Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Thus it is incumbent on every potential startup investor to ask for and read their business plans, current financial statements, and investor presentations. Once invested, you should expect no return until the first “liquidity” event in 3-5 years, maybe longer. Invest local and take an active role. Think long-term.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Thus it is incumbent on every potential startup investor to ask for and read their business plans, current financial statements, and investor presentations. Once invested, you should expect no return until the first “liquidity” event in 3-5 years, maybe longer. Invest local and take an active role. Think long-term.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2013

I recommend a simple set of guidelines, which work for at least 80% of the business plans I see. In reality, you need to make these projections first as goals for your own use, to convince the team as well as investors that you have a business which is achievable. Build a path to 10x return.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2014

Equally important, you need to make these projections first as goals for your own use, to convince the team as well as investors that you have a business which is achievable. The only path to any return for equity investments is a liquidity event, like a merger or acquisition (M&A), or IPO. Build a path to 10x return.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

VC funding is best suited for businesses with high growth potential. Investors receive a healthy return on investment when the company reaches a liquidity event. They also look for a robust business model and product/market fit. Aside from providing funding, a venture capital firm can also help a company grow faster.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Thus it is incumbent on every potential startup investor to ask for and read their business plans, current financial statements, and investor presentations. Once invested, you should expect no return until the first “liquidity” event in 3-5 years, maybe longer. Invest local and take an active role. Think long-term.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 28, 2021

When we investors look at a business plan, we look immediately to see if there is research to support the claim of a large enough SOM market to expect the candidate company to grow into the size projected.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2010

Investors are praying they’ve backed a founder who can think creatively and independently, because more often than not, conditions on the ground change so rapidly that the original well-thought-out business plan becomes irrelevant. Where’s My Liquidity Event.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

As a startup advisor and investor, I recommend a pitch deck with about 10 slides backed up with a written business plan of approximately 20 pages, both containing quantified answers to the following key questions. What is the business problem you are solving? How much and when do you foresee investors getting a payout?

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Gust

AUGUST 10, 2014

Equally important, you need to make these projections first as goals for your own use, to convince the team as well as investors that you have a business which is achievable. The only path to any return for equity investments is a liquidity event, like a merger or acquisition (M&A), or IPO. Build a path to 10x return.

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Early Growth Financial Services

JULY 23, 2014

There are also integrated service providers and a collaborative environment of founders working toward the common goal of a liquidity event. For one, there are well-established venture capital communities, and not just in Silicon Valley, that facilitate access to capital. Also, success likes company!

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

Instead, honestly analyze the company’s business plan and finances to determine whether the business needs to secure outside funding in order to achieve its objectives, and if so, how much. This will have a significant impact on the amount business owners could realize on the sale or other liquidity event for the company.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 13, 2013

Enacting a liquidity event. You don't want to send the VC a full business plan or executive summary initially. Once the VC "bites" on your teaser email, the next step is generally to send them your business plan. Here's how VCs earn returns for their investors: 1. Finding high growth companies 2.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. The Business Plan (Concept- Alpha-Beta - FCS ) became the playbook for startups.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

By providing a solid ROI to their investors, VCs earn bonuses and raise more funds so they can stay in business. VCs earn returns for their investors by finding high growth companies, making investments in them at favorable terms, guiding and nurturing them, and enacting a liquidity event (e.g.,

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Berkonomics

MAY 7, 2015

When we investors look at a business plan, we look immediately to see if there is research to support the claim of a large enough market to expect the candidate company to grow into the size projected. [Email readers, continue here…] This lesson is important.

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Business Plan Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

This is because most small companies do not have quick and easy exits, it is onerous to require directors and advisors to pay cash for shares in a company that is far from a liquidity event.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Angels realize their ROI during a liquidity event. Investors want to know how your competitive advantage is sustainable and how it will keep competitors from copying an advantage that you have discovered. Exit Strategy. As mentioned previously, Angel investors are looking for startups that have the potential to provide a large ROI.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2010

You could also call it a liquidity event. So I suggest that we agree on the following about exit strategies: The exit is about money. Converting ownership, as in shares of ownership, into money. It’s not about going from one place to another. What exits is the money. Money exits. Investors exit with it.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

The Founder’s gut wrongly tells them their business plan has been validated because they received an investment. You have to execute the business plan without executing yourself. Investors are always thinking about growth mode because that’s the path to where they want to go – liquidity event.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 30, 2021

All these things which could have driven the company out of business when betting very large amounts on other companies’ hardware would be avoided. Turning out the lights from a company following an existing business plan to extinction teaches us lessons. Why do we tell this story? Which would you rather do?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

That’s why we gathered a collection of 20 online resources for European startups that will help you with business plans, recruiting, publicity and networking. BPS : Business Plan Servicesâ?? s leading practice that is dedicated to providing full assistance with business planning. business planning.

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entrepreMusings

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

The EF provides a great service to our community by helping facilitate donations when companies have a liquidating event to charities of their choice. The other event was the Idea to Product Competition (I2P). I got a picture with her and yes she is as beautiful in person as she is in the movies!

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

An ipo is not really an exit, it is a liquidity event. Do companies know what your business actually is? Sometimes the market is beyond your control, so don’t worry about that, do what you are doing an execute your business plan. It is not the end game, and if you think so, then you are missing the point.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Too many companies being founded with exactly the same business plan. This is a scenario I’ve seen about a hundred times before – too much money flushing into a space the VCs think will be hot. These entrepreneurs were too young to attract the amount of capital they’d need to compete in this new environment.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

If you are a creative guy with a good head for business looking for an engineering partner, send me a summary of your idea and business plan, and I'll do the implementation!" you can steal an idea just from hearing it, it is not really a good defensible business idea. Yishan Wong • Nov 8, 2010 lol.if

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dondodge.typepad.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

The theory is that if they trust you and your business plan enough to give you $5M, then you have probably created something that is already worth $5M. Here are some "average" guidelines for equity percentages at a liquidity event. If you are raising $5M they will typically value your company at $5M pre-money.

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