do is execute.Venture capitalists know better. Ideally you want between two and four founders.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

That means the vast majority of privately held companies are still very dependent on venture money to stay in business. Respondents deemed between 12%-16% of companies generating revenues to be essentially “worthless” and deemed 20%-26% of their pre-revenue investments to be “worthless.” Add to this that 72.7% Translation?

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