The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2024

Even as technology evolves, old-fashioned social engineering will remain a favorite tool for fraudsters and a major risk for small businesses. Going Paperless Gains Efficiency What is Social Engineering Anyway? Certainly, these hackers exist, but in practice, many fraudsters skip code altogether and focus instead on social engineering.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2022

Every startup needs financing in order to get off the ground, but maintaining a stream of income is also crucial for staying in business. While you don’t have to be a financial professional, understanding the basics of business finance is still important for tracking your budgets and overall financial performance. Project planning.

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Startup Australia Web Development Forecast 109

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

The first post drilled down into the often-overlooked notion of “market-engineering” and why it’s so critical. At Wildcat, we recommend benchmarking your startup against the four core architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework: product , revenue , team and systems. Revenue Architecture.

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Framework Architecture Cleveland Early Stage 127

YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

The first post drilled down into the often-overlooked notion of “market-engineering” and why it’s so critical. At Wildcat, we recommend benchmarking your startup against the four core architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework: product , revenue , team and systems. Revenue Architecture.

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Framework Architecture Cleveland Early Stage 113

Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2014

Not because they’re all operating in stealth or pre-product – in fact some already are earning $1m+ in revenue per annum. And search engines like sourcing.io help you build a specific list based on skills you’re seeking. Most of the startups we’ve backed at Homebrew don’t rush to announce their funding.

Technical Review 117

Technical Review CTO Hire Finance Stealth 117

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

Entrepreneur 283

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 283

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

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Product Development Cost Developer Product 177

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

I think it’s important for enterprise startups to layer in professional services into your revenue stream. deliver profitable revenue that while on gross margins of 50% vs. software at 85-95% it is still profits to help you cover fixed costs. Often your sales engineers can do the customizations without bugging the core eng team.

Software Review 321

Software Review Software IP Technical Review 321

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Venture Capital Startup 309

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In his tenure as CEO of DataSift we have never missed a monthly revenue figure. He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million.

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Advisory Board CTO Hire Fractional CTO Los Angeles 365

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 134

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

what your product & engineering thought they cared about and you adapt your offering. Throughout the first year we made many fixes and saw our revenue base in these markets accelerate so we felt we were ready to attack Los Angeles, amongst the most important storage markets in the country.

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Operations New York City Technical Review Startup 286

Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

The entrepreneur who founded and grew the largest startup in the world to $10 billion in revenue and got fired is someone you have probably never heard of. Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policymaking, corporate finance, and planning. A version of this article appeared in the Harvard Business Review.

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Michigan Cofounder Stock Forecast 268

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

In recent years, eCommerce companies have begun to increase revenue by selling products directly via social media networks. Artificial intelligence (AI) is already starting to have a significant impact on search engine optimization (SEO) for agencies. Every year, social media coverage expands. Thanks to Aktug Dogun, Refer Mate ! #21-

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Entrepreneur Social Media 122

View from Seed

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Pre-seed investing should be super simple, so any signs of pro-rata rights, tranched financings, charging the company for value-added services, etc. As an inexperienced founder, you are very likely to take at least two rounds of financing before a series A, so the round to try to skip is any sort of second seed. should be avoided.

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Dilution B2B Burn Rate Early Stage 149

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

As an example, the reasons we provide to prospective engineers are 1. For example, if you run a tech startup , you will know how hard it is to find good software engineers. Your internal team creates your external results, such as new products and increased revenues. cutting edge technology (WebRTC), 2.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

The key to being able to run a business that isn’t yet profitable (on operating margin) is availability of capital to finance losses and preferably at a cost that isn’t too punitive to the founders and employees. In SaaS (or any recurring revenue business) this is also a very difficult task.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% raised from angels.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Identify what role is missing from the company today, which also is the most vital for (your definition of) success over the next 12 months. (“Success” could mean revenue growth, great customer service, removing a large risk, or a dozen other things.). Examples: You hire the VP of Engineering for Facebook.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 120

YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2018

Think of financing an acquisition as an exercise with two parts that work in concert: 1) structuring a desired deal with a suitable target and 2) obtaining the funding. A desired deal is one that is engineered specifically with the big picture in mind. And, namely, they pique the interests of those in the private capital markets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2021

In finance, a bubble is too much money chasing assets, greater asset production and a herd mentality. In startup business plans, a bubble is too many entrepreneurs and too many investors chasing the latest “next big thing,” like Google search engine, Facebook social network, or Amazon e-commerce site. Overconfidence.

