Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references. By using this checklist, you should be able to objectively match potential partners with your own needs and expectations.

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Partner Software Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO 240

Gust

APRIL 13, 2014

Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references. By using this checklist, you should be able to objectively match potential partners with your own needs and expectations.

Partner 179

Partner Software Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO 179

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Today, in a market where talent is in high demand, having a multi-pronged plan is always best but always ensure that your strategy matches the person you are looking to hire. Do your due-diligence. Always do your due-diligence when hiring an employee to work in your business. Word of mouth referrals?

Employee 100

Employee Due Diligence Hiring Demand 100

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Even better, Attanasio says, is if they have done extensive due diligence first. Study them through their websites and the business media to ensure a good match. Sales, profits, customers – it all can be volatile and that is one of the hardest parts of being an entrepreneur. Dealing with the unknown can also be daunting.

Partner 113

Partner Technical Review Management Due Diligence 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references. By using this checklist, you should be able to objectively match potential partners with your own needs and expectations.

Partner 230

Partner Software Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO 230

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2015

That’s why they insist on spending a day with your team as part of the due diligence process. Skills and experience are necessary in hiring, but finding a match in values and culture is equally important. Technology can be used to facilitate customer support and sales, as well as enhance your product.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Entrepreneur Due Diligence Social Media 120

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Keep in mind the difference between marketing and sales: to present the product and encourage sales vs. the selling of the product. Operate on due diligence from this point: Identify your potential key crew members — background checks, personal references, past business review are all vital.

Software Review 54

Software Review Technical Review CTO Hire San Antonio 54

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

If outward facing, they will attend important sales calls and speak to the technology strategy and vision. They shorten the sales cycle, mitigate risks, and provide assurance in the context of technical due diligence. I have also included quotes from Austin CTOs to give you additional perspective.

Fractional CTO 54

Fractional CTO CTO Hire CTO Technical Review 54

Up and Running

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Instead of looking at your credit score or asking you for your business’s detailed financial statements, Kabbage asks you for your UPS, PayPal, Amazon, Square, eBay, and/or Quickbooks accounts, and then uses the data it gathers from those accounts to determine your sales revenue and cash flow itself.

Kenya 119

Kenya Angel Investor Technical Review Software Review 119

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2011

Help and mentor on how to build a sales organization. Host product and business reviews – This is common practice in large companies – have the product managers and sales teams present their latest developments and pipelines for the year/quarter. Share due diligence on a space or an existing space.

Technical Review 101

Technical Review Due Diligence Hosting Harvest 101

Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

Some businesses require very little capital and the founder can self-finance the enterprise and retain 100% of its ownership and control from ignition through liquidity event (startup through sale). For those of you who fit that description, nice work. There is a lot to say about retaining control.

Private Equity 118

Private Equity Valuation Cap Table Accredited Investor 118

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2010

Do your “due diligence” through good homework before someone else sets the parameters. Maintain your professionalism, emphasize value, and match your advantages to investor and customer interests. Learning to negotiate properly is the key to every competitive sale. Establish the competitive playing field early.

Due Diligence 230

Due Diligence Entrepreneur Employee Matching 230

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

The decision is yours as to how you package up your offering in a way that matches your goals. 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.” Decide to think big and ask big.

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Term Sheet Technical Review Due Diligence Merger 48

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Investors will look first to a summary , and then a pitch ; but if you get through that screening, they’ll want to see a business plan for the process of due diligence. The process of looking for money must match the needs of the company. Most commercial banks require a business plan as part of a loan application.

SBA 161

SBA Venture Capital Angel Investor Technical Review 161

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 11, 2018

Influencer marketing, if done right, can help your startup or small business grow your audience, improve sales, and expand brand awareness through social media. An important way to evaluate fit is to consider about the influencer’s “voice” and whether that voice matches your own.

Marketing 62

Marketing Software Review Social Media Audience 62

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

You can conduct group interviews, get your candidate “liquored up” (not a recommendation), and even have a trial period on the job to see if there’s a good match. Make your choices only after you’ve done some due diligence with other companies where they’ve served. You’ll just never create the sales momentum you need.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 9, 2020

Sometimes, that just means I send off something quick, because of the inbound volume, like this: “I’ll pass, because I just don’t think there’s enough money to be made here given how hard it will be to make each sale and what little you make per customer." I figured better to get a quick something than nothing at all—or, just an “Interesting!”

Founder 100

Founder Due Diligence Matching Revenue 100

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 11, 2018

Influencer marketing, if done right, can help your startup or small business grow your audience, improve sales, and expand brand awareness through social media. An important way to evaluate fit is to consider about the influencer’s “voice” and whether that voice matches your own.

Marketing 48

Marketing Software Review Social Media Audience 48

genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

They had a great managment team, A list VCs, great technology, excellent sales traction and market leadership in a very exciting space. Before taking equity in a company I go through a VC-like investment and due diligence process. The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. They looked like a sure winner.

Equity 40

Equity Technical Review San Jose Stock 40

Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Some businesses require very little capital and the founder can self-finance the enterprise and retain 100% of its ownership and control from ignition through liquidity event (startup through sale). For you who fit that description, nice work. There is a lot to say about retaining control. months from introduction to investment.

