Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2014

The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” patents can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors or M&A exits (merger and acquisition). This hit RIM (Research In Motion) a few years ago, and cost them $650M to recover. Applying for a patent is a negotiation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Even still, in the context of all three points, I recommend that you evaluate the most common exit alternatives and considerations, and integrate the right one into your startup strategy and plan: M&A - merger or acquisition by another company. Most experts don’t recommend this approach as your default strategy anymore.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Customers today demand products and services personalized or tailored to local needs with embedded quality of life services. The cost of entrepreneur entry is at an all-time low.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Customers today demand products and services personalized or tailored to local needs with embedded quality of life services. The cost of entrepreneur entry is at an all-time low.

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Offshore Merger Technical Review Distribution 139

Gust

OCTOBER 19, 2014

The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” patents can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors or M&A exits (merger and acquisition). This hit RIM (Research In Motion) a few years ago, and cost them $650M to recover. Applying for a patent is a negotiation.

Software Review 173

Software Review Software Technical Review Intellectual Property 173

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Toronto’s Mark Attanasio has spent some 20 years advising businesses at various stages in their development on what it takes to position themselves for growth – whether it’s through traditional transactional activities like management buyouts and mergers and acquisitions or via a public listing on a Canadian stock exchange.

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Partner Technical Review Management Due Diligence 113

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2016

This required high operational costs like round the clock staff, abundant paper supplies and couriers. A 2012 study done by IBISWorld revealed that VDRs experienced a steady growth of about 17 percent annually as a result of technological advancements as well as the growth of global demand for these storage services. Benefits of VDRs.

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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. Every startup demands logical changes along the way. Equity investors realize that they won’t see any real return until an exit occurs, such as a sale, merger, or IPO.

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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. Bridge or exit stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2016

Even still, in the context of all three points, I recommend that you evaluate the most common exit alternatives and considerations, and integrate the right one into your startup strategy and plan: M&A - merger or acquisition by another company. Most experts don’t recommend this approach as your default strategy anymore.

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Equity Exit Strategy Private Equity Startup 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Customers today demand products and services personalized or tailored to local needs with embedded quality of life services. The cost of entrepreneur entry is at an all-time low.

Offshore 120

Offshore Startup Merger Technical Review 120

Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

By focusing on reducing human touches and automating the sales and recruitment process, Angelichio and the Judge Group are able to minimize the cost associated with hiring additional internal staff while meeting their market demand in record time! So what does a blooming staffing company need to do in order to implement automation?

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CPA Software Review LLC Technical Review 76

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2018

Crowdfunding may look easy, via popular sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, but their cost in time, effort, and money by entrepreneurs is daunting. Professional investors like to keep tight control of capitalization tables and all stock owners, to facilitate their own payoff when a sale, merger, or public stock offering is held.

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Equity Due Diligence Angel Groups Liquidity Event 180

Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

Our goals are to increase quality, by offering patients the best providers across the country, to increase access, by removing transportation barriers and connecting patients with these providers anywhere, and to lower costs, by eliminating the reliance on traditional healthcare infrastructure. Thanks to Stanley Kovak, Mirror Care !

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2016

It’s touted as being able to reduce costs, scale with your enterprise and store all of your data. Smooth Mergers. CIOs have noticed, however, that with cloud computing, mergers are much faster. The reason the cloud is so favorable is because of its on-demand services. By now, you’ve no doubt heard of cloud computing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

At this stage, your startup better be selling a commercial offering, have price and cost validated, with significant customer sales and a real revenue stream. At this stage, you need investment bankers to negotiate a merger or acquisition (M&A), go private, or help you go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Growth stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2012

The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” patents can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors, or for M&A exits (merger and acquisition). This happened to RIM (Research In Motion) , and cost them nearly $650M to recover. Applying for a patent is a negotiation.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Second, by better matching supply and demand, direct listings have generally mitigated the magnitude of IPO Pops, thus engendering better overall price discovery. Most IPOs have lockups that prevent additional secondary shares coming into the market, sometimes for as long as 6-months. Time Period IPO Pop* 1980-1989 6.1% 1990-1998 13.3%

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2017

It’s almost impossible for a business owner to keep up with all the international and multistate tax regulations, mergers and acquisitions issues, and equity compensation happenings. A misstep in any one of these areas can cost you tens of thousands of dollars, so bring in someone who knows his stuff.

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Ratchet Merger New York Engineer 113

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2010

At this stage, your startup better be selling a commercial offering, have price and cost validated, with significant customer sales and a real revenue stream. At this stage, you need investment bankers to negotiate a merger or acquisition (M&A), go private, or help you go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Growth stage.

