Reid Hoffman

JULY 23, 2020

This week, I’d like to turn to the question of how current market conditions affect the approach entrepreneurs should take towards their exit strategy. We’re looking for market opportunities where in about a decade, we can help transform an industry and build an iconic company.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

They are quite happy with a business that will turn into a profitable $20M company and dont necessarily need an obvious exit strategy. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2018

We regularly share our favorite posts on entrepreneurship, small business, marketing, logo design , web design , startups, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! An important read for marketers, designers, and small business owners. — Entrepreneur (@Entrepreneur) December 6, 2018.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. 1) Market fund. Why is it now more feasible to use technology in the VC investing process?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

We just finished our Lean LaunchPad class at UC Berkeley’s engineering school where many of the teams embedded machine learning technology into their products. The technology’s broad market applicability and relevance are clearly paying off. Exit Strategy. Exit Strategy was building the penultimate planning tool.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

As a hardware engineer, you already know the value, importance, and layout of a spec to keep you focused, but you may not be so familiar with the key elements of a business plan, and the way to use it to support and add credibility to your hardware solution. Quantify the market opportunity in business terms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Investors are showing an increased appetite for new stocks, with a good percentage of deals pricing above the marketed share price range. The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous. The median deal size is back over $100 million.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

How to Build Your Team, Plan Your Exit and Create Your Legacy written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Scot Hunsaker. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Managing Partner of Ardent , Scot Hunsaker. Marketing Podcast with Scot Hunsaker.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Startup internet projects often arrive slightly buggy at first and if the entrepreneur didn’t take the time to research the market in advance, the product can be dead on arrival. The situation becomes even worse if there is no marketing plan or budget. Look at the market size and the number of competing products.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

The implementation and architecture can also suffer if the team under or over invests engineering time, implementation of standards, or testing discipline in the wrong areas. Left on its own, product owners and development teams just may make debatable and sometimes questionable decisions on priorities or implementation strategy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Investors showed an increased appetite for new stocks, with 18 percent of deals pricing above the marketed share price range. The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous. The average amount raised also increased to $175 million.

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www.instigatorblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home About Contact My thoughts & lessons learned on startups, entrepreneurship, marketing and other stuff. This is especially true when you think of a tech startup, where the first few hires are typically engineers/programmers. To make round numbers let's say you have 100,000 share outstanding and you give your lead engineer 1000.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Twitter was one of the most notable, with a market capitalization now up to $38 billion all by itself. The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous. According to a report just out, a record 156 operating companies went public in the U.S.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Statdragon is a Saas platform that allows businesses to access and analyze metrics about their existing videos and optimize their video marketing strategy. She notes that if you’re considering acquisition as an exit strategy, creating and maintaining relationships is going to be key. How do dragons fit in here?

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 14, 2010

The best articulation of it comes from Basil Peters, a serial technology entrepreneur, co-Founder of Nexus Engineering, former Canada Entrepreneur of the Year, and Managing Partner at 3 venture capital funds – Fundamental Technologies I and II and the BC Advantage Funds. His blog is one of the best resources on technology investing out there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market you plan to attack.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 5, 2018

This is an immense market. Of course, this means adding developers, support staff and marketers fluent in each language as well. Your product or service is probably NOT what the market is looking for despite your enthusiasm and single-minded belief. From there you will know what the market wants. Listen to them.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. 2) Market . Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2018

Your marketing plan. Existing businesses should have business plans that they maintain and update as market conditions change and as new opportunities arise. Existing businesses use business plans to strategically manage and steer the business, not just to address changes in their markets and to take advantage of new opportunities.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

On Monday, August 10, Barron’s ran a story “Does the IPO Market Shun Smaller Companies?”, The collateral effect of this market reality is that the vast majority of emerging VC-backed companies are effectively barred from going public. How many future engines of U.S. jobs today.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

In this post, I want to lay out the details involved in how I first realized the opportunity, the formation of the business idea, the search for my supplier, the establishment and growth of the business, problems encountered and lessons learned, as well as the exit strategy that resulted in the $250,000 sale of the business.

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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.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

At 24 I was putting myself through college and running the creative services department at an energy systems engineering firm in Seattle when the company was purchased by a French firm. Thanks to Susan Smith, Velden Engineering ! #5- . #1- Get in control and break the norm. Photo Credit: Andrea Heuston. 5- Pursue a mission.

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www.inc.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The focus of a CTO, a position akin to and occasionally still referred to as "vice president of engineering," is typically to develop and implement new technologies. In a start-up context, bands are formed sometimes by happenstance, and my head of engineering absolutely acts as the CTO," Teree says. "We 500|5000 The 2010 Inc.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Another assumption is that you’ve actually conducted due diligence on your own business, and these are the areas of your team, financials, your competition, your IP, market trends, because the best pitches I’ve ever delivered were when investors were raising their hands and asking me questions about, “How is your IP protected?”

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

While big ideas are engines for change, often times it’s in fact the boring details that are the single biggest determinants of entrepreneurial success. However, these investors have their own exit strategy which typically follows after a strong period of growth of the company. The product or service.

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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2018

The ideas that I am talking about here are game-changing, have vast potential and addressable market, and can create a buzz in the industry—if and when they see the light of the day. Growth : stepping into a bigger market opportunity with expanding services or new products while maintaining constant profits. Market research.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 25, 2011

In the case of business, I want to ensure that there is a profitable exit strategy. Eventually the Internet came along and the Trading Post no longer commanded the secondhand market like it once did (though it did successfully transition online).

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2019

As an entrepreneur, business owner or gig worker, the key to making your business successful is to establish a clear-cut strategy, unique vision and hone in on a memorable brand personality which is relatable to your customer base. Connect with Keith Tully on LinkedIn here.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

To get into the property market you have to get loans of hundreds of thousands of dollars. I was getting more into internet marketing and trying to ramp up my income. I lost interest in Magic, I became a little bit cooler and got into internet marketing, which is a lot cooler, and eventually found a buyer.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

With angels were now talking about venture fundingproper, so its time to introduce the concept of exit strategy.Younger would-be founders are often surprised that investors expectthem either to sell the company or go public. Theyll only considercompanies that have an exit strategy—meaning companies that couldget bought or go public.

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market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Market By Numbers on Twitter | Entries RSS | Comments RSS Market By Numbers High-Tech Marketing and Customer Development Home What is Customer Development? The driving force helps shape technology choices, importance of design, market segment, and business model as well as company culture, growth plan and exit strategy.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

Stock Market In my Junior year in college, I started day trading and grew a $2,000 pot to over $40,000 thanks to a big one-hit wonder. Outside of that terrible experience when money was most scarce for me, I haven’t gambled much in the market. Where do I get the money to invest in the markets? I am not a guru in stock trading.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? They are many more examples.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

I’ve heard for years about the importance of finding a market before building a software product. I would think, “How can you find a market for something before you build it?&# You can sell garbage to a hungry market and make money. In these cases, the market doesn’t matter because luck trumps everything.

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