Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2021

For example, if you have ever watched the Shark Tank show on TV, they always ask about the cost of customer acquisition. Blindly following someone else’s strategy, or even your own, will not facilitate learning and an ability to pivot along the way. Every startup demands logical changes along the way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2020

It won’t work, it costs time and money, and hurts your credibility when you need them later. Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). They are not trying to make money, but simply to recoup their costs over time.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Ganjapreneur recommends including polls about the increased demand for cannabis legalization. Financial Summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Your funding ask and exit strategy, if applicable. Personnel plan : Costs of employees. Be specific. Financial plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2018

It won’t work, it costs time and money, and hurts your credibility when you need them later. Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). They are not trying to make money, but simply to recoup their costs over time.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 16, 2017

By focusing on the needs of the end-user, the developers of The Embrace—who were also students at Stanford—were able to create a highly demanded and successful business plan. No exit strategy for firing lazy co-founders. Make sure to consider how legal costs and taxes will deduct from the bottom line.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

These businesses were helping people straighten their teeth at a much lower cost and with less pain than traditional alternatives such as braces. If manufacturers can increase productivity , they can produce more without increasing costs, then they are more globally competitive. Photo Credit: Alex Dask. Photo Credit: Hayley Albright.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

In very few specific cases, depending on the nature of the business, the business model might demand a considerable gestation period or extensive research and development. It is going to cost a lot of money just to get the initial batch of products to test the market and would definitely require external funding.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Deciding on your price can feel more like an art than a science, but there are some basic rules that you should follow: Your pricing should cover your costs. There are certainly exceptions to this, but for the most part you should be charging your customers more than it costs you to deliver your product or service. Personnel Plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2013

It won’t work, it costs time and money, and hurts your credibility when you need them later. Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). They are not trying to make money, but simply to recoup their costs over time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

It won’t work, it costs time and money, and hurts your credibility when you need them later. Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). They are not trying to make money, but simply to recoup their costs over time.

Incubator 120

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2012

It won’t work, it costs time and money, and hurts your credibility for when you need them later. Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). They are not trying to make money, but simply to recoup their costs over time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2016

By profit, I simply mean offering a product or service to customers for a price that exceeds the total costs associated with the solution, thus providing some basis for recovering sunk costs and generating a return for stakeholders. Customers typically won’t switch to a new vendor for less than a twenty percent cost advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2016

On the positive side, friends and family probably won’t be as demanding on your financial projections as a professional investor, and they likely will be satisfied with an initial offer of a convertible note (loan with option to convert to equity later), so you don’t have to give away the store before you get started.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2011

It won’t work, it costs time and money, and hurts your credibility for when you need them later. Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). They are not trying to make money, but simply to recoup their costs over time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Many aspiring entrepreneurs jump ship from corporate environments, complaining that they want to be their own boss, only to find that investors are more demanding bosses than the ones they left. Keep your exit strategy options open as you learn. A limited budget makes for a better business plan.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2018

The need becomes obvious as soon as you recognize that you don’t know how much money you need, and when you need it, without laying out projected sales , costs, expenses, and timing of payments. You don’t do an exit strategy section of your business plan if you’re not writing for investors and therefore you aren’t concerned with an exit.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 10, 2011

This article picks up from that point onward, discussing the challenges we ran into once we went into operation mode, the invaluable lessons that only first-hand experience can teach, the exit strategy which was the $250,000 sale of the website, and finally my overall concluding thoughts on the entire experience. This was a huge risk.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 18, 2024

As a former business exit advisor, she crafts exit strategies, adding up to five figures to clients’ net profit monthly so they can focus on growth. My husband lives in a demanding graduate medical program. But that comes at a cost. We want to hear frustration and embarrassment that every entrepreneur goes through.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

In this post, I want to lay out the details involved in how I first realized the opportunity, the formation of the business idea, the search for my supplier, the establishment and growth of the business, problems encountered and lessons learned, as well as the exit strategy that resulted in the $250,000 sale of the business.

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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. Capital has built a free online tool for founders to calculate their cost of capital. 3) Raise capital.

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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2018

Not only will this give you an idea of what people are thinking and searching, it will also give you the opportunity to tweak your product idea as per the demand. The more search volume on your targeted keywords, the greater the demand in the market. Total cost that is involved in gaining a paying customer. Create an MVP.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

I was trading real heavy hours for heavy dollars, and led a very mobile, demanding and by choice, a pressure packed lifestyle. I believe in maxing out tax advantageous vehicles like the 401(k) and Roth IRA, and dollar cost investing over time in no to low load mutual funds, including index funds. Same as above. Again, same as above.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Sources like Crunchbase , Angel List , and Seed Invest even give this data away for free or very low cost. Satisfying LP demands and streamlining the valuation process are primary drivers in those clients’ adoption of Ipreo’s portfolio monitoring and valuation solutions, iLEVEL, iVAL, and Qval. .

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Gust

DECEMBER 23, 2011

There’s no better test of how well your idea works, nor any better way of iterating it to real market demand, than to watch how the checks come in. Similarly, start calling VCs if your customer acquisition costs can only be recaptured over a substantial period of time.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Sloan put in place GM’s management accounting system (borrowed from DuPont) that for the first time allowed the company to: 1) produce an annual operating forecast that compared each division’s forecast (revenue, costs, capital requirements and return on investment) with the company’s financial goals. auto market with 60% of the U.S.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

A lawyer I asked about it said: When the company goes public, the SEC will carefully study all prior issuances of stock by the company and demand that it take immediate action to cure any past violations of securities laws. Theyll only considercompanies that have an exit strategy—meaning companies that couldget bought or go public.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

You can argue that the DNA created by Microsoft's over emphasis on distribution (Steve) and development (Bill), has ultimately cost it $50bn or more in lost revenue, market share and market capitalization. Nor do they understand how to communicate potential exit strategies to investors. They are many more examples.

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