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Investment Bankers Venture Capital Startup Initial Public Offering 231

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2011

The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” every patent can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors, or for M&A exits (merger and acquisition). This happened to RIM (Research In Motion) , and cost them nearly $650M to recover.

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Software Intellectual Property Algorithm Valuation 228

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

Gust

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

At this stage, your startup better be selling a commercial offering, have price and cost validated, with significant customer sales and a real revenue stream. At this stage, you need investment bankers to negotiate a merger or acquisition (M&A), go private, or help you go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Growth stage.

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Venture Capital Investment Bankers Angel Investor Initial Public Offering 171

abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

But in light of where we are in 2020, especially with regard to the degrading efficiency and sky-rocketing cost of capital through the structurally broken IPO process, SPACs may emerge as a legitimate third option for helping Silicon Valley companies efficiently and cost-effectively transition into the public markets.

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IPO Silicon Valley Warrant Matching 118

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

The realization of my idea started on an international trip when I was working as a consultant in mergers and acquisitions. In America, the cost of doing business is very high. Essentially by cutting as much of the supply chain as possible, and lowering the cost of doing business (i.e. by operating online).

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SEO PPC America Design 86

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

Right out of Graduate School, I started my career with one of the big four accounting firms in their M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions) practice. I was trading real heavy hours for heavy dollars, and led a very mobile, demanding and by choice, a pressure packed lifestyle. Where do I get the money to invest in the markets?

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Internet Technical Review Stock Due Diligence 80

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

But the bubble mantra of get “big fast” and “first mover advantage” demanded tens of millions more to create a “brand.” Tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups. Startups still required millions of dollars of funding. Wide Adoption. Facebook, Android/Apple App store.)

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Because they offer competitive investment terms and don’t usually demand a board seat, super angels have become major power players in the startup scene. Apple Declared "Marketer of the Decade" This iPhone 4 Costs $8 Million Next Apple Event Goes "Back to the Mac" View More » Mobile Starbucks Stores in New York Now Acce.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Because they offer competitive investment terms and don’t usually demand a board seat, super angels have become major power players in the startup scene. Apple Declared "Marketer of the Decade" This iPhone 4 Costs $8 Million Next Apple Event Goes "Back to the Mac" View More » Mobile Starbucks Stores in New York Now Acce.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 10, 2011

But when you are running a website with over 1,000 different products that change frequently (in size, quantity, branding, name, description, etc), as well as one that demands consistent improvement in process and technology, it is almost impossible to provide an ideal user experience without full time help by your side. This was a huge risk.

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Technical Review PPC Due Diligence Exit Strategy 71

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Not enough people understand the emotional cost of being a start-up founder. We need our team members to have sustainable work / life balance or risk losing them to another less demanding industry all together. Reply YA , on June 29, 2009 at 2:00 am Said: It seems to me that American families are (used to be) very demanding.

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Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS 282

Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

A legal opinion for a newly-incorporated early stage company probably doesn’t add much to the due diligence process and is probably unnecessary compared to the incremental cost to prepare. The only way that the Series Seed documents will be widely used is if investors demand use of the documents. Investor pressure.

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Finance Software Review Term Sheet Liquidation Preference 70

Transformify

AUGUST 1, 2022

This can bring down operational or production costs permitting the companies to improve their profit margins. More affordable materials, a skilled workforce, and an abundance of talent pave the way for keeping manufacturing costs down and yet maintaining the quality of products. Easier response to demand.

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Global Merger Technical Review Singapore 52

Diego Basch

JUNE 21, 2012

Something they might be able to do in-house, except their most talented engineers are desperately working on ways to extract more money out of ads, or to reduce the costs of their gargantuan infrastructure. Shareholders demand it! So Frank Merger from GooBook starts talking to ZombiePlatypus. The quarterly report must look good.

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Silicon Valley Las Vegas San Francisco Vesting 78

ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

Sales reps are also likely to be familiar with Salesforce because it’s the most widely used CRM, reducing onboarding costs for companies that use it. There are five types of moats: Low-cost production; High switching costs; Network effects; Intangible assets; Efficient scale. Low-cost production. High switching costs.

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Non-Compete United States Networking Acquisition 122

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Combined with product costs, an engineering budget, and schedules, this results in a spreadsheet that faintly resembles the first financial plan in the company’s business plan. With that information in hand, Engineering estimates delivery dates and development costs. Marketing is at its peak. Ortho kills.

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Silicon Valley Product Startup Product Development 263

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

This is really my new go-to CRM, ESP, marketing automation, really low cost. But I’m not sure that the consumer awareness and consumer demand is really there from a chat bot perspective. John: If you own a local business and are trying to attract local clients you must listen to this interview David Mihm, check it out.

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