Tim Keane

JUNE 21, 2011

Picking Ventures: Part 1 » June 21, 2011. How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan.   Think about having the same discussion in a different way - by preparing your sales forecast by making your assumptions explicit. Sales to segment A will be $500 per customer.

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For Entrepreneurs

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

How to make sure your sales forecast has been properly validated so it will stand up to test of time (and investor scrutiny).

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Given that 2011 is already behind us, I’d like to take a brief time-out from the usual legal and financial wonkery to wish you and your loved ones a Happy New Year. Financial, technical and operational plans and forecasts of all kinds (trade secret). Large companies] win by locking competitors out of their sales channels.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

So, here is the first edition, including the recent Q4 2009 earnings and the updated 2010 forecast. If we consider that 2009 was probably the worst year in the past 5 years, forecasting the same growth for 2010 is not very encouraging. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing. All in all, an interesting start for the year! at 7:35 PM.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The forecast also predicted that its 2014 sales were going to be equally uncompetitive. When Murthy had left in 2011 from his chairman position, Infosys stood head and shoulders above the rest as the bellwether Indian IT firm (it had since then been nudged out from that mantle by Tata Consultancy Services).

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Tracking and Forecasting the Trends Impacting the Future of Small Business. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. They had a great managment team, A list VCs, great technology, excellent sales traction and market leadership in a very exciting space.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 1, 2018

Finman began investing bitcoin in 2011 at the age of 2012, where he purchased Bitcoin with a $1,000 USD gift from his grandmother and a tip from his brother. Marco Streng had his first exposure to cryptocurrencies in 2011, where the young entrepreneur leveraged his laptop’s CPU to mine Bitcoin. Marco Streng. million USD in 2015.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

By Carla Freberg, Sales Manager – Vendor Services Group, Balboa Capital. It is referred to as Black Friday, and it brings out shoppers in droves who are looking for special promotions, door-buster deals, one-day sales and free giveaways. This year, Black Friday is expected to once again set new sales records.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JANUARY 17, 2011

So what is the outlook for entrepreneurship in 2011? Most forecasts for 2011 are indicating little or modest growth in employment. With continuing weak sales, small-business owners remain unwilling to increase hiring. If you are hoping to start a new business in 2011, know that there are still opportunities out there.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Does this seem like a reasonable forecast to you? Risky Business: How Technology Can Help You Manage Risk BC/DR in Action How to Create a Business Continuity Strategy Survey Says: Hybrid Approach to Cloud Offers Best-of-Both-Worlds New Age for the Sales Process More from the Think Gig Blog » POPULAR TAGS enterprise enterprise 2.0

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Founded in May 2011, the small outfit quickly pushed out its first game Reign of Heroes - a mobile social game for feature phones – by the end of that year, which grew swiftly to host more than one million players. Specifically for the mobile games, worldwide revenue is forecasted to surge from US$13.2

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Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan » March 09, 2011.   His entire income is based on his personal output and he’d like to hire several woodworkers, expand his sales to existing customers, and generate a profit in addition to his contributed labor.  « Leaving a Trail | Main. |

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Marketing Sales & Marketing Home Marketing Basics Sales Online Marketing Finding Customers Social Media Branding Social Media Does Your Companys Social Personality Need a Makeover? Sales & Marketing. Financing Some Jobs Act Proposals Make Headway. Branding From Entrepreneur to Icon in Five Steps. just $1 per issue!

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

in 2011, and at 63.4 gigawatts ended 2011 ten times greater than its level of five years previously (graphic below). of total capacity in 2011. I could also have picked internet penetration, social media usage or tablet sales as examples.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

First day sales are higher than for previous versions of the device and Apple’s share price is up , and forecast to go much higher. We haven’t seen one of those for a while now – probably since the iPhone4 (2010) or the iPad2 (2011), The launch of the iPhone5 has been a big success.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Last weekend I caught Mashable announcing that Ebook Sales Surpass Hardcover in the U.S. And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. One of my earliest excursions into market research was working for a research firm doing a 1979 forecast on ATMs.

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Tim Keane

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

OVP Venture Partners) My own take on this is that a business plan with a bottom up forecast demonstrates an understanding of the potential market that investors love.    Using (example) sales as a proxy (such as copier sales) we think that our average sales rep can make 10 cold calls per day and develop 3 solid leads per week. 

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David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

Sales cycle can often go into something like co-development. 2-18 month sales cycle. The public markets are forecasting that. LYONS: You have to encourage companies to pay attention to these entrepreneurs. At my prior company, we structured programs to encourage doing business with smaller companies. Apple 11-12x P/E.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 14, 2008

As one example, think about forecasting sales based on market potential and competition, rather than simply on historical results by salesperson. If that leads us to needing additional sales people, can we forecast the benchmark for productivity based on past results? Add another sales capability?

