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. In most cases there is a direct correlation between the quality of your decisions and the size of your revenue stream.

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Bootstrapping Startup Merger Salary 278

Guy Nirpaz

DECEMBER 12, 2011

In a successful Client Lifecycle program, the leaders in departments such of Sales, Marketing, Product Management and Client Services all have a role to play at some point. The Executive owner is often the most senior client-facing (post-sale) executive. This blog was first posted at ServiceVantage by Jeff Bennett, Founder and CEO.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 20, 2013

In 2008 I was working on a post-merger integration project for a small company being acquired by a Fortune 100 behemoth. We looked at several SaaS based systems for accounting, sales automation, calendaring, product management, scheduling our company airplane, travel, etc. You know it will happen. >

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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. In most cases there is a direct correlation between the quality of your decisions and the size of your revenue stream.

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Equity Bootstrapping Startup Merger 241

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. Take sales tax, for instance.

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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. Quantify founder investments, both cash and sweat-equity. What are your forecasts for revenue, expenses and cash flow?

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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. In most cases there is a direct correlation between the quality of your decisions and the size of your revenue stream.

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Bootstrapping Merger Salary .Net 240

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2011

In this section, you need to be passionate about recurring revenue, profit margin, and volume growth. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. Competition and sustainable advantage.

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Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 234

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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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. In most cases there is a direct correlation between the quality of your decisions and the size of your revenue stream.

Bootstrapping 176

Bootstrapping Startup Merger Salary 176

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2010

At this stage, your startup better be selling a commercial offering, have price and cost validated, with significant customer sales and a real revenue stream. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Tags: entrepreneurs founders startup stages investors business. Growth stage.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. SALES & MARKETING. 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. The Goods: Your Business Toolbox | Thursdays. Finance | Tuesdays. Innovation | Fridays. Newsletters.

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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. ” We’re looking at each other trying to get the next sale. Jack McGuinness: Our sales, our pipeline is much smoother or robust, I guess you would call it. Knock on wood.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

Until 1995 startups going public typically had a track record of revenue and profits. Suddenly there was a public market for companies with limited revenue and no profit. The size of the red bars (IPO’s) versus blue (mergers and acquisitions) illustrates that while venture-backed startups did get acquired, the IPO market was booming.

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Venture Capital IPO Liquidity Event Entrepreneur 302

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. How to investment banks help with the M&A (mergers & acquisitions) process? million from Trinity Ventures, Founder Collective, Highline Ventures, NextNew Ventures.

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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. It probably had more to do with the fact that they had doubled their sales annually for several years, and still managed to squeeze out a profit of $11M in their year of acquisition. Includes balanced and hard-hitting marketing and sales.

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Intellectual Property Initial Public Offering Merger Acquisition 48

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.

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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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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. Marketing starts to build a sales demo, writes sales materials (presentations, data sheets), and hires a PR agency. Marketing is at its peak.

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Federated shares Lijit’s focus on publishers (“the best of the independent web”), but unlike Lijit, who helps publishers generate revenue through better monitizing their non-premium inventory, Federated sells unique, high value premium inventory across their federated group of publishers. The fit is a natural one.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

VC Adventure

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Federated shares Lijit’s focus on publishers (“the best of the independent web”), but unlike Lijit, who helps publishers generate revenue through better monitizing their non-premium inventory, Federated sells unique, high value premium inventory across their federated group of publishers. The fit is a natural one.

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Denver Acquisition Channel Advertising 48

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In its most recent quarter, the company processed the exchange of $923 million of sales, which equates to a $3.6B In 2017, the company reported sales of over $500 million. In November of this year, the company announced that it had achieved “substantially” more than $1B in revenue in the third quarter. annual GMV.

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

Some commentators have suggested this is the wave of the future, signifying a shift in the balance of power from investors to founders of the relatively small, elite group of growth companies that make it to public markets. Options and warrants, when issued, are also typically exercisable for shares of Common Stock.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

Sales & Marketing. --> Bloggers. --> Resources. 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. City & Regionals.

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