Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2018

Here are some guidelines that will help you with the right answers, not only in closing your next investment, but in planning when and how much money to ask for: Investors are most interested in helping you scale the business. Then they look at the people behind the model, the execution status and how they might get their money back.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Some of the finalists were generating revenues already and/or have very promising strategic partnerships lined up. For example, “I have over 10 years of software experience in this space, how do you plan to have a strong barrier to entry in this crowded space?&#. Tags: Business Technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

See how many you have personally experienced already, or are currently mentioned in your business plan: Crowd-sourcing equity. This usually involves more attention to organizational, operational, and strategic challenges. Super-angels. Osmosis marketing. Startup pivot.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Some of the finalists were generating revenues already and/or have very promising strategic partnerships lined up. For example, “I have over 10 years of software experience in this space, how do you plan to have a strong barrier to entry in this crowded space?&#. CEO of Obopay has raised $200M in funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2013

At this stage you were expecting to be working on creating a good business valuation to attract future buyers, or at least funding college accounts for your kids. Take your reputation online, utilizing social media, your website, and a blog to connect to clients and make strategic alliances. Maximize cash flow. But don’t worry.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Business schools teach aspiring executives a variety of courses around the execution of known business models, (accounting, organizational behavior, managerial skills, marketing, operations, etc.). In contrast, startups search for a business model. (Or to optimize this search. to optimize this search.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2012

At this stage you were expecting to be working on creating a good business valuation to attract future buyers, or at least funding college accounts for your kids. Take your reputation online, utilizing social media, your website, and a blog to connect to clients and make strategic alliances. Maximize cash flow. But don’t worry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2016

Here are some guidelines that will help you with the right answers, not only in closing your next investment, but in planning when and how much money to ask for: Investors are most interested in helping you scale the business. Then they look at the people behind the model, the execution status and how they might get their money back.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

ABM is built on alignment and without everyone on the same page from the start, any plans to drive growth are doomed to fail. In this article, you’ll learn how to define your ABM strategy so you can target the right accounts and increase your revenue. Cloud-based data warehouse Snowflake had an ambitious goal to triple its revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2011

At this stage you were expecting to be working on creating a good business valuation to attract future buyers, or at least funding college accounts for your kids. Take your reputation online, utilizing social media, your website, and a blog to connect to clients and make strategic alliances. Maximize cash flow. But don’t worry.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. Start your lean business plan today: Download our Free Lean Plan Template one-page-pitch-download.pdf. That’s a lean business plan.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Third, we’ll look ahead to discuss scenario planning and how leaders can forge a path forward. We begin by describing a typical a growth model and discuss how that fundamentally drives a company’s business strategy. So what are they doing here, in the context of their growth model?

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Beware The Consultant John Greathouse – Posted in: Cash Flow Management , Launching Venture , Strategic Planning. There is an inherent conflict in a consultant’s business model and the needs of a startup. Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc.

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? If you're generating something that's brand new, like a brand new category, nobody understands about it. The first one I call “category disrupter.” Hila is a mentor with Mucker Capital. You need a lot of education.

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The Startup Toolkit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Within the second category, there are 3 types of acquisitions which each behave quite differently: The company has failed, but manages to sell off something of value (patents, team, etc) on the way out (asset sale or talent acquisition). You’re making solid revenue (e.g. all your revenue comes from one big customer).

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

The company has just missed its quarterly revenue forecast. They also don’t have a great plan for what they are going to do differently next quarter, other than hope that the market improves, and that more deals will close. To compute revenue, you multiply average deal size by number of deals. Obvious, isn’t it?

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 27, 2019

They moved everything to the online model in late 2013, early 2014, and that’s when kind of landed on the current online learning business model. If you produced a great class in a niche category that may not get a lot of eyeballs, that’s perfectly fine. We want to open up, we like the long tail.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Let’s look at XX completely different types of business, and pick just six metrics (two each for A, B and O) that would be the very best ones to measure their digital success. The goal is for each company’s Google Data Studio to not look like a CDP (customized data puke), but to be a focused strategic dashboard with an emphasis on IABI.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

With each hand, a small percentage of the pot is scraped off by the dealer, which in essence becomes the “revenue” for the casino. While casinos use the term “rake,” a plethora of interesting word choices exist which all describe the same thing – keeping a little bit of the revenue for the company that is running the service.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 5, 2022

Specifically, I plan on putting out one study per quarter that I'll send out to reporters and hopefully get viral coverage on social media. I’ve been planning for years to “Go Green,” and, finally, I’m implementing it. What I plan to do is host more online events such as giveaway contests. 5- Go green.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

You’ve reviewed what a business plan is , and why you need one to start and grow your business. It’s time to dig into the process of actually writing a business plan. In this step-by-step guide, I’ll take you through every stage of writing a business plan that will actually help you achieve your goals.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

we had no revenue. But with so many investors still licking their wounds from the dot-com bust, many focused on proven business models, such as advertising or e-commerce. As a result, we knew that our pitch would need to steer into investors’ biggest concern: the lack of revenue. Investors see a lot of pitches.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Customer Development by Vertical - Click to Enlarge (As a reminder, the Customer Development process says your business plan is just a series of untested hypothesis (unless you’re a domain expert.) Some of these are questions that would be addressed in a business plan. Others you need to know when you execute the plan.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Planning for a Harvest. But.for a company with investors who expect a "harvest," just as things get good on the revenue side, the strategic plan for the companys future becomes very important. For strategic buyers --. What can we do to their revenue? Planning for a Harvest. How much synergy?

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost.

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The Startup Toolkit

JULY 13, 2013

However, you can also see it broken out in Microsoft’s own words: A business model based on partner and first-party devices with both consumer and enterprise services. ” Will that inform their actions or are is it just a list of sure-would-be-nice-to-win categories? Optimization for activities people value most.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You John Greathouse – Posted in: Entrepreneur , Strategic Planning. As we morphed our business model at Expertcity, we needed a name for the technology we had begun to license to large enterprises. Select Category. Financial Planning (6).

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 1, 2018

Now it’s in the world domination category. John Jantsch: One of the challenges I see, and I’m strategizing with a startup right now that I think has a decent idea but no business model. It owns Whole Foods, and it’s probably delivering something via drone to your door right now. John Jantsch: You bet.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2018

What if you could rebuild those relationships and reclaim that revenue? You could grow your business and spend less doing so. Before you can formulate a plan to re-engage customers, you need to know what a disengaged customer looks like. But, be strategic. And, the truth is that you can re-engage with lost customers.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

A light “railway” using high density busses in dedicated traffic lanes is also due to start operating in 2011, and a cable-car connecting the bay area with the academic institutions in the upper part of the city is planned for 2013. From 1999 to 2009, Teva’s revenue grew to about $14 billion from $1.3

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Ecosystem-centric analysis is primarily focused on what is happening in the industry, in the sub-category, the small or big niche that everyone's playing in. This can possibly make a good module in your tactical dashboard (we'll see cooler stuff we can add to our strategic dashboards later in this post). Both are valuable.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

The programmer will probably not understand your business model, and therefore cant help you point out anything that doesnt make sense in the requirements. PLAN, WORK, PLAN SOME MORE, WORK SOME MORE to make it happen! check their references to get them into the right category. ", but probably "Version 0.x"

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