Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Waiting until you have something to sell before bringing on a sales and operations staff.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2024

Our deep dive into the world of email newsletters unveils tactical strategies for transforming subscribers into revenue-generating assets. Key Takeaways: Russell Henneberry provides the tactical strategies to transform subscribers into revenue. Russell also consults and trains employees of companies through his digital advisor program.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 20, 2021

In 2006, I joined Yelp as employee #20 when the company had $1M in annual revenue. In the world of startups, the idea of speed is often mentioned alongside shipping products and executing company-wide sprints but rarely is it discussed explicitly within the function of Sales. Many startups underinvest in sales training.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

Late last year we passed $100M in annual recurring revenue. That revenue is in on 75,000 customers, earned through the hard work of 500 employees across six offices on three continents. The next sale isn’t quite as sweet.). We just announced a few more things. It’s the heroin-hit that hooks the entrepreneur. (The

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

So you’re interested in raising capital from a Revenue-Based Investor VC. A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors (“RBI”) are emerging. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Rational burn profile, up to 50% of revenue at close, scaling down. Bigfoot Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2011

This will be the team who hires the most talented people, channels them in the most productive configuration and gets the most output from their unique capabilities. Only hire A players. B players tend to have slightly more self-confidence issues so they tend to hire people slightly worse than themselves – thus C teams.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2020

Often the Boomer is more willing to work for equity, and easily convinced to step aside when revenues reach that next threshold. On the other hand, there are some roles in a startup where Boomers are probably not the best candidates: Constantly-on-the-road sales territory management roles. Marketing and sales to Gen-Y customers.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

As a new entrepreneur or business owner, the most important thing you will do is hire talent. Hiring = Sales. A good recruitment process has many parallels with a sales funnel. Robert Metcalfe, co-founder and CEO of 3Com, says you need to think about it as “recruiting, not hiring”. Know When To Hire.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2023

Redefining Success In Sales With The Unsold Mindset written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Garrett Brown and Colin Coggings In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Garrett Brown and Colin Coggins. 17:54] Some people just don’t have that gift, talent, or empathy.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. Building a sales team from scratch is one of the most difficult and important tasks of a CEO. Generating revenue through sales, especially as start-up capital diminishes, can make or break a company’s success. Define sales team structure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2019

Generate revenue around the clock. Hiring virtual assistants for each specific project can be a lot more efficient and cheaper than hiring and managing employees. Focus on recurring revenues. A great way to make more money more easily online is to replace one-time sales with automatically renewing subscriptions.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 2, 2022

It means not just great sales figures but also more revenue from each sale on average. Tracking Employee Performance and Activity. To scale your business, you will need a system in place to track your employees’ performance. Take the time to ensure that each employee uses their time wisely and is productive.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. If you hire 6 sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business for 4-6 months. Hiring more people isn’t always the right answer.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

People refers to the management and employees that are currently employed by the business. Committed employees and tenured management teams can act as a value driver as they are directly involved with the direction and growth of your company. Processes refers to operating procedures and employee handbooks.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

With fewer people spending, it means budgets are reduced and sales are likely lacking. Image Source Hire a talented finance team First and foremost, consider who you have on your finance team. Many companies across the world are still recovering from the impact of the pandemic and many households are struggling to make ends meet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Waiting until you have something to sell before bringing on a sales and operations staff.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

If your startup’s goal is to sell a product or service but you’re having a hard time with your revenue model, affiliate marketing might be the perfect match to give you that much-needed boost. Affiliate marketing can help your startup rise above the clutter and increase your revenue. What is affiliate marketing?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

His company had marched through customer discovery, learning about the customer problem, validated solutions and was now scaling sales and marketing. It wasn’t that I had somehow inherited dumb employees. And it was going to mention the two words that marketing needed to live and breathe: revenue and profit. All good news.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It could be more revenue, hiring clients, or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. Initially, I would like to hire people from my neighborhood, with the goal of expanding to other communities in the future. 7- Providing employee engagement software.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. I always push companies to hire “an operationally focused CFO” during this phase because in order to systematize you need somebody who brings economic rigor to decision making. As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 23, 2020

When you’re starting or growing a business , a major trade-off you’ll ultimately have to consider is the efficiency of your operations versus finding, winning, and keeping customers (revenue versus expenses). Technology tools such as a CRM system can also help you get a strong understanding of your sales cycle and pipeline.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 2, 2022

By the year 2021, my company had a strong sales force. In the end, though, we became the company's most successful sales team across the country and I surely played a significant role in this achievement. Taking a risk by increasing marketing spend (strategically), has paid off substantially, seeing our annual sales grow by over 30%.

