Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

At this point, most Angel investors and a few early-stage VCs will be happy to talk, assuming you have the business model validated, and a large opportunity. You are now entering the rollout stage , with money required for marketing, hiring a full-time team, and a production process. Congratulations!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

At this point, most Angel investors and a few early-stage VCs will be happy to talk, assuming you have the business model validated, and a large opportunity. You are now entering the rollout stage , with money required for marketing, hiring a full-time team, and a production process. Congratulations!

Angel Investor 232

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 232

Rob Go

JANUARY 18, 2012

Nick Beim (Gilt, The Ladders, JBoss) was a consultant and investment banker. Some of the legends of the business are so far removed from their operating days that it’s probably a real long shot to say that they bring direct operating experience informed by their prior roles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

At this point, most Angel investors and a few early-stage VCs will be happy to talk, assuming you have the business model validated, and a large opportunity. You are now entering the rollout stage , with money required for marketing, hiring a full-time team, and a production process. Congratulations!

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Matching Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers 120

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

See Betmarkets talk about their business model in the category Innovative World Technology between 5 and 6 pm Saturday, March 14, before a live audience and a panel of expert judges. If I had not accepted this amazing challenge, I would still be working as an investment banker in London. It’s that simple!

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Portugal Investment Bankers United States Cofounder 62

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

See Betmarkets talk about their business model in the category Innovative World Technology between 5 and 6 pm Saturday, March 14, before a live audience and a panel of expert judges. If I had not accepted this amazing challenge, I would still be working as an investment banker in London. It’s that simple!

Portugal 62

Portugal Investment Bankers United States Cofounder 62

The Equity Kicker

JULY 26, 2012

The problem is that it is nearly impossible to predict with any accuracy what the long-term cash flows are for a given company; especially a company that is young or that might be using an innovative and new business model. Their markets are changing so fast that inputs to DCF models aren’t accurate.

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Investment Bankers IPO Marketing Valuation 96

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

And it's similar sort of metaphor, you know, like what it's like to be, you know, to start a business. Carolyn Rodz (03:04): So I started out actually my career as an investment banker and jumped into entrepreneurship quite blindly. Business model. What's your history like? We make money in a variety of ways.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Networking Community 80

Growthink Blog

JANUARY 24, 2011

Troy for the past 15 years has worked and lived in New Media as a strategist, entrepreneur, and investment banker, and in the past few months he has interviewed dozens of social media and advertising executives, marketers, and investors.

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Investment Bankers United States Early Stage Advertising 102

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

So yeah, I just recognized, gosh, there's this huge gap above a business broker below an investment banker. You're selling your culture, you're selling your client list, you're selling your business model, but that's it, you have no tangible also, you know, agencies, don't typically service clients in a localized market.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Cofounder Valuation 79

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Perhaps outbound dialing / emailing programs worked well for growth equity firms in their core business. They must be trying to cull through large databases of mid-sized traditional businesses and trying to find deals before they’re spotted by investment bankers and flogged to everybody at once.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

investment bankers, while the dot com bubble was driven by investment bankers willing and able to convince institutional and retail investors that companies didn''t need to have a business model or even a way to exist without relying on additional investment.

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Las Vegas IPO Pre-Money Valuation Valuation 28

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

Back in my IMVU days, I met with an investment banker who wanted to help us understand the M&A landscape. When we walked him through our business model and results, he explained that our options would be limited, because the main M&A community was feeling burned by companies like ours.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Have they done a lot/a few/ no transactions with Investment Bankers? Have they done a lot/a few/ no transactions with Investment Bankers? Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. How long is their buy cycle? How do they like to be approached?

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Harvest LBO Investment Bankers Wisconsin 60

BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

First and foremost, the traditional rule of thumb that most investment bankers have quoted me in the last couple of years was that in order to go public a company needs to have an annual run-rate of $40-50mm of revenue and a couple quarters of profitability. The post Is the bar lower for a tech IPO? appeared first on BeyondVC.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

In 2005 they realized that this business was going to evaporate over night with the introduction of YouTube. They went in search of a new business model, which ended up being eCards (American Greetings does $80 million / year with a crappy product, there has to be a good business there!).

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Viral Investment Bankers Video Business Model 303

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Technographics vendors such as Builtwith , Datanyze , HG Data , Stackshare, and Stacklist help CEOs identify the right tech platform on which to build their business; they’re also helpful for investors to due diligence a company’s tech stack choices. Similarly, Corsis uses benchmarking data to understand technology spend patterns. 10) Report.

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Small Business Force

OCTOBER 22, 2017

As an entrepreneur with multiple startups I founded; as CEO or senior executive of several small companies that either were public or went public; as an investment banker for dozens of small business clients; as an angel investor in various startups and small business opportunities.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

Whether it’s Yotta encouraging emergency savings accounts, Dave.com providing overdraft protection, or Stash enabling broad participation in public market investing, I believe that the private sector could be an inflection point for the country’s financial health – and that fintechs will lead the way.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2018

It’s important to create a sustainable business model with profitable unit economics, regardless of how much you raise. That’s why we often ask companies, “If we gave you a big check, what would you do with it?” The companies that can’t show us how they would scale or perfect their playbooks using the money don’t get funding.

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Los Angeles Investment Bankers Cofounder Viral 114