Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Explain in terms your mother could understand, and quantify the “cost-of-pain” in dollars or time. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Rest assured that potential investors will ask for names, and place some calls.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Explain in terms your mother could understand, and quantify the “cost-of-pain” in dollars or time. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Rest assured that potential investors will ask for names, and place some calls.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

The business model has to clearly define who is your customer, market penetration expected, how much customers pay versus total costs and the investment required to sustain cash flow. Name the three top ones, and present your sustainable advantage as well as barriers to entry for new startups.

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Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Explain in terms your mother could understand, and quantify the “cost-of-pain” in dollars or time. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Rest assured that potential investors will ask for names, and place some calls.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Explain in terms your mother could understand, and quantify the “cost-of-pain” in dollars or time. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Rest assured that potential investors will ask for names, and place some calls.

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Up and Running

JULY 15, 2016

Despite the fact that production costs for certain products are now cheaper in some Southeast Asian countries, China remains the factory of the world. Moreover, a proposed amendment to the law covering domain name management mandates that the domains of websites hosted in China be registered with a Chinese registrar. and the E.U.—and

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Naming a Business. Pricing Strategy. Exit Strategies. Strategy and Planning. SALES & MARKETING. Theres a huge opportunity cost in not taking equity," he says. Kyle retained the right to name the third board member. Todays Small Business News | Daily.

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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. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. is an AI bot which helps companies refine their sales pitch to VCs. Pitchbot.vc 3) Originate investments.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

Related Tools "At Will" Policy Employment Application Required and Recommended Posters and Handouts Suggested Links Twitters Capital City is New York, Report Finds JetBlues Terminal Five: Overrated The High Cost of Cyber Attacks Employees are valuable. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 List The 2010 Top Lists Inc. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

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. Investors know that the fun of a startup turns into managing production processes, sales processes, and personnel in a few years.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Naming a Business. Pricing Strategy. Exit Strategies. Strategy and Planning. SALES & MARKETING. That cost him accounting fees, legal fees, and time because the financing round couldnt close until the arrangements were formalized. Email address: Home. Newsletters.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Marketing and Sales Plan. What marketing and sales tactics will you be using? At the top of the page, right under your business name, include a one-sentence overview of your business that sums up the essence of what you are doing. Marketing and Sales Plan. Who are you selling to? Read more ». Read more ».

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 4, 2009

Startup companies consume resources intelligently, put people to work in efficient ways, and produce market driven products at lower costs. The application fee is $50, which only partially offsets costs associated with processing applications. June 2nd, 2009: Name your future business. Exit Strategies.

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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. Investors know that the fun of a startup turns into managing production processes, sales processes, and personnel in a few years.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Marketing and sales plan. The target market section of your subscription box business plan identifies which subset of people you will focus your marketing and sales plan on. Creating a buyer persona puts you in the customer’s shoes to guide marketing and sales decisions. Your problem and solution. Operations. Company overview.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Top management was trying to coordinate all of the operating details (sales, manufacturing, distribution and marketing,) across all the divisions and the company almost went bankrupt that year when poor planning led to excess inventory (with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash.) What happened to him?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Small markets tend to change more rapidly with the economy, and may be more easily influenced by fads and competitors with recognized brand names. Customers buy solutions with value that's quantifiable to them today, meaning value which, compared to existing offerings, is half the cost or offers twice the productivity.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Your executive summary will include the following sections: Who you are: Your business name, location, and contact information. . Financial Summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Tailor your marketing and sales plan to attract more people like your ideal customer.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 5, 2018

It’s a user-friendly and affordable app that businesses can utilize to help increase efficiency while reducing overall costs involved. I then spun out this software solution and named it EMERGE App. How did you come up with your business name? For example, landed costs are a pain for importers. Tell us your story.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2018

You don’t do anything that doesn’t have a business purpose, so you don’t describe your management team (to name one example) unless you need that section for outsiders. 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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Up and Running

MAY 14, 2015

Business plans go by many names: Strategic plans, operational plans, internal plans, and many others. Your company’s sales forecast, spending budget, and cash flow. Build from your working sales forecast and expense budget to complete financial projections. Lately, I’ve been focusing on lean business plans.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2020

My struggles lead to all kinds of problems including getting cited by OSHA and TCEQ, skyrocketing insurance costs & lost business opportunities. Namely, to have the certainty every day that I am not being controlled by others and that I have a business that I can identify in and grow with. 5- Give dreamers a fighting chance.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. Many VC funds rely on general-purpose CRM and sales funnel solutions like Copper , Pipedrive, Salesforce , Streak , and ZenDesk. Capital has built a free online tool for founders to calculate their cost of capital.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

One of those ventures was the creation, establishment, growth and sale of an e-commerce business. In America, the cost of doing business is very high. In addition, the malls and department stores that we buy from have large fixed costs and an overhead structure that they have to pass on to us – the consumers.

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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.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

All of you people who haven’t seen my blog, please remember my name or that website address. 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. The biggest deal I’ve ever done was a sale of a $100,000 website. He’s German.

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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: James Parsons.

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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2018

An MVP or a minimum viable product is a scaled-down, cheaper (cost-wise) version of your full product. Say their name, age, gender, location, occupation, income level, interests, and so on. Total cost that is involved in gaining a paying customer. This includes the commissions, advertising costs, trial periods, and so on.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

With angels were now talking about venture fundingproper, so its time to introduce the concept of exit strategy.Younger would-be founders are often surprised that investors expectthem either to sell the company or go public. Theyll only considercompanies that have an exit strategy—meaning companies that couldget bought or go public.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 20, 2011

I recently helped a friend broker the sale of his small, bootstrapped company. This is a smart guy with experience and a logical approach to such things, but the way he was initially trying to value his company was not only wrong, but the wrong way to think about the entire sale. To stoke an existing sales channel.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

For now, Sunil answers the question of why leave a well paying corporate job to become an online entrepreneur… My name is Sunil and the title of this blog post refers to me. Not to mention the quarter million dollar sale of the business as our exit. It was an unplanned, but profitable exit strategy for us.

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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. No startup will ever succeed without a persuasive and visionary sales leader. They are many more examples.

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