Steve Blank

JUNE 27, 2017

If they select a business model that targets industry incumbents, they don’t have to worry about upsetting existing customers, partners or distribution channels. Existing companies also use network effects of monopolies/duopolies, distribution channel kickbacks, etc., to stifle competition.). What can a company do?

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Over time, capital requirements for insurance companies became quite large and most insurance companies have adopted the model of a “stock insurance company” (an insurance company that is owned by investors who have purchased company stock).

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The pitch: StockTrim is a SaaS API which uses a machine learning algorithm to look at past stock behaviour and project future demand to avoid the common situations of over-ordering, under-ordering or miscalculating delivery times and quantities. StockTrim is cloud-based and deliverable anywhere worldwide.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

Looking into the near future, it’s entirely possible that virtual forms of currency could allow for much more efficient and capital and securities markets, like the major stock exchanges. The chain makes it possible to represent any asset, be it a bond, a stock, or a precious metal, as a token for the purposes of trading.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 30, 2020

Speed equals immediacy AND certainty of delivery (in stock): Consumers want same day or next day delivery more than ever before. In our view, retailers must absorb the additional costs of the new distribution requirements if they want to be part of the future retail landscape.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Owners of corporations also pay taxes when they are paid dividends or profit from sale of the stock, which is why it is common to say that corporations are “double-taxed.” Ownership of a corporation is measured in stock. Stocks are issued at the time the company is formed, and more can be issued over time. Verdict : It’s a tie!

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

In the early days of Rocket Science I realized that we needed high-level advice on multiple fronts; technology, game development, video game distribution, etc. At one of our initial board meetings we had agreed on the general principle of an advisory board and put together an overall stock budget to compensate advisors.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Customer Lifetime Value is first and foremost, influenced by factors that are your KPIs: RFM distribution; Margin; Customer Experience (Product reviews, Net Promoter Score, Customer Effort Score, etc.); RFM distribution. Once you have RFM groups, you’ll better understand the distribution of your customers. Image source ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2022

Also, they can’t sell shares on the stock exchange to raise money, even though both the NYSE and Nasdaq are non-profits. distributed cash aid from $137.9 distributed cash aid from $63.9 distributed cash aid from $62.8 distributed cash aid from $70.2 distributed cash aid from $43.7

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2023

His proactive approach includes addressing shortages promptly and orchestrating the timely replenishment of stocks. His responsibilities encompass orchestrating transportation logistics and overseeing distribution processes, ensuring the seamless and punctual delivery of all products. What strategies did you employ?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. Meanwhile, inventory was piling up, the stock was cratering, and the company was running out of cash.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 2, 2019

That’s where stock photography sites come in handy. Stock photography sites can provide the raw images that you can creatively transform into valuable visual content. But, not all stock photographs are licensed for commercial use. Here are 7 of the most popular stock photography sites: Pexels.com. Unsplash.com.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2020

Take stock of your office culture and develop a right-sized space that plays to the culture’s strengths. He has managed award winning, distributed, remote marketing teams spanning the globe for over 20 years. People may still need their personal space and naturally section off. for your team to be productive. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

That might start with the CEO giving the investor pitch to the whole organization, and distributing the current business plan document to everyone. Sales and distribution channel activity will be analyzed, as well as cost of customer acquisition, to make an independent assessment of your financial projections.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

That’s a bit of a cautionary tale to VC investors today who might think it’s inevitable that the private value they are enjoying in their portfolios will certainly translate to distributions in the near future. This is particularly relevant for VC funds because they do not follow a normal distribution, they follow the power-law curve.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2019

Agree upon how much of this business each of your leaders owns, and write that down on slips of paper called “stock certificates”. Finally, they will outline the next two steps we’ll discuss below: board meetings and distribution of shares. . Issue stock. Write that stuff down in a special book. Hold your first board meeting.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Historically more revenue came from distribution/lead-gen (57% in 2007), but this tipped in 2008 though appears to be steady from 2009 to 2010 at about 58% advertising and 42% distribution. Kayak generates both distribution (i.e. Expedia accounted for 24.5% as of 12/31/09).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

LPs have been feeling great about venture capital due to holding valuable paper positions in companies like Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Dropbox, all of which they feel confident will drive large cash distributions in the future. Without some cash distributions, eventually LPs will become stretched.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2015

Employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) can be an attractive way for an owner to sell a company and for employees to gain an ownership stake. ESOPs are qualified retirement plans that buy, hold and sell company stock for the benefit of employees. more than 50% of the stock is sold to the ESOP). by Timothy L.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

