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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

as a distribution channel have vastly reduced the amount of capital a startup needs at the early stage when the risk is greatest. The reality is that the super vast majority of liquidity events are M&A and the majority of those are in the under $100M range. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0

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Why Pitching Your Product Is Not Enough For Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Potential investors love to see gross margins in the fifty percent range or greater, with recurring revenue through subscriptions, follow-on sales, or services. Five-year financial projections of revenue and expenses. Discussion of likely liquidity events and exit strategy.

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8 Ways An Investor Pitch Differs From A Product Pitch

Startup Professionals Musings

Every customer understands that your solution has to generate more revenue than cost, but you should not put that data in a customer pitch. Partnerships, distribution channels and pricing models should be included. “If Projected revenues and expenses over the strategic period.

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Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid

Steve Blank

You can be an Independent studio or do “work for hire&# (either a revenue share or buy-out model) - If you’re an independent studio you have a set of choices for distribution channel and marketing models. - We understood none of this. More detail in future posts.

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Everything you do adds or reduces company value

Berkonomics

New products, new geographic territories, elimination of a competitor, increase in revenues, consolidation savings, new talent, new distribution channels, and more are good reasons for a start. Let’s list some of the many reasons your company might find to make an acquisition. Odds that an acquisition will be a success.

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Think of your exit as you commit your resources along the way.

Berkonomics

There are many reasons a company finds to make an acquisition.