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Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2021

Seeing a 200-percent revenue growth in just the first year after securing that loan, TRISTAR took out an additional $500,000 SBA-backed loan to expand its physical presence into two more locations. It has grown from five employees generating $120,000 in annual revenue to 350 employees generating annual revenues of $16.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2023

How do you convince investors that your business model will really work, before you have a revenue stream that exceeds your expenses? Of course, that has be a repeatable event, with enough revenue to sustain the business. Plan for a real revenue model. Word of mouth is not adequate for marketing and sales.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2021

Every business set their goals and objectives which help employees to prioritize their task and stay motivated. EMPLOYEE NET PROMOTER SCORE . Employers use this metric to measure their employees’ loyalty. Employers use this metric to measure their employees’ loyalty. SALES GROWTH.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 23, 2022

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. Increasing my revenue by attracting more leads is my plan for 2022. 9- Optimize sales process. Thanks to Adam Wood, Revenue Geeks ! #10- 12- Boost revenue.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2019

As a business owner, you have to ensure that your employees are equipped with the right safety gear and your workplace or business establishment has the proper safety devices and equipment. You should hire a company nurse and a company doctor for your business, especially if your business deals or works with heavy machinery and equipment.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 21, 2020

No surprise during an economic crisis, over 81% of business owners are prioritizing cash flow management and are identifying ways to cut back spending and increase sales, namely by moving services online. Diversifying revenue streams (35%). Changing their hiring and recruiting processes (47%). Cutting expenses (36%).

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

At Wildcat, we recommend benchmarking your startup against the four core architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework: product , revenue , team and systems. Revenue Architecture. A comprehensive revenue architecture should be designed to enable a startup to generate and monetize awareness, engagement and usage.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2020

Computers : Both Best Buy and Stables said that there have been a surge in the sales of work-from-home products , such as laptops, keyboards, and computer monitors, since the COVID-19 outbreak. Being able to offer such products, along with using remote hosted desktops , can provide enormous revenue during this pandemic crisis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Waiting until you have something to sell before bringing on a sales and operations staff.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

After having to reduce and rethink our strategy during COVID, we observed that our community and sales have skyrocketed. My business pivoted as a result of the pandemic by becoming more remote for my employees. Although our in-person services were put on hold, our eCommerce products, including virtual services tripled in revenue.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

At Wildcat, we recommend benchmarking your startup against the four core architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework: product , revenue , team and systems. Revenue Architecture. A comprehensive revenue architecture should be designed to enable a startup to generate and monetize awareness, engagement and usage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2013

Generate revenue around the clock. Hiring virtual assistants for each specific project can be a lot more efficient and cheaper than hiring and managing employees. Focus on recurring revenues. A great way to make more money more easily online is to replace one-time sales with automatically renewing subscriptions.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 13, 2020

A hire or two that you should have been able to close won’t join. It doesn’t matter what industry, what product, what revenue model, what stage of development. Sales is just storytelling with a desired outcome at the end of the story. And what type of ‘sales’ you’ll mostly be doing. How does this harm occur?

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

One of the greatest ways to do so is hiring a CMO or Chief Marketing Officer, an experienced, result-driven executive responsible for all your marketing efforts. But if we focus on strategy and implementation, the choices you’ll come across are hiring a marketing agency, a marketing coach, a marketing consultant, or a fractional CMO.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

by Keith Johnstone, Head of Marketing of Peak Sales Recruiting. More than ever before, companies must be ready to replace employees at a moment’s notice. days and data from DHI Hiring Indicators shows that the average job opening remained unfilled for 28.1 What if one of your stars decides to take another job?

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