NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Addressing real world problems, they thrive in uncertainty, generating new jobs and new revenue streams in new markets. Generating liquidity usually entails either selling the venture or an IPO. It is our startup sector which will drive this innovative progress. Startup founders are our ambitious problem solvers. pivot the business.

Technical Review 88

Technical Review Software Review New Zealand Due Diligence 88

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2015

Thus I’m getting more questions on new mechanisms, like crowd funding, or going public through the backdoor as a reverse merger. It better be an established company, with millions of dollars in annual revenue and profits, following generally accepted accounting, reporting, and audit procedures. Yet reverse mergers are not all bad.

Merger 120

Merger OTC IPO Due Diligence 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Investors know that the fun of a startup turns into managing production processes, sales processes, and personnel in a few years. IPO – public company initial public stock offering. Investors hesitate to invest under these conditions. Most entrepreneurs like the startup role, but not the big-company role.

Exit Strategy 264

Exit Strategy Private Equity Equity Technical Review 264

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2012

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.

Elevator Pitch 247

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 247

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. In this section, you need to be passionate about revenue, profit, and volume growth. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Exit strategy.

Business Plan 283

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 283

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

All startups, including non-profits, need revenue to thrive, such as such as from subscriptions, retail, online, licensing, or services. They want to see revenue to share in the return. Include marketing, sales, and customer rollout plans. Here I recommend a 5-year projection of revenues, expenses, and funding requirements.

Business Plan 423

Business Plan Product Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch 423

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2020

Investors know that the fun of a startup turns into managing production processes, sales processes, and personnel in a few years. IPO – public company initial public stock offering. Investors hesitate to invest under these conditions. Most entrepreneurs like the startup role, but not the big-company role.

Exit Strategy 376

Exit Strategy Startup Private Equity Equity 376

Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. Startup lifecycle in an IPO Market. Until 1995 startups going public typically had a track record of revenue and profits. Netscape’s 1995 IPO changed the rules. Here’s why. Source: NVCA.).

Venture Capital 299

Venture Capital IPO Liquidity Event Entrepreneur 299

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.

Elevator Pitch 234

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 234

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. In this section, you need to be passionate about revenue, profit, and volume growth. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Exit strategy.

Business Plan 290

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

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. Lesser amounts remain in the angel realm. Growth stage. Exit stage.

Investment Bankers 241

Investment Bankers Venture Capital Startup Initial Public Offering 241

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2010

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.

Elevator Pitch 235

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 235

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

Sweat Equity 120

Sweat Equity Advisory Board Liquidity Event Startup 120

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. 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.

IPO 242

IPO Venture Capital Private Placement Cofounder 242

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. Lesser amounts remain in the angel realm. Growth stage. Exit stage.

Investment Bankers 231

Investment Bankers Venture Capital Startup Initial Public Offering 231

Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

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.

Elevator Pitch 146

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 146

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

IPOs by year, 1980-2011, with pre-IPO last 12-month sales less than (small firms) or greater than (large firms) $50 million (2009 purchasing power). But it could affect one thing right away: the level of buzz and information surrounding young IPOs, which no longer have to keep mum. Number of U.S. Credit: Prof.

IPO 121

IPO Startup Florida Seed Capital 121

Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. In this section, you need to be passionate about revenue, profit, and volume growth. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Exit strategy.

Business Plan 182

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

Gust

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

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. Lesser amounts remain in the angel realm. Growth stage. Exit stage.

Venture Capital 171

Venture Capital Investment Bankers Angel Investor Initial Public Offering 171

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. Read on for a fuller explanation.

Valuation 98

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. In this section, you need to be passionate about revenue, profit, and volume growth. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it requires at least 100M users and $50M investment. Exit strategy.

Business Plan 186

Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Investors know that the fun of a startup turns into managing production processes, sales processes, and personnel in a few years. IPO – public company initial public stock offering. entrepreneur exit IPO lifestyle m&a startup' Investors hesitate to invest under these conditions. You can kick-off your next startup.

Exit Strategy 289

Exit Strategy Entrepreneur IPO Startup 289

BeyondVC

APRIL 1, 2004

I was with a banker today talking about the influx of new IPO filings and the end result of our discussion was the following: 1. Performance is key-revenue visibility is of utmost importance because the street does not forgive. You need good recurring maintenance revenue. The stock now trades at $8.34.

Software Review 60

Software Review IPO Merger Revenue 60

Gust

MAY 24, 2012

Dual-class voting structures are receiving a lot of attention these days along with intense publicity related to the Facebook IPO , following in the wake of other recent tech IPOs with a similar structure such as Zynga and LinkedIn.

IPO 159

IPO Equity Common Stock Stock 159

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

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. Zappos, impressively, has given away 26 million pairs of shoes in 127 countries and all 50 states.

Intellectual Property 48

Intellectual Property Initial Public Offering Merger Acquisition 48

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Blitzscaling is a strategic technique for moving faster, not a reckless gamble.

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

This requires a visible focus on the company’s revenue model, the costs to get there, and cash on hand. 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). Funding risk.

Cram Down 269

Cram Down Angel Investor Intellectual Property Venture Capital 269

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2016

Investors know that the fun of a startup turns into managing production processes, sales processes, and personnel in a few years. IPO – public company initial public stock offering. Investors hesitate to invest under these conditions. Most entrepreneurs like the startup role, but not the big-company role.

Equity 120

Equity Exit Strategy Private Equity Startup 120

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.

Silicon Valley 263

Silicon Valley Product Startup Product Development 263

Jason Ball

JANUARY 24, 2011

This picture says it all: Average exit valuations have returned to pre-recession levels, above 2x sales, and are outstripping the ratios seen in recent years. In the UK, the highest multiple was Moneybookers, which sold at 9x sales. Remember that Playfish was acquired by EA in 2009 for $300M, which was reported to be 4x revenues.).

IPO 33

IPO Valuation Acquisition Portfolio 33

Berkonomics

JUNE 4, 2015

I have a positive fetish for recurring revenue. Especially for a provider of a virtual good or service, costs of goods sold do not scale with sales, as they do in the real world. In the virtual world, a much higher percentage of incremental revenue falls straight to the bottom line.

Revenue 48

Revenue Acquisition Houston Merger 48

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

IPO market. There are a number of trends concerning IPOs and capital formation to note: First, the raw number of IPOs has declined significantly: From 1980-2000, the US averaged roughly 300 IPOs per year; from 2001-2016, the average fell to 108 per year. In the first quarter of 2021 alone, SPACs raised $87.9

SEC 36

SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36