YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Did it get declined due to timeline, costs associated, lack of testimonials. Ask your current customers for “introductions,” not “referrals.”. Create an upsell strategy for current customers. Your customers are already spending money with you, so now we just need to increase the amount.

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Revenue San Diego Technical Review Dividend 127

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Getting investors to trust you with their money is always a challenge, and it’s even more difficult in the early stages, where you don’t have a significant revenue stream, a few customers, or maybe even a product yet. Here is my list of red flags that cause many investors to look elsewhere: No well-defined need or viable customer set.

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Due Diligence Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Preferred Stock 271

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

A broken process or a subtle quality issue can generate a flood of customer satisfaction problems, cost overruns, and loss of market share. Elon Musk often talks about identifying all the dimensions of a problem, such as lower cost battery technology, as the key to moving the electric vehicle industry ahead.

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Dividend Metrics Cost Internet 382

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2022

Most customers today won’t pay you five times the cost of alternatives, just because yours is “green.” That’s a win-win business for the customer and the entrepreneur. Sustainability and social responsibility alone don’t make a viable business. The whole can be greater than the sum of the parts.

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Green Dividend Angel Investor Global 275

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2020

Even if you are no longer a student, or not enrolled now, it can pay big dividends to get to know people there and explore the possibilities, including the following: Potential to get technical work done as a class project. They have equipment and smart students that would otherwise cost you a fortune through an outside contract.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Of course, there are no guarantees, but I still see otherwise smart entrepreneurs taking shortcuts in their hiring, or jumping into business relationships based on emotion or low cost. Funding is depleted before customer sales ramp up. Your customers and competition make unexpected moves. The world today never stands still.

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2019

Then there’s live chat, which is gaining in popularity for companies looking to outfit their websites with real-time, 24/7 customer support. Adopting a holistic digital marketing approach pays obvious dividends to a company’s bottom line. Custom websites. Hiring the right team for digital marketing.

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Marketing Social Media SEO Entrepreneur 109

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

paying for travel data from ITA or others (customers acquisition spend is not included in COGS). Obviously most of these employees are working hard primarily for equity upside compensation, but Kayak’s personnel costs are roughly $200K/head so the company is highly productive on a per employee basis. 2010 Net Income: $8 million.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 11, 2021

With their affordability, you can invest in several and gain more return by earning customer trust before a sale occurs. They’ve built more trust with their followers, so customers might be more willing and trusting when they check out your website after the micro-influencer recommends you. Thanks to Ben Reynolds, Sure Dividend ! #3-

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2020

Getting investors to trust you with their money is always a challenge, and it’s even more difficult in the early stages, where you don’t have a significant revenue stream, a few customers, or maybe even a product yet. Here is my list of red flags that cause many investors to look elsewhere: No well-defined need or viable customer set.

Due Diligence 308

Due Diligence Intellectual Property Preferred Stock Startup 308

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

His challenge is to focus on one market, with a specific design, cost, and price. In addition, creating a business requires leading and interacting with other people, including partners, investors, and customers. You must also learn from your customers. Yes, there are a lot of bridges to cross.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Is it an evolution or a revolution for your business and customers? Our customers were growing and hiring quickly, and as a result our business was growing fast. That third one generally means “Selling” though that can take various forms, such as exiting via IPO, paying themselves a dividend, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2019

Image via Wikipedia The challenge for all of us in business is to improve competitiveness by improving employee productivity and reducing costs. According to Gartner , one of the biggest drags on productivity is employee engagement, still hovering around 30 percent, and costing our businesses over $450 billion per year.

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Dividend Employee Matching Cost 241

Mike Michalowicz

MAY 22, 2019

If your restaurant is in the wrong place, you won’t attract the amount or type of customers you will need to stay in business. When entering your location, are there obstacles to getting there, such as one-way streets, obstructions, on-going construction, and other things that could alienate potential customers.

Software Review 68

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The knowledge you collect from speaking candidly to your customers or clients can be invaluable too. If you have a customer database, consider implementing a quarterly or biannual survey to collect anecdotal feedback. For your customers, the beauty in dealing with a small business can often be that personal touch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2019

To me, that means treating your career more like a business than a job – with a continual and global focus on keeping up with competition, finding customers, preparing for changes ahead, and taking responsibility for your own finances. Start tracking your costs as well as income elements.

Artificial Inteligence 240

Artificial Inteligence Dividend Reputation Social Media 240

Up and Running

OCTOBER 2, 2014

They also directly impact your business, both in terms of reducing your operational costs, as well as streamlining your processes by making them more efficient. In addition to cutting your utility costs, it’s also quite possible to cut down on the costs of transportation, water, waste disposal, and paper. Brand Recognition.

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Green Brazil Dividend Cost 115

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2019

Most customers today won’t pay you five times the cost of alternatives, just because yours is “green.” That’s a win-win business for the customer and the entrepreneur. Sustainability and social responsibility alone don’t make a viable business. The whole can be greater than the sum of the parts.

