Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2021

Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes. By definition, angels are accredited investors, who invest their own money for a percentage of the business. Each has met legal securities minimums for net worth and professionalism, to reduce the risk to entrepreneurs.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

ABM is a company-wide strategic approach to finding and converting specific accounts that add long-term value to your business, both financially and through industry standing and pulling power. Where lead generation casts a wide net, ABM uses a spear to target and catch the best fish. Winning high-value clients with ABM.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

This structure offers some of the benefits of traditional equity VC, without some of the negatives of equity VC. I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. We don’t have any equity or control over the business….”. “As

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

The Enterprise: Business Model Execution We know that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. The corollary for an enterprise is: A company is a permanent organization designed to execute a repeatable and scalable business model.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

But next the question is, ‘What happens to my business?”. The questions every startup or small business CEO needs to ask now are: What’s my Burn Rate and Runway? What does your new business model look like? Subtract your monthly gross burn rate from your monthly revenue to get your net burn rate. ” exercise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2019

This usually means not taking money from equity investors, since investors want fast growth, high profits, and an exit event, to allow investments to be recouped. Of course, even lifestyle entrepreneurs want to be happy, and want their business to be “successful.” Under all of these, net income flows easily into your personal income.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide. Trade equity or services for startup help. The process is long, but it doesn’t cost you any equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2019

To refresh your memory, angel investors are typically high net worth individuals, accredited by the SEC and willing to invest their own money in a high-potential startup for a share of the ownership. I think it’s great to have more options, but I still see each one having a place, so don’t be too quick to limit your alternatives.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 24, 2020

Given the current state of our economy, many young and business-minded individuals have begun using pandemic benefits as a safety net to begin a new business venture. Thanks to Mark Woodbury, Minerva Equity ! #12- We watched as they pivoted in their businesses, but realized people are pivoting in their lives as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide. Trade equity or services for startup help. The process is long, but it doesn’t cost you any equity.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2016

It’s also by far the greatest determinant of equity value, because it maximizes both revenue and the revenue multiple. Only by combining these metrics can you get a clear and true picture of the health of the business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2017

This usually means not taking money from equity investors, since investors want fast growth, high profits, and an exit event, to allow investments to be recouped. Of course, even lifestyle entrepreneurs want to be happy, and want their business to be “successful.” Under all of these, net income flows easily into your personal income.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

If you like this, go see his Shockwave Innovations blog ) Anyone that has taken an accounting class or learned basic business financials knows the interaction between key elements of a P&L (revenue, cost, expense) and a balance sheet (assets, liabilities, equity). How do you increase your average deal size?

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View from Seed

MAY 16, 2019

You can see this both by looking at a cohort “layer cake” graph or by examining the net dollar retention. Slack’s net dollar retention rate is an incredibly impressive 143%. Slack’s net dollar retention rate is decreasing, but is still a long way from dropping below 100%. So Slack generated $1.43

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

What’s more, there is a whole class of professional high frequency traders – responsible for 10-40% of global equity trading volume – who care deeply about 2 things: 1) the absolute fastest settlement time possible and 2) keeping custody of their funds until settlement. Ryan Gentry’s Toolkit for Heretical Web3 Developers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide. Trade equity or services for startup help. The process is long, but it doesn’t cost you any equity.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

This is a 3-day program for entrepreneurship faculty from around the world how to teach entrepreneurship via the Lean LaunchPad approach ( business model canvas + customer development ) and bring their entrepreneurship curriculums into the 21st century. The reality is that the United States is still a nation of small businesses.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 2, 2019

Marketers refer to this concept as brand equity. Many aspects help build brand equity, such as brand image, brand loyalty, and brand associations, to name only a few. Because of brand equity, promoting your brand is more important than ever before. Think back to brand equity. Long ago, the business model was far simpler.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

This seems like an easy topic – debt where there is appropriate cash flow, equity when there isn’t.    And, while debt is less costly than equity, it can bankrupt a company more quickly than more expensive equity might. Business success is the ultimate goal. .  This is an equity example, of course. 