Private Equity 106

Private Equity Valuation Cap Table Accredited Investor 106

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 5, 2012

I'll prioritize responding to it and it makes me feel like you're persistent enough to close a sale or a hire. Try to guess who my first due diligence call is for your company and get to them first before I bastardize your pitch to them. 4) Do your homework. What is it about me that makes you want to pitch me?

Due Diligence 123

Due Diligence Cofounder Email Matching 123

Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

That’s the sales forecast, the spending forecast and the cash flow. You want to show that, and investors need to see the scale of a business that have to do with your sales forecast. They’re going to look first at the sales forecast. That hurt her sales forecast for the deli. That’s a sales forecast.

Lean 60

Lean Business Plan Video Software Review 60

Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

My favorite part of pitching to them was the due diligence process. This will definitely change company dynamics, so it’s important to conduct your due diligence on any investors who are interested in investing capital into your company. I was the CEO of both startups, so it was my job to pitch to the angels.

Angel Investor 161

Angel Investor Technical Review Due Diligence Startup 161

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. . Three rules in sales: Why buy anything? Remember again that the three major steps to a sale are: Why buy anything?

Developer 366

Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2010

Some businesses require very little capital and the founder is able to self-finance the enterprise and retain 100% of its ownership and control from ignition through liquidity event (startup through sale). For you who fit that description, nice work. There is a lot to say about retaining control.

Private Equity 69

Private Equity Valuation Cap Table Accredited Investor 69

YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2014

You can pour your heart and soul (and life savings) into a venture, do all your due diligence, toil 80- and 90-hour weeks, and just when you’re on the verge of a breakthrough, a dark horse competitor sweeps in and decimates your market share. Or a key vendor declares bankruptcy. Holding resources in reserve.

Technical Review 254

Technical Review Entrepreneur Florida Cofounder 254

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

Open, and that match there is Roger Federer and he won that tournament that year. The biggest deal I’ve ever done was a sale of a $100,000 website. I didn’t know anything about it, but I saw these two sets of forums for sale, so let me explain my attitude with this. I saw them for sale and checked out the traffic statistics.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Software Review Prospectus Audience 76

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Fred Wilson warns that it is starting to feel like a bubble again, with VCs writing $5 and $10 million dollar checks with very little due diligence, sometimes showing up to a first meeting with a term sheet… Israeli startup headlines for Nov 15, 2010. Funding news.

Technical Review 80

Technical Review Matching Venture Capital 80

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Fred Wilson warns that it is starting to feel like a bubble again, with VCs writing $5 and $10 million dollar checks with very little due diligence, sometimes showing up to a first meeting with a term sheet… Israeli startup headlines for Nov 15, 2010. Funding news.

Technical Review 80

Technical Review Matching Venture Capital 80

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Fred Wilson warns that it is starting to feel like a bubble again, with VCs writing $5 and $10 million dollar checks with very little due diligence, sometimes showing up to a first meeting with a term sheet… Israeli startup headlines for Nov 15, 2010. Funding news.

Technical Review 80

Technical Review Matching Venture Capital 80

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Fred Wilson warns that it is starting to feel like a bubble again, with VCs writing $5 and $10 million dollar checks with very little due diligence, sometimes showing up to a first meeting with a term sheet… Israeli startup headlines for Nov 15, 2010. Funding news.

Technical Review 80

Technical Review Venture Capital Matching 80

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Algorithms will be the heart and soul of due diligence — it’s not just a sanity- check mechanism,” said Matt Oguz, the managing partner of new investment firm Palo Alto Venture Science. We found this out through usability testing and then added the information to the sales copy and the FAQ. Usability testing.

Design 100

Design Analytics Software Review Conversion 100

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Your goal was to preserve your cash while you turned these guesses into facts and searched for a repeatable and scalable sales model. We also talk about cash flow management rather than fund-raising though – watch and justifying expenses by cash coming in that matches or exceeds.

Customer Development 262

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 262

www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

It’s the same process as sales and dating, and I know how to do both, well, at least sales… So, how hard can this be? Then, I needed to determine who is the right match for me. At this point, she was assessing if there were other people in the pool of candidates who would be good matches. Apply for FounderDating.

Cofounder 47

Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder 47

reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Great businesses can be built off this network, starting with matching talent and opportunity. In the financing process, the individual venture partner performs the due diligence on the substance behind a company’s pitch — e.g., the investment thesis, the competition, the people, etc.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Revenue Viral Networking 111

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

If you have an existing company, you evaluated your core identity in the discovery phase and now have a chance to evolve that identity to better match your current/future vision, mission, and values. Do your due diligence early and avoid legal and trademark issues further down the road. 2) Articulate your brand positioning.

Marketing 162

Marketing Charlotte Naming Design 162

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

All it needs is multi methods and pattern matching and it would be the coolest language ever. The depth of your ignorance is only matched by the shallowness of your knowledge on the subject. You use marketing and sales language, when attempting to make technical points. March 25, 2011 at 2:16 pm. William Pearson. CEO Friday?

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Java PHP Software Review Coder 107