Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock. It takes real money to get into the game. Yet reverse mergers are not all bad.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

Wessel also summarizes the costs and potential impacts of creating and building your startup in secondary markets, usually meaning not in Silicon Valley or one of the other super-hubs: It takes longer to raise money. It’s very important. In fact, since the recent recession, startups are mushrooming up everywhere.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 In all of these new product and cost-focused new trends, a big problem has emerged that all of these movements have not addressed. How will you go to market in a cost effective way to achieve similar margins as your competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

This simply means you need to be sensitive to costs, revenue projections, and a timeline, such that there is light at the end of the tunnel. They are usually thinking only of costs required to get “in business,” rather than the total costs of marketing, scaling up, and going international.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. All of that might be true, but the 2006 price might still be over-valued. That doesn’t mean it’s not a bubble. Trust me, we’re all hurt when bubbles burst.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2019

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock. It takes real money to get into the game. Yet reverse mergers are not all bad.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

Wessel also summarizes the costs and potential impacts of creating and building your startup in secondary markets, usually meaning not in Silicon Valley or one of the other super-hubs: It takes longer to raise money. It’s very important. In fact, according to Wessel, following the recession, startups are mushrooming up everywhere.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Even if your company is large enough to justify it, with health insurance costs today exceeding profits for many companies, it’s rare that the CEO and CFO of a Fortune 500 company don’t spend many hours managing their health benefits program,” notes Lindquist. Losing group health insurance clients due to cost or participation requirements?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2016

In the realm of software and internet companies, 2006 was a whole different landscape, and it was the year that I founded JotForm. Prioritization is also very important as we’re growing steadily, purposely, and are focused on long-term success rather than a growth-at-all-costs-model that is enticing for funded companies.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

The term was originally coined in 2006, and was added to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2009. ACOs seek to provide a high level of medical care to a population, reduce medical costs and spending, and be accountable for providing comprehensive services. Who is it for?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Legacy architecture in financial services, by contrast, is comprised of unique centralized databases, requiring the need and added cost of intermediaries to verify transactions between them (e.g. Today employment in the sector is comparable to levels from 2005-2006 when revenues were also similar.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 9, 2007 Map of VC Investments Found this Map of 2006 VC Investments post. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2015

High cost of sales automation and digital marketing. Senior executives who are determined replace their sales division in order to save money should understand that the cost of leveraging sales automation and digital marketing technology is actually very high.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 16, 2012

The passengers compensate the driver for the gas and toll costs, making it a fair trade. For example, a trip from Paris to Lyon (290 miles) would cost €25-30 compared to €100+ for the train. ► 2006. (7). McKinsey highlight #1: the art of cost cutting or. iPhone, Apple TV and more from Mac World.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2011

We ended up putting in our equipment at no cost, and two days later the smell was gone. It’s not sexy, nor is it costly (in hard costs, but the time she puts into it is certainly of high value), but the specificity and clarity with which she writes is something I deeply appreciate.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

This should not be confused with raising too much money as many companies did in 2006-08. While the company continues to perform well it has come at a cost. But they were the lucky company because there was an investor that believed in the high-growth scenario and was willing to continue funding at any cost.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Despite the money flowing towards Asia, most startups surveyed in Singapore cited funding as a key impediment to attaining their growth aspirations, due to the costs involved in expanding their businesses. Just a bit of background – the high-tech start-up scene in Singapore is said to be growing healthily in recent years.

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Board Effect

JANUARY 3, 2020

Along the same lines, a 2006 Harris Poll showed that a mere 10% of Americans felt that charities behaved honestly and ethically pertaining to their use of donations. A 2008 Brookings survey reported that about 33% of Americans lacked confidence in charitable organizations. These are very subjective terms.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

However, hiring the wrong salespeople costs dearly in time and treasure. Eliot Burdett is the cofounder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting , a leading B2B sales recruiting company launched in 2006. Building a sales team from scratch is one of the most difficult and important tasks of a CEO.