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2018

Financial summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. First, your business plan laid out the opportunity at hand. Now is the time to lay out what you’ll do to attract patients and set up a viable business model with healthy financials. Be specific.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes. By definition, angels are accredited investors, who invest their own money for a percentage of the business. Each has met legal securities minimums for net worth and professionalism, to reduce the risk to entrepreneurs.

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Agile VC

MAY 16, 2019

You can see this both by looking at a cohort “layer cake” graph or by examining the net dollar retention. Slack’s net dollar retention rate is an incredibly impressive 143%. Slack’s net dollar retention rate is decreasing, but is still a long way from dropping below 100%. So Slack generated $1.43

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David Teten

AUGUST 21, 2019

Most founders who are raising capital look first to traditional equity VCs. Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use. Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? But should they? Optionality.

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Up and Running

JULY 22, 2014

A profit and loss statement is essentially an explanation of how your business made a profit (or incurred a loss) over a certain period of time. 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.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. (To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.).

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 19, 2012

I’m a big fan of simple charging models. There are plenty of successful companies that don’t have simple business models. Sometimes that is because there isn’t an obvious simple way to go – Facebook springs to mind as a great example.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

August 2010 Two years ago I wrote about what I called " a huge, unexploitedopportunity in startup funding :" the growing disconnect betweenVCs, whose current business model requires them to invest largeamounts, and a large class of startups that need less than theyused to. Get funded by Y Combinator. Indirectly, but they are.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

You're selling your culture, you're selling your client list, you're selling your business model, but that's it, you have no tangible also, you know, agencies, don't typically service clients in a localized market. I mean, in the agency space, there's no tangible assets. You're selling relationships with people. To do the fulfillment.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

This warning that investors should make sure they really understand the viability of a company caught my eye: In order to overcome such risks, [that the company has not found a profitable business model] the onus is on the investor to dive deep and unpack the actual unit economics in the underlying business. Amen to that.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2018

Innovative products and business models are the foundations of a promising startup. Creating a scalable business model. Whether you are hoping to expand a small business with a loan or going for a round of venture capital, you will need a scalable business model. Determining how much money to ask for.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 26, 2012

Turning to fashion, two British of the more successful British startups over the last five years, Net-a-Porter and ASOS , have built their businesses by blending content with commerce – i.e. a mixed media and retail business model where media offsets traditional marketing spend.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

As opposed to taking a potentially smart risk on equity). The risk-averse argument is that a strong network is a safety net. Networks are both safety nets and trampolines. What business schools can provide is an opportunity to learn a set of skills that can be helpful on the entrepreneurial journey.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

As opposed to taking a potentially smart risk on equity). The risk-averse argument is that a strong network is a safety net. Networks are both safety nets and trampolines. What business schools can provide is an opportunity to learn a set of skills that can be helpful on the entrepreneurial journey.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Unfortunately, he was fired and all of that potential equity disappeared. Noah teaches us that the world is full of business opportunities. Within a few months, they raised $30,000 (which was a lot of money for them) and were invited to an incubator for new business owners, where they learned how to run a company. 2- Noah Kagan.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 12, 2012

Jim Gaffman’s new comedy special is available to download for $5 and he says going direct will net him more cash and gives him more creative freedom. Now that distribution is as easy as uploading a file to the internet middlemen simply don’t add enough value any more. Fans also like the idea that all their money is going to the artist.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

For a Series A round you want to prove you have built a repeatable and scalable sales/revenue model and understand all parts of the business model. Series B is about proving your net revenue model (can you be profitable?). Team, Product, Traction, Business Model and Market. Business Model.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

You got to force yourself to start networking because your network is your net worth when you start out a business and that’s really where your initial business leads are going to come from because people do business with people they like, know, and trust.

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