Up and Running

APRIL 21, 2021

It’s been a challenging year, and small businesses face different difficulties, from having to shut due to Covid-19 to the struggles of securing Government loans to stay afloat. You made the sale, accounted for the revenue already, only to be forced to give back the money and even pay a fee on top of it all.

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Up and Running

JULY 28, 2022

Small Business Administration , an organization is considered to be a small business if their: Firm revenue ranges from $1 million to $40 million Number of employees is between 100 and 1,500. Intellectual property (IP) is anything created by the human intellect that’s protected by the law from unauthorized use by other people.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Early on in my career I took a “we’re moving too fast to deal with lawyers” attitude to patents and Intellectual Property (IP.) The assets you can protect may include your “core technology&# like source code, hardware designs, architectures, processes, formulas. Type of IP. _. non-public technology. new technology.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The fact is, not paying for the critical review and legal costs to create or enforce a patent almost always ends up costing more in the long run. Unfortunately, both scenarios carry high probabilities of compromised scope of patent coverage and can create delayed issuance of the patent filing for years due to extra rounds of argument.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2022

The portion of women who play games has increased (+5%), with almost as many women playing games as men – 85% vs 81%, respectively ( source ) Gaming is expanding – companies who didn’t traditionally do gaming (like Netflix ) have understood that it’s a key activity for their customers time spent outside of work.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Competition from other startups and established incumbents, constraints on time and capital, and limited access to talent and technology resources are just a few of the hurdles nearly every first-time founder faces while trying to build a business. You may be able to generate revenue, but VCs want exponential growth.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

If someone asked whether or not your business has Intellectual Property (IP) and your answer is “I do not know” or “I doubt it,” you are not alone. It is difficult to be in a business situation completely devoid of IP worth identifying and protecting. IP is a not just a legal issue.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. These events mean that technology is advancing fast enough to make better decisions than humans in order to accomplish a given task. Chris Rust, Clear Ventures).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. Exec Summary: Most companies (98+%) in the world (even tech startups) should be very profit focused. Simplifying: Revenue -.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

get to revenue, b.) retain those customers. how many customers you’ll acquire and when, how many you’ll retain in year one, how many will churn out (leave you), the average revenue each customer will spend, etc.). Offend your investors by over using acronyms and technical terms. Make s**t up!

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Knowbella Tech is an open science collaboration company that uses blockchain to deliver free tools, services, grants, and intellectual properties (IP) to researchers, particularly the underserved in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We will also seek first-mover STEM recruiting customers in order to generate revenues.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

So if your costs are $500,000 per month and you have $350,000 per month in revenue then your net burn (500-350) is equal to $150,000. But those of us with longer memories remember that the revenue line can move south very quickly when the market overall turns south. Gross burn is the total amount of money you are spending per month.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

In addition to funding, the good news is that all of these provide aspiring entrepreneurs with an opportunity to perfect their marketing pitch, get some valuable target customer feedback and improve visibility to other funding sources. Project your costs as diligently as your revenues. Keep all IP details close to the vest.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 9, 2019

In the worst case, you might end up with a cloud infrastructure that is a step down from your original solution — leading to lost customers and revenue. If an outage is due to your internet service provider , for example, one part of the plan would be to failover to your secondary line. Create an in-house committee. .

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

The best way to explain the “gap” in the Traction Gap Framework is to review the three phases that every startup must pass through in order to succeed. The reason is that as you reach each one, you dramatically increase the value of your startup by reducing market, technical, execution, and team risk. Mind the Traction Gap?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2019

In fact, one of the most difficult obstacles for most businesses is convincing the main power houses (board members, directors, investors) to sign off on the budget needed to fully explore these opportunities; especially when it comes to investing in mobile technology, i.e. mobile app development. This is where your research comes in.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Nearly all businesses, whether they are small or large, are comprised of intellectual property (IP) and trade secrets, which can serve as the foundation for commercial success. The World Intellectual Property Organization defines IP as, “creations of the mind,” which, depending on the business, can take many forms. Customer lists.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 4, 2022

It might be the products or the customers they deal with, or it could even be the fact that they are the ones in charge of it all. I build long-term ties with my customers. When we work with our customers, we become their business partners and assist them expand their companies over time. 2- Establishing long-term ties.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

25 questions that DTC entrepreneurs should ask themselves before scaling customer acquisition So you run a direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand. You just spent a few thousand dollars on advertising and your paid customer acquisition cost (CAC) numbers tested well relative to your best guess for customer lifetime value (LTV).

