The Startup Magazine

JUNE 2, 2024

Now, you’re probably looking for certain strategies to help with planning, asset management, acquisition, etc. They’ll offer REIT management services with the following benefits: Property disposition and acquisition : This will help you evaluate, identify, acquire, and sell the real estate that aligns with your investment strategy.

Management 78

Management Small Business Administration Acquisition Technical Review 78

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2016

In the current economic landscape, it’s common for startups and businesses to seek a buyout or acquisition — in fact, it’s frequently the goal from the start. Watch out for complex areas such as accounting for revenue, inventory, contingencies, equity instruments and consolidation. by Jeff Stark, Audit Partner at Sensiba San Filippo.

Acquisition 100

Acquisition Intellectual Property Technical Review Due Diligence 100

Board Effect

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Getting the right data to improve revenues, measure impact and reach peak efficiency can seem too difficult, too expensive, or both. By adopting data-driven decision-making, underpinned by technology, credit union boards can increase success to ensure their organizations make meaningful contributions to the communities they serve.

Technical Review 97

Technical Review Technology Software Review Georgia 97

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 5, 2024

Investing in automation technologies like smart locks and security systems enhances facility security while improving operational efficiency by reducing manual intervention. These include marketing and tenant acquisition, as well as leveraging industry knowledge to attract tenants. It is forecasted to soar to $26 billion by 2033.

Security 129

Security Operations Technical Review Revenue 129

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

In the short term you need customers to find you at any price, and in the longer term you need revenue, profit, and return loyalty. In my experience, even in startups, longer-term strategy often gets pushed off the agenda due to current challenges. You need to be constantly assessing mergers and acquisitions, as well as divestitures.

Technical Review 312

Technical Review Due Diligence Merger Social Media 312

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

So you’re interested in raising capital from a Revenue-Based Investor VC. A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors (“RBI”) are emerging. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts.

Revenue 60

Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

You can review all the specifics of this approach in the classic book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. Nail the solution. Process myth: Why building a product leads to failure.

Angel Investor 359

Angel Investor Technical Review Incubator Business Model 359

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2013

As the end of the year approaches, it’s a good time for every startup to assess the metrics, technology, and platforms they’re using to manage the business. Cost of customer acquisition. Customer acquisition cost is calculated by dividing total acquisition expenses by total new customers over a given period.

Metrics 252

Metrics Technical Review Retention Acquisition 252

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Of course, if you are able to bootstrap your startup, and don’t anticipate the need for outside investors, you can technically ignore the first two points. If you can convince investors that your startup will generate a solid revenue stream, and the market won’t go away any time soon, they may see an opportunity for an ever larger return.

Exit Strategy 264

Exit Strategy Private Equity Equity Technical Review 264

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

I never paid my dues at a corporate job. I had a husband who was gone more hours than he was home, working at a technology startup while getting his MBA at night. Less than ten years later , I had taken my healthcare tech company from a concept to a business – a business that someone wanted to buy. First, receive.

Technical Review 370

Technical Review United States Bootstrapping Venture Capital 370

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2019

Conventional wisdom says that technology is propelling the disruption that is roiling the markets. This often means mergers and acquisitions, incremental innovation, marketing, and global expansion – which, over the long-term, only widen the gulf between the company and its customers. But this belief is dead wrong.

Technical Review 145

Technical Review Technology Customer Qatar 145

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. Late last year we passed $100M in annual recurring revenue. This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm.

Engineer 152

Engineer Revenue San Francisco Security 152

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 2, 2021

If you’re thinking about starting a tech startup you already know — there are a lot of things to consider. But what if a tech startup uses the LLC structure? And this is not only due to lack of liability protection, though it is a significant factor attracting investors. Most sole proprietorships remain small businesses.

Technical Review 158

Technical Review LLC IPO Stock 158

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2020

Of course, if you are able to bootstrap your startup, and don’t anticipate the need for outside investors, you can technically ignore the first two points. If you can convince investors that your startup will generate a solid revenue stream, and the market won’t go away any time soon, they may see an opportunity for an ever larger return.

Exit Strategy 376

Exit Strategy Startup Private Equity Equity 376

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 21, 2017

Revenue multiples, profit multiples, premium over the previous financing — these are metrics used by sellers to help determine a minimum acceptable price. In terms of acquisition, they ask more specifically: “How can we trade balance sheet assets (cash, equity) in exchange for executing our strategy better?”.

Balance Sheet 242

Balance Sheet Vertical Acquisition Revenue 242

NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If we want to maintain and support sustainable economic growth while meeting the broader needs of society, we will need an economy underpinned by innovation and new technologies. Addressing real world problems, they thrive in uncertainty, generating new jobs and new revenue streams in new markets. This equity will vest over 2-3 years.

Technical Review 88

Technical Review Software Review New Zealand Due Diligence 88

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A version of this article is in the Harvard Business Review. — Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. 20th Century Tech Liquidity = Initial Public Offering.

Founder 274

Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 274

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2020

This is a very introductory place to start, but if your company owns the building, machinery, inventory, and/or technology in which it uses to operate, there is often significant value in this in and of itself. Look at Revenues. Figure Out the Net Assets of the Business. If your company is worth only $2.5

Balance Sheet 195

Balance Sheet Valuation Software Review .Net 195

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

When you start with an honest and diligent effort to determine the truth of your situation, the right decisions often become self-evident.” — Jim Collins , author of Good to Great. In this post I’ll focus on benchmarking resources for seed and series A in the following three categories: SaaS B2C / Consumer apps Deep tech.

