YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 9, 2019

It Helps Secure Secondary Revenue Streams. When you do this, you collect royalties, sales agreements, or many other models that will generate income for you by allowing other companies to utilize your intellectual property. You Can Use Your IP Rights For Leverage.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. You own the IP you create. You’re a small fish. This team is talented.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

And a boost toward a faster timeline and better probability of a business sale at an exciting price. Company Scenario #2: A company with a solid revenue base - say more than $5 million in sales - but competes in an industry not one of great, current interest to buyers / investors. A boost toward better financial results.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. Now that my new career is in the personal finance industry, I’m helping women tame their money. An interesting aside: revenue continued at old levels, even after slashing work hours by 60%). Buttercloth was born.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

If companies lose substantial revenues to chargebacks, they may have to pass those losses on to consumers. Claw Back Revenues By Winning Disputes Unfortunately, some merchants are unfairly targeted by people looking to abuse the chargeback process. Thankfully, there are steps that merchants can also take to recoup losses.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

Some networks are highly sophisticated, and organisers disguise their IP addresses. If you conduct some intricate research (detailed below), you may be able to identify the IP address of competing businesses. Loads of PPC platforms ( Google Ads included) allow you to blacklist IP addresses. . Block sketchy IP addresses.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Social media campaigns can be incredibly effective means of boosting sales and increasing reach to targeted markets. If you own the IP on a particular technology or information product, then you can create licensing agreements for other businesses to sell your product for you. 2 License Your Product. Finding Funding for Your Growth.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

For angel groups, the distinction between groups and VCs on this issue is dwindling, especially as angel groups do bigger rounds of financing.   Note that this applies only to earl stage Series A-type equity financings and assumes no cash dividends are paid to investors. . Let’s start at the end.   First , dividends.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Of all your hires, if you have commissioned sales people, those will give you the most problems if they’re not all given an equal chance to make their quotas and achieve their personal earnings goals. Messy cap tables can come back to haunt you when you do a financing or sell the company. You’ve just got to listen. Not really.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Venture Financing. Company generates revenue via premium accounts, targeted ads and transaction commission. Revenue of ~$160mm in 2008. Watch the show! students. -Is

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

In SaaS the main benchmarks being measured are revenue growth, sales efficiency (unit economics), churn and burn rate. Example of Baremetrics revenue per user benchmarks. Part of the challenge in deep tech is getting to revenue and scaling it. Rob Go: How Much Traction Do You Really Need to Raise a Seed or Series A Round?

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

General Marketing, Sales Funnel, etc. B-to-B versus B-to-C channels and sales (business to business versus business to consumer). Channel incentives – does your product or proposition extend or replace existing revenue for the channel? Class Lecture/Out of the Building Assignment: What’s a revenue model? How many people?

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

From choosing a legal entity or jurisdiction to properly documenting IP assignments and stock issuances to complying with securities laws and avoiding potentially enormous tax penalties in the future, there is plenty here to warrant consulting a professional. Sales contracts accounting for significant revenue.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

During the down market they were able to double down on recruiting, sales, outsourcing, new market entries and marketing (yes, with Tiger ads ). Since that date the S&P 500 is up 2.45% while Accenture stock is up 206% with revenue of $23 billion and a market cap of $32 billion. Double-down on great people, process & IP.

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Early Growth Financial Services

DECEMBER 1, 2014

On this Cyber Monday, I wanted to share an important article from my dear friend and trusted IP lawyer Rachel Rodgers. Mistake #2: Not separating your business and personal finances. No accounts should be shared between your business and personal finances. The legal mistakes can be especially egregious, and costly.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Even worse, DVD sales were starting to lag, and a Hollywood backlash further muddied the situation. To be specific, AdWords is currently 16 years old, and last year alone it generated well over $50B in revenue. This solution clearly differentiated for the sales team, and also ensured quality search results, whether paid or organic.

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OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 3, 2010

It’s an important topic — as entrepreneurs build businesses, they frequently end up creating new revenue opportunities and go off on productive tangents. Even if they are good businesses, the overall enterprise might benefit from the focus or cash provided by a sale. Magazine in this article earlier this year.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

That's why the Corona Initiative is a Public Benefit Corporation--a for-profit company dedicated to the public good that aims to fund its research with its revenues. He worked as an engineer and then went into finance for many years and then was recruited to be president of a biotech company, diagnostics company.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

You’ll usually get assigned a contact in the ad sales organization at Facebook or Google once you start spending big bucks. When is the right time to diversify your sales channel mix? Will your sales follow seasonal or cyclical trends? Certain products have natural seasonality in sales— e.g. swimwear?—?and

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blog.simeonov.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

It outlines key points of agreement between founders around IP ownership, equity ownership, vesting, etc. For example, without a clear vehicle (a company) to contribute intellectual property into, a founder who walks away may mean that the future company won’t own its own IP. An email would do. The FastIgnite one is two pages.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

His quote on the subject, "no amount of finance will cure mismanagement". flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. Ran if for two years before we shut it down with almost no revenue achieved. From the link: Oh, and what was the company?

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

And like the LITERATI, professionals we work with are educated on how to market their business in order to increase revenue opportunities. I also wanted to future proof my business – to position it for growth, and ultimately sale, so giving it my name was out of the question. Thanks to Anita O’Malley, Leadarati ! #16-

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Voyager’s cognitive-computing, deep-insights platform assesses billions of publicly available, unstructured data points to provide insights for its clients in finance, retail and consulting. Voyager Labs (2012) – cognitive computing for understanding human behaviour. Javelin has just announced its $5M series A in February 2017.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

The movie business of today is all "pre-sold" IP. revenues from internet video services spanning user-generated content to television shows and movies will exceed $7 billion this year. What is the future for good-old fashioned DVD rentals and sales? Toy Story 3? Karate Kid 3? Iron Man 2? Sex and The City 2? The A-Team?

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Do that – nothing else but one product / company / focus and get to $1M in sales with atleast $15% net profit. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

It became clear to me that the mission of marketing in most companies has to be to support sales. While this may seem obvious to anyone not in sales and marketing, trust me, in a technology company this is a conceptual breakthrough. But without sales there is no revenue, and without revenue there is no company.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Another assumption is that you’ve actually conducted due diligence on your own business, and these are the areas of your team, financials, your competition, your IP, market trends, because the best pitches I’ve ever delivered were when investors were raising their hands and asking me questions about, “How is your IP protected?”

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

The Point The point of The Software Product Myth is that at some point you are going to have too few sales to support yourself monetarily, yet too much work to fit comfortably into your evenings and weekends. This way you can keep the sales funnel rolling when your knee deep coding. #7 7 Drew on 01.08.09 8 Seb G on 01.08.09

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ConversionXL

APRIL 12, 2017

No, the first 2% is more valuable in terms of revenue. Create a revenue forecast before you even run the experiment. Long copy” doesn’t mean “long form sales page”. There’s a time and place for long form sales pages. You need to track the right revenue goals. 10K / 1M = 1%. Are both created equal? book a hotel).

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