Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. Industry & market sizing. Start with the evolution of the overall industry, market segmentation, market dynamics, and customer landscape. In this section, you need to be passionate about revenue, profit, and volume growth.

Business Plan 283

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 283

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. Industry & market sizing. Start with the evolution of the overall industry, market segmentation, market dynamics, and customer landscape. In this section, you need to be passionate about revenue, profit, and volume growth.

Business Plan 290

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

It has less focus on financial forecasting and a greater focus on the big picture. Sometimes trends in a market are pretty clear and your guesses will be well-founded. Or will you find new markets to grow into? Think of your long-term strategic plan as your aspirational vision for your business. No one knows the future.

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Business Plan Lean Forecast Exit Strategy 83

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Investors are looking for a concise description of your product or service without technical jargon or fