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10 Startup Prospects That Multiply If You Look Ahead

Startup Professionals Musings

Predictive advertisement targeting. Whether you are contemplating an investment in your favorite startup, or a little-known stock on a public exchange, there is “big data” out there that can’t possibly be evaluated by you without predictive analytics. Without predictive targeting, a retention campaign may cost more than it gains.

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Not Digitally Transforming? You’re Dying. Here Are Six Reasons To Do It Now.

YoungUpstarts

As Trinity Mirror and Ipsos Connect found in a study, almost half of consumers have a general distrust of brand and 69 percent specifically distrust their advertising. REASON 2: You Need to Gain the Efficiencies to Be Cost-Competitive. REASON 4: Digitally Driven Companies Have Greater Revenue Growth. Bottom line? It’s a new era.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

Companies with less than $2 million in revenue were asking for $50-60 million valuations and getting them. The parallels to the music industry are too obvious even though the industry players, the medium and the cost structures are different. US TV advertising is $60 billion in its own right. Eventually you have to invest.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

If you hire 6 sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business for 4-6 months. ” If you’re not profitable you’re purely a cost center to them. Simplifying: Revenue -. Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) =.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Tech IPO prices exploded and subsequent trading prices rose to dizzying heights as the stock prices became disconnected from the traditional metrics of revenue and profits. Startups with huge burn rates – building leases, staff, PR and advertising – ran out of money. Some have labeled this period as irrational exuberance.

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BUSINESS OBJECTIVES: ADMINISTRATION KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS 2021

The Startup Magazine

While measuring the sales revenue, it might take time to figure out those marketing parts that yield sales. Regular checking and evaluating the company’s operating cash flow is necessary to infer the paying ability of deliveries and operational costs. It is quite challenging to envision stock turnover that occurs all day.

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