Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Investors are looking for a concise description of your product or service without technical jargon or fuzzy marketing terms with value quantified in customer terms. How big and growing is the total market and your target segment? They like billion-dollar markets with double-digit growth rates.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Industry & market sizing. Start with the evolution of the overall industry, market segmentation, market dynamics, and customer landscape. Data from accredited market research groups like Forrester or Gartner is required for credibility. Avoid any statements like “All we have to do is get 1% of the market.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

Here are the motivation elements that investors expect to hear: Size and growth potential of the market opportunity. Your customers don’t care if you are targeting a billion-dollar market and growing at double-digit rates, but investors will skip small or shrinking opportunities. First to market” is not sustainable by a startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2016

Investors look for sales at full price, to people you don’t know, to validate demand, price, and margin. Show an aggressive marketing and sales plan. With today’s rapid pace of change and information overload, word-of-mouth and social media alone is not a viable marketing plan.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

One piece comes from experts who tout a correlation between the economy’s performance and what it spells for the stock market. Another revolves around the long-term returns of stock market – which are far more consistent than conventional wisdom might suggest. Most are focused on their business, but do not have a clear exit strategy.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

The extreme example of this are algorithmic investors in the public markets, who design algorithms which trade on the designer’s behalf, as opposed to making trading decisions directly. High-frequency trading, algorithmic by its nature, is estimated to account for at least 50% of US equity markets trading volume. . 1) Market fund.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

It was the biggest IPO the Australian market had seen all year , and sparked a flurry of subsequent listings – but ‘going public’ was not the only option we considered, and until we had progressed our exit strategy to near completion, it also seemed the most unlikely. Invest in your forecasts. Engage a good adviser.

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Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Industry & market sizing. Start with the evolution of the overall industry, market segmentation, market dynamics, and customer landscape. Data from accredited market research groups like Forrester or Gartner is required for credibility. Avoid any statements like “All we have to do is get 1% of the market.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Industry & market sizing. Start with the evolution of the overall industry, market segmentation, market dynamics, and customer landscape. Data from accredited market research groups like Forrester or Gartner is required for credibility. Avoid any statements like “All we have to do is get 1% of the market.”

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

What are you actually selling and how are you solving a problem (or “need”) for your market? Target Market. If there are multiple market segments for your business, this is where you flesh out the details. Marketing and Sales Plan. How are you going to reach your target market? Target market.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

The business plan process involves researching your target market, as well as the competitive landscape, and serves as a feasibility study for the success of your venture. What is the company's exit strategy? To force you to research and really know your market. Is the market growing or shrinking?

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Up and Running

APRIL 28, 2015

You can talk about the current solutions in the market, but don’t spend too much time on the competitive landscape on this slide—you’ll have a chance to do that on a later slide. Slide 3: Target market and opportunity. What is the total market size and how do you position your company within the market?

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2013

In order to launch a successful business and raise the capital needed to do so, a startup needs to consider several aspects of the business including the management team , the size of the opportunity, the product/service/technology, the market/sales/distribution channels, the competitive environment and several other factors.

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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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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. Nelson suggests creating a projected sales forecast and planning how you’ll achieve it, realizing of course that you’ll make adjustments to these numbers as you grow.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Top management was trying to coordinate all of the operating details (sales, manufacturing, distribution and marketing,) across all the divisions and the company almost went bankrupt that year when poor planning led to excess inventory (with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash.) car market.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Set a specific time each month to review it , comparing forecasts to actuals and revising as necessary. PARE specializes in fixing and flipping residential properties by buying homes in need of repair, renovating them, and then putting them back on the market. Target market: Who is your ideal buyer? Target market.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Target market (intended customers). Marketing and sales plan. Target market : What groups of people will want your box? Opportunity: Proving there’s a market for your subscription box. Target market. If you’re writing a Lean Plan, keep it shorter and think about making it easy to revisit and revise often.

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Up and Running

MAY 14, 2015

A lean business plan includes four essential elements, all of them functions of general business management: Set the strategy. Use simple bullet points to define target market, business offering, underlying business identity, and long-term goals. Set tactics to execute strategy. No additional text is needed. Concrete specifics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2020

In that context, I offer the following financial projection strategies, from my own experience: Forecast a business that has plenty of room to grow quickly. If you insist on projecting $100 million in sales the first year, smart investors will likely run for the nearest exit.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2018

Funding is crucial for improving technology, hiring the right people, and launching a comprehensive marketing strategy to get a foothold in the market. Usually, scalable business models have higher profit margin and lower infrastructure and marketing investment. Sure, it should be unique.

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Up and Running

MAY 21, 2015

They would, presumably, always buy at that discounted price because they’d be acquiring additional shares at a below market value which would, effectively, water down your ownership relative to theirs. See Also Planning for the Future: Your Exit Strategy.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

One of those ventures was the creation, establishment, growth and sale of an e-commerce business. My work took me all around the world and during one of these trips I was pleasantly shocked to see the prices at which designer perfumes and colognes sold for in some markets overseas. I mean why not? I knew there was a need.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Secondly, it is vital to garner a keen understanding of the online financial market trading methodologies. ” Thirdly, it is critical to treat your online financial market trading journey as a business. In other words, you will look at profit and loss statements, cash flow, as well as growth forecasts and future outlook.

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The Next Web

MAY 26, 2013

Typically, this is a technology innovation, a shift in sentiment or a market landscape change. Understand your sales funnel. Having a robust understanding of your sales funnel will be tremendously helpful to include in your pitch and presentation to investors. Ideally, you can provide this cost per marketing channel.

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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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