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

I’ve had the opportunity to work with many impressive teams and product managers from a broad range of leading tech companies, and this has helped me to get a better sense of the what is essential to the role, and to success. They knew they needed to somehow get customers to want a blend of expensive and less expensive titles.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

As the former co-founder and CEO of two technology companies, Caroline has experienced both start-up failures and successes, and has raised close to $1 million in investment capital. Make sure you’ve done the due diligence on all of these areas of your business. Pretend that you are the investor. Are you saving them time?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

There are many ways to measure technical skills and check work histories and achievements, but assessment of team chemistry is a high art form. Make your choices only after you’ve done some due diligence with other companies where they’ve served. Customers are choices made by your startup.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Hurricane Irma had a major negative revenue impact on one whose fall book of business was mostly in Florida. Two of them made some major product directional changes based on the founder’s judgment and the feedback he was getting from partners and customers. But, credit is due to all these CEO’s for perseverance. Do the math.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Revenue needs to grow 20x, and margins must expand dramatically. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. Let’s look at each figure.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Could you talk a bit about the diligence you did during the acquisition? How long into the discussion before you commenced diligence? Due diligence is the most important part of the process because it dictates whether you should move forward with the acquisition, and at what price. Number of paying customers.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Primarily, they’re designed to encourage sales from potential or previous customers. A triggered email, on the other hand, is HTML generated by combining a custom template with user data around a specific event, and then sent directly through an ESP (like Mandrill, Postmark, or SendGrid) to that user.” Image Source.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

You can subscribe to Smart Bear Live on iTunes (please review the podcast as well!) … and if you’d like to appear on a future episode of Smart Bear Live, send an email to Patrick.Foley@microsoft.com to schedule a recording with Jason. And please tweet your thanks to Software Promotions for sponsoring Smart Bear Live! Jason: Right.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Still a lot of marketers don’t believe it – or they’re at least skeptical about some of the technical aspects of testing and SEO. On a HackerNews thread a few years ago he said , “You can do A/B testing via either server-side or client-side technology. It’s not hurting your revenue. Image Source.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how to define your ABM strategy so you can target the right accounts and increase your revenue. Account-based marketing is an approach where marketing and sales work together to nurture target accounts and convert or retain customers. This required more product evangelism and customer wins.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

That's why the Corona Initiative is a Public Benefit Corporation--a for-profit company dedicated to the public good that aims to fund its research with its revenues. You really want to see how your company treats its employees, treats its customers, treats the environment, taking a longer-term view." Robert Rhinehart : I did.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2021

While reading a book called “ No Forms, No Cold Calls & No Spam ” by Latané Conant, I came to the realization that many vendors try to position ABM as a $40,000 technology stack problem. When sales made a list of logos they wanted to sell, or the list of ‘dream customers’ to close.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I have the knowledge in tech to implement it. If you’re looking for technical talent – go to the dev meetups. I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. I think it’s a huge mistake to outsource technology as a startup. Talk to your customers. No, I have many ideas.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

I would say you need customer feedback or maybe expert feedback. The reason feedback - specifically from actual customers - is usually chosen is because it is more on the science side than the art side, but I surely cant knock those people and teams that can deliver product excellence due to vision, luck or art. -- arrel 215 days ago | link.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

The clicks aren’t from potential customers, but they’re often from real people. Some networks are highly sophisticated, and organisers disguise their IP addresses. If you conduct some intricate research (detailed below), you may be able to identify the IP address of competing businesses. Competing businesses. If you can—great!

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Essentially, it’s the real-time individualization of a site to suit each visitor’s unique needs and guide them through a custom conversion funnel. Increased visitor engagement, improved customer experience and increase conversion rates are seen as the biggest benefits to personalization… Image Source.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

You can subscribe to Smart Bear Live on iTunes (please review the podcast as well!) … and if you’d like to appear on a future episode of Smart Bear Live, send an email to the Smart Bear Live producer, Patrick.Foley@microsoft.com , to schedule a recording with Jason. Are they trying to get to the end customer? Jason: Okay.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

People who are your existing customers / past purchasers, they'll type url and come to the site or via bookmarks. Direct traffic is a fantastic segment to analyze because it contains desirable Visitors and yet because it is often polluted (due to our own inability to implement web analytics tools correctly).

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