YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Toronto’s Mark Attanasio has spent some 20 years advising businesses at various stages in their development on what it takes to position themselves for growth – whether it’s through traditional transactional activities like management buyouts and mergers and acquisitions or via a public listing on a Canadian stock exchange.

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Partner Technical Review Management Due Diligence 113

YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

They make money by starting a product from scratch and then selling it in thousands of dollars. In most cases, they hit the jackpot when their products are sold for millions. You don’t have a product and most of your meetings will not bring any fruit. You are looking for cofounders that can help you build a product.

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Startup Technical Cofounder Merger Early Stage 113

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

You must have a prototype or a minimum viable product (MVP). To fund the sudden spike in production, funds will be required for additional inventory and wages. In very few specific cases, depending on the nature of the business, the business model might demand a considerable gestation period or extensive research and development.

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Startup Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Seed Stage 150

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2021

For example, many products are now offered by subscription, which was a concept from the services world. Starting a new business does put you in control, but you will face a harrowing new set of demands from partners, investors, suppliers, and customers. I find that most new business successes minimize breakage.

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Dilution Entrepreneur Merger Acquisition 428

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2021

Making people happy or improving usability are laudable goals, but projected product margins, volumes, and business growth are necessary realities for a successful business. Every startup demands logical changes along the way. You need to have quantifiable objectives, with measurements, to keep you on the path to success.

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Exit Strategy Merger Angel Investor IPO 406

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. For investors, this is the idea stage , where you may have a great idea, but no plan, product, or customers, and probably no success record in this business domain. Congratulations!

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Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 370

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

For the rest of us, we need a business plan, as well as a product plan. Some of you may be convinced that your product specification communicates the product message even better than a business plan, so why be redundant? Professional investors and even customers invest in people, rather than just a product.

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Business Plan Product Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch 423

abovethecrowd.com

MAY 20, 2013

As Benchmark is a large institutional investor in Grubhub, we were actively involved in the merger process, and we are quite excited about the potential of the two companies coming together. There are many synergies – different geographic strengths, different core customer bases, and different product strengths.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

My first business, a digital agency called MPSWORKS, came about purely based on demand for digital services and to generally help make a difference for small businesses across the UK by creating strong work that would help them prosper. Thanks to Kendra Hill, Scale My Business ! #7- 7- Make a difference. Photo Credit: Mike Staines.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. For investors, this is the idea stage , where you may have a great idea, but no plan, product, or customers, and probably no success record in this business domain. Congratulations!

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Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 184

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Smooth Mergers. CIOs have noticed, however, that with cloud computing, mergers are much faster. The reason the cloud is so favorable is because of its on-demand services. And businesses can bundle extra services with their products that they couldn’t before. Consolidating data was difficult, and sometimes never happened.

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Cloud Merger Government Leadership 140

Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

By focusing on reducing human touches and automating the sales and recruitment process, Angelichio and the Judge Group are able to minimize the cost associated with hiring additional internal staff while meeting their market demand in record time! By maintaining long-term employees, the Healthcare Staffing firm will be more productive.

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CPA Software Review LLC Technical Review 76

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

They have become a by-product of innovation rather than the cause of it: Conglomerates grew from industrialization, not innovation. Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Many countries have learned to make products cheaper and better.

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Artificial Inteligence Offshore Merger Technical Review 315

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. For investors, this is the idea stage , where you may have a great idea, but no plan, product, or customers, and probably no success record in this business domain. Congratulations!

Angel Investor 232

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 232

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2019

A trademark is defined as a type of intellectual property which can be used to identify services or products. This is known as an adverse demand shock. Recessions impact GDP, income, industrial production, employment, and wholesale and retail sales. Another significant effect of a recession is a rise in anti-competitive mergers.

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Intellectual Property Portfolio Analytics Equity 92

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Investors know that the fun of a startup turns into managing production processes, sales processes, and personnel in a few years. According to National Venture Capital Association statistics , only 16% of venture-backed startups recently used this alternative, due to high liability concerns, demanding shareholders, and high costs.

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Exit Strategy Private Equity Equity Technical Review 264

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries. Is it possible to build?

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Silicon Valley Product Startup Product Development 263

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Reverse Merger. Although some reverse mergers are legitimate, many are not. You should avoid any type of offer that promises you success via a once in a lifetime invention or product. Investors typically purchase these stocks because they the demand for these stocks are huge. Mining Scams. No Net Sales Scams.

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Stock Securities and Exchange Commission Offshore Burma 85

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

For instance, if your company is only a few weeks old and you have zero customers and your product offering is still in design, don’t expect someone to hand over $10 million to fund your efforts. Angels may be less demanding, but typically add less value.

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Investment Bankers Venture Capital Startup Initial Public Offering 241

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 23, 2021

Business heads and administration put great emphasis on these etiquettes for the increase in productivity. All professions demand that employees must be neat and tidy. People use these events to discuss potential mergers, deals, and other various business-related decisions. Always greet. Double-check all correspondence.

