Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Implement a modern real business model. Use metrics to measure results of marketing initiatives. Great team members may take more time to find, and cost you stock options, but a qualified and highly motivated team that stretches your budget is a good calculated risk. Build your business with minimum outside funding.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

The questions every startup or small business CEO needs to ask now are: What’s my Burn Rate and Runway? What does your new business model look like? To answer the first question, take stock of your current gross burn rate i.e. how much cash are you spending each month. What does my business model look like now?

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Board Effect

MARCH 11, 2020

Taking a different approach to evaluating higher education institutions requires taking a different approach to metrics to demonstrate progress toward broad goals and prove the kind of accountability and transparency that regulators, legislators, and other stakeholders are looking for. It’s essentially a different way of looking at things.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

Thanks to Abdul Saboor, The Stock Dork ! #4- 4- Drop-shipping enterprise Photo Credit: Matthew Magnante It's my proposal The drop-shipping business model involves selling things that are transported straight from the supplier to the client. Thanks to Carter Seuthe, Credit Summit ! #4- Thanks to Oliver Goodwin, Synthesys.io ! #7-

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Your firm worked with an investment banking firm that underwrote and offered stock (typically on the NASDAQ exchange) to the public.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

People ask me this seemingly simple question all the time: What Key Performance Indicators should we use for our business ? There is no golden metric for everyone, we are all unique snowflakes! :). I am going to pick a whole bunch of different businesses (15 in all!), If you want to play along. Don’t read what I’ve chosen.

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Up and Running

JULY 6, 2021

It’s a business type that minimizes risk and allows you to operate a business remotely without needing to manage stock. In this guide, you’ll learn the pros and cons of starting a dropshipping business as well as how to start a dropshipping business in five steps. billion in 2020 and is expected to reach $563.4

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2021

Develop a Business Model. The great managerial guru, Peter Drucker, liked to say that the purpose of a business is to keep and create a customer. Achieving that in profitable ways is the purpose of your business model. New businesses often do not have the capital to attract top talent.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

He’d wasted a year of his life and had a pile of stock options that weren’t very interesting. Solving the "marketplace" business model - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 10, 2010 A sizable percentage of Capital Factory startup submissions take the form of the "marketplace." Tesla is not.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2023

Investors were astounded as Cava’s stock price soared , underscoring the immense potential of even non-tech consumer product categories. The company’s stock price surged, surpassing initial projections and leaving investors and industry experts in awe. Startup success is not a one-size-fits-all equation.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

Here are four reasons: First, companies bought into the false premise that they exist to maximize shareholder value – which said “keep the stock price high.” As a consequence, corporations used metrics like return on net assets (RONA), return on capital deployed, and internal rate of return (IRR) to measure efficiency. Lessons Learned.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2011

They are potentially different business models. The decision to split the businesses : 3 out of 5 stars. I really like the clarity of two business units – whatever you name them. Perhaps they should have just created business units called: Netflix DVD & Netflix Streaming. No, probably not.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Startups rarely survive by guessing, and can only create products and business models based on facts about their target market. The Pebble Smartwatch itself comes stock with a fairly standard feature set – email, clock, heart rate monitor etc. That was the metric that really told us we needed to start over.”

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2010

I’ll offer that both entrepreneurs and VC’s have the wrong model for founding CEO equity compensation. The customary vesting model has founders vest their stock over 4-years , and when the founding CEO gets in over their head the VC’s bring in professional management. It’s About Finding the Business Model.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 24, 2020

In this blog, we aim to decipher the meaning behind some of the more abstract metrics when it comes to an eCommerce website valuation. but we do cover the rudimentary metrics (along with tips for improving your own site’s value). While it might sound like something from a stock broker’s library, SDE is actually a pretty simple concept.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2017

This article is part of our “ Business Startup Guide ”—a curated list of our articles that will get you up and running in no time! People often ask us for a list of steps they can use to start their own business. From business type to business model to physical location, there are so many variables! Target Market.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2010

The role of a founding CEO in a startup searching for a business model is radically different than a CEO building and growing a company. Certain VC’s like the new class of Super-Angels and small VC funds specialize in the early stage of a startup where you are searching for a business model. Your potential business model?

