Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

How the solution and business model work to fund the business. Investors will impatiently expect a winning business model, customer segment definitions and volume projections. Investors will impatiently expect a winning business model, customer segment definitions and volume projections.

Product 120

Product Intellectual Property Liquidity Event Burn Rate 120

Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

Most of the startups they invested in either died by running out of money before they found a scalable business model or ended up in the “land of the living dead” by never growing (failing to Pivot.). Number of Venture Backed Liquidity Events 1991-2000. Number of Venture Backed Liquidity Events 2000-2010.

Venture Capital 297

Venture Capital IPO Liquidity Event Entrepreneur 297

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

How does your business model make money? Good causes such as feeding the world’s hungry may help your marketing but may not sustain a business. The business model has to clearly define who is your customer, market penetration expected, how much customers pay versus total costs and the investment required to sustain cash flow.

Sweat Equity 120

Sweat Equity Advisory Board Liquidity Event Startup 120

Hunter Walker

MARCH 8, 2014

At a more mature technology company you’re protecting and extending your business model. As you prove yourself you’ll be tapped to lead new teams, launch new offices and everything else which goes into scaling a successful business.

Liquidity Event 134

Liquidity Event Early Stage Seed Stage Startup 134

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Explain the business model. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. These investors want to know that you are thinking about a liquidity event – when and how they will get their money out, with ROI. Exit strategy.

Business Plan 283

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 283

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. They taught you about customers, markets and profits.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Explain the business model. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. These investors want to know that you are thinking about a liquidity event – when and how they will get their money out, with ROI. Exit strategy.

Business Plan 290

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Explain the business model. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. These investors want to know that you are thinking about a liquidity event – when and how they will get their money out, with ROI. Exit strategy.

Business Plan 182

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Explain the business model. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it requires at least 100M users and $50M investment. These investors want to know that you are thinking about a liquidity event – when and how they will get their money out, with ROI. Exit strategy.

Business Plan 186

Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

David Teten

AUGUST 21, 2019

But you also can’t run the company forever, since investors need a liquidity event. Focus on lower-risk business models; no requirement for a ‘swing for the fences’ model. “When you raise early stage VC, you can’t sell early because the VCs won’t agree to it.

Revenue 60

Revenue Liquidation Preference Equity Cofounder 60

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

When you take money from investors their business model becomes yours. Sigh… What I should have been hearing is the search for the business model, specifically the progress on product/market fit, but I hear the fund raising story first at least 90% of the time. How much do they need to own at a liquidity event?

Venture Capital 333

Venture Capital IRR Liquidity Event Business Model 333

Berkonomics

AUGUST 13, 2015

When you were just commencing commercial sales and refining your business model to achieve positive cash flow, you were focusing on survival. That premium is your focus. And it can only be truly determined once the buyer’s wire transfer appears in your account.

Ohio 48

Ohio Acquisition Forecast Sales 48

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

When you take money from investors their business model becomes yours. Sigh… What I should have been hearing is the search for the business model, specifically the progress on product/market fit, but I hear the fund raising story first at least 90% of the time. How much do they need to own at a liquidity event?

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital IRR Liquidity Event Business Model 225

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Ps: my limited perspective comes with self recognition of a lack of hands on experience always enjoy it when I stop in to read here Steve Reply Aamir , on July 2, 2009 at 10:18 am Said: Awesome post Steve… but isn’t drawing the business model for a gaming company going to be easy? Make game, market, sell, profit?

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS Software Review 120

Berkonomics

AUGUST 27, 2015

Keepers are financed differently than Flippers, which are started with a plan to be acquired in a few years, once the value of the technology or business model is demonstrable. Being one or the other is neither good nor bad, but the needs and investment considerations are very different.

Intellectual Property 48

Intellectual Property Balance Sheet Stock Options Valuation 48

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

But while universities are developing online content they are not fundamentally disrupting leaning because the method of delivery is not a new business model. He talked about a unique model where you don’t have to become liquid in venture capital and can target singles & doubles.

Bankruptcy 403

Bankruptcy Offshore Liquidation Preference Balance Sheet 403

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

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Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53