YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2019

Billions of dollars are being poured into companies that have yet to clear the value chasm, as entrepreneurs use early traction that isn’t necessarily financially-oriented, but shows a certain level of uptick or success, to raise capital and convince early stage investors that their horse is the one to bet on.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. An interesting aside: revenue continued at old levels, even after slashing work hours by 60%). The post 26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names appeared first on Hearpreneur. Buttercloth was born.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

” I mention journalists here because they perpetuate the myth that focusing on profits is ALWAYS the right answer and then I hear many entrepreneurs (and certainly many “normals”) repeating the same mantra. I have had this discussion with many a first-time entrepreneur. Simplifying: Revenue -. Operating Costs.

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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. In a world where the economy only heads in one direction (read: 2009-2014) most investors & entrepreneurs forget to pay attention to gross burn.

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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. Any type of design.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% raised from angels.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

But when it comes to that crucial second phase – go-to-market – entrepreneurs find themselves devoid of help and support. Most entrepreneurs have a solid product to offer, but in order to fulfill any dreams of scaling, they must first get their product into the market and generate initial awareness and interest.

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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. While all this is definitely a boon to entrepreneurs, it does come with its own set of challenges.

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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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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

I’ve been fortunate enough to be on both sides of the table, as an entrepreneur and a VC, and I’ve observed that most investors look for the same things I do when deciding whether to invest in a company. You may be able to generate revenue, but VCs want exponential growth. Like you, they’re looking for opportunity.

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Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Introduction This post was originally part of the “ Ask the Attorney ” series I am writing for VentureBeat (one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs). IP Ownership. You must confirm that none of the founders’ prior employers has any rights to the venture’s IP because he or she was “moonlighting” while previously employed.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Invoca is now doing 10s of millions in recurring revenue and is growing > 75% year-over-year but it took the first 3 years to really build out the technology and acquire our initial enterprise clients. I mentioned that we sold our position in Kyriba for > $1 billion but when we invested it had virtually no revenue.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Addressing real world problems, they thrive in uncertainty, generating new jobs and new revenue streams in new markets. In deep tech companies value creation milestones are more likely to be tagged to validating the technology and IP creation. The post Opinion: It’s a startup world appeared first on NZ Entrepreneur Magazine.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 2, 2016

Evidence exists that your hosting IP address can affect your SEO and traffic from Google , particularly if your users are concentrated in a specific geo-location/country. Ecommerce features—Online store and selling tools, SSL certification, dedicated IP, and one-click shopping cart software installation (for ecommerce websites).

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 9, 2019

It Helps Secure Secondary Revenue Streams. You Can Use Your IP Rights For Leverage. In addition, you can sell your IP along with your company (or separate from the company). If you have a unique idea and believe that you could monetize it in some way, make sure that you capitalize on IP rights before doing anything else.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 25, 2020

Product collaborations involve a range of intellectual property (IP) and other commercial issues. What IP is being licensed? Will any new IP be created and, if so, who should own it and who should be allowed to use it? This could include: patents, where the product uses an invention owned by the non-manufacturing party.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

While Zappos was doing diligence on Modista, the issue was brought up that one of other companies in this space — Like.com , founded by Munjal Shah — had filed for some IP in this area. However, the IP climate remains unchanged, and it’s likely that other villains will continue to exploit similar situations.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2019

IP & Technology. It’s important that you know the value of your IP and position yourself for a good startup exit. If you have real IP, patents, and trademarks, your startup is going to be worth a lot more. The fact that one young startup and entrepreneur could displace them and disrupt their years of dominance.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Having delivered hundreds of pitches myself (and bombed a few), as well as coaching dozens of entrepreneurs on how to pitch, I’ve definitely seen some doozy pitches. get to revenue, b.) You might think, duh—I’d never do this, but you’d be surprised how many entrepreneurs do just that. scale it over the first year, and 3.)

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Given these key advantages, I believe that Lightning (or something like it) will ultimately eat all of the USD payment networks and create the foundation for MoIP (Money over IP). . And >40% of that revenue is coming from in-game purchases. The app could then take a small % of all revenue from “paid” messages.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

– Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. We particularly help companies in winning revenue from our LP network and raising capital for subsequent rounds from top-tier late-stage investors. – Launch a “ venture studio ” or “ foundry ”.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The dream of every entrepreneur is to build a company successful enough so as to one day be able to attract a buyer to and for it. Company Scenario #2: A company with a solid revenue base - say more than $5 million in sales - but competes in an industry not one of great, current interest to buyers / investors.

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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. The youngest of the litter has been busy tuning a very attractive general idea into a very specific and more IP-based product offering. Think about that. We all need some disturbance to keep us operating at our potential.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

So then, why are we teaching our students to trust fall without any revenues of their own to catch them? No revenues, no costs. You can tell me all you want about how many patents were filed at Columbia or wherever, or what they do in revenues—the future of the innovation in NYC is not in hard technology.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The heart of the therapeutics IRL also required “Proof of relevance” – was there a path to revenues fully articulated, an operational plan defined. It also creates a common language and metrics that investors, corporate innovation groups and entrepreneurs can share. Diagnostics. You can see the entire presentation here.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. You own the IP you create.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") The wise entrepreneur will take this advice seriously in order to distill his ideas down to their essence. What are the characteristics of a lean startup? No more, no less.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 5, 2020

For instance, you can aim for: Improving the cash flow, Obtaining a larger market share, Beating the competition, Introducing a new product, Increasing revenue per buyer, Improving your market penetration, Reaching a new segment, and more. As you do so, you pick up the IP address of a proxy masking your real one with it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

As a VC and former entrepreneur let me offer you some advice. The mistake entrepreneurs make is either writing a lengthy email (everybody has too much email so it will get skimmed / not digested) or not having a deck which means the VC can’t quickly determine his or her fit as a potential investor. The key is WHAT you send.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

And I was one of the early adapters of Voice Over IP. REVENUES & RESULTS 8. And mobile applications will continue to explode, and are not only a way for you to stay in front of customers, but they could be a huge revenue source for your company. But for some technologies and/or new services, I have been more of a pioneer.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 10, 2011

Manivel Karuppasamy from Bangalore, India, presented FEED (Funding Entrepreneurs, Encouraging Dreams), a crowdsourced funding marketplace for India. Next week, we are focusing on entrepreneurs in Latin and Central America. It would be much cheaper to acquire customers this way. You can register for the next roundtable here.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

At an accelerator … Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago. Your A round?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

So, this blog entry aims to help make this exercise a little less daunting for entrepreneurs. It may be some unique IP, a change in the applicable laws, the prowess of your founding team, or recent changes in the market. Or, this can be high-level projections about revenue and expenses. Understand Your Audience.

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Early Growth Financial Services

DECEMBER 1, 2014

On this Cyber Monday, I wanted to share an important article from my dear friend and trusted IP lawyer Rachel Rodgers. Having been in business for 18 years, and worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs, I have either lived through or seen just about every mistake you can make in business. So you can do this too.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

They now do extra- merchandise so fan selling other fans merchandise that they made but this time with IP rights and everybody makes money, which is pretty cool. I mean, it’s easy to talk to very little bands and just say I feel like the amount of revenue for you is very little. But they had the exact same problem. Jason: Right.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2023

02:15] What’s a typical day of turns for an entrepreneur? [03:25] So, I mean, what's a typical day of turns, you know, look like for an entrepreneur? In the day of an entrepreneur. Finally, it’s important to be adaptable and learn from hindsight to make better decisions in the future. These are all factors that matter.

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