Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2022

After many years in business, I’m convinced that none of us has the strengths and interest in all the areas needed for success, including solution changes, finance, marketing, and operations. If your relish the challenges of creating an innovative solution or business model, then this is the type of work you must seek.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

John Berger, Director Operations & Impact Solutions, Toniic , observed that this has clear investor benefits: “ The grace period became a feature because it benefits investors in regions like the US where there can be tax differences between short and long term gains. Typical business stage. Typical business model.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. However, only recently have early-stage companies started to use this model at any scale. . Absolutely not.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

The first time a few brave corporate innovators tried to overlay the Lean tools and techniques that work in early-stage startups in an existing corporation, the result was chaos, confusion, frustration and ultimately, failure. Horizon 1 activities support existing business models. Horizon 1 is the company’s core business.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Background: Justin Klemm’s analytics and website uptime startup, Ghost Inspector , wants to revolutionize the way businesses manage their ecommerce funnels. million early-stage raise that involved pitching to over a dozen PE firms, which took months to negotiate. His first capital raise was a $2.75

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In describing the competitive landscape, show how your business model creates competitive advantages, and – more importantly – defensible barriers to entry. Operations Plan Goal of the operations plan: Present the action plan for executing on your company’s vision. Need help with your business plan?

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 19, 2019

As they’re intricately involved in the daily operations of the company, CEOs are normally the most informed people about how to overcome challenges related to strategic planning. CEOs and other senior executives should have a great sense around where the company is and the potential for where the company could be.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. The average monthly operating expenses is $70,335. Bigfoot Capital. Decathlon Capital.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2019

As a startup business, you will face many challenges in the early stages of operations while you familiarise yourself with your business landscape and explore your new business venture. During this time, operating costs are typically at a high and there is usually not much disposable income.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

A Venture Capital Firm is a firm that invests in startups and early-stage companies. Early-Stage Investments vs. Mid-Stage Investments. Investing in a startup company carries a high degree of risk, particularly at the early stage. They also look for a robust business model and product/market fit.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

Satya is evaluating various go-to-market models such as franchising, and I advised him to focus on direct selling to major builders and working with industry value-added resellers (VARs) that already operate in the smart home segment in India. We can derive GeoInvenio's business model and pricing model based on that.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

Perhaps, when things settle down a bit more, those companies will even raise series A capital from traditional institutional sources to expand the product features, beef up the operations team more fully and make progress in finding initial product-market fit. But many are. Shift of value from equity holders to token holders.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

Perhaps, when things settle down a bit more, those companies will even raise series A capital from traditional institutional sources to expand the product features, beef up the operations team more fully and make progress in finding initial product-market fit. But many are. Shift of value from equity holders to token holders.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

As an entrepreneur himself, founding and operating printed circuit board factories in Taiwan, my father was debating between two places to immigrate to and build his next new venture: Los Angeles (“The Valley” aka San Fernando Valley) and Santa Clara (“Silicon Valley”).

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

I will work with him on his inventory financing strategy. Today she is operating at a 30,000 feet level, and I am concerned that unless she gets down to earth and develops more granular and specific strategies, she will not get anywhere. JCLABoutique.com. Jeanne's positioning needs a lot of work. PowerStores.in.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2018

From the outside, it might appear that accounting and finance are complex tasks in need of simplification. In the case of early-stage companies, the work can often be done by an entrepreneur with a basic understanding of financial modeling. offices and equipment) when to pay suppliers or seek financing (e.g.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

. ———– The National Institutes of Health recognizes that Life Science/Health Care commercialization has two components: the science/technology, and the business model. The Lean Launchpad® for Life Sciences (the I-Corps @ NIH ) uses the Lean Startup Model to discover and validate the business model.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 22, 2018

Small businesses everywhere tend to look at their larger competitors with a mixture of casual envy, grudging respect, and a healthy dose of dismissiveness. To many small business owners, the big business model embodies everything that they don’t want their own company to become.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 12, 2012

