Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Match your office, facilities and computer equipment to the size of the staff you have today, and intend to have in the next six months.

Burn Rate 223

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

You need a stable customer base with an automatically renewing revenue stream, such as the subscription model. Develop a product line and add alternate channels. But for those of you who are a real match for the entrepreneur lifestyle, that’s what makes it fun. Minimize one-time sales in your business model.

Merger 386

Merger Acquisition Software Review Social Media 386

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

He has a background in affiliate marketing and development and is a startup enthusiast in general. If your startup’s goal is to sell a product or service but you’re having a hard time with your revenue model, affiliate marketing might be the perfect match to give you that much-needed boost. What is affiliate marketing?

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Affiliate Revenue Internet Marketing 134

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Without the revenue to match its expenses, the company is in now danger of running out of money.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Managing shopper experience for medium-sized eCommerce businesses presents a lot of opportunities for conversion testing, and the ability to see real and immediate revenue results when tests are successful. This one small change led to an additional 110 orders, bringing in an additional $43,230 in revenue in a 2 week period.

Revenue 124

Revenue Caching Software Review eCommerce 124

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? About 18 months ago, the entire group began to mention that they were having more difficulty finding good developers. Im part of a CTO group that meets once a month to discuss various topics.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 3, 2013

Most every business can take advantage of continuing, recurring revenues from its customer base. Sometimes, products are designed to make all of their profit upon the recurring revenues from supplies or support. We immediately recall the razor and blade analogy to illustrate the point when planning product development and release.

Revenue 79

Revenue Software Review Vertical Valuation 79

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2020

Startup and development stage. The development stage normally begins with designing and prototyping a product or service, and creating the company legal entity. While legally the entrepreneur has created a business entity, there is nothing of value yet to own since the company has no solution to offer, no customers, and no revenue.

Matching 317

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Up and Running

JUNE 1, 2021

It’s even possible for many of them to be revenue-neutral or better. Here’s an explanation of what conditions make an employee benefit revenue-neutral and a look at the five best options for businesses in a post-pandemic hiring environment. What is a revenue-neutral benefit? Professional development opportunities.

Revenue 150

Revenue Employee Small Business Matching 150

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Over the years Dino and I brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. The cloud , open-source development tools and web 2.0 This was valuable to startups in the Valley and has been vital to startups in regions where the ecosystem is less developed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Match your office, facilities and computer equipment to the size of the staff you have today, and intend to have in the next six months.

Burn Rate 262

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Entrepreneur Salary 262

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

And over time every venture capitalist develops their own gut feel for what makes up a great team in their industry. Activities define the unique expertise your company needs to deliver the value proposition, customers, channels, customer relationships and/or revenue. (If I told Radhika this is a perennial question for startups.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Esports revenues as an industry. Despite the massive viewership, Esports as whole is still relatively small when it comes to revenue. In 2020, revenues are expected to reach $1 billion, and grow by 60% in 2023. A few facts about Esports revenue according to Newzoo : Global esports revenues will grow to $1.1

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

But if you level up , raise capital and grow customers, revenue and staff – life changes. This is when your job function truly starts to match the definition of “leader” because that’s exactly what your role is. More developers? The “doers” in your organization. You set direction.

CTO Hire 385

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Great marketing is required to generate revenue and grow every business, especially new businesses which have no brand recognition nor loyal customer base. I have worked with several new business owners who were convinced that no one could match their offering, only to be surprised by how fast competitors appeared.

Marketing 333

Marketing Revenue Matching Viral 333

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

In 2006, I began accepting new web development clients. I brought on three different guys to help, without taking the time to really make sure they were a match. You Must Plan For The Slow Times - It’s easy to fall into a “Boom” or “Bust” trend in the web development industry. Business boomed.

Web Development 71

Web Development Web Developer Matching 71

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Getting it Right Apple’s entry into new markets by creating new product categories – iPods, iPads, iPhones – is unprecedented in the history of the modern corporation – $300 billion (75% of their revenue) is from non-computer hardware.

Search 270

Search Marketing Forecast Burn Rate 270

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2013

The line of reasoning goes, “Services businesses are not scalable and the market won’t reward this revenue so make sure that third-parties do your implementation or clients do it themselves. We only want software revenue.” If you’re an early-stage enterprise startup services revenue is exactly what you need.

Technical Review 403

Technical Review Software Review Startup API 403

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 27, 2021

Iati is the C o-founder and CEO of Duda – a website development platform used by thousands of agencies around the world to build sites for their customers. 9:57] Is there an element of Dudas platform that has some of that extendability similarly to how WordPress is open source and allows people to develop around it? [11:33]

Web 94

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Especially since VC pattern matching may inappropriately label people this way (can’t sell) who are merely nervous or new to their environment. It doesn’t matter what industry, what product, what revenue model, what stage of development. Photo by Jan Koetsier on Pexels.com. And what type of ‘sales’ you’ll mostly be doing.

