Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2023

How do you convince investors that your business model will really work, before you have a revenue stream that exceeds your expenses? Of course, that has be a repeatable event, with enough revenue to sustain the business. Plan for a real revenue model. No matter how good your cause, it takes real money to sustain a business.

Business Model 273

Business Model Customer Angel Investor Bootstrapping 273

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Don’t expect them to believe your $100M revenue projection, if you are still waiting for the first revenue dollar. Get a real customer and real revenue. It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Without revenue, your investors are largely limited to friends, family and fools.

Intellectual Property 281

Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Sweat Equity CTO Hire 281

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Every solution needs a business team first who knows how to market, distribute and support the product. Investors want proof of a business model and real customer revenue, as well as a product. Thus you need deep pockets or generous investors before advertising or alternative revenue streams can kick in.

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Technical Review Startup Angel Investor Social Media 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2023

Look for operations that are hogging resources without generating significant revenue. These are chances to broaden your product line, change distribution, offer new services. Look for hidden sources of revenue. Sometimes your best source of new revenue is right under your nose, like services revenue in support of your products.

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Viral Revenue Distribution Campaign 232

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2014

For example, when you think about distribution channels, revenue streams, or the relationship with the customer, ask customers what they expect. Don’t attempt to scale it until you have a proven repeatable business model that predictably generates revenue.

Entrepreneur 283

Entrepreneur Startup Angel Investor Technical Review 283

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2022

Every business needs revenue to provide investor returns and offset costs. Free” is not an attractive revenue model to investors. Popular revenue models today include recurring subscription charges, licensing, as well the traditional sale or lease model. Key partners. No startup or entrepreneur is an island.

Business Model 334

Business Model Intellectual Property Angel Investor Channel 334

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2017

For example, when you think about distribution channels, revenue streams, or the relationship with the customer, ask customers what they expect. Don’t attempt to scale it until you have a proven repeatable business model that predictably generates revenue.

Startup 161

Startup Angel Investor Technical Review Incubator 161

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Look for operations that are hogging resources without generating significant revenue. These are chances to broaden your product line, change distribution, offer new services. Look for hidden sources of revenue. Sometimes your best source of new revenue is right under your nose, like services revenue in support of your products.

Viral 430

Viral Revenue Distribution Cloud 430

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

Don’t expect them to believe your $100M revenue projection, if you are still waiting for the first revenue dollar. Get a real customer and real revenue. It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Without revenue, your investors are largely limited to friends, family and fools.

Intellectual Property 260

Intellectual Property Sweat Equity CTO Hire Fractional CTO 260

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2022

Technically speaking, in the United States, a non-profit corporation or association is one which has been exempted from Federal income taxes by meeting the criteria set out Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, most notably religious, educational, and charitable entities like the Salvation Army. distributed cash aid from $137.9

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Distribution Africa United States Salary 250

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Common failures I see along these lines include: solutions that are "nice to have" but don't address painful problems; a business model that lacks a means for bringing in revenue; and a founder who has turned a blind eye toward his or her competitors. Product distribution or service delivery.

Exit Strategy 120

Exit Strategy Technical Review Distribution Viral 120

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

For example, when you think about distribution channels, revenue streams, or the relationship with the customer, ask customers what they expect. Don’t attempt to scale it until you have a proven repeatable business model that predictably generates revenue.

Startup 296

Startup Angel Investor Technical Review Incubator 296

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2021

How do you convince investors that your business model will really work, before you have a revenue stream that exceeds your expenses? Of course, that has be a repeatable event, with enough revenue to sustain the business. Plan for a real revenue model. No matter how good your cause, it takes real money to sustain a business.

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Business Model Angel Investor Bootstrapping Revenue 414

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. Unfortunately, the mainstream customers who can really drive revenue care more about price. This S-Curve, with no correction, can quickly lead to disaster.

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Hockey Stick Guerilla Acquisition Startup 265

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

Kristin Zhivago, in her book “ Roadmap to Revenue ,” makes the point that the selling system is broken, since sellers no longer sell the way customers are buying. Distribute an Executive Summary and Recommendations report, as well as transcripts of your interviews, to all the key players in your company. Marty Zwilling.

Technical Review 234

Technical Review Business Model Revenue Social Media 234

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Big-bang hard launches make sense for large enterprises like Apple or Microsoft, who are building on existing revenue streams and have the resources for lavish events, Superbowl ads and large inventory buildups. Small real revenue today is better than large later projections. Partners and distribution channels will take you seriously.

Hockey Stick 120

Hockey Stick Startup Stealth Agile 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

Don’t expect them to believe your $100M revenue projection, if you are still waiting for the first revenue dollar. Get a real customer and real revenue. It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Without revenue, your investors are largely limited to friends, family and fools.

Intellectual Property 253

Intellectual Property Sweat Equity CTO Hire Fractional CTO 253

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

Too many choices confuse all customers, and make your job in marketing, distribution, and support much more difficult. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price. Revenue and competitive position followed. Less is more.

Startup 361

Startup Social Media India Acquisition 361

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

For example, when you think about distribution channels, revenue streams, or the relationship with the customer, ask customers what they expect. Don’t attempt to scale it until you have a proven repeatable business model that predictably generates revenue.

