YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2020

Public Relations (PR) involves efforts to raise the profile of your company, manage your reputation, and build relationships with key people or organizations to attract customers and increase sales. Anchor Your Sales And Marketing Efforts. Announcement of a new acquisition or merger. Create Clearly Defined Objectives.

Public Relations 235

Public Relations Business Plan PR Distribution 235

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Documentation such as invoices, bank statements, payroll information and other records should be well organized and easy to obtain. Depending on your location and industry, your company may have federal, state, foreign and sales tax filing requirements, all of which will be heavily scrutinized by the potential acquirer.

Acquisition 100

Acquisition Intellectual Property Technical Review Due Diligence 100

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In this case, the convertible debt document doesn’t allow the debt to convert into anything, but at the same time mandates that upon a sale the debt must be paid off. In this case, the documents dictate that the company will pay back outstanding principle plus interest and then a multiple on the original investment.

Conversion 96

Conversion Sales Later Stage Preferred Stock 96

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2017

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. Each state regulates sales tax differently, so keeping track of regulations yourself can be challenging. Line Up Your Startup’s Taxes.

Ratchet 113

Ratchet Merger New York Engineer 113

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2012

The approach I recommend is to build the investor presentation first, by iterating on the bullets with your team, and then fleshing out the points into a full-blown text-based business plan document. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. Exit strategy.

Elevator Pitch 247

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 247

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

If you have a sales model that involves relationship selling to high-level decision makers, you can be sure they would prefer a detailed proposal from you with a request to “sign here.” There’s no baby step analogy to the pilots discussed above for a sales situation. Decide to think big and ask big.

Term Sheet 48

Term Sheet Technical Review Due Diligence Merger 48

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

Document why your team is the best for this challenge. Include marketing, sales, and customer rollout plans. Set specific targets on the sales channels and marketing initiatives you need, including the use of social media, brand building, franchising, trade shows, affiliates, and distributors.

Business Plan 423

Business Plan Product Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch 423

David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2015

The official Standards are more granular, and are the equivalent of programming style: a set of standard methods which help you create an easy-to-use and self-documenting model. HOW TO MAKE THE ENTIRE DOCUMENT READABLE. I think far too few people take advantage of styles in both text documents and spreadsheets.

Balance Sheet 60

Balance Sheet Software Review Forecast Acquisition 60

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2011

The approach I recommend is to build the investor presentation first, by iterating on the bullets with your team, and then fleshing out the points into a full-blown text-based business plan document. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. Exit strategy.

Elevator Pitch 234

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 234

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. Competing with IBM, Microsoft, and other large companies should never be minimized.

Business Plan 283

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 283

Feld Thoughts

JULY 27, 2011

As a result, we created a Resources page on Ask the VC and decided to load it up with legal documents that are part of a venture capital financing. As a step in the right direction, Jason and I decided to open source our Foundry Group form legal documents. Co-Sale Agreement. You can find them on the Ask the VC Resources page.

Term Sheet 136

Term Sheet Preferred Stock Merger Venture Capital 136

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2010

An alternative approach, which I prefer, is to build the investor presentation first, by iterating on the bullets with your team, and then fleshing out the points into a full-blown text-based business plan document. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans.

Elevator Pitch 235

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 235

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Business plans are not static documents; they need to be continually updated as the company progresses toward its goals. Social media campaigns can be incredibly effective means of boosting sales and increasing reach to targeted markets. 3 Mergers, Partnerships and Acquisitions.

LBO 65

LBO Merger Social Media Startup 65

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. Competing with IBM, Microsoft, and other large companies should never be minimized.

Business Plan 290

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

The approach I recommend is to build the investor presentation first, by iterating on the bullets with your team, and then fleshing out the points into a full-blown text-based business plan document. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. Exit strategy.

Elevator Pitch 146

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 146

OnlyOnce

AUGUST 20, 2020

As part of the new section on Exits in the Second Edition of the book ( order here ), there’s a specific chapter around handling the post-sale transition and integration process. No two transitions are exactly the same. And you are no longer in charge.

Merger 48

Merger Startup Partner Employee 48

Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. Competing with IBM, Microsoft, and other large companies should never be minimized.

Business Plan 182

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

The SEC’s proposed rules (mandated by the JOBS Act of 2012) amend the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to allow the offer and sale of securities through an internet crowdfunding campaign, similar in some respects to donation crowdfunding campaigns conducted on Kickstarter and Indiegogo.

Equity 125

Equity SEC Technical Review Security 125

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. 38 New Social Media Resources You May.

Angel Investor 83

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. Competing with IBM, Microsoft, and other large companies should never be minimized.

Business Plan 186

Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

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. 38 New Social Media Resources You May.

Angel Investor 84

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

Startup Company Lawyer

JANUARY 31, 2011

Reactions are mixed, from “ no big deal ,&# to “ disrupting angel investing &# to “ you’d be crazy not to take this deal &# to “ facilitating a bubble &# to “ strategic perfection.&# TechCrunch reports that within 24 hours, 36 of the 43 companies had already signed the convertible debt documents.

Preferred Stock 60

Preferred Stock Liquidation Preference IPO Common Stock 60

Gust

OCTOBER 21, 2011

For convertible notes, the only liquidity event we need be concerned with is an acquisition of the startup in the near future, before the maturity date; otherwise, the notes will convert to equity of one kind or another, and the eventual sale of that equity (in a public offering, acquisition, or private sale) is a different subject for another day.

Finance 79

Finance Pre-Money Valuation Term Sheet Liquidity Event 79

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

They write into their investment documents that they will occupy a seat on the board for as long as they are invested in the company, thinking of this as a protection for their investment and tool for them to influence growth. All other board functions are secondary. Shareholders such as the investors are granted few rights by law.

Merger 71

Merger Acquisition Stock Sales 71

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.

Balance Sheet 148

Balance Sheet Forecast Equity .Net 148

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. Marketing starts to build a sales demo, writes sales materials (presentations, data sheets), and hires a PR agency. Marketing is at its peak.

Silicon Valley 260

Silicon Valley Product Startup Product Development 260

Transformify

JANUARY 24, 2021

The self-billing agreement is a formal legally binding document that gives the right to the client to issue self-billing invoices on behalf of the supplier. ’’ ‘’Self-billing Invoice’’ instead of ‘’Invoice’’ needs to be clearly printed on the face of the document.

B2B 98

B2B Software Review Database Software 98

Gust

MAY 24, 2012

By contrast, venture capital and angel investments normally take the form of Preferred Stock with rights and preferences set forth in the company’s Certificate of Incorporation and other governance documents. Nevertheless, these preferences aren’t intended to last forever.

IPO 159

IPO Equity Common Stock Stock 159

Startup Company Lawyer

APRIL 23, 2009

The current customary form of venture financing documents has not changed much since with mid-1970s when they first became widely adopted in Silicon Valley. Adeo was focused on creating mechanisms to protect founders who may lose control of the companies they created after raising financing from investors.

Common Stock 33

Common Stock Stock Dividend Delaware 33

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.

Technical Review 71

Technical Review PPC Due Diligence Exit Strategy 71

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Business partnerships come in all shapes and sizes, from finding a single partner to help you run your startup, to signing a strategic agreement with another large company for development, marketing, distribution, or international sales. This means prior planning for an easy dissolution.

B2B 388

B2B Matching Partner Algorithm 388

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

These costs are much higher than those for IPOs, even accounting for IPO Pops; SPAC shares tend to drop by one third of their value or more within a year following a merger, leaving investors who hold shares post de-SPAC most vulnerable to price declines; and SPAC investors typically differ from de-SPAC investors.

SEC 36

SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36