Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Most startup founders already do this, rather than take a salary, to improve their offering. As soon as you bring in investors, they force you to plan for an exit (merger or sale) in three to five years. Understanding your business totally will give you much better operational control. Reinvest gross profit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2013

Most startup founders already do this, rather than take a salary, to improve their offering. As soon as you bring in investors, they force you to plan for an exit (merger or sale) in three to five years. Understanding your business totally will give you much better operational control. Reinvest gross profit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Most startup founders already do this, rather than take a salary, to improve their offering. As soon as you bring in investors, they force you to plan for an exit (merger or sale) in three to five years. Understanding your business totally will give you much better operational control. Reinvest gross profit. Marty Zwilling.

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Gust

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Most startup founders already do this, rather than take a salary, to improve their offering. As soon as you bring in investors, they force you to plan for an exit (merger or sale) in three to five years. Understanding your business totally will give you much better operational control. Reinvest gross profit.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2017

And as the Internal Revenue Service continues to wage war against fraud and identity theft, filing clean, complete returns is key — especially as your business scales. Filing taxes seems straightforward initially: There’s online software to keep founders from misplacing a figure. Growth Leads to Complexity.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

He is a co-founder and managing partner of Relationship Impact , a consulting firm focused on helping great leaders build great leadership teams. So I helped, I was one of his first employees and wound up becoming the chief operating officer and running part of the firm and we grew at our peak to around 50 people or so. Knock on wood.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. There was no repeatable methodology, startups and their VC’s still operated like startups were simply a smaller version of a large company. 1970 – 1995: The Golden Age.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Office and Operations. Last spring, Dave Graham , founder of software consulting firm Arizona Bay, learned that a major client, Jumpstart Automotive Media, had been acquired for more than $80 million. Even with the turmoil in the capital markets in the second half of 2007, it was another record year for merger and acquisition activity.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The TL;DR answer to the stock option question is that MySpace options were cashed out at modest value at the time of the FIM merger, coming on the heels of the spin-out of MySpace into a separate subsidiary by parent company Intermix Media, with an infusion of new capital from Redpoint Ventures. MySpace became its own company, MySpace, Inc.,

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2018

Marks, founder and managing partner of High Rock Partners and author of “ Middle Market M & A: Handbook for Investment Banking and Business Consulting “ Conventional wisdom says that a company grows by reaching new customers, increasing its workforce, expanding marketing or launching new products or services. by Kenneth H.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Google realized that being the way to find the world’s information was a blitzscalable market, thanks to the network effects in its AdWords revenue engine. Paul’s track record as a serial entrepreneur was far more impressive than either Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick or Lyft co-founder Logan Green. Of course not.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Founders who avoid the use of the term “profit” had better have deep pockets of their own. Investors look for a team with business, financial, marketing, and operational skills, as well as a social passion. Zappos, impressively, has given away 26 million pairs of shoes in 127 countries and all 50 states.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 14, 2011

Raul’s contribution to PetsMD as a member of our Advisory Board for the last year has been outstanding,” said Tina Cannon Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer. While at 3M, he was promoted to Global Business Manager, where he headed a 3M Electronics business with over $100 Million in revenue, 380 employees and seven factories.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Revolution is a “stage agnostic&# fund (means they invest early or late) funded entirely by Steve Case , the founder of AOL and co-founded by two other individuals, Tige Savage (yes, pronounced like the golfer, minus the “r&# ) and Donn Davis. You had a very interesting perspective on the AOL/Time Warner merger.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Interestingly enough, CooTek’s co-founder and CEO, Michael Wong , who was formerly from Microsoft’s R&D unit, took an unconventional route by launching in the Western market first. Even if a mobile app developer manages to cross the distribution hurdle and starts raking in some revenue, the next challenge is even worse: getting copied.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In November of this year, the company announced that it had achieved “substantially” more than $1B in revenue in the third quarter. Assuming a marketplace rake of something like 11%, this would imply gross room revenue of over $9B for the quarter — which would be $36B annualized. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Yet we used the product development model not only to manage product development, but as a road map for finding customers and to time our marketing launch and sales revenue plan. Assuming no early liquidity (via an IPO or merger) for the company, more fund raising is required. We had no clue what our market was when we first started.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2024

A billion dollar valuation, the Unicorn status was once the holy grail for many VCs and founders. M&A/ Exits – This situation is compounded by a narrowing window for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and initial public offerings (IPOs).

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

billion a 125% increased compared to the equivalent period in 2020, the number of Unicorns, private companies valued at $1 billion or more has grown significantly, with several companies achieving “Decacorn” status – achieving valuations of $10 billion and up, including eToro , soon to complete a SPAC merger, and Rapyd payments.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

Social media audiences have effectively become another universe of prospects to tap, which means measurement and tracking is essential to yielding from these visitors both direct and indirect revenue. PaidContent.org Founder Launches Travel Media and Data Company. Operations. Mergers and Acquisitions. Art/Creative/Design.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. I’m taking a 52 week course in how to start up, run, operate, and achieve self employment. and Google.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The top 100 SaaS companies in Europe and Israel The European Software-as-a-Service world changed forever when Daniel Dines, the founder of UiPath, made the cover of Forbes as ‘Boss of the Bots’ last month. Companies above that revenue threshold and with high growth rate have made our ‘Champions League’ (see full presentation).

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2018

Jonathon Karelse is co-founder and a partner at NorthFind Partners, a Canadian-based, global consultancy that helps businesses transform through the use of data driven analytics, forecasting and planning, and change management strategies. But Jonathon Karelse says they couldn’t be more wrong.

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