Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2011

Explain in analogies your mother could understand, and quantify the “cost-of-pain” in dollars or time. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. Make sure your marketing budget matches the scope of your plan. Give the “elevator pitch” for your startup.

Elevator Pitch 234

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 234

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Look, if you work in sales, wanna learn how to sell or just peek at the latest sales news. Check out the sales podcast where host will Barron helps sales professionals learn how to find buyers and in big business in effective and ethical ways. That's a higher, that's a much higher risk when you pull in a fixed cost.

CPA 73

CPA Technical Review Revenue Forecast 73

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2010

Explain in analogies your mother could understand, and quantify the “cost-of-pain” in dollars or time. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. Make sure your marketing budget matches the scope of your plan. Give the “elevator pitch” for your startup.

Elevator Pitch 235

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 235

Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

Explain in analogies your mother could understand, and quantify the “cost-of-pain” in dollars or time. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. Make sure your marketing budget matches the scope of your plan. Give the “elevator pitch” for your startup.

Elevator Pitch 146

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 146

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.

IPO 118

IPO Silicon Valley Warrant Matching 118

Up and Running

JULY 22, 2014

Sales forecast. Major corporations use pro forma statements to illustrate projected numbers, like in the case of a merger or acquisition, or to emphasize certain current figures. A typical profit and loss statement should include: your revenue (also called sales), followed by. Cash flow statement. Balance sheet. Personnel plan.

Balance Sheet 148

Balance Sheet Forecast Equity .Net 148

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

Here are the top five, as outlined by Rice in his book, which match my own experience: Management team. The single most important ingredient of success is not the idea, but having a team in place that has impeccable integrity, can iterate the product quickly, pivot the business model as necessary, and keep costs down in the process.

Cram Down 269

Cram Down Angel Investor Intellectual Property Venture Capital 269

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. These transactions, and the profits realized by the sellers, were truly “unlocked” by eBay’s matching and auction services. annual GMV.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And, as the industrial revolution showed us, there are some real costs to scale. The implication is that blitzscaling ignores things like “business model innovations that were rooted in a future that the competition didn’t yet understand” in favor of “spending to acquire customers below cost.”. The third is high gross margins.

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2020

People tell me there may be over 8,000 dating sites with scientific matchmaking algorithms worldwide, but I couldn’t find one that focused on scientifically matching companies and people for business-to-business (B2B) relationships. Look for a match in operating style and work ethics. I know it is rarely love at first sight.

B2B 388

B2B Matching Partner Algorithm 388

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

The auction process continues until a sufficient number of orders are “matched” – buyers and sellers are willing to transact at an agreed-upon price and volume to open the stock. Second, by better matching supply and demand, direct listings have generally mitigated the magnitude of IPO Pops, thus engendering better overall price discovery.

SEC 36

SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36