That’s a bit of a cautionary tale to VC investors today who might think it’s inevitable that the private value they are enjoying in their portfolios will certainly translate to distributions in the near future. This is particularly relevant for VC funds because they do not follow a normal distribution, they follow the power-law curve.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2021

Now synonymous with video-conferencing, the company-name-turned-verb stock peaked in October 2020, a market interpretation of how the Zoom Boom has defined the daily lives of many millions throughout the COVID-19 outbreak. 2020 was a good year for Zoom.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 24, 2020

Choosing appropriate bed racking for your distribution center is a multifaceted procedure with a few considerable viewpoints to bear in mind. Choosing an inappropriate sort of racking may antagonistically influence your distribution center’s efficiency – or even lead to a costly re-fit inside a short time span.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Eligible for favorable treatment under Qualified Small Business Stock exemption, if structured as equity. This applies if the investment converts into common stock; details are beyond this essay’s scope. Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. Early liquidity. Governance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Experienced entrepreneurs understand investor expectations of Board representation, preferred stock, and payments based on interim milestones. Marketing programs and distribution channels are required for even the best solutions, with an appropriate and viable rollout and growth strategy. Ask only for the money you can justify.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Everyone involved in the business, whether it’s your uncle that does accounting, or your teenage kids that distribute surveys, needs to know how to protect your data. Take stock of the ways data currently flows throughout the company and decide if those processes make sense.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Distributed Ledgers The current stagnation with Ethereum to Hyperledger to Corda and everyone else pretending they have a distributed ledger solution for fintech is distributed ledgers actually transcend the concept of financial technology.

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Board Effect

JULY 13, 2023

The factors that affect a nonprofit’s bottom line — and its ability to provide services — are particularly tough today: inflation, lackluster stock market performance, low consumer confidence, unemployment. Deciding which solutions to pursue and when is a significant challenge for any nonprofit board.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

For example, if there were no S&P 500 ETFs or index mutual funds an investor could easily buy a “synthetic” equivalent by buying shares of all the S&P 500 stocks in proportion to each company’s weighting in the index. Startup outcomes are a power law distribution rather than a standard distribution.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 24, 2011

The question is whether they need to issue common or preferred stock. The answer depends on how and what rights are defined in the preferred stock. The liquidation preference means what is sounds - namely that preferred stock holders with this right get all of their money back (i.e. read more.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

They come up with two options: Hire Praveena as an employee and offer her stock options. Bring Praveena in as a founder and offer 10-20% of the company as stock. In this manner, you can see both the current equity distribution of the company, as well as historically what the equity holdings looked like.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2017

He propelled his first company, Wilmar Industries, from a flea market table to one of the largest industrial distribution companies in the U.S., He is best known for “bootstrapping a startup” before anyone even knew what the word startup meant. now known as Interline Brands which is now owned by The Home Depot.

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VC Adventure

AUGUST 15, 2018

As is true today, there was a requirement that options be priced at or above the “fair market value” of the underlying stock (otherwise there would be tax consequences to the optionee and sometimes to the company as well). Back in the olden days of venture capital, company boards had wide discretion in pricing company options.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Some companies, especially those financed by angel or VC investors, have good, formal stock option plans with properly priced options set to reward all employees and managers in the event of a corporate sale. So, I wrote into the final distribution instructions a surprise five figure bonus for each of the five executives.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 14, 2024

I asked a bunch of investors I knew to sign up a widely distributed Open Office Hours—across firms and across places, wherever investors wanted to meet. We had 70 investors sign up! What surprised a lot of the investors was the quality of the founders and the ideas.

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Gust

JANUARY 31, 2013

Modern theories of economics and finance teach us that in a world of perfect information, the market will decide what a fair price is for any company’s stock at any point in time based on its current financial condition, results of past operations, analysts’ forecasts of future performance, industry conditions and so on.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

From distribution chain standstills to labor scarcity, the need to package and deliver at customers’ doorstep has tremendously increased. Moreover, you can now understand why top-rated companies eliminate stocked boxes for custom packaging solutions. Durability.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 1, 2022

Like the stock market, Cryptocurrency can be bought and sold based on supply and demand. If you are not already investing in stocks and mutual funds, crypto is not where you want to start investing. Other Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Dogecoin and Shiba Token, only exist as a way to store and transfer value. Is Crypto right for me?

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