Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2014

Aggressive revenue projections and growth rate. Revenue in the fifth year should be at least $20 million, with a growth rate average of 100% per year. In other words, revenue projections are not the place to be too conservative or wildly optimistic. Show red ink to match your funding request.

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Liquidity Event Equity Venture Capital Merger 249

Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2019

The high cost of marketing, salaries, appliances, ambiance, and so on will dry up incoming revenue instantly. And it would help to remember that profitability isn’t going to be gained from revenue generated by occasional or casual dining. Attend events to scout for any opportunities of vertical and horizontal mergers and tie-ups.

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Technical Review SBA Merger Customer 86

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2013

Aggressive revenue projections and growth rate. Revenue in the fifth year should be at least $20 million, with a growth rate average of 100% per year. In other words, revenue projections are not the place to be too conservative or wildly optimistic. Show red ink to match your funding request.

Liquidity Event 243

Liquidity Event Startup Equity Venture Capital 243

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2012

In this section, you need to be passionate about recurring revenue, profit margin, and volume growth. Make sure your marketing budget matches the scope of your plan. Project both revenues and expense totals for next five years, and past three years. You need data from industry experts like Forrester or Gartner for credibility.

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Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 247

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

The decision is yours as to how you package up your offering in a way that matches your goals. Is third-year revenue of $10M good or bad? Those milestones may be revenue, profit, product release, signed partner agreements, key hires, or any other steps that show a venture is achieving liftoff and is ready to scale.

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Term Sheet Technical Review Due Diligence Merger 48

Gust

AUGUST 10, 2014

Aggressive revenue projections and growth rate. Revenue in the fifth year should be at least $20 million, with a growth rate average of 100% per year. In other words, revenue projections are not the place to be too conservative or wildly optimistic. Show red ink to match your funding request. Build a path to 10x return.

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Liquidity Event Equity Venture Capital Merger 176

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2011

In this section, you need to be passionate about recurring revenue, profit margin, and volume growth. Make sure your marketing budget matches the scope of your plan. Project both revenues and expense totals for next five years, and past three years. You need data from industry experts like Forrester or Gartner for credibility.

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Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 234

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2010

In this section, you need to be passionate about recurring revenue, profit margin, and volume growth. Make sure your marketing budget matches the scope of your plan. Project both revenues and expense totals for next five years, and past three years. Use data from industry experts like Forrester or Gartner for credibility.

Elevator Pitch 235

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 235

Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

In this section, you need to be passionate about recurring revenue, profit margin, and volume growth. Make sure your marketing budget matches the scope of your plan. Project both revenues and expense totals for next five years, and past three years. You need data from industry experts like Forrester or Gartner for credibility.

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Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 146

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2015

With a proper Gutsball mindset, an organization can not only match those values and meet those needs, but deliver above and beyond performance when compared to previous experiences with business relationships anywhere. billion in annual revenue. A customer is a customer for life. Share the wealth with those who create it.

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Merger Leadership Employee Matching 100

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 299

Up and Running

JULY 22, 2014

It’s a table that lists all of your revenue streams and all of your expenses—typically for a three-month period—and lists at the very bottom the total amount of net profit or loss. A typical profit and loss statement should include: your revenue (also called sales), followed by. how you make money.

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Balance Sheet Forecast Equity .Net 148

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services.

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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

Here are the top five, as outlined by Rice in his book, which match my own experience: Management team. This requires a visible focus on the company’s revenue model, the costs to get there, and cash on hand. That means merger and acquisition (M&A), not initial public offering (IPO). They bet on the jockey, not the horse.

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Cram Down Angel Investor Intellectual Property Venture Capital 269

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Each stage needs a clearly defined set of objectives, and the right team to match those objectives. In Stage 2, the corporation adds venture capital and/or mergers-and-acquisition teams to provide these functions. Stage 1: Networking and Partnering – the Technology Connectors. Who will lead this new effort?

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Silicon Valley Incubator Acquisition Business Model 120

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. There is no such thing as a company that generates billions of dollars of revenue with a team of less than 10 people. But unless Airbnb agreed to a merger, it had only two options.

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Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

For example, Google’s acquisition of Nest (which had customers, revenue and a distribution channel) allowed it to enter the connected home market immediately. W hat would be the charter for our Innovation Outpost?

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Silicon Valley Acquisition Boston Early Stage 120

Hearpreneur

JULY 21, 2019

Never before has a demographic had health and vitality, wisdom and life experience and the pocketbook to match. Corporate mergers, advanced technologies, and robots will inevitably shake up the economic landscape. Women over 50 are creating an entirely new economy while creating more new businesses than any other demographic.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Merger 118

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Small” IPOs — companies with less than $50m in annual revenue at the time of IPO – have declined from more than 50% of all IPOs in the 1980-2000 timeframe to about 25% of IPOs from 2001-2016; Companies are staying private much longer — the median time to IPO from founding hovered around 6.5

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