Technical Cofounder 144

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Startup Matching 144

Board Effect

JUNE 1, 2021

There are two parts to the budget — expenses and revenue. Revenue may not stream in as expected and large, unexpected expenses can creep up. The two primary components of a budget are income and revenue, and many subcategories fall under the umbrella of each. Developing the Nonprofit Budget.

Software Review 98

Software Review Technical Review Revenue Forecast 98

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It partners with sales to close more revenue, informs product teams to deliver better products, and in some cases, co-owns demand generation activities with marketing teams. And then it ensures that all of the organization’s efforts match that true north. Product marketing uncovers where to play and how to win.

Marketing 110

Marketing Product Audience Equity 110

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2014

The revenue model you select is basically the implementation of your business strategy, and the key to attaining your financial objectives. So what are some of the most common revenue models being used by startups today? This is a very costly development, testing, documentation, and support challenge. Razor blade model.

Revenue 287

Revenue Startup Business Model Retention 287

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Match your office, facilities and computer equipment to the size of the staff you have today, and intend to have in the next six months.

Burn Rate 120

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Startup Salary 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

buy out an entire company for its revenue and profits. Corporate business development and strategic partner executives are flocking to Silicon Valley to find these five types of innovation. The founding team is testing for the right combination of product, market, revenue, costs, etc.

Acquisition 333

Acquisition Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Startup 333

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2021

All these models start with the advertiser choosing the right search keywords to match user searches. If you do all these things right by displaying other people’s ads on your website or blog, you will make money from advertising – like Google and Facebook, who offer services for free, and still make millions in revenue.

Search 385

Search Engineer PPC Widget 385

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2023

A better approach is to first understand who these people are, why and how they invest, and then focus on the ones who are the best match for your particular startup stage, location and industry. Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. They have have raised $2-3 million, built a product that has some amount of market traction and got to annualized revenues of around $1 million.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

9-More precise algorithms to match couples. I am the CEO and co-founder of a dating app called So Syncd that is based on matching compatible personality types. This is a future trend I see in the dating app space: The next generation of dating apps will match people based on more than just looks. 16- Rise of citizen developers.

Entrepreneur 149

Entrepreneur United States Software Review Technical Review 149

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

You would think that would be enough to get wrong, but entrepreneurs and investors compound this problem by assuming that all startups grow and scale by executing the Revenue Plan. All discussion focused on “missing the revenue plan.”. Lets Try to Make the World Match Our Spreadsheet. Revenue Plan Needs to Match Market Type.

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Revenue Balance Sheet Hockey Stick Burn Rate 231

Eric Friedman

MAY 9, 2019

In any early stage environment there are typically limited development cycles, budgets, and overall resources to get things done. In this constant struggle, I learned (definitely the hard way) that Revenue = Resources. This was in 2010 and certainly early in the life cycle of network growth and sales.

Revenue 60

Revenue Warrant Early Stage Cofounder 60

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

So when they spoke about character development, repeatable gaming experiences, bringing games to multiple platforms (in the industry we call this “ Transmedia “) and physical products my ears naturally perked up. Again, I think the company would slug me if released revenue data, but … wow. And Seriously.

Technical Review 373

Technical Review North America Los Angeles Cofounder 373

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Present a professional appearance; Show that you are a real company with solutions to help real businesses solve problems, grow revenue, or reduce cost. Understand the basics around how your message resonates and how to identify more customers that match your target personas. High quality messaging is the cornerstone of your website.

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Elevator Pitch Web Portfolio B2B 100

YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

You know, things like experience hitting revenue goals, knowledge about a product or industry and the ability to successfully lead a team of reps come to mind. At Peak Sales Recruiting , we know first-hand that a poor Sales VP hire is expensive — not just in lost revenue and time, but in overall morale and direction, too.

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Sales North America Marketing Hiring 113

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

This division is run separately from the revenue generating part of the business and its remit is to identify developer problems and build solutions to them. Unfortunately, X has no experience in developing this type of technology or any understanding of what other options are available. Why would you outsource innovation?

Matching 152

Matching Cofounder Software Developers Software Development 152

The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

Outsourcing to developing countries with lower living costs, such as India and the Philippines, can drop the cost of an HR function even further. A blunder could result in a lawsuit or a bad hire, resulting in thousands of dollars in penalties or lost revenue. Boosts Productivity. Source: Pexels.

United States 158

United States Salary UAE Hiring 158

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2013

You don’t want to do Customer Development with them. Is it a small business that hits $4 million in revenue in four years and $8 million in ten years? You need to decide what your personal goal is and how it matches what you think this business can grow into. It never goes well. You don’t want to talk to them.

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder Liquidity Event Lean 328