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Non-Compete Merger Naming Curation 105

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. For investors, this is the idea stage , where you may have a great idea, but no plan, product, or customers, and probably no success record in this business domain. Congratulations!

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Matching Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers 120

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2017

If you sell a product, the state where you’ve established nexus needs to be determined, as does whether sales tax applies to your product there. It’s almost impossible for a business owner to keep up with all the international and multistate tax regulations, mergers and acquisitions issues, and equity compensation happenings.

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Ratchet Merger New York Engineer 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2020

Investors know that the fun of a startup turns into managing production processes, sales processes, and personnel in a few years. According to National Venture Capital Association statistics , only 16% of venture-backed startups recently used this alternative, due to high liability concerns, demanding shareholders, and high costs.

Exit Strategy 376

Exit Strategy Startup Private Equity Equity 376

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

So here are the most common exit strategies and considerations these days for planning purposes: Merger & Acquisition (M&A). For bigger companies, it’s a more efficient and quicker way to grow their revenue than creating new products organically. Shareholders are demanding, and liability concerns are high.

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Exit Strategy Initial Public Offering IPO Startup 241

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2010

For instance, if your company is only a few weeks old and you have zero customers and your product offering is still in design, don’t expect someone to hand over $10 million to fund your efforts. Angels may be less demanding, but typically add less value.

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Investment Bankers Venture Capital Startup Initial Public Offering 231

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

And in order to compete against the big guys, the Deloittes, the McKinseys, the Accentures, our niche became large scale change projects, anything from mergers and acquisitions to large scale system integration work. A lot of our customers brought their packaging back in-house, there wasn’t as much demand.

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Leadership Developer Curation Hiring 73

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2010

The first instinct of a potential customer who is thinking about your product is to find out who else does what you do to be sure they’re not about to purchase a Betamax. We don’t want to be the person who invested in your company only to find out later there was a much better team and/or product in the market.

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Merger Differentiation AJAX Cloud 320

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2011

So here are the most common exit strategies and considerations these days for planning purposes: Merger & Acquisition (M&A). For bigger companies, it’s a more efficient and quicker way to grow their revenue than creating new products organically. Shareholders are demanding, and liability concerns are high.

Exit Strategy 231

Exit Strategy Initial Public Offering Startup IPO 231

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2015

With the daily demands of running a business along with the financial pressures and challenges inherent in early-stage companies, a business valuation may not be the first thing an entrepreneur thinks of when he awakes each morning. This can result in value even if the company has not sold one product! by Janet Chase, Kaufman Rossin.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

For instance, if your company is only a few weeks old and you have zero customers and your product offering is still in design, don’t expect someone to hand over $10 million to fund your efforts. Angels may be less demanding, but typically add less value.

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Venture Capital Investment Bankers Angel Investor Initial Public Offering 171

The Equity Kicker

MARCH 16, 2012

Mergers and acquisitions have a notoriously high failure rate and as a result investors knocked a couple of percent off Cisco’s share price yesterday following the announcement of their $5bn acquisition of NDS Group. Witness the recent margin pressure in Cisco’s core switching business.

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Acquisition Merger Social Network Revenue 104

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Startups needed millions of dollars of funding just to get their first product out the door to customers. A hardware startup had to equip a factory to manufacture the product. But the bubble mantra of get “big fast” and “first mover advantage” demanded tens of millions more to create a “brand.”

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Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

They have become a by-product of innovation rather than the cause of it: Conglomerates grew from industrialization, not innovation. Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Many countries have learned to make products cheaper and better.

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Engineer Entrepreneur Offshore Merger 219

Austin Startup

AUGUST 8, 2020

Over that time period, this newsletter has emerged as a must read for the city’s startup community because of its aggressive coverage of investments, IPOs, launches, Central Texas re-locations, mergers, founder-related events and (more recently) COVID-related layoffs. In fact, the Beat now counts more than 10,000 subscribers.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Because they offer competitive investment terms and don’t usually demand a board seat, super angels have become major power players in the startup scene. View More » Apple 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc. Mozilla Wants You to Build Your Own B. 10 Fresh Blogger Templates for Any Ap.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Because they offer competitive investment terms and don’t usually demand a board seat, super angels have become major power players in the startup scene. View More » Apple 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc. Mozilla Wants You to Build Your Own B. 10 Fresh Blogger Templates for Any Ap.

Angel Investor 83

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Investors know that the fun of a startup turns into managing production processes, sales processes, and personnel in a few years. According to recent National Venture Capital Association statistics , only 20% of venture-backed startups now use this alternative, due to high liability concerns, demanding shareholders, and high costs.

Exit Strategy 289

Exit Strategy Entrepreneur IPO Startup 289