Up and Running

JULY 22, 2014

It’s a table that lists all of your revenue streams and all of your expenses—typically for a three-month period—and lists at the very bottom the total amount of net profit or loss. A typical profit and loss statement should include: your revenue (also called sales), followed by. how you make money. ” Cash flow statement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2022

In addition, you need to focus on the unique value you bring, and maintaining the gap between what customers are willing to pay versus your best cost. Smart companies use acquisitions to enhance momentum and accelerate revenue growth. In many cases, the return is not worth the cost.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

billion revenue in 2021 for Epic Games and was played by 83.3 billion merger with IronSource , an Israeli scale-up specialising in mobile gaming monetisation might also position them as a big player in crypto gaming – offering developers the ability to integrate a simplified crypto wallet into their games in the near future.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2016

Even still, in the context of all three points, I recommend that you evaluate the most common exit alternatives and considerations, and integrate the right one into your startup strategy and plan: M&A - merger or acquisition by another company. Most experts don’t recommend this approach as your default strategy anymore.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

So a lot of times we'll help, 'em understand they wanna buy controllership work, which is just the, you know, the full on financial cash movement of all of their revenue through all of their systems. They do get more complicated as you get larger, but really, uh, revenue recognition is a phrase. A lot of them are trying to maintain.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

By focusing on reducing human touches and automating the sales and recruitment process, Angelichio and the Judge Group are able to minimize the cost associated with hiring additional internal staff while meeting their market demand in record time! The truth is economies change, revenues change, and sometimes things just happen.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 17, 2023

Furlenco is a Bengaluru-based furniture and appliance rental service that operates in more than a dozen cities across India. In the financial year ending in March this year, the startup generated a revenue of $18.5 The platform has raised over $225 million through equity and debt financing to date.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 21, 2019

Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affects the way businesses operate. Corporate mergers, advanced technologies, and robots will inevitably shake up the economic landscape. 10- More due to the low start-up costs. 3- More who will take up as a valuable resource.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. Every outside hire increases your cost and risk. As soon as you bring in investors, they force you to plan for an exit (merger or sale) in three to five years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2013

Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. Every outside hire increases your cost and risk. As soon as you bring in investors, they force you to plan for an exit (merger or sale) in three to five years.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 18, 2015

Obviously it is already established, operating on a model that is at least somewhat successful, and provides a proven service to a dependable customer base. Many business owners forego the advice of an expert accountant because they have financial/accounting experience or are cutting costs by taking responsibility into their own hands.

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Gust

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. Every outside hire increases your cost and risk. As soon as you bring in investors, they force you to plan for an exit (merger or sale) in three to five years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. Every outside hire increases your cost and risk. As soon as you bring in investors, they force you to plan for an exit (merger or sale) in three to five years.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2017

And as the Internal Revenue Service continues to wage war against fraud and identity theft, filing clean, complete returns is key — especially as your business scales. This process gets repeated when identifying “income tax” regulations in the various states where a startup operates. Startup taxes, believe it or not, are the same way.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Expanding your marketing, administration, and operations can present some serious challenges, however, if you prepare well in advance, then you will have no problem navigating the competitive business climate. Using licensees is an excellent way to boost your revenue without the need to hire and external sales force.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. There was no repeatable methodology, startups and their VC’s still operated like startups were simply a smaller version of a large company. 1970 – 1995: The Golden Age.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Office and Operations. But with the help of Grahams company, which specializes in creating tech systems for start-ups, Jumpstart grew to more than $50 million in revenue--enough to make it an attractive acquisition for media conglomerate Hachette Filipacchi. Theres a huge opportunity cost in not taking equity," he says.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 11, 2021

For this type, you can expect an overhaul or a big makeover in terms of looks and operations. Total rebrands typically happen in the event of mergers or even new leaders. Doing so can allow you to retain customers and even drive revenue growth by 33%. Total rebrand. Why rebrand? Final tips.

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David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2015

It’s misleadingly precise to have two digits to the right of the decimal in a CAC/LTV multiple for year 3 of your forecast (“Customer Acquisition Cost”/”LifeTime Value of Customer”). A more mature organization may project future revenues based on their actual sales pipeline, with a probability adjusted percentage based on stage.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2018

Then value the acquisition in the context of your business, giving consideration to the likely cost savings and potential revenue lift that can result from combined capabilities. Growth scenarios or turnarounds and fixes often require an infusion of cash beyond the cost of the acquisition.

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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. This was a huge risk.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The new generation of public SaaS companies is also growing faster, reaching a $100 million revenue run rate in five to seven years today versus 10 to 15 years a decade ago. Companies above that revenue threshold and with high growth rate have made our ‘Champions League’ (see full presentation). 2009, CapitalQ, Yahoo!

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

They are looking for solutions that will reduce their costs by 20%, or double productivity, or cut traffic accidents by a third. Investors look for a team with business, financial, marketing, and operational skills, as well as a social passion. Shows positive value for both the customer and the business.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And, as the industrial revolution showed us, there are some real costs to scale. Google realized that being the way to find the world’s information was a blitzscalable market, thanks to the network effects in its AdWords revenue engine. The second is a lack of operational scalability.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

Right out of Graduate School, I started my career with one of the big four accounting firms in their M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions) practice. 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. Same as above.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

We will invest pre-revenue and even pre-product if we have discovered the right team in the right kind of market. You had a very interesting perspective on the AOL/Time Warner merger. Both AOL and Time Warner had existing VC operations. When the companies merged, those operations also merged. Can you talk about it?

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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. In November of this year, the company announced that it had achieved “substantially” more than $1B in revenue in the third quarter.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Yet we used the product development model not only to manage product development, but as a road map for finding customers and to time our marketing launch and sales revenue plan. With that information in hand, Engineering estimates delivery dates and development costs. We had no clue what our market was when we first started.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. I’m taking a 52 week course in how to start up, run, operate, and achieve self employment.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). This is an awesome trend and will further lower the cost of startup development. People feared they were going to have a monopoly over the Internet due to “bunding&# Internet Explorer with their operating system.

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Small Business Force

AUGUST 22, 2009

Have you been approached by a prospective buyer or merger partner? Do expectations far exceed those multiple of revenues or valuations? Your company's recent operating history as well as market conditions, both overall and in your particular industry, will drive both value and the timing of the sale. Why consider selling?

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Small Business Force

AUGUST 22, 2009

Have you been approached by a prospective buyer or merger partner? Do expectations far exceed those multiple of revenues or valuations? Your company's recent operating history as well as market conditions, both overall and in your specific industry, will drive both value and the timing of the sale. Why consider selling?

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