Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2022

Every business needs revenue to provide investor returns and offset costs. Every entrepreneur needs to know and communicate the total costs associated with their solution or product, including cost of goods sold, customer acquisition costs, capital costs, operational expenses, and partner costs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

It’s very unusual for two competitors to have exactly the same strengths – in development, marketing, distribution, or customer support. Capitalize on shared costs and common distribution. Similar companies, even though competitors, usually face economies of scale and overlapping distribution channels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Potential return on investment cannot be calculated without a clear understanding and evidence of actual costs, revenue flows, and margins. Marketing programs and distribution channels are required for even the best solutions, with an appropriate and viable rollout and growth strategy. Lack of intellectual property.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2016

It’s important to learn from your own mistakes, but it’s even smarter to learn from someone else’s mistakes, without paying their high price in time lost, cost, and pain. Viral marketing costs real money, and your support staff and hosting systems cost even more. Bypasses intellectual property as not worth the cost.

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Intellectual Property Startup Angel Investor Viral 120

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2015

It’s important to learn from your own mistakes, but it’s even smarter to learn from someone else’s mistakes, without paying their high price in time lost, cost, and pain. Viral marketing costs real money, and your support staff and hosting systems cost even more. Bypasses intellectual property as not worth the cost.

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Intellectual Property Angel Investor Viral Distribution 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2019

Every business needs revenue to provide investor returns and offset costs. Every entrepreneur needs to know and communicate the total costs associated with their solution or product, including cost of goods sold, customer acquisition costs, capital costs, operational expenses, and partner costs.

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Intellectual Property Business Model Angel Investor Channel 250

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2020

Potential return on investment cannot be calculated without a clear understanding and evidence of actual costs, revenue flows, and margins. Marketing programs and distribution channels are required for even the best solutions, with an appropriate and viable rollout and growth strategy. Lack of intellectual property.

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Due Diligence Intellectual Property Preferred Stock Startup 308

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Today’s workforce has radically different expectations, brands are losing their power, physical channels are being destroyed by virtual ones, market share is less important than market creation, and software is eating world. For example they can reduce component cost, introduce a line extension or create new versions of the existing product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2017

Every business needs revenue to provide investor returns and offset costs. Every entrepreneur needs to know and communicate the total costs associated with their solution or product, including cost of goods sold, customer acquisition costs, capital costs, operational expenses, and partner costs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2014

It’s very unusual for two competitors to have exactly the same strengths – in development, marketing, distribution, or customer support. Capitalize on shared costs and common distribution. Similar companies, even though competitors, usually face economies of scale and overlapping distribution channels.

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Non-disclosure Agreement Intellectual Property Startup Non-Compete 257

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Here are the other reasons to use this strategy: It reduces common costs and customer learning curves. Similar startups, with competing products, almost always have overlapping areas, which cost money to develop and annoy customers with a new learning curve. Complementary advantages can expand both markets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2018

Business model showing costs, pricing, and margins. Intellectual property and sustainable competitive advantage. I would expect to see specific plans for distribution, partnerships, and sales channels, as well as the use of social media and conventional marketing, with budgets for the major elements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

That’s because a company’s value is a composite of all of the quantitative and qualitative factors that comprise a company: revenues, expenses, risks, growth prospects, quality of the management team, competitive advantages, strength of the intellectual property, and so forth. Detail isn’t important; tracking your progress is.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2016

Potential return on investment cannot be calculated without a clear understanding and evidence of actual costs, revenue flows, and margins. Marketing programs and distribution channels are required for even the best solutions, with an appropriate and viable rollout and growth strategy. Lack of intellectual property.

Due Diligence 120

Due Diligence Intellectual Property Preferred Stock Seed Stage 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2010

This includes how the product gets distributed to your customers and how money flows back into your company. And it shows your company’s cost structures, how each department interacts with the others and where your company can work with other companies or partners to implement your business. Regulation and Intellectual Property.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

Every customer understands that your solution has to generate more revenue than cost, but you should not put that data in a customer pitch. How you intend to beat specific competitors (business model, intellectual property) is a key investor decision criteria. Competitor positioning and sustainable competitive advantage.

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Product Intellectual Property Liquidity Event Burn Rate 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Finally the amount of capital needed to take a drug to FDA trials could be enormously expensive, at least 10x more than startup costs at an electron-based company. Most of the social and mobile channels (YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, iPhone, Android) have emerged in just the past 3-5 years. Their capital needs are low at the front end.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

So, if I were going to invent something, I’d probably start by creating an affordable jeweler’s workbench, not least because I’d be able to test it, and because I already know all the distribution channels I’d need to hit in order to sell it. Of course, you could also calculate your price based on the cost of materials and manufacture.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Intellectual Property : Again, this mostly applies to technology and scientific ventures. But, if you have intellectual property that is proprietary to your business and helps your business defend itself against competitors, you should detail that information here. Distribution. Retail Distribution.

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Business Plan Blog

JULY 9, 2013

Sustainable competitive advantages are not easily copied and generally stem from one or more of the following: vendor relations, product sourcing advantages, prime location, unique products/services; customer loyalty, customer service reputation, or distribution channel advantages. Dramatic Cost Advantage. While all I.P.

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Intellectual Property Differentiation Distribution Business Plan 45

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2021

Every business, including non-profits, need a viable source of revenue to cover the costs of operation and sustainability. Show a cost margin of at least fifty percent. Projecting a low cost margin, with a commitment to low overhead and hard work, is not convincing. Identify your intellectual property or “secret sauce.”

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Intellectual Property Angel Investor Business Model Channel 332

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

In contrast to simply executing your business plan, the Customer Development process is built on low-cost and continuous learning and iterating. Sales – What Channel to reach the customer? Intellectual Property/Patents – Strategic or Tactical, timing? Innovation – Business Model? Technology? Customers – Who are the Users?

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

A tool like Quuu identifies relevant, shareable content to keep your social media channels active. . Some notable metrics are revenue growth rates, free cashflow, leverage ratios, historical financing amounts, returns on marketing spend, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of customers, customer churn rates, and team social scores.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

The University of Texas System is the third most innovative university in the world , behind only the University of California system and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in intellectual property patents. Each major city has created physical technology hubs with strong public/private partnerships.

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Up and Running

APRIL 28, 2015

Finding and winning customers can sometimes be the biggest challenge for a startup, so it’s important to show that you have a solid grasp of how you will reach your target market and what sales channels you plan on using. If your marketing and sales process is different than your competitors, it’s important to highlight that here.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 19, 2018

The bigger the list, the more it costs. You’re giving up a lot of opportunity cost in exchange for the exclusivity, so what’s in it for you? There is a range of possiblities that include a single entity, a named list, a geographic region, a market segment, or the entire universe. I always insist on a named list out of principle.

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Business Plan Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

What makes an idea compelling to an investor is 2 fold: 1) does the idea offer a solution to a big problem or opportunity, and 2) is the idea protected via intellectual property or some other barrier to entry. However, the reality is that very few start-ups present an idea that is actually unique. Technology.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 15, 2024

The creation of content, but especially the sharing of content became a zero cost game. Initially, many publishers were slow to recognize the internet’s impact on their business model as distribution and the classifieds and ad worlds split – or what Ben Thompson calls the “ Great Unbundling ”.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

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