Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2020

Yet one of the first things a potential equity investor asks about is your exit strategy. Here are three important reasons for the question: Good investment paybacks normally require an exit event. Investors know that the fun of a startup turns into managing production processes, sales processes, and personnel in a few years.

Exit Strategy 376

Exit Strategy Startup Private Equity Equity 376

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2012

Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. Exit strategy. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)? What is the timeframe for the exit?

Elevator Pitch 247

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 247

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2011

Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. Exit strategy. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)? What is the timeframe for the exit?

Elevator Pitch 234

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 234

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. Exit strategy. For a family business, don’t project an exit.

Business Plan 283

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 283

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

billion for a company with less than $50 million in sales. The Rise of Mergers and Acquisitions -– March 2003 -2008 After the dot.com bubble collapsed, the IPO market (and most tech M&A deals) shutdown for technology companies. On its first day of trading, Netscape stock closed at $58/share, valuing the company at $2.7

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2010

Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. Exit strategy. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)? What is the timeframe for the exit?

Elevator Pitch 235

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 235

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. Exit strategy. For a family business, don’t project an exit.

Business Plan 290

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

What are your specific marketing and sales plans? You need to identify pricing details, sales channels, strategic partners and a customized marketing plan consistent with your industry and target segment. Technically, this is your exit strategy, usually a merger and acquisition (M&A) or initial public stock offering (IPO).

Sweat Equity 120

Sweat Equity Advisory Board Liquidity Event Startup 120

Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. Exit strategy. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)? What is the timeframe for the exit?

Elevator Pitch 146

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 146

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

Include marketing, sales, and customer rollout plans. Set specific targets on the sales channels and marketing initiatives you need, including the use of social media, brand building, franchising, trade shows, affiliates, and distributors. Outline a viable exit strategy for you and investors.

Business Plan 423

Business Plan Product Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch 423

Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. Exit strategy. For a family business, don’t project an exit.

Business Plan 182

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. Exit strategy. For a family business, don’t project an exit.

Business Plan 186

Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Yet one of the first things a potential equity investor asks about is your exit strategy. Here are three important reasons for the question: Good investment paybacks normally require an exit event. Investors know that the fun of a startup turns into managing production processes, sales processes, and personnel in a few years.

Exit Strategy 289

Exit Strategy Entrepreneur IPO Startup 289

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

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Pricing Strategy. Exit Strategies. Strategy and Planning. SALES & MARKETING. Even with the turmoil in the capital markets in the second half of 2007, it was another record year for merger and acquisition activity. The Goods: Your Business Toolbox | Thursdays.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

Exit strategy. What’s most realistic these days is an exit via sale to an existing major company for which you solve a meaningful problem. That means merger and acquisition (M&A), not initial public offering (IPO). Shooting for that sort of exit over a three to five year period is usually the best strategy.

Cram Down 269

Cram Down Angel Investor Intellectual Property Venture Capital 269

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2016

Yet one of the first things a potential equity investor asks about is your exit strategy. Here are three important reasons for the question: Good investment paybacks normally require an exit event. Investors know that the fun of a startup turns into managing production processes, sales processes, and personnel in a few years.

Equity 120

Equity Exit Strategy Private Equity Startup 120

YFS Magazine

MARCH 12, 2018

We knew if we could continue to double our sales, we could hold off, keep scaling the business, and in the end be in a much better place to sell. And we did just that.

Acquisition 110

Acquisition Sales Exit Strategy Merger 110

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2016

The most important thing that you can in order to maximize the sales price of your e-commerce business is to widen your profit margin as much as you can. The final sales price is directly proportional to your annual profit, so the higher your profit, the higher your sales price. What Not to Do.

Valuation 100

Valuation Sales Web Small Business 100

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.

Technical Review 71

Technical Review PPC Due Diligence Exit Strategy 71

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. The realization of my idea started on an international trip when I was working as a consultant in mergers and acquisitions. My business concept was one based on volume (sales), and not product margin (profit per item sold).

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. Not to mention the quarter million dollar sale of the business as our exit. It was an unplanned, but profitable exit strategy for us.

Internet 80

Internet Technical Review Stock Due Diligence 80