Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Even non-profits need revenue to cover their costs, and continue to provide services. 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. Risk is more manageable with subscriptions and even freemium pricing.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 28, 2021

In this guide, we will discuss the different ways you can set up an LLC and the costs involved. The only costs that you will need to pay will be the state filing fee. You will incur a legal cost of somewhere between $1,000 to $1,500 for the process. LLC Formation Costs. What Are Your Options for LLC Formation?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity. Join a startup incubator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Even non-profits need revenue to cover their costs, and continue to provide services. 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. Risk is more manageable with subscriptions and even freemium pricing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity. Join a startup incubator.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

REASON 2: You Need to Gain the Efficiencies to Be Cost-Competitive. REASON 4: Digitally Driven Companies Have Greater Revenue Growth. percent average for the rest. Digitally advanced” companies create 9 percent more revenue than their industry competitors, as reported in a study conducted by MIT. Those days are gone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity. Join a startup incubator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity. Solicit funds from friends and family.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

In the rest of this article, I will share with you a basic process you can use to build upon. This information is crucial in maintaining scent from the creative to the landing page and rest of the customer journey. It is about focusing your marketing efforts on a few select companies that could represent huge revenue streams.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2020

The norm for entrepreneurs is to be optimistic on revenue projections, and miserly on funding needs. Of course this means taking some smart risks, not resting on your laurels, and continuously updating your business plan and strategy. Cheaper in the beginning can be more costly in the long run.

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Up and Running

JUNE 1, 2021

It’s even possible for many of them to be revenue-neutral or better. Here’s an explanation of what conditions make an employee benefit revenue-neutral and a look at the five best options for businesses in a post-pandemic hiring environment. What is a revenue-neutral benefit?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Next we teach Distribution Channels (how are you going to sell the product) and Customer Relationships (how do you Get/Keep/Grow customers) and Revenue Streams (what’s the Revenue Model strategy and pricing tactics.) You get an introduction to reimbursement early here, while the details are described later in the “Revenue” lecture.).

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Measuring customer acquisition for peak effectiveness How to calculate ecommerce customer acquisition cost Calculate much your customers are worth: LTV MRR, churn rates, and other factors that affect your LTV/CAC ratios Find and fix customer acquisition funnel leaks 5 customer acquisition strategies to increase sales and loyalty (with examples) 1.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

buy out an entire company for its revenue and profits. These include the product itself, the customer, the distribution channel, revenue model, how to get, keep and grow customers, resources and activities needed to build the business and costs.). If they decide to buy, large companies can: license/acquire intellectual property.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Instead, watch payback period for acquisition efficiency, watch retention for product/market fit, watch expansion revenue for long-term growth, and watch gross margin for long-term profitability. You’re not allocating enough costs to gross margin or the cost to acquire a customer. Priority depends on your goals (e.g.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity. Solicit funds from friends and family.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

” How many times have you heard someone agree that “it would be great if someone did X,” but when show them someone did do X, but it costs $39.99, they don’t buy? Consider the consequences of these monthly pricing possibilities: $0/mo means your goal is to maximize growth (trust and usage) instead of revenue.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2017

With this, the rest of this post outlines five of the key strategies that will allow you to increase your revenue. If you are from Dallas, co-working spaces like Common Desk provide an event space at an affordable cost. Marketing does not need to cost a fortune to be effective. Without sales, the business will not foster.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

You can read the rest of the posts in the series by clicking here *. With extremely limited resources and time, one wrong step could cost you 6-9 months of runway. *This post is part of our “pitch deck” series where we dissect the seed stage pitch deck and discuss the ideal flow for a pitch. Now it’s time to discuss the “where”.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The main thrust of the post is that with YouTube taking a 45% of revenue and talent taking 70% of the remaining revenue, YouTube Networks didn’t have sustainable businesses unless they invested heavily in technology as a tool to increase margin and provide defensibility. Much of it already is. Not so fast.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2023

