Up and Running

MAY 12, 2020

Can I afford the cost of any adjustments that need to be made? Identify any technology needs you may have (and whether or not you’re equipped to meet them) such as: High-speed internet with a reliable connection. Conduct market research. Think about an exit strategy. Is there a space I can make “my own” in my home?

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Software Review Exit Strategy Technical Review Business Plan 153

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Legal cannabis generated $16 billion in total economic output in the United States in 2017, and research indicates it will increase 150 percent by 2021, according to a report from cannabis industry analysts Arcview Market Research , in partnership with BDS Analytics. Target market: Who is your ideal buyer? Target market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2016

Yet one of the first things a potential equity investor asks about is your exit strategy. Here are three important reasons for the question: Good investment paybacks normally require an exit event. Here are three important reasons for the question: Good investment paybacks normally require an exit event.

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Equity Exit Strategy Private Equity Startup 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

Within the venture community, the first rule to remember is that opportunities abound these days, due to the increasing pace of technology evolution, and the scope and creativity of the global community. This requires a visible focus on the company’s revenue model, the costs to get there, and cash on hand. Exit strategy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Investors showed an increased appetite for new stocks, with 18 percent of deals pricing above the marketed share price range. Cost of entry for a startup is at an all-time low. The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2018

If you’ve never written a business plan before, Bplans also offers a library of sample medical business plans that you can review or even download to use as a model. Target market: Who is your ideal patient? Financial summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Target market.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 2, 2013

I’ve raised close to $1 million from angel investors for my previous technology start-ups. Your Target Market : Don’t say that everyone in the world is potentially your market, even it it could be true one day. How much will it cost? How will you reach your customers? How will you measure success?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

are eliminated during due diligence. It should answer every question an investor or associate might ask, including current valuation, funding needed, and exit strategy. In most cases, a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is adequate, with projection formulas for revenue, costs, and cash flow over the next five years.

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Intellectual Property Angel Investor Technical Review Elevator Pitch 249

Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

You can’t underestimate the importance of selecting an attorney who “gets” your business model, your market opportunity, and most importantly, your fundraising and exit strategy. After a couple of due diligence meetings with the investor and our attorneys, he gave us the check. We were on a roll.

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Technical Review Angel Investor Due Diligence Dilution 118

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Twitter was one of the most notable, with a market capitalization now up to $38 billion all by itself. Cost of entry for a startup is at an all-time low. The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous.

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IPO Entrepreneur Social Media Startup 273

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Too many entrepreneurs look for that one magic bullet -- an exciting new technology, perhaps, or their own determination to make the world a better place -- to override any shortcomings in their startup model. A large and growing market opportunity. A focus on a specific market segment. A focus on a specific market segment.

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Exit Strategy Technical Review Distribution Viral 120

Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2018

Your marketing plan. In all cases, the most important element of business planning is the review schedule —set specific times to review your progress toward your goals. Specifically, it’s the time to review your progress on milestones and to compare your actuals against your financial projections. A company overview.

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Business Plan Technical Review Lean Forecast 119

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

are eliminated during due diligence. It should answer every question an investor or associate might ask, including current valuation, funding needed, and exit strategy. In most cases, a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is adequate, with projection formulas for revenue, costs, and cash flow over the next five years.

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Angel Investor Intellectual Property Technical Review Elevator Pitch 224

Up and Running

MAY 15, 2018

Funding is crucial for improving technology, hiring the right people, and launching a comprehensive marketing strategy to get a foothold in the market. This means being able to increase profits without increasing costs at an equal (or higher) rate. Your business idea itself needs to be scalable.

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SBA Angel Investor Technical Review Startup 84

Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

I have pitched to hundreds of angel investors over the years as a result of co-founding two tech companies and raising just shy of $1M in angel capital. My favorite part of pitching to them was the due diligence process. What follows next are projections and marketing plans—every start-up has them of course.

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Angel Investor Technical Review Due Diligence Startup 161

Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Set a specific time each month to review it , comparing forecasts to actuals and revising as necessary. PARE specializes in fixing and flipping residential properties by buying homes in need of repair, renovating them, and then putting them back on the market. Target market: Who is your ideal buyer? Target market.

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El Paso Business Plan Technical Review Forecast 61

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Cost of entry for a startup is at an all-time low. The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products. Two of these, Uber and Xiaomi, are already above $40 billion.

