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. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

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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. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

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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. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Early on in my career I took a “we’re moving too fast to deal with lawyers” attitude to patents and Intellectual Property (IP.) At one of my entrepreneurship classes at Stanford, Dan Dorosin , of Fenwick & West LLP guest lectures about startups and Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property.

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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.

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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. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

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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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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Knowbella Tech is an open science collaboration company that uses blockchain to deliver free tools, services, grants, and intellectual properties (IP) to researchers, particularly the underserved in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We will also seek first-mover STEM recruiting customers in order to generate revenues.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

I usually envision a 50-50 ownership split for their efforts, but every engineer believes the technology side deserves the majority share. Thus it’s a waste of time for most entrepreneurs to be looking for investors until they have a product and some customer revenue. Intellectual property is a business issue, not a technical issue.

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

Silicon Valley was born in an era of applied experimentation driven by scientists and engineers. From the point of view of scientists and engineers in a university lab, too often entrepreneurship in all its VC-driven glory – income statements, balance sheets, business plans, revenue models, 5-year forecasts, etc. billion U.S.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Sam Cimino, Sales Manager SW of YouTube/Google As YouTube’s Southwest Regional Manager, Sam is responsible for generating revenue across YouTube and the Google Content Network which comprises a media network that reaches nearly 80% of all internet users worldwide. He has written several books on intellectual property law.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2020

This has the potential to leave you losing customers and business revenue to your more prepared counterparts that have adopted the essential new technologies. EASA software, in contrast, continues to make use of the actual logic, with the spreadsheet acting as the engine of the web app, which is accessed via a browser.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Businesses that are overly dependent on charismatic owners or a few dynamic salespeople or engineers rarely sell because the majority of their value can simply walk out the door tomorrow and never come back. Quite simply, they are great places to work and are reputationally strong within their industries.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Resources are what the team needs to hire or own inside their company — the team’s physical, financial, human and intellectual property. Customers, for example, are recast as “beneficiaries,” and instead of identifying revenue streams, these diplo-preneurs are interested in defining “mission achievement.”).

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Resources are what the team needs to hire or own inside their company — the team’s physical, financial, human and intellectual property. Customers, for example, are recast as “beneficiaries,” and instead of identifying revenue streams, these diplo-preneurs are interested in defining “mission achievement.”).

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 14, 2011

Businesses that are overly dependent on charismatic owners or a few dynamic salespeople or engineers rarely sell because the majority of their value can simply walk out the door tomorrow and never come back. Quite simply, they are great places to work and are reputationally strong within their industries. #3.

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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. They want to see revenue to share in the return.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Other than measuring engineering progress, there’s no standard language to communicate progress. These included; identification of a compelling clinical need, large enough market, intellectual property, regulatory issues, and reimbursement, and whether there was a plausible exit.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Some potential buyers or strategic partners might want your intellectual property, or revenues, or profitability, geographic advantage, or sale force, or your employee base. Column two is the golden ticket. What would the candidate want from your company in a transaction?” Think carefully.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Create and register intellectual property online. In a new startup, there is tremendous competitive value in registering intellectual property early, but you don’t need to contract these tasks to expensive experts any longer. Building the prototype can be fun.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2017

That latter term is used to describe an initial offer that generates enough revenue to offset the cost of acquiring a customer. This automation ultimately creates a marketing machine based on a fair amount of intellectual property (i.e., of our total sessions, still contributed 43% of the revenue during this period.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Specialized alumni tech networks : Accelerate Yale (which had merged into it YaleFintech and Yale Tech), Yale Science & Engineering Association. Access to University’s Intellectual Property : Office of Cooperative Research. Teaching and research on entrepreneurship : SOM’s Program on Entrepreneurship , Kyle Jensen’s courses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Assign real value to intellectual property. Back in the “heyday of the dot.com startups,” it was not uncommon to see a valuation incremented by $1M or every paid full-time professional programmer, engineer, or designer. New businesses normally have fewer assets, but it pays to look hard and count everything you have.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2018

A desired deal is one that is engineered specifically with the big picture in mind. Then value the acquisition in the context of your business, giving consideration to the likely cost savings and potential revenue lift that can result from combined capabilities. Structuring the Desired Deal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Assign real value to intellectual property. Back in the “heyday of the dot.com startups,” it was not uncommon to see a valuation incremented by $1M or every paid full-time professional programmer, engineer, or designer. New businesses normally have fewer assets, but it pays to look hard and count everything you have.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Assign real value to intellectual property. Back in the “heyday of the dot.com startups,” it was not uncommon to see a valuation incremented by $1M or every paid full-time professional programmer, engineer, or designer. New businesses normally have fewer assets, but it pays to look hard and count everything you have.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Assign real value to intellectual property. Back in the “heyday of the dot.com startups,” it was not uncommon to see a valuation incremented by $1M or every paid full-time professional programmer, engineer, or designer. New businesses normally have fewer assets, but it pays to look hard and count everything you have.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 187

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2011

Silicon Valley was born in an era of applied experimentation driven by scientists and engineers. From the point of view of scientists and engineers in a university lab, too often entrepreneurship in all its VC-driven glory - income statements, balance sheets, business plans, revenue models - seems like another planet.

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Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Balance Sheet Lean 118

Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2022

The revenue of products that contain chips is worth tens of t rillions of dollars. Taken from the bottom up these semiconductor industry segments are: Chip Intellectual Property (IP) Cores. Chip Intellectual Property (IP) Cores. iPhones, PCs, airplanes, cloud computing, etc.), Specialized Materials. Chip Foundries.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

His friends at General Electric said he was wasting his time on the gas combustion engine because the world was going electric. -- ErrantX 215 days ago | link. The story of the v-8 engine is a bit different. flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Business and Revenue Model – How do we organize to make money? Intellectual Property/Patents – Strategic or Tactical, timing? Product Development – How do you engineer it? Customer Development Steps – How do we iterate with customers? Regulatory Issues – What are they? Time to Market – How long? Waterfall, Agile, Lean?

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Prior to crowdSPRING, I was producer and production manager in the film and television industry and Ross was an attorney in private practice specializing in intellectual property. This was, instead, monthly recurring revenue and a real product. Finally, Milk Tooth has been a wonderful creative outlet.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Hire an SEO team to link your site to authorities and improve your search engine rankings. Using licensees is an excellent way to boost your revenue without the need to hire and external sales force. Social media campaigns can be incredibly effective means of boosting sales and increasing reach to targeted markets.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

12:22] Would you look at the value derived by digital technologies differently than by producing customer value or revenue? [14:23] So would you look at that as a different, would you look at that value derived in that manner differently than you would say producing customer value or revenue? And we wanna see the world do better.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Some notable metrics are revenue growth rates, free cashflow, leverage ratios, historical financing amounts, returns on marketing spend, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of customers, customer churn rates, and team social scores. Lighter Capital, a Revenue Based Investing VC, offers a Cost of Capital Calculator.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

We’ve collected some of the essential marketing tools and services that can help you improve your marketing and grow your company’s revenues, even if you know little about marketing. Search marketing. Here are two more useful tools you should consider: SEMrush is an excellent paid tool (cheapest plan is $99.95

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

We’ve collected some of the essential marketing tools and services that can help you improve your marketing and grow your company’s revenues, even if you know little about marketing. Search marketing. Here are two more useful tools you should consider: SEMrush is an excellent paid tool (cheapest plan is $99.95

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