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Start Up Blog

JULY 2, 2015

Let’s take the pricing example of the Tesla Electric car range: 1st car – Tesla Roadster: $109,000 (released 2006). This is because the switching costs get very close to zero. Because the running costs of having a Tesla Electric car does not include the cost of petrol. Cost to buy = $35,000.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

What would you say is the biggest “cost” in our current situation? The cost doesn’t have to be monetary. The second is cost. The most significant cost of the inputs is the food that the cells need. Those two variables are equally true in terms of being the most important cost drivers for our technology.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Avoid burnout at all costs. Greg also served as CEO of eHarmony from 2006-2010 where he drove significant global growth through an expansion to 15 countries worldwide. The small details can go a long way. Work is necessary and fulfilling, but you also have a life apart from your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2018

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock. It takes real money to get into the game. Yet reverse mergers are not all bad.

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Merger OTC IPO Due Diligence 198

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

This simply means you need to be sensitive to costs, revenue projections, and a timeline, such that there is light at the end of the tunnel. They are usually thinking only of costs required to get “in business,” rather than the total costs of marketing, scaling up, and going international.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

Before weighing in on the subject I would point out one thing that should be obvious to many of you – the iPhone was originally launched in 2007 in an exclusive partnership with AT&T and this was vital to both Apple and AT&T and was a hard negotiation throughout 2005 and 2006.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Decision-makers at larger companies often have a “don’t rock the boat mentality” because of fear of making a mistake that could cost the company a lot of money and as a consequence cause them to lose status within the company or even their position. By 2009, it had run out of cash.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 17, 2018

The local wages increased by 15% since 2006 (national : 13,2%). The lower costs and the vibrancy of the economic community turned Austin into a very attractive alternative to the Valley for both big and small businesses. Restaurant, bars, leisure and transportation cost are very affordable.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Obviously most of these employees are working hard primarily for equity upside compensation, but Kayak’s personnel costs are roughly $200K/head so the company is highly productive on a per employee basis. extension round closed April 2006. round closed May 2006. Led by Sequoia with participation by General Catalyst.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. The Original Post (after the jump): Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006). Reasons: cost of sales executives, long sales cycles, deep functional requirements. Tempus Fugit.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 20, 2021

It cost about $40 million in 2019 dollars. In 2006, I joined Yelp as employee #20 when the company had $1M in annual revenue. There is little opportunity cost to spending most of one’s time on a significant, new, important initiative at startups. The biggest opportunity cost is in moving too slowly. The cost? ~10%

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Up and Running

AUGUST 29, 2014

A major cause of business failure is not having enough cash available to cover all startup costs and operate for at least a year. Make sure you fully understand the cost of services you are having performed, what information you need to provide and when you can expect an answer or a final report or a tax return.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2014

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock. It takes real money to get into the game. Yet reverse mergers are not all bad.

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 3, 2017

Gross profit, markup versus margin, salary versus profit, break even point in dollars versus number of projects, current assets versus liabilities, cost to complete – all these are merely a handful of the KPIs that are instrumental to sustainability and growth. Also on the top of the list is job costing. Joseph Stoddard).

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

I could spend that time on Facebook, but at the cost of not writing. During this period, I helped Hewlett-Packard save on the order of ten million dollars a year on customer support costs, roughly a 100x return on my salary. In 2006, I’d gotten a check for my birthday, and was wondering what to spend it on.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

They provide an excellent way for startups to train their employees without incurring the cost of a physical location or hiring more staff members. Digital music has also changed over time, thanks to streaming services like Spotify or Pandora, which took hold since their introduction in 2006 and 2002. Employee-Owned Startups.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 13, 2017

Five years ago, this kind of freedom came at a cost. Check out: Jobvite – Operating since 2006, with native iOS and Android and powerful social media recruitment tools, Greenhouse – A full-featured recruitment app with employee lifecycle management support, and. A lot has changed in five years.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 13, 2017

Five years ago, this kind of freedom came at a cost. Check out: Jobvite – Operating since 2006, with native iOS and Android and powerful social media recruitment tools, Greenhouse – A full-featured recruitment app with employee lifecycle management support, and. A lot has changed in five years.

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