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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. One of the reasons that RBI VC is growing in both feasibility and popularity is that more businesses are becoming metrics-driven , which means that investors have better line of site on their future revenues.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

To turn your company’s stock into cash, you engaged a top-notch investment bank (Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs) and/or their Silicon Valley compatriots (Hambrecht & Quist, Montgomery Securities, Robertson Stephens). — all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model. Board Control.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 18, 2024

In supply chain management, an ERP can be pivotal in optimizing stock levels, reducing warehousing costs, and improving customer satisfaction through timely delivery. The aim is to build a comprehensive solution that engulfs all aspects of the business, making it more responsive and adaptable to changing market dynamics.

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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.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

For starters, the business metrics are quite compelling. Most importantly, I became convinced that Stitch Fix was one of those rare companies where the unique product advantage also contributes to a unique business model advantage. This is business model nirvana.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Let’s have a look at some key points to learn from this business startup failure: Know when to go Public. On expert analysis it was determined that Twitter had expected high of its success even before its release and had made the grave mistake of making the Stock Market Launch too early. Evaluate the Growth. Innovation is the Key.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

3]   However, if they are built bottom up, they demonstrate and make explicit a range of business model assumptions the entrepreneur is using to think about his business and its revenue model. Term-sheets for preferred stock offerings are designed to protect the investor in case things don’t go as well as planned.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We’re looking at our lean business planning is about strategy, tactics, concrete specifics including milestones, metrics, tasks and schedule, and essential numbers to run a business, all of which lead to managing cash flow. You need metrics because we’re human. Are we recruiting? Who are we recruiting?

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

What models of eCommerce fulfillment are available? eCommerce fulfillment is available in 3 different business models—self-fulfillment, 3PL fulfillment, and dropshipping. And who doesn’t want to be associated with a business that is known for its customer service efforts? Self-fulfillment. Dropshipping.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

The answer is, they couldn't make any money trading, [or on] giving analyst support for small stocks because the spread got too small.". stock market: The change led by NASDAQ in early 2001 to valuing stocks in increments from one-eighth of a dollar down to one cent. When small fluctuations in stock value changed from 12.5¢

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

Many startups don’t innovate at all in the product dimension, but use other kinds of innovation: repurposing an existing technology for a new use, devising a new business model that unlocks value that was previously hidden, or even simply bringing a product or service to a new location or set of customers previously underserved.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Transparency: Social enterprises face the challenge of building trust with their stakeholders and thus have an additional incentive to provide ample amounts of transparency in their success metrics. An ESOP allows business owners to offer equity in the company in exchange for, most often, a reduced salary.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

What most founders don’t realize is: Every stage of a startup requires a different set of metrics and milestones and founder skills. For a Series A round you want to prove you have built a repeatable and scalable sales/revenue model and understand all parts of the business model. Business Model. Expenses?

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

The one-page pitch format is also more suitable for SaaS businesses that are constantly testing new ideas. Your pitch is going to cover your strategy (what you’re going to do), your tactics (how you’re going to do it), your business model (how you will make money), and your schedule (who is doing what and when).

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2013

We’ll look at relevant metrics to help you assess whether a specific marketing channel could work for you, and also highlight additional resources to help you get a better understanding of that channel. Today, we take a look at online and traditional marketing. Online Marketing. The company folded shortly after the ad aired.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Those customers are fairly easy to sign up, but if I look at where most of the money comes from, and those are the larger licenses of five or ten users, that is according to your definition then the small businesses and small businesses include actually the Mexican Stock Exchange, Chamber of Commerce. Does that make sense?

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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.

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BeyondVC

MAY 18, 2007

We have stayed in touch throughout the years and what has impressed me most about David is his perseverance, sticking with the company through a few near-death experiences, struggling to find cash to make payroll, dealing with a penny stock, and ultimately fighting and building his way back to this exit. appeared first on BeyondVC.

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 26, 2012

If there are more companies that have met Series A milestones and metrics, VCs will increase the number of Series A financings. I've had a couple of deals where investors were paid out a multiple on exit and in a better position than if holding preferred stock, where the payout would have been subject to escrow and over multiple years.

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