Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2014

If your investor is a match with your industry, believe it or not, the next most important thing is YOU and your TEAM. Make no mistake, you will need to have a business model or a business plan that shows just where you sit in relation to your competitors. This is where the ‘exit strategy’ comes in.

Exit Strategy 91

Exit Strategy Advisory Board Business Plan Portfolio 91

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2012

Business model. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. Make sure your marketing budget matches the scope of your plan. Exit strategy. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)?

Elevator Pitch 247

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 247

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2011

Business model. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. Make sure your marketing budget matches the scope of your plan. Exit strategy. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)?

Elevator Pitch 234

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 234

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2010

Business model. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. Make sure your marketing budget matches the scope of your plan. Exit strategy. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)?

Elevator Pitch 235

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 235

Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

Business model. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. Make sure your marketing budget matches the scope of your plan. Exit strategy. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)?

Elevator Pitch 146

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 146

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. billion for a company with less than $50 million in sales. On its first day of trading, Netscape stock closed at $58/share, valuing the company at $2.7

Silicon Valley 235

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 235

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

Here are the top five, as outlined by Rice in his book, which match my own experience: Management team. The single most important ingredient of success is not the idea, but having a team in place that has impeccable integrity, can iterate the product quickly, pivot the business model as necessary, and keep costs down in the process.

Angel Investor 269

Angel Investor Cram Down Intellectual Property Venture Capital 269