Viral marketing campaigns to lure new customers will cost you big money. Examine every cost center in your business. Look for operations that are hogging resources without generating significant revenue. Look for hidden sources of revenue. Focus on your core competency. It's your opportunity to respond to those shifts.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 27, 2017

Its employees and investors don’t depend on an existing revenue stream. Every Airbnb rental is a lost night of revenue for hotels that hate it. After it was discovered, legal penalties cost Volkswagen $18 billion and several indicted executives.). Initially, a startup has no business model and no market share to defend.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

Stacked Marketer turned a free newsletter into a six-figure revenue generator by staying actionable, convenient, and entertaining. As Maryanne Wolf notes in the Guardian , skim reading is the new normal: “Many readers now use an F or Z pattern when reading in which they sample the first line and then word-spot through the rest of the text.”.

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Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Technology increases efficiency, but at what cost? Yet, what is the cost of inefficiency? The question is less about whether you need ROI-improving software and more about how to get the rest of the board to understand its benefits. What Is the Cost of Inefficiency? That all goes right back to time costing money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2014

Even non-profits need revenue to cover their costs, and continue to provide services. 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. Risk is more manageable with subscriptions and even freemium pricing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Even non-profits need revenue to cover their costs, and continue to provide services. 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. Risk is more manageable with subscriptions and even freemium pricing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Viral marketing campaigns to lure new customers will cost you big money. Examine every cost center in your business. Look for operations that are hogging resources without generating significant revenue. Look for hidden sources of revenue. Focus on your core competency. It's your opportunity to respond to those shifts.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The most immediate result is a halt in daily routine and loss of profit/revenue as an after effect. In fact, ITIC, a mutual insurer, reported that 98 percent of organizations say one hour of downtime costs over $100,000. Blackouts in commercial buildings can cause serious issues in businesses like: Loss of revenue.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2019

The situation could become even more tangled if the effects from China spill over into the rest of Asia (or beyond) due to intertwined supply chains. Companies buying or selling products or parts across international boundaries are likely to see higher costs which, without effort, must be passed onto the customer.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 14, 2013

More importantly though, Raynor and Ahmed uncovered three very simple rules that differentiated the best from the rest: 1. Revenue before cost. You know the trend of cutting costs to boost profitability? The advantages of higher revenue tend to be more valuable than the advantages of lower cost. Everything.

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Up and Running

APRIL 22, 2020

Maintaining your business through the coronavirus crisis has likely led you to cut costs, revise your sales projections, and potentially seek out a loan to help you stay afloat. Aside from risky industries, there are also those that are excluded from SBA loans, no matter how good the rest of your application is. Risky industry.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

A future once at our fingertips now rests at the tips of our tongues. John came to Swiftpage with a 30-year track record of building highly profitable and sustainable revenue growth for emerging companies and established global leaders. Speech-to-text software can be a real timesaver for data entry, too. This saves hours.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Embracing monthly recurring revenue: By focusing on solving specific problems for specific clients in a consistent and reliable manner, you can shift towards a scalable business model centered around monthly recurring revenue. Simply tell them what you need and they'll handle the rest hassle-free. Here's what you get.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

“Activities” is where you define the most important things your company must do to make the rest of your business model work. Activities define the unique expertise your company needs to deliver the value proposition, customers, channels, customer relationships and/or revenue. (If

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 2, 2022

I'm proud of the fact that we've managed to bring down costs and managed to solve many of the problems we initially had. So, I've never conveyed mixed cost signals like that to our staff. What I didn't expect was the ripple effect it would have on the rest of my team. 16- Hit $1 million revenue. Photo Credit: Alina Clark.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2019

All the ingredients for Indian SaaS dominance are here: From producing some of the world’s best developers to competing on cost and producing quality products of global standard. Today, more than one-quarter of all software revenue is derived from the SaaS model, and it is growing twice as fast as traditional software growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Thus your objectives for social media should at least include monitoring your online reputation on the three top platforms, and hopefully taking the minimum actions to turn any negatives into positives for the rest of us. Last year, Facebook’s revenue from advertising was over $55 billion, which was a 50% year-over-year increase.

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