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Demand Government Venture Capital Valuation 362

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Boasting resources for life sciences, bio-tech, medical devices, photonics, clean energy, and engineering, BU can help to incubate businesses in just about any physical technology. Engineering Translational Technology Center. Engineering Translational Technology Center. Syracuse Student Sandbox.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

The entrepreneur can earn plenty of revenue – from subscription plans and publishing targeted advertisements, commission from courier delivery personnel, booking cancellation charges, and transaction processing fees from an Uber for courier app solution. Reward regular customers with a lucrative loyalty program.

Technical Review 163

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Demand Social Media 163

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 9, 2010

If the VP of Engineering thinks the target customer is just like him/her, you're doomed. How many do you suppose produce any revenue? (My How many do you suppose produce enough revenue that, after hosting and marketing expenses, they result in a profitable company where the owner doesn't need a day job? (My My guess: 80%).

Software Review 312

Software Review Part-Time VPE Houston Cofounder 312

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

It encourages a bit too much FOMO (fear of missing out) and over-valuation in companies and a desire to do huge financing rounds to be perceived as the “knock-out winner.” In revenue terms our first two years of sales were $2.1 We sold the company when we hit $36 million in bookings and $16 million in SaaS GAAP revenue.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Startup Technical Review 390

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

I've talked about this topic before in How Investors Think About Valuation of Pre-Revenue Startups. Lead Engineer 0.5 – 1 5+ years experience Engineer 0.33 – 0.66 Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 – 0.33 You can also take a look at StartupRoar 's topics: Startup Valuation , Pre-Money Valuation , and Early Stage Valuation.

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Early Stage Equity CTO Hire Sweat Equity 391

Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2010

The temptation is to transform the vision of a large market into a solid corporate revenue forecast – before Customer Development even begins. That means you may find that revenue appears later than the plan called for, or that there are no customers or fewer than the plan suggests. Solution : Get engineering buy-in by.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2017

The research activities must be technological in nature; in other words, they must rely on the sciences such as engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, etc. Typical indicators of qualified research include: Degreed engineers, scientists, or software developers on staff. Who qualifies for the payroll taxes offset?

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Indiana Software Review Software Developers Software Development 113

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

They already have several customers including some telcos, and are at about $350,000 in revenues. I call it drip-financing. Most entrepreneurs have no choice but to avail of this sort of financing along with the mentoring and the contacts that could come with it (doesn't always come along, though). Kir Devries.

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Cloud Silicon Valley Incubator Finance 115

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Let’s now explore the major developments and ultimate use cases for the Lightning Network in two categories: A) payments/finance and B) Web3. . Use Case I: Payments and Finance . And >40% of that revenue is coming from in-game purchases. The app could then take a small % of all revenue from “paid” messages.

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Networking Global OTC Security 168

Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2017

The first is that we currently have awesome economic conditions: a roaring stock market, low unemployment, and solid consumer and business confidence, all of which make right now as good a time as ever to start, grow, finance, and/or sell a business. financing round. NativeAds (digital advertising) closed on a $4M venture financing.

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Balance Sheet Malaysia Indonesia Finance 48

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

For a more elaborate explanation of the deal, please read my blog post 1M/1M: Alternative Financing For Startups Using A Sales Channel Partner. I have discussed at length why revenue sharing channel deals may serve as perfectly fine alternatives to raising equity (or even complements) because of their non-dilutive nature.

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Dilution Revenue Finance Entrepreneur 114

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The expansion of e-commerce should also bring about seeing returns as a strategic lever, similar to how companies used faster delivery to drive customer experience and revenue. 3- Investing both time and finance Photo Credit: Jonathan Hussey The biggest thing for me is to understand what you're undertaking before you start.

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eCommerce Omaha Entrepreneur SEO 129

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

That’s why I recommend that they find a co-founder who loves business challenges, including marketing and finance. I usually envision a 50-50 ownership split for their efforts, but every engineer believes the technology side deserves the majority share. Most founders bootstrap product development.

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Technical Review Intellectual Property Cofounder Bootstrapping 120

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 21, 2009

For example, I'm an engineer, so my first answer to "Why don't you have more customers?" If you had zero revenue from now on, on what date would you run out of money? Second, you know the length of your fuse even in event of disaster (if you have revenue) or if you never manage to land a customer (if you're just starting out).

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 22, 2012

Let’s start out with the basic functions of a tech company: 1) Engineering 2) Marketing 3) Sales 4) Business development 5) PR 6) Design 7) Product Management 8) HR 9) Operations 10) Finance Ok, that's just overwhelming. Ready to start simplifying? The last two are pretty basic. That leaves seven core business functions.

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