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

From the beginning and all along the way, careful planning has guided the business from revenues of $35,000 in 2011, to $400,000 in 2014, and estimates of $700,000 for 2015. During 2010 and 2011, Stuart and Emily spent nine months developing recipes, “using our lucky neighbors as taste-testers.”. Again, sales tripled. “By

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

« How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan | Main. Picking Ventures: Part 2 » September 27, 2011. November 2011. September 2011. March 2011. Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Picking Ventures: Part 1. April 2013.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

It also assumes the entire value of the investment is captured for investors at a sale of the company in the time specified in the term-sheet.   In a bottom up approach, the forecast is built from actual user projections. This results in a range of sale prices; in this example from $118.6MM to $21MM.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 14, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Gives you the ability to initiate help and sales chats while visitors are on your site. All rights reserved.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Of major concern should be the sales forecasts of small businesses in the U.S. The net percent of all owners (seasonally adjusted) reporting higher nominal sales over the past three months worsened in November. All of this leads to me see an even rougher 2011.

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Up and Running

APRIL 28, 2016

In 2011, consumers purchased eight billion combo meals, down 12 percent from nine billion sold in the same period five years earlier. Gerard Donato, owner of the restaurant says, “Since the small portion was introduced, sales have progressively gone up to three-quarters of our main course sales. Offer combo meals.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Consider the following example from 34 years ago that included the exact same type of prediction error: “In 1980, McKinsey & Company was commissioned by AT&T (whose Bell Labs had invented cellular telephony) to forecast cell phone penetration in the U.S. How big is the car-ownership-alternative market?

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Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 1, 2011

The root of my theory is that I believe social will see its biggest impact coming from mobile devices in 2011, and thus companies will no longer be able to pretend that “next year is the year of mobile.” Social, in effect, is going to force the mobilization of marketing in 2011.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

Most of our management tools, like planning and forecasting, require a long and stable operating history. It's available for pre-order from many retailers, including Amazon.com , and you won't be charged until the book comes out September 13, 2011. Amazon keeps a sales rank for the book, which has been bouncing around quite a bit.

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www.startupsmart.com.au

MARCH 8, 2011

Recognising a new start-up niche 321 Water Score big with sporting protection Top Planning Articles : Top 10 industries set to thrive in 2011 Have you stress tested your business idea? How to set up a sales plan for 2011 Latest Features Articles : Don’t worry about the ‘e’ word Will journalists care about your start-up?

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Tim Keane

JUNE 13, 2006

In other words, if you are forecasting 100 orders in the next quarter, at $10,000 each, I’d ask how many potential orders there are in the market, whether there is any existing competitive experience, and how you derived your timing. November 2011. September 2011. March 2011. What it will cost? What it will cost?

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

We basically automated that and then the business grew over eight years to do a bunch of different things that were related to sales and marketing for car dealerships. We started that company in 2003, and we sold it in the 2011, so you frame up the timing. John Jantsch: Where was the headquarters for VinSolutions?

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 19, 2016

I tried a few different MLMs – while successful, I didn’t have a knack for sales. I started my company in 2011, after witnessing first-hand the sub-par performance some companies operated with because they were only in the homecare business for financial gain. Thanks to John Waldmann, Homebase. #6

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

In December 2011, Expedia felt it wasn’t getting full economic credit for TripAdvisor buried within its financials and so spun TripAdvisor out as an independent company, where it now trades on the NASDAQ with a $4.8 Expedia grew to account for roughly one third of the company’s revenues. billion market capitalization as of this writing. .

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

Israel’s central bank, Morgan Stanley and other financial institutions have forecasted 3.5% Ratiopharm, a privately-owned subsidiary of German holding company VEM, was founded in 1973 and has annual sales of about $8.6 ISRAELI CABINET APPROVES 2-YEAR MODEL FOR BUDGET 2011-2012.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

sales and marketing. (10). ► 2011. (2). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. Measuring sales and marketing effectiveness of Saa. McKinsey highlights. (1). Online Gaming. (1). Portfolio. (3). Small and medium businesses. (2). software. (10).

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2010

As the head of the pan-European, inter-governmental initiative, Israel has planned five conferences, starting in Tel Aviv in October and culminating in Jerusalem in June 2011. It had sales of $2.2 percent in 2011. Out of nearly 300 new projects initiated by Eureka in 2008, 40 involved Israeli companies. billion in 2009.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

Investment Bank Morgan Stanley raised its growth forecast for Israel to 4.8% for both 2011 and 2012 from its previous growth forecast of 4.3%, noting that the Israeli economy “remains one of the robust and well managed among both the developed and the emerging market economies.&#. For previous editions, click here.

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