VCs also operate in a limited time window that is determined by the duration of their funds. Founders typically get their equity in a company once — at the time of founding and then get diluted with each subsequent round of financing. This is because excessive capital becomes toxic for an early stage company.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 12, 2012

VCs also operate in a limited time window that is determined by the duration of their funds. Founders typically get their equity in a company once — at the time of founding and then get diluted with each subsequent round of financing. This is because excessive capital becomes toxic for an early stage company.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Early stage startups have to survive one day at a time and are often presented with limited choices of the moment that enable them to continue. At early stages you probably don’t have an assembly line and can’t clearly define any particular job. But, later on they often wish they had the ability to erase many of them.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

The five main stages include the following: 1. Early Stage Investment (Series A & B) 4. Later Stage Investment (Series C, D, and so on) 5. Mezzanine Financing Most companies that raise equity capital and are eventually acquired or go public receive multiple rounds of financing first. Pre-Seed Funding 2.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Small Business Success | Mondays and Thursdays. The Goods: Your Business Toolbox | Thursdays. Finance | Tuesdays. Todays Small Business News | Daily. Financing a Small Business. Buying a Small Business. RUNNING A BUSINESS. Office and Operations. Financing A Small Business.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

This is what brings us to the second big difference: the cost of Applied Venture is too large to finance from a standard VC management fee. . Different funds finance the cost of these teams with a differing weighting of asking portfolio companies to pay for services, larger than normal management fees, and reduced compensation for partners.

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David Teten

AUGUST 21, 2019

Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use. 2) To sell their businesses when they want – early, mid term, or never.” . When you raise early stage VC, you can’t sell early because the VCs won’t agree to it.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Below are the characteristics your company should exhibit in order to be a sustainable lifestyle business. The goal for a lifestyle business is to build sustainable revenue streams that are set up to operate on their own. This means giving up much of the freedom that is the goal of lifestyle businesses. A clear end goal.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

It seemed to make sense to have have all the parties represented at the committee, so lots of people attended – program managers who controlled the budget, the developers responsible for maintaining and enhancing the current product and building new ones, and representatives from the operating divisions who needed and would use these products.

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Gust

JULY 19, 2012

My personal guess is that the early stage funding world will likely trifurcate (or even quadricate, if that’s a word) into several distinct groups. At the current time, both platforms seem to be taking the latter approach, but it’s still very early in the game.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&#

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

I’ve listed below the points I recommend you cover when pitching your business to early-stage investors, including but definitely not limited to ff Venture Capital. At an early stage, the key driver of our investment is the people, particularly how hungry and coachable you are. Business Model.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. VII: Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability. IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing? 20% initial ownership.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. I’ve already started the business modeling. Venture Financings we Discussed. I shall be looking to replicate this in Los Angeles.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

If you’ve never written a business plan before, take a look at these sample medical startup business plans. At first, you need to focus on developing your business model and validating it. That’s why having a revenue-minded focus from the early stages helps to secure funding.

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Many entrepreneurial programs feature a business plan competition, which is a great exercise. At SJSU, we also have a business plan competition in the spring, which ideally allows the students to build a viable business model around their NIF projects. She is planning on starting the business upon graduation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

Scott Kupor is the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he’s responsible for all operational aspects of running the firm. Coming from an operating role in a company, that can feel odd - that doing nothing is in fact accomplishing your objective - so that takes some getting used to.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 26, 2021

One of the things a financing round brings is an opportunity to strengthen the startup’s overall network. Even relatively early stage boards should be thinking about diversity, because they face particular challenges on this issue. This is why advertising is a really good business model. That’s a no-brainer, right?

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

Bullpen is one of a growing number of early-stage funds - or, perhaps more accurately, "earlier-stage," since even his is no longer the first out of the gate. They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. Everything's better with the lean model.

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