Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2010

Here are the ten slides you need: Problem and market need. Make sure to communicate the relevance of your product / services to market needs. Define the characteristics of the overall industry, market forces, market dynamics, and customer landscape. Investors like $1B markets with double-digit growth rates.

Elevator Pitch 235

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 235

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.

Sweat Equity 120

Sweat Equity Advisory Board Liquidity Event Startup 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2013

The only path to any return for equity investments is a liquidity event, like a merger or acquisition (M&A), or IPO. That’s why investors want to hear about your exit strategy. Build a path to 10x return. If you don’t have one, or intend to buy out investors with their own money, you probably won’t get much interest.

Liquidity Event 243

Liquidity Event Startup Equity Venture Capital 243

Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

Here are the ten slides you need: Problem and market need. Make sure to communicate the relevance of your product / services to market needs. Define the characteristics of the overall industry, market forces, market dynamics, and customer landscape. Investors like $1B markets with double-digit growth rates.

Elevator Pitch 146

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 146

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.”

Business Plan 182

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

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.”

Business Plan 186

Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

Gust

AUGUST 10, 2014

The only path to any return for equity investments is a liquidity event, like a merger or acquisition (M&A), or IPO. Thats why investors want to hear about your exit strategy. Build a path to 10x return. If you dont have one, or intend to buy out investors with their own money, you probably wont get much interest.

Liquidity Event 176

Liquidity Event Equity Venture Capital Merger 176

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

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Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

” The complete story includes a startup-within-a-startup, investments and exits by two VC firms, and some genuine corporate drama. Because Intermix was a publicly traded company (AMEX: MIX), the related SEC filings and their exhibits, including the 81-page proxy statement and 42-page merger agreement, make for good bedtime reading.

Valuation 98

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 10, 2011

I then discuss the journey to search for a product distributor who would become my business partner, how and where I found one, as well as the establishment of the e-commerce portal itself. PPC marketing can be very exciting, addictive and lethal at the same time. Take your time in selecting your partner.

Technical Review 71

Technical Review PPC Due Diligence Exit Strategy 71

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.

SEO 86

SEO PPC America Design 86

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

Right out of Graduate School, I started my career with one of the big four accounting firms in their M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions) practice. 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. Where do I get the money to invest in the markets?

Internet 80

Internet Technical Review Stock Due Diligence 80

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 2, 2021

Investors and entrepreneurs are very excited about the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) model as an exit strategy for private companies. Reinvent Technology Partners. Reinvent Technology Partners (RTP) is one of the most important SPACs poised to achieve big things in gaming. Burgundy Technology Acquisition.

AJAX 90

AJAX Early Stage Acquisition Merger 90