Startup 286

Startup Angel Investor Technical Review Incubator 286

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2022

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. At these stages, it’s all about you, and your ability to communicate and execute effectively.

Due Diligence 271

Due Diligence Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Preferred Stock 271

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2011

Kristin Zhivago, in her new book “ Roadmap to Revenue ,” makes the point that the selling system is broken, since sellers no longer sell the way customers are buying. Distribute an Executive Summary and Recommendations report, as well as transcripts of your interviews, to all the key players in your company. Marty Zwilling.

Customer 242

Customer Technical Review Business Model Revenue 242

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2016

The right channel for marketing and distribution is one of the basic “four Ps” of business (product, promotion, price and placement). For growing revenue and market share, it’s a key element of your overall strategy, and one that can make or break you. Treat distribution partners as part of your team.

Channel 120

Channel Distribution Partner Acquisition 120

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2021

Provide initial and long-term sources of revenue. Every business, including non-profits, need a viable source of revenue to cover the costs of operation and sustainability. The most attractive revenue model today for services is subscriptions, and for products it is sales and support. Patents are a good place for you to start.

Intellectual Property 332

Intellectual Property Angel Investor Business Model Channel 332

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

What neither group seems to fully comprehend is that retail needs to fundamentally change to succeed, far beyond the addition of an online component, to meet the experience expectations of today’s generation, an oversupplied global marketplace, and technology for instant pricing and distribution. Look outside for benchmarks.

Customer 130

Customer eCommerce Non-Compete Technical Review 130

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Every business needs marketing, distribution, a positive revenue model and intellectual property to survive. You have proven that you can create an innovative product, but creating a business is a whole new challenge. The old adage of “if we build it, they will come” doesn’t work anymore. Aspire to be in control of your own domain.

Intellectual Property 243

Intellectual Property Matching Business Model Cofounder 243

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Continually add new marketing and distribution partners. Resist the urge to delegate accounting decisions, under the assumption that incoming revenue takes the pressure off. Real growth always requires real marketing. Ask everyone to be an advocate of the business to their friends and connections.

Startup 335

Startup Social Media Metrics Viral 335

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Adopt a project-based revenue model with metrics. If the startup team is distributed around the world, your challenge is to meet their process requirements, rather than expect them to meet yours. Specialists and certified professionals are already seen as experts who do the work, rather than just make recommendations for others.

Silicon Valley 140

Silicon Valley Social Media Software Review Leadership 140

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Even with advantages that independent startups can never hope to match, including brand recognition, customers, financial capital, and distribution, I don’t often see the entrepreneurial passion for innovation, agility, and team perseverance exhibited by new startups. Commit a source of internal or external seed funding.

Advisory Board 359

Advisory Board Incubator Dilution Agile 359

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

Don’t expect them to believe your $100M revenue projection, if you are still waiting for the first revenue dollar. Get a real customer and real revenue. It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Without revenue, your investors are largely limited to friends, family and fools.

Intellectual Property 222

Intellectual Property Sweat Equity CTO Hire Fractional CTO 222

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. Unfortunately, the mainstream customers who can really drive revenue care more about price. This S-Curve, with no correction, can quickly lead to disaster.

Hockey Stick 307

Hockey Stick Guerilla Acquisition Revenue 307

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2022

Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Manufacturing is a global industry with complex and widely distributed value chains and a large amount of data available. Every day, we create 2.5 Global manufacturing.

Database 241

Database Social Media Global Distribution 241

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2023

Measure progress through metrics on sales, revenue, and penetration. Look for more ways to demonstrate a competitive advantage, and partner with complementary organizations if you need strength in manufacturing, distribution, or customer support. Seek customer feedback on ways to improve value and satisfaction.

Agile 229

Agile Leadership Global Distribution 229

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

Whether your new software is ‘in the cloud,’ an online download, or distributed on a CD through various direct and indirect distribution channels, the process of localization is still a time consuming, manually intensive, and expensive effort. Despite all the hype and free tools, there still is not ‘an app for that.’

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Software Distribution Europe Database 200

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2022

The payback in team engagement, as well as customer revenue and loyalty, can be large. Specifying roles is seen by the team as distributing power. These days, I see an increasing value in adopting and promoting for your team a higher-level purpose, such as saving the environment or assisting the disadvantaged.

Forecast 340

Forecast Agile Lean Distribution 340

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. At these stages, it’s all about you, and your ability to communicate and execute effectively.

Due Diligence 308

Due Diligence Intellectual Property Preferred Stock Seed Stage 308

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2022

Is it more customers, more revenue, more profit, or killing competitors? At the top, this is called distributive leadership , which lessens the burden on the formal leader. Balanced optimism: Find and focus on the winning scenario. In business, startups will inevitably encounter setbacks, and need to pivot.

Distribution 320

Distribution Cloud Leadership Startup 320

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2015

Adopt a project-based revenue model. If the startup team is distributed around the world, your challenge is to meet their process requirements, rather than expect them to meet yours. Simply defining yourself as a specialist or professional minimizes the stigma of a consultant role (think marketing specialist or staffing professional).

Startup 120

Startup Software Review Social Media Curation 120