B2C 141

B2C Technical Review Startup Retention 141

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

This article previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Disruption today is more than just changes in technology, or channel, or competitors – it’s all of them, all at once. For the contractors, anything new offers the real risk of losing a lucrative existing stream of revenue.

Government 320

Government Technical Review Acquisition Metrics 320

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2016

As an angel investor, I’ve learned to believe in this approach, since I have seen great ideas go astray, due to poor execution and I have seen apparently marginal ideas make millions, managed by a savvy entrepreneur. Even social entrepreneurs need milestones, quantifiable results, and revenue to sustain their value.

Technical Review 134

Technical Review Intellectual Property Due Diligence Angel Investor 134

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

One of the unintended consequences was that many of the academics went off to found a wave of startups selling their technology to the military. Yet the development of these advanced technologies is now being driven by commercial interests, not the Defense Department. Some of the speed is simply due to development methodologies.

Government 313

Government Artificial Inteligence Silicon Valley North Korea 313

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2023

Consider factors such as features, pricing, customer reviews, and support services. Company A: Boosting Sales and Revenue Company A, a software development firm, implemented lead identification software and witnessed a significant boost in their sales and revenue. Case Studies: Success Stories of Lead Identification Software 6.1

Lead Generation 124

Lead Generation Software Review Software Technical Review 124

Haystack

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

And three, I was an early employee of Swell Radio, a “Pandora for podcast” app which personalized spoken-word audio streams for users — Swell was ultimately acquired by a “large consumer technology company” and eventually retired as an app. 2/ Big Consumer Tech Cares About Audio. Remember Amazon bought Audible, for audiobooks?

Acquisition 134

Acquisition Media Audio Technical Review 134

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

For IBM, the Personal Computer was a paradigm shift from their big business legacy, built with new technologies for totally new markets, and battleships turn very slowly. The culture of a large technology company is to rely on internal development or large, stable, and proven external vendors.

Technical Review 214

Technical Review Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Burn Rate 214

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs? How profitable is my product or service?

Operations 286

Operations New York City Technical Review Startup 286

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2015

by Jack Narcotta, Devices Analyst at Technology Business Research. Lenovo’s modest overall revenue growth in calendar 2Q15 – 3.1% year-to-year revenue growth in calendar 3Q15 to $10.9 year-to-year to $10.7 Additionally, lower profits in PCs – operating profit fell 7.8% year-to-year to $7.3 and Europe.

Revenue 100

Revenue Technical Review Lean Mobile 100

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Google Analytics is the standard for measuring acquisition—identifying the sources of traffic to your website or app. You’ll be able to see which acquisition channels are best for long-term retention or lifetime value, not simply those that drive initial conversions. Acquisition. Anything else is merely a list of data points.

Analytics 119

Analytics Technical Review Acquisition Retention 119

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 2, 2017

When Satya and I started Homebrew in 2013 one of our bets for the coming decades was that non-traditional acquirers would become more aggressive in their pursuit of technology startups. We had our first taste of this trend playing out early in 2016 when GM acquired self-driving tech startup Cruise for north of $1b.

Technical Review 115

Technical Review Cap Table Acquisition Startup 115

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Investors are wary of initial surges due to friends, family, and early adopters, so sustainable growth rates over time are key. If Elon Musk is an advisor to your transportation startup, that is major traction, even without a product or revenue. Build an experienced technical and executive team.

Advisory Board 199

Advisory Board Technical Review Metrics Business Model 199

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In this article, I share how I’ve executed marketing and technical support for a virtual summit with 3–5k registered attendees. As always, there’s a temptation to translate any marketing effort into immediate revenue. Of course, none of your strategy will matter much if you don’t have the tech to support the event.

Hosting 98

Hosting Technical Review Affiliate Campaign 98

SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Today I lead a small consultancy that helps advertising supported develop and scale the revenue producing sides of their businesses. I usually.just focus on revenue. Due to the incredible power represented by these networks, we believe that managers need a system to understand and monitor the ever-changing value of this key asset.

Los Angeles 225

Los Angeles Revenue Southern California Social Network 225

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2020

Companies that actively focus on CX can significantly reduce churn rates, increase retention rates, and earn higher revenues. Moreover, customers’ expectations around CX have evolved with the technology – they anticipate a personalized, seamless, and authentic experience across the board. . The conversation then, goes two ways.

Customer 162

Customer Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Retention 162

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2019

You can review all the specifics of this approach in the classic book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. Nail the solution. Process myth: Why building a product leads to failure.

Startup 245

Startup Angel Investor Technical Review Incubator 245

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2013

Coupled with the rise of SOLOMO – Social, Local and Mobile - companies should tap on these socio-psychological attributes to generate revenue through social commerce. Flip the Funnel : Harness your happy customers to be a volunteer sales force, deploying them as your customer acquisition team.

Technical Review 145

Technical Review Social Media Curation Mobile 145

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

It’s not just the competition against the incumbents and the large tech platforms that founders has to worry about, but most importantly is the company’s performance and product market fit. Some studies suggest that the best consumer subscription companies are able to retain 65% of their revenue after one year.

Retention 109

Retention Conversion Churn Rate B2C 109