Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

Every customer understands that your solution has to generate more revenue than cost, but you should not put that data in a customer pitch. How you intend to beat specific competitors (business model, intellectual property) is a key investor decision criteria. Competitor positioning and sustainable competitive advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Explain in terms your mother could understand, and quantify the “cost-of-pain” in dollars or time. Do describe your intellectual property and “secret sauce”.

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Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Explain in terms your mother could understand, and quantify the “cost-of-pain” in dollars or time. Do describe your intellectual property and “secret sauce”.

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Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Explain in terms your mother could understand, and quantify the “cost-of-pain” in dollars or time. Do describe your intellectual property and “secret sauce”.

Business Plan 186

Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Milestones and Metrics. Your business plan isn’t complete without a financial forecast. Intellectual Property : Again, this mostly applies to technology and scientific ventures. You can look at your costs and then mark up your offering from there. Milestones and Metrics. Read more ». Read more ».

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Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

ConversionXL

AUGUST 27, 2015

According to an article on Duke University’s website , “A stationarized series is relatively easy to predict: you simply predict that its statistical properties will be the same in the future as they have been in the past!”. He continues: “You can be costing your company millions and think that everything is better by relying on pre/post.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

As an investor myself, I look for a balanced story focused on the major elements that drive profitability, including the following: A 5-year financial forecast achieving a positive cash flow early. They are looking for solutions that will reduce their costs by 20%, or double productivity, or cut traffic accidents by a third.

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Intellectual Property Initial Public Offering Merger Acquisition 48

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

With the total cost of each box in hand, calculate a price with at least a 40 percent profit margin, as suggested by CrateJoy. For example, the men’s hair product box might cost $39.95 per month, but if you commit to subscribing for a year, its monthly cost will drop to $36.95. Startup costs. Key metrics.

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Business Plan Curation Balance Sheet Intellectual Property 63

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. The projections include sales, costs, expenses, and cash flow. Marketing and sales.

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Business Plan Technical Review Lean Forecast 119

Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

  In a bottom up approach, the forecast is built from actual user projections.   It is very expensive if you’re the entrepreneur since it doubles the cost to the company of paying dividends to the entrepreneur.   For the sake of this discussion it’s the method rather than the specific metric that is important. [2]

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Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Set a specific time each month to review it , comparing forecasts to actuals and revising as necessary. Financial Summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. They often do not want to renovate a property themselves and would prefer to quickly move into a flipped home.

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El Paso Business Plan Technical Review Forecast 61

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

And frankly, we we're, we're far enough down the learning curve here that I know we're putting sort of a lot of intellectual property out in the world through publishing this book and, you know, anybody that can have it and therefore, you know, do you, do you need to call us or not? And we wanna see the world do better.

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Generative AI Arizona 63

Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

This would be the architect, business lawyer, intellectual property attorney, banker, insurance broker, real estate agent, label maker, hop grower, malt supplier, tank fabricator, and accountant.”. Cash must be available to cover costs and offset delays. Estimate brewery startup costs. Metrics: Know your numbers.

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