Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

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. Most experts don’t recommend this approach as your default strategy anymore. You can kick-off your next startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2020

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. Most experts don’t recommend this approach as your default strategy anymore. You can kick-off your next startup.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 18, 2024

With her expertise, she’s boosted hundreds of agencies to millions in revenue, attracting premium clients willing to pay 50-600% fees. 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. But that comes at a cost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2016

Products and services for a business need to be attuned to customer requirements, cost and quality tradeoffs, with milestones for pricing and completion. External investors expect a documented business plan, with clear targets on funding needed, use of funds, revenue projections, return potential, and exit strategy.

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Transformify

AUGUST 7, 2022

Lots of entrepreneurs consider subsidiaries overseas to tap into a new talent pool or optimize costs. Starting a new venture is tough in the best of circumstances, it is even tougher when you are involved in remote operations and uncertain environments. It is especially more difficult if you are planning to start a business abroad.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

But you'd certainly share the news that you launched your new website or reached $1M in annual revenues. To document your revenue model. Documenting the revenue model helps to address challenges and assumptions associated with the model. What is the company's exit strategy? Probably not. How will you retain them?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2015

Products and services for a business need to be attuned to customer requirements, cost and quality tradeoffs, with milestones for pricing and completion. External investors expect a documented business plan, with clear targets on funding needed, use of funds, revenue projections, return potential, and exit strategy.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Growth Strategies. Office and Operations. Pricing Strategy. Exit Strategies. Strategy and Planning. Theres a huge opportunity cost in not taking equity," he says. He prefers to work with companies that are building Web-based applications and have relatively low start-up costs. Franchises.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

Next, clarify what say the investor has in the business operations. For example, are they looking for an increase in sales or in net revenue? What's your exit strategy? Do your investors have their own exit strategies? But as in any marriage, things don't always go smoothly.

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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. Most experts don’t recommend this approach as your default strategy anymore. You can kick-off your next startup.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. Sources like Crunchbase , Angel List , and Seed Invest even give this data away for free or very low cost.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

If the idea was reliant on ad revenue for profit, it quickly becomes apparent that there will be no incoming money at all. In addition to cost quotes, also ask for time quotes so you can get a feel for how long the project should take to implement. Research the cost of advertising your product. At this point, everyone loses.

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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. Most experts don’t recommend this approach as your default strategy anymore. You can kick-off your next startup.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The subscription box industry is growing rapidly thanks to a steady revenue model and tapping into people’s love for surprises. Operations. Financial summary : Project your revenue for the first few years. Companies that become a big subset of your revenue are likely strategic alliances, though, which is a later section.

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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

MARCH 13, 2020

Find some credible opportunity statistics that can support your own revenue expectations of between $20 million and $100 million in the fifth year. Demonstrate an understanding of business operation realities. Even if you work harder than everyone else, you probably won’t stay ahead of rising costs and new competitors. >

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2015

Over the years, I have come to operate under a simple framework of three essential questions that can and will help you clarify your value, target the right buyers, and give you an understanding of how to reach those buyers in a meaningful way. See Also How to Develop Your Business Strategy. Who can use our value, and who will buy it?

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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.)

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Financial Summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. The solution: PARE shoulders the cost of renovations for young people who do not have the time, knowledge, or money to do it themselves. Your operations plan. Your funding ask and exit strategy, if applicable.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2018

Your business model must show the potential to increase the revenue with minimal expenditure in the coming months or years. This means being able to increase profits without increasing costs at an equal (or higher) rate. You should forecast the expected cost the investment or loan will cover, and the returns it will generate in future.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. We are also seeing technology evaluation as an increasingly important part of LP operational due diligence. 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

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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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. I didn't like it much.

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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. You’ll have to actually demonstrate that you’re generating revenue and increasing your client base. Total cost that is involved in gaining a paying customer. Expenses that were surpassed by revenue. Create an MVP.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

As I said, I have a very small operation and I’m able to make much more than the average person. 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. Adding Ad Revenue. The money has been really good. I can’t complain.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. Most startups operate close to themargin of failure, and the distraction of having to deal with clientscould be enough to put you over the edge. Theyll only considercompanies that have an exit strategy—meaning companies that couldget bought or go public.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

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. It was an unplanned, but profitable exit strategy for us. Where do I get the money to invest in the markets? The business however is doing very well today.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

I have come to believe during my time as an operator, entrepreneur and investor that the balance of these skills is so important to the long-term health of a business that if balance is not achieved early then the impact later can be profound - sometimes terminal. They are many more examples. The former focussed on biz.

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