Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2017

Every business needs revenue to provide investor returns and offset costs. Free” is not an attractive revenue model to investors. Popular revenue models today include recurring subscription charges, licensing, as well the traditional sale or lease model. Key resources. Key partners. No startup or entrepreneur is an island.

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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

APRIL 28, 2013

Even in an open space, you need intellectual property, like patents, to keep potential competitors from overrunning you. The selection of an inappropriate pricing, marketing, or distribution strategy is a large potential risk. Operational risk. Think seriously about the number and clout of your competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2012

Even in an open space, you need intellectual property, like patents, to keep potential competitors from overrunning you. The selection of an inappropriate pricing, marketing, or distribution strategy is a large potential risk. Operational risk. Think seriously about the number and clout of your competitors.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2017

That latter term is used to describe an initial offer that generates enough revenue to offset the cost of acquiring a customer. This automation ultimately creates a marketing machine based on a fair amount of intellectual property (i.e., of our total sessions, still contributed 43% of the revenue during this period.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Intellectual property is one of the most valuable assets acquirers seek in startups. Distribution & Customers. Acquiring revenues can be very important. You’ve excelled in product design, product/market fit, sales, and operations. IP & Technology. Sometimes they sue instead. Or push regulations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Even in an open space, you need intellectual property, like patents, to keep potential competitors from overrunning you. The selection of an inappropriate pricing, marketing, or distribution strategy is a large potential risk. Operational risk. Think seriously about the number and clout of your competitors.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

While individual VC’s inside venture firms specialized in particular domains (PC’s, peripherals, semiconductors, test equipment, operating systems, applications, etc.,) But these VC’s aren’t Lean because they fund startups with web-based distribution models. They build a minimum feature set.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 18, 2012

Software prices are dropping and the importance of local operating systems and having locally installed productivity software is declining which makes the future for Microsoft’s consumers software a challenging one. The centrepiece of the ‘free’ argument is that the price of everything drops to its marginal cost of distribution.

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Readers can anticipate my next point in continuing the analogy: It makes no more sense for a non-lawyer to prepare fundamental legal, governance, equity and intellectual property documents than it would for a patient to self-diagnose and begin taking prescription-strength antibiotics or other medications. Offer letters for employees.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Office and Operations. Intellectual Property. But with the help of Grahams company, which specializes in creating tech systems for start-ups, Jumpstart grew to more than $50 million in revenue--enough to make it an attractive acquisition for media conglomerate Hachette Filipacchi. Naming a Business. How to Incorporate.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Distribution and cashflow pose challenges in China. Furthermore, the steady cashflow in the Western market also comes about because of one key factor: the distribution model. The relatively straightforward distribution model in the US for mobile app developers is contrasted by a landscape in China that is simply put, a maze.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

In case you don’t know, many of them of have the pleasure of only paying 1% tax on their revenue. Their ‘so called’ profit numbers are much lower than you’d expect them to be based on their revenues. So low, that you’d probably close down the business if your profit to revenue ratios ever got that low. tax on $10 of revenue.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The subscription box industry is growing rapidly thanks to a steady revenue model and tapping into people’s love for surprises. Operations. Financial summary : Project your revenue for the first few years. Companies that become a big subset of your revenue are likely strategic alliances, though, which is a later section.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

Not only patient safety and privacy laws but patent and intellectual property laws are also regulated heavily. Health care ethics are the moral principles and values that allow you to make the right choice while promoting, distributing, and operating your product to healthcare organizations or patients directly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2021

Provide initial and long-term sources of revenue. Every business, including non-profits, need a viable source of revenue to cover the costs of operation and sustainability. The most attractive revenue model today for services is subscriptions, and for products it is sales and support.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

In 2011, the valuation of pre-revenue, start-up companies is typically in the range of $1.5–$2.5 Angels typically invest in companies operating in industry sectors with which they are familiar. Such comparisons can only be made for companies at the same stage of development, in this case, for pre-revenue startup ventures.

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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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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

For Dan Hughes, Director of Operations at startup brewery ColdFire Brewing, he and his brother have been hard at work on business development and recipe formulation, navigating bureaucracy, and enduring the inevitable delays that come with brewery construction, equipment delivery, and regulatory approval. But they all take so much time.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. We are also seeing technology evaluation as an increasingly important part of LP operational due diligence. Lighter Capital, a Revenue Based Investing VC, offers a Cost of Capital Calculator.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. Ran if for two years before we shut it down with almost no revenue achieved. Whether or not the new distribution models ultimately took off, its a good bet that the world would be a little less red today.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

While Dan heads up operations, his brother Stephen is head brewer, and their team also includes directors of finance and brand, respectively. These products will be distributed to remote yet extremely viable areas, where the market is appreciative of readily-available, good-quality brew. Watch your finances.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

We’ve changed the way industries operated to make them more human and minimise their externalities. So here it is: for all the privacy invasions, security risks and and fundamental changes in our personal and domestic domains, this is what these companies* generate in revenue: Google – about $150 a year per person.

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