Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product. The final product works great, and all the early users love it.”

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Helping Entrepreneurs Buy And Sell Their Agencies written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Amanda Dixon. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Amanda Dixon. Amanda is the Co-founder at Barney an M&A firm that specializes in the digital marketing space.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Helping Entrepreneurs Get To Where They Want To Go Faster written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Carolyn Rodz. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Carolyn Rodz. Take The Marketing Assessment: Like this show? Follow HelloAlice on Twitter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product. The final product works great, and all the early users love it.”

Angel Investor 232

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 232

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2018

By saturating one market or sub-market at a time, we started building the best marketing channel there is: word of mouth (WOM). Typically, marketing dollars are spent in two ways: on awareness building (letting people know your product exists) and conversion (getting them to buy it).

Los Angeles 133

Los Angeles Investment Bankers Cofounder Viral 133

The Equity Kicker

JULY 26, 2012

I wonder if part of the issue is that the discounted cash flow (DCF) methodology bankers use for valuing companies is letting them down because it doesn’t deal well with rapidly changing markets. Their markets are changing so fast that inputs to DCF models aren’t accurate. What is the long-term growth rate?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product. The final product works great, and all the early users love it.”

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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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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. 2) Market . Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

If you have or are thinking about a business in the video space you’ll enjoy hearing from Gregg but even more broadly this is a great conversation for entrepreneurs, investors or industry analysts. Why do a freemium model? This is to drive marketing and any IT or infrastructure spend can be seen as such.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

IN THIS EDITION Fintech products ease more Americans into the stock market In defense of the IPO, and how to improve it What’s inside your (mobile) bank? Reimagining the debit card Better models for SMB lending Want more a16z? This runs contrary to the appreciation that is typically expected of a buy-and-hold investment strategy.

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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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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. or a market cap of $800M.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

After the idea/product/service is built, and the market mapped, the company begins to grow. And in businesses that are not on a "harvest path," this system, (combined with a constantly updated market map) should work well for a long time, potentially providing a lot of positive cash flow for the company and its owners.

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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. Less dilution!

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

Our direct sales group markets and sells our solutions primarily using the telephone and web-based demonstrations. If the IPO markets open up again, it would give investors and entrepreneurs another option to create value. This is obviously relevant for a number of reasons. The post Is the bar lower for a tech IPO?

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