Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2020

Getting investors to trust you with their money is always a challenge, and it’s even more difficult in the early stages, where you don’t have a significant revenue stream, a few customers, or maybe even a product yet. Solution development undefined or incomplete. Lack of intellectual property.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

In 2011, the valuation of pre-revenue, start-up companies is typically in the range of $1.5–$2.5 Such comparisons can only be made for companies at the same stage of development, in this case, for pre-revenue startup ventures. As can be seen the average (mean) pre-money valuation for recent pre-revenue deals is $2.1

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Write your business plan and develop your business model with this in mind so you can avoid these issues. . Financial Summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Name the products/services you will offer as your company earns more money and as your market develops new needs.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Fifty years later another Harvard professor, Clayton Christensen, developed his theory of disruptive innovation, which actually described how creative destruction worked. Companies horde cash and squeeze the most revenue and margin from the money they use. We legalized robbing the corporate treasury.

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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. 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. Key customers.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The students “get out of the building” and test their hypotheses in front of potential beneficiaries using the Customer Development methodology, all while building and updating their Minimal Viable Products. And yet, most of us responsible for trying to develop foreign policy don’t come from that background” of technology and innovation. “We

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The students “get out of the building” and test their hypotheses in front of potential beneficiaries using the Customer Development methodology, all while building and updating their Minimal Viable Products. And yet, most of us responsible for trying to develop foreign policy don’t come from that background” of technology and innovation. “We

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Whether you’re trying to raise money for your business or are developing a plan for strategic growth, a solid business plan is a key component to every successful business. Intellectual Property : Again, this mostly applies to technology and scientific ventures. Distribution. > Keep it short. Key customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

That’s because a company’s value is a composite of all of the quantitative and qualitative factors that comprise a company: revenues, expenses, risks, growth prospects, quality of the management team, competitive advantages, strength of the intellectual property, and so forth. Detail isn’t important; tracking your progress is.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Some potential buyers or strategic partners might want your intellectual property, or revenues, or profitability, geographic advantage, or sale force, or your employee base. Column two is the golden ticket. What would the candidate want from your company in a transaction?” Think carefully. The net result of this exercise.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

For mobile app developers, the impressive figures are enticing. In this aspect, China’s huge market seems ripe for the taking — and which firms are better-placed to do so than homegrown startups, especially app developers looking to conquer the mobile market? Distribution and cashflow pose challenges in China. billion people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2016

Getting investors to trust you with their money is always a challenge, and it’s even more difficult in the early stages, where you don’t have a significant revenue stream, a few customers, or maybe even a product yet. Solution development undefined or incomplete. Lack of intellectual property.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2013

Even in an open space, you need intellectual property, like patents, to keep potential competitors from overrunning you. The selection of an inappropriate pricing, marketing, or distribution strategy is a large potential risk. Think seriously about the number and clout of your competitors. Financial risk. Technology risk.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2017

On the marketing side, I attribute our success to one thing: using data to effectively model out our customer behavior, and then develop the appropriate communication to improve it. That latter term is used to describe an initial offer that generates enough revenue to offset the cost of acquiring a customer. The CEO cut costs.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Summit CPA is now a company with over $5M in annual revenue and our team is fully distributed throughout the United States. It had a big impact on my own personal development as a gardener. That is what we’re all about at KISSPatent, making intellectual property seamless and effortless for our clients to obtain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2012

Even in an open space, you need intellectual property, like patents, to keep potential competitors from overrunning you. The selection of an inappropriate pricing, marketing, or distribution strategy is a large potential risk. Think seriously about the number and clout of your competitors. Financial risk. Technology risk.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

For Dan Hughes, Director of Operations at startup brewery ColdFire Brewing, he and his brother have been hard at work on business development and recipe formulation, navigating bureaucracy, and enduring the inevitable delays that come with brewery construction, equipment delivery, and regulatory approval.

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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. Projected revenues and expenses over the strategic period.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

I think you can blame Customer and Agile Development for a small part of it. Bayh-Dole allowed for private ownership of government funded intellectual property developed in universities while the Orphan Drug Act created incentives for developing drugs for disorders afflicting fewer than 200,000 Americans.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers. Tribe Capital has developed A Quantitative Approach to Product Market Fit. . Lighter Capital, a Revenue Based Investing VC, offers a Cost of Capital Calculator. 3) Raise capital. An example of a tech-enabled VC is Corl.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Even in an open space, you need intellectual property, like patents, to keep potential competitors from overrunning you. The selection of an inappropriate pricing, marketing, or distribution strategy is a large potential risk. Think seriously about the number and clout of your competitors. Financial risk. Technology risk.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Research & Development. Intellectual Property. 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. Internet and Online Business.

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I urge all entrepreneurs to consult and develop a good working relationship with a qualified startup lawyer. Strategic partnership or distribution agreements. Sales contracts accounting for significant revenue. In the case of revenue contracts, they help pay for the related legal work. Employment handbooks and policies.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

They’re constantly hard at work on business development and recipe formulation, navigating bureaucracy, and enduring the inevitable delays that come with brewery construction, equipment delivery, and regulatory approval. “We The Hughes brothers developed a solid business plan and built a core team to bring their vision to reality.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2015

Many ESOPs are as small as 12-15 employees with less than $1 MM in annual revenue. Selling to an ESOP can also eliminate the ongoing tax or S-corporation distribution obligations of the company providing significant ongoing tax savings. Myth: ESOPs are only for large companies. ESOPs generally increase the after-tax proceeds of a sale.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

At first, you need to focus on developing your business model and validating it. Having a well-defined target market is also necessary to develop a sustainable growth strategy. You cannot develop deliverable healthcare products without involving your end-users directly in the process. Get your end-users involved.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And James doesn’t have any money to pay for development. You’ll probably need to contact two dozen serial entrepreneurs with a very well-developed project before you get actionable advice and referrals. In the process of gathering feedback, you’re beginning to develop a network of advisers and supporters.

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Business Plan Blog

JULY 9, 2013

Sustainable competitive advantages are not easily copied and generally stem from one or more of the following: vendor relations, product sourcing advantages, prime location, unique products/services; customer loyalty, customer service reputation, or distribution channel advantages. While all I.P. Dramatic Cost Advantage. Brand Loyalty.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

In the last three posts, we drew the relationship of market risk and invention risk with vertical markets and pointed out verticals where customer development would be useful. In contrast to simply executing your business plan, the Customer Development process is built on low-cost and continuous learning and iterating.

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The Startup Lawyer

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

And while both the startup and the large company will certainly contract with respect to intellectual property asset ownership, an asset that may be overlooked is the ownership of the white-label mobile app’s users. The Distribution Channel. Conclusion. Heard of the term “ starter wife ?&#

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The Startup Lawyer

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

And while both the startup and the large company will certainly contract with respect to intellectual property asset ownership, an asset that may be overlooked is the ownership of the white-label mobile app’s users. The Distribution Channel. Conclusion. Heard of the term “ starter wife ?&#

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

It would make a lot of sense for someone else to just come along and build our hardware and sell our software without paying for 15 people doing development and engineering, but nobody did that. flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. Shocking, I know.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

So here it is: for all the privacy invasions, security risks and and fundamental changes in our personal and domestic domains, this is what these companies* generate in revenue: Google – about $150 a year per person. The truth is the mixed economy model is what has provided the greatest distribution of wealth the world has ever seen.

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