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IPO Angel Investor Startup Incubator 120

www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Home ▶ Businesses ▶ Startup Business Advice ▶ Current Page How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea. This article should also serve as a starting guide for programmers who are approached about becoming technical co-founders. Business Articles. Accounting. Copywriting Tips. General Business.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

As the former co-founder and CEO of two technology companies, Caroline has experienced both start-up failures and successes, and has raised close to $1 million in investment capital. Make sure you’ve done the due diligence on all of these areas of your business. Pretend that you are the investor.

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Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 60

Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2015

The truth is that as a small business, you are probably only really proficient in one or two areas, be that technology, manufacturing, retail, or something else. Expanding your business into a new market will be difficult if you lack the expertise in a secondary area. Due diligence is required in any area of life.

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Exit Strategy Due Diligence 60

Up and Running

AUGUST 16, 2017

Lots of ideas seem great until you figure out that the market doesn’t actually want your product. Avoid wasting time on a bad business plan by gauging the market sentiment toward your project before investing a significant amount of time and effort. No exit strategy for firing lazy co-founders.

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Business Plan Hockey Stick Cofounder Salary 127

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

You’ve reviewed what a business plan is , and why you need one to start and grow your business. The company overview provides a quick review of the company’s legal structure and location, as well as some background on the company’s history if you’re writing the plan for an existing business. Target Market. Target market.

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Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

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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Technical Review PPC Due Diligence Exit Strategy 71

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 20, 2011

This article assumes we’re talking about a volatile industry like software or emerging markets where almost nothing is “well-known&# and company trajectories are all over the map.). To control a market. but this is flat wrong , as the failure of the Rules of Multiples demonstrates. Control equals money.

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Sales Channel Cofounder Valuation 260

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Target market (intended customers). Marketing and sales plan. Target market : What groups of people will want your box? Opportunity: Proving there’s a market for your subscription box. Target market. If you’re writing a Lean Plan, keep it shorter and think about making it easy to revisit and revise often.

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Business Plan Curation Balance Sheet Intellectual Property 63

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. When I moved back to Australia I identified a gap in the market as these clear aligner businesses were not mainstream here. Thanks to Daniel Phung, Full Books Marketing ! #21-

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Entrepreneur Software Review LLC Web Development 147

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 18, 2024

Gain Freedom With The Hands Off CEO Blueprint written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Mandi Ellefson. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! This is John Jantsch.

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Framework Sales Cycle Sales Hiring 64

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

Stock Market In my Junior year in college, I started day trading and grew a $2,000 pot to over $40,000 thanks to a big one-hit wonder. Outside of that terrible experience when money was most scarce for me, I haven’t gambled much in the market. Where do I get the money to invest in the markets? I am not a guru in stock trading.

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Internet Technical Review Stock Due Diligence 95

Up and Running

JULY 15, 2016

Despite the recent economic downturn, the market potential is enormous, the entrepreneurial spirit in China is high, and the country is inevitably going to increase its global influence thanks to its economic vitality. and for European companies—China has already become the second most important export market after the U.S.

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China Entrepreneur Technical Review Framework 60

Up and Running

MAY 14, 2015

A lean business plan includes four essential elements, all of them functions of general business management: Set the strategy. Use simple bullet points to define target market, business offering, underlying business identity, and long-term goals. Set tactics to execute strategy. No additional text is needed.

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Business Plan Lean Forecast Balance Sheet 60

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Technology | Thursdays. Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Exit Strategies. Strategy and Planning. SALES & MARKETING. Online Marketing. TECHNOLOGY. Technology. Bringing Innovation to Market. Strategy and Planning >. Start-up | Mondays. Finance | Tuesdays. Innovation | Fridays.

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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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SEO PPC America Design 102

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 25, 2011

In the case of business, I want to ensure that there is a profitable exit strategy. Eventually the Internet came along and the Trading Post no longer commanded the secondhand market like it once did (though it did successfully transition online).

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. Angels whove made money in technology are preferable,for two reasons: they understand your situation, and theyre asource of contacts and advice.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? They are many more examples.

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Technical Review Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 51

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I have a few contractors to do the technical side of my work and a customer support person, but that’s it. I didn’t have a contractor doing technical things for me. The difference here is the entry-level cost to buying web property, not physical property, is much lower than what it is to buy real-world properties.

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Technical Review Software Review Prospectus Audience 90