ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Any custom manufactured IoT device would require software development as well as hardware customization. It is going to cost a lot of money just to get the initial batch of products to test the market and would definitely require external funding. Moreover, there is always a possibility of a future merger and consolidation.

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Startup Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Seed Stage 150

Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Using the internally developed software, the Judge Group executes Internet Bots that continuously crawl the internet in search of new potential candidate resumes and new job postings. Once the perfect applicant is selected by the bots, the software sends out a friendly note to the candidate.

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CPA Software Review LLC Technical Review 76

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2013

Bill Gates started producing software solutions, like his Basic Interpreter and MS DOS, but quickly focused on adding thousands of small partners for applications, and major partners like IBM, Intel, and other hardware manufacturers. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came quickly. New management skills. Marty Zwilling.

Merger 243

Merger Acquisition Startup Bandwidth 243

Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

Our goals are to increase quality, by offering patients the best providers across the country, to increase access, by removing transportation barriers and connecting patients with these providers anywhere, and to lower costs, by eliminating the reliance on traditional healthcare infrastructure. Thanks to Stanley Kovak, Mirror Care !

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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. Spend the absolute minimum for what you need (equipment, software, and services) to keep your business running. Every outside hire increases your cost and risk.

Bootstrapping 278

Bootstrapping Startup Merger Salary 278

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. Spend the absolute minimum for what you need (equipment, software, and services) to keep your business running. Every outside hire increases your cost and risk.

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Equity Bootstrapping Startup Merger 241

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2010

Bill Gates started producing software solutions, like his Basic Interpreter and MS DOS, but quickly focused on adding thousands of small partners for applications, and major partners like IBM and other hardware manufacturers. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came early. New management skills. Marty Zwilling.

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Acquisition Merger Startup Bandwidth 214

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Bill Gates started producing software solutions, like his Basic Interpreter and MS DOS, but quickly focused on adding thousands of small partners for applications, and major partners like IBM and other hardware manufacturers. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came early. New management skills.

Entrepreneur 249

Entrepreneur Merger Bandwidth Acquisition 249

Scalable Startup

JULY 20, 2013

In 2008 I was working on a post-merger integration project for a small company being acquired by a Fortune 100 behemoth. We looked at several SaaS based systems for accounting, sales automation, calendaring, product management, scheduling our company airplane, travel, etc. It vastly reduces computer waste.

Mobile 22

Mobile Hawaii Angel Investor Early Stage 22

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. There's not really strong software that does that.

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CPA Technical Review Revenue Forecast 73

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. Spend the absolute minimum for what you need (equipment, software, and services) to keep your business running. Every outside hire increases your cost and risk.

Bootstrapping 176

Bootstrapping Startup Merger Salary 176

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2017

Filing taxes seems straightforward initially: There’s online software to keep founders from misplacing a figure. Take sales tax, for instance. If you sell a product, the state where you’ve established nexus needs to be determined, as does whether sales tax applies to your product there.

Ratchet 113

Ratchet Merger New York Engineer 113

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Bill Gates started producing software solutions, like his Basic Interpreter and MS DOS, but quickly focused on adding thousands of small partners for applications, and major partners like IBM and other hardware manufacturers. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came early. New management skills.

Startup 232

Startup Merger Bandwidth Acquisition 232

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2015

Bill Gates started producing software solutions, like his Basic Interpreter and MS DOS, but quickly focused on adding thousands of small partners for applications, and major partners like IBM, Intel, and other hardware manufacturers. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came quickly. New management skills.

Merger 120

Merger Acquisition Differentiation Channel 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

For example, “We just patented a new battery technology that will cut your smartphone charge time and cost in half.” If possible, quantify these in non-technical business terms, such as dollars saved or replacement costs over time. Include marketing, sales, and customer rollout plans.

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Business Plan Product Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch 423

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. Spend the absolute minimum for what you need (equipment, software, and services) to keep your business running. Every outside hire increases your cost and risk.

Bootstrapping 240

Bootstrapping Merger Salary .Net 240

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. SALES & MARKETING. Business Software. Last spring, Dave Graham , founder of software consulting firm Arizona Bay, learned that a major client, Jumpstart Automotive Media, had been acquired for more than $80 million. Theres a huge opportunity cost in not taking equity," he says.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

How to investment banks help with the M&A (mergers & acquisitions) process? He said that there remains a very healthy market for “data oriented&# software companies because the world is moving more toward measurability and software companies with differentiated IP often get a premium in the market. ITA Software.

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IPO Venture Capital Private Placement Cofounder 242

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles. How iPad Magazine Sales Stack Up [REP. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc. Its Not Just Facebook: MySpace Trans.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

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.

Silicon Valley 260

Silicon Valley Product Startup Product Development 260

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

More and more VCs have deals in their portfolios that have long outlasted their investment value, and more and more VCs are seeking to unload these deals, at a loss, as reverse merger vehicles. How iPad Magazine Sales Stack Up [REP. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc. Its Not Just Facebook: MySpace Trans.

Angel Investor 84

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

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.

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IPO Silicon Valley Warrant Matching 118

Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

The only practical situation that I can think of where a dividend preference is beneficial to a stockholder is where a company does a partial sale of assets and wishes to distribute the proceeds to stockholders. Co-sale rights. Changes in preferred and merger/sale of assets only. Comprehensive protective provisions.

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Finance Software Review Term Sheet Liquidation Preference 70

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.

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Balance Sheet Forecast Equity .Net 148

ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

An effective moat doesn’t require Amazon’s distribution network or Microsoft’s monopolistic software strategy. Sales reps are also likely to be familiar with Salesforce because it’s the most widely used CRM, reducing onboarding costs for companies that use it. Low-cost production. Developing a moat isn’t formulaic.

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Non-Compete United States Networking Acquisition 122

www.copelandfirm.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Home About Fee Arrangements Location Referrals Testimonials Business Law HUB Certification Mergers & Acquisitions Startup Advice Intellectual Property Copyrights Trademarks Securities Law Debt and Bridge Financing Series A Startup Law Entity Formation Corporation LLC Series LLC RSS Founders Shares: How do you split them up?

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Intellectual Property Founder Vesting Bridge Financing 40

Transformify

JANUARY 24, 2021

Even more, the invoices can be directly uploaded into the clients’ ERP or accounting software. What is Self-billing and How to Choose the Right Self-billing Software? How to Choose a Self-billing Software? Is it possible to integrate the self-billing software of choice with the existing ERP, accounting, etc.

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B2B Software Review Database Software 98

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 18, 2009

We had been working on a merger between BuildOnline and a competitor called iScraper. The agreement was that both sets of investors would fund the combined entity, we would reduce overlapped costs and become a healthier company. We committed to cost focus, customer adoption and delivering our numbers. But we did $2.1

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Germany Entrepreneur Merger Los Angeles 298

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

It’s meant to support and grow a business until an “exit” in the form of an IPO, a merger or acquisition, or in less than ideal scenarios, a company shutdown. Morgan credit card business to acquire tons of Square customers at a very low cost.

Lean 108

Lean Venture Capital Conversion IPO 108

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

He has been granted two software patents, and has multiple patents pending. Before joining Track.com as Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Savage served as Managing Director of FX Macro Sales at Goldman Sachs, where he published widely-read and insightful research focused on the foreign exchange markets and the macroeconomic environment.

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Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

Berkonomics

JUNE 4, 2015

Typical examples are software as a service (SaaS) models, or any kind of content-driven subscription model. Especially for a provider of a virtual good or service, costs of goods sold do not scale with sales, as they do in the real world. If you get back customer acquisition costs in one year, you’re doing great.

Revenue 48

Revenue Acquisition Houston Merger 48

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The project was so low cost they did not even want to bother with it. Also if one has a portal that is massive in ideas such as Yahoo, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and YouTube combined like my own without third party back ends it cost a pretty penny to build a custom one if one did not know about clones etc. All what you said is so true.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, I held several executive positions in a publicly-traded software company and was previous to that an investment banker. We hope this competition among listing options can drive down costs and reduce friction in the public offering process, thus encouraging more companies into the public markets.

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SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36