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Green Dividend Angel Investor Global 234

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

It’s a simple and cost-effective means of equipping your remote workers with the right tools to do their jobs — especially if your remote workers spend a lot of time on the phone to customers and suppliers. They can stay connected, perform tasks more productively, and keep your customers happy.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

I love the enthusiasm, the boundless energy and the sense of possibility that comes from having an idea that hasn’t yet been beat up in the marketplace of competing ideas, customer contracts, VC skepticism, jaded journalists or fickle consumers who are on the The New, New Thing. But alas I must scale with businesses and make money.

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Operations Metrics Early Stage Non-Compete 150

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

Defective prototype code was as often thrown out (because customers didnt want it) as it was fixed (when customers did). Hence, cutting corners often paid huge dividends. Defective prototype code was as often thrown out (because customers didnt want it) as it was fixed (when customers did).

Software Review 141

Software Review San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 141

View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

Joris Poort , Founder and CEO, Rescale (Software platform and hardware infrastructure to perform scientific and engineering simulations; undisclosed capital raised, per CrunchBase): We spent two and a half years writing custom software to run large-scale simulations on Boeing’s data centers.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

For startups and entrepreneurs, a podcast can be especially attractive due to their low production cost. In order to do this effectively though, you need to make sure your podcast is providing a significant amount of value to the customer — free of charge. Offer a Lot of Value for Free. Invite Interaction.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Ideally, they will help you understand technology ROI, innovation accounting, and also help you understand where you can cut costs and where you need to invest. Some of my most satisfying projects are when we make improvements in, say, developer productivity that also pay a “security dividend”.

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Fractional CTO CTO Hire CTO Technical Review 54

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Accumulating the resources necessary to hire an in-house data and analytics team pays regular dividends as your firm keeps growing. Investing in AI and algorithms that can predict traffic patterns for logistics companies and distributors leads to huge cost savings in both money and time. Workflow System.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

  Note that this applies only to earl stage Series A-type equity financings and assumes no cash dividends are paid to investors.   First , dividends. In some cases, dividends are often paid at the discretion of the board and not required by the terms.   A cumulative dividend compounds annually.

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Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

The API served as an excellent engineering tactic that allowed us to quickly get on more devices, which in turn allows us to create a better overall experience for our customers. However, if your opportunity is truly to support a broader business objective, then launching a public developer program is not likely to yield large dividends.

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API Audience Dividend Programming 135

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

Assuming there are 3 founders and they own an equal amount (33%) then they’ve just taken $4 million each in profits and note that this is at a qualified dividend tax rate (currently 15%) versus an income tax rate (35%). No VC is interested in dividends – they want growth. That’s the right answer for VCs.

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Silicon Valley IP Dividend Finance 332

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2018

You also benefit from easy access, high liquidity, and low transaction costs. It’s all well and good having designer office furniture or a swanky shop-front, but potential clients and customers will be more interested in what you have to offer. Make marketing about your client or customer, not the company. Curb your spending.

Dividend 113

Dividend Government Customer Design 113

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

Most customers today won’t pay you five times the cost of alternatives, just because yours is “green.” That’s a win-win business for the customer and the entrepreneur. Sustainability and social responsibility alone don’t make a viable business. The whole can be greater than the sum of the parts.

Green 262

Green Dividend Angel Investor Global 262

YoungUpstarts

JULY 7, 2017

To put a finer point on it, we have found that when you adhere to the following three demand-based priorities companies can drive growth while saving 20% or more of total costs – costs that are often completely overlooked through traditional cost-savings mechanisms. Does this expense drive customer satisfaction?

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Green Demand Dividend Metrics 133

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

That’s a win-win-win deal, since the ease-of-use attracts more people to the new site, it enhances the Facebook brand, and it simplifies the customer interaction. Here are the other reasons to use this strategy: It reduces common costs and customer learning curves. If they so the same, you both win, along with the customer.

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Non-disclosure Agreement Intellectual Property Non-Compete Startup 120

Up and Running

MARCH 27, 2015

He was tempted to jump right in, choosing a theme and hiring someone to customize. You need visitors to turn into customers. Getting to the first page of Google for your keywords will pay dividends—but only if you choose keywords your clients use. Carl next considered working with a designer directly. Will you use video?

Small Business 60

Small Business Software Review Web Development SEO 60

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Before you start to produce any marketing materials for your direct marketing campaign, you will need to identify who your target customer is. Give your target customers value. By providing offers, bonuses and discounts that your target market is likely to identify with, you can increase customer engagement without spending a fortune.

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Sales Marketing Dividend Campaign 187

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2017

Most customers today won’t pay you five times the cost of alternatives, just because yours is “green.” That’s a win-win business for the customer and the entrepreneur. Sustainability and social responsibility alone don’t make a viable business. The whole can be greater than the sum of the parts.

Green 137

Green Dividend Angel Investor Global 137

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2015

They may come cheaply but will likely cost you dearly when times get tough. Delivery and cost milestones are missed, which derail marketing and rollout plans, de-motivate the supporting organizations, and drive costs into worst-case scenarios. Written product specifications and business plans pay big dividends.

Startup 120

Startup Dividend Cost Metrics 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2016

Even if you are no longer a student, or not enrolled now, it can pay big dividends to get to know people there and explore the possibilities, including the following: Potential to get technical work done as a class project. They have equipment and smart students that would otherwise cost you a fortune through an outside contract.

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Intellectual Property Accredited Investor Entrepreneur Incubator 120