Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2020

With one of the many new tools , and a dose of sweat equity, you can create a website for almost nothing -- and you are on your way to success with ecommerce, your latest invention or personal services. Favor profitability over revenue and user growth. Use your equity for key executives and business partners.

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Up and Running

MARCH 14, 2018

Your revenue or business model. Show what you’re projecting in revenue (per product) over the next three to five years. If your financial chart shows “hockey-stick growth,” be sure to explain what happens to cause those inflection points. Investors tend to care about this slide the most. How will you make money ?

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Up and Running

JANUARY 2, 2013

Your Revenue Model : Investors tend to care about this slide the most. Your Financial Projections : Show what you’re projecting in revenue (per product) over the next three to five years. If your financial chart shows “hockey-stick growth,” be sure to explain what happens to cause those inflection points.

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David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching Revenue-Based Investing and other new approaches to VC. The question I’m asking myself: should a new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing, traditional equity VC, or possibly both (likely from two separate pools of capital)?

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In the accounting business, your revenue chart basically looks like a hockey stick,” says Ernie Mayhorn, owner of Capital Tax Solutions in Carson City, Nev., To even out the “hockey stick” revenue cycles, Ernie finds money-making opportunities for slow periods. Add new services to stay busy all year. “In

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2016

With one of the new free tools and a dose of sweat equity, you can create a website for almost nothing -- and you are on your way to success with ecommerce, your latest invention or personal services. Favor profitability over revenue and user growth. Use your equity for key executives and business partners.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

And there are others that people think are teeny little wannabes with a dozen or so employees…that have $25 million in highly profitable revenues with hockey stick growth and zero debt!

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 3, 2016

As you can see from the chart below Amazon has delivered on the proverbial hockey stick that startups put in their business plans, and they’ve done it at serious scale. One of his mantras has been to re-invest profits to drive growth and the growth he has achieved is remarkable for it’s consistency over the last ten years.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 21, 2019

If you are a going business with a track record of revenues, then the importance of accurate current financial statements cannot be overstated. If there is no record of revenues, see the “The Berkus Method” available with any search query for valuing the business before revenues. Careful about “hockey stick” forecasts.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

The other thing that they’re going to ask you is average revenue per account or per user or per customer. You need to understand how much money is brought in by each individual account or user when looking at the overall revenue. It’s what’s going to make you most attractive to an investor. If we increase our-.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 27, 2012

Revenue ramp of Groupon and Zynga –> Kleiner famously said Zynga was the fastest growing company they’d ever invested in , no mean feat for the original backers of Google, Amazon, Netscape, etc, and Groupon might be the fastest ever startup to reach $1B in revenue.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

in 2009 was greater than the revenues of Microsoft, Cisco, Google, and Apple. Strictly First Come, First Serve If you're interested in learning the who, what, and how of private equity activity in a recession-proof sector, then join us this Thursday, February 11th at 1 pm EST/10 am PST for a web conference you don't want to miss.

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 11, 2010

Each time a new set of docs get released, I don’t cringe because it means I then have to remove the hockey stick from my revenue projections. Second, the model seed docs tend to impress upon the entrepreneur that preferred equity is the best angel investment structure. Next up: the model reincorporation merger kit).

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 11, 2010

Each time a new set of docs get released, I don’t cringe because it means I then have to remove the hockey stick from my revenue projections. Second, the model seed docs tend to impress upon the entrepreneur that preferred equity is the best angel investment structure. Next up: the model reincorporation merger kit).

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