Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue).

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Internal Revenue Service and Canada Revenue Agency both allow small business owners to write off or deduct the funds and intellectual property that they dedicate toward nonprofit causes and initiatives. That’s where a governing body comes in. As you move closer to opening day, clarify how you’ll generate revenue.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

My company is an intellectual property holding company, but it ultimately aims to accelerate and regulate the utilization of regenerative technology. Sure, a company’s goal may be to generate a revenue, but corporate purpose focuses on a business’s aspirations beyond that. Etsy is a great example of this.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue).

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Likewise, founders can benefit from understanding basic characteristics of the overall legal structure, formation and governance documents, rights and responsibilities of team members, etc. Stepping off the soapbox, let’s examine the highest level “To Do” list for a new startup: Formation, Governance and Equity. Newco, Inc.”)

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Early Growth Financial Services

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Mistake #1: Not vetting the name of your business/product/service before you begin using it. By vetting I mean conducting a thorough trademark search before you invest large sums of money in the name of your business, product or thingamabob. Mistake #6: Not protecting your valuable intellectual property.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

In case you don’t know, many of them of have the pleasure of only paying 1% tax on their revenue. Their ‘so called’ profit numbers are much lower than you’d expect them to be based on their revenues. So low, that you’d probably close down the business if your profit to revenue ratios ever got that low. tax on $10 of revenue.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Once you decide on your legal business structure, be sure to register with the government (typically your state and sometimes, your municipality) and the IRS. Insurance can cover property damage, theft, intellectual property lawsuits, and other incidents. Also, many photography businesses tend to work on a contract.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

12:22] Would you look at the value derived by digital technologies differently than by producing customer value or revenue? [14:23] And their question for us was how should they organize and govern those and prioritize them and resource them and so on. It sort of gives the field almost a bad name, right? It's just right.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

At the top of the page, right under your business name, include a one-sentence overview of your business that sums up the essence of what you are doing. Intellectual Property : Again, this mostly applies to technology and scientific ventures. The critical components of a winning executive summary. One sentence business overview.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2012

Here are the key ones: Real intellectual property. Others of lesser value include trademarks, trade secrets, unique domain names, long-term contracts, and copyrights. Investors will look at turnover rates, cost of acquisition, and revenue streams. A dynamic product line, rather than a single product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2011

Here are the key ones: Real intellectual property. Others of lesser value include trademarks, trade secrets, unique domain names, long-term contracts, and copyrights. Investors will look at turnover rates, cost of acquisition, and revenue streams. A dynamic product line, rather than a single product.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 14, 2019

How do I name my real estate business? Once you decide on your legal business structure, be sure to register with the government (typically your state and sometimes, your municipality) and the IRS. Insurance can cover property damage, theft, intellectual property lawsuits, and other incidents.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The first half of my career was very traditional law practice, big law in New York City, federal government. Jamie Lieberman: When I stopped working at the government, I started up a blog again because I thought it might be kind of fun. That’s your intellectual property. John Jantsch: So true. They have some stuff.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If you work your way down the Forbes 400 making an x next to the name of each person with an MBA, youll learn something importantabout business school. Oneof the worst things that can happen to a startup is to run into intellectual property problems. A rich companyis one with large revenues. This money isnt revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2010

Here are some of the key ones: Real intellectual property. Others of lesser value include trademarks, trade secrets, unique domain names, long-term contracts, and copyrights. Investors will look at turnover rates, cost of acquisition, and revenue streams. A dynamic product line, rather than a single product.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. A big-name VC firm will not screwyou too outrageously, because other founders would avoid them ifword got out. When we got into such a scrape, our investorstook advantage of it in a way that a name-brand VC probably wouldnthave. Thats where the name"incubator" comes from.

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Up and Running

JULY 17, 2015

To make your research a little easier, we’ve scoured a number of government websites and compiled a list of laws and regulations that affect every business. Start by calling your local city government. You’ll want to read the FTC guidelines and check with your state’s revenue agency to make sure you comply with the law.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

So here it is: for all the privacy invasions, security risks and and fundamental changes in our personal and domestic domains, this is what these companies* generate in revenue: Google – about $150 a year per person. But this didn’t stop the Government having the courage back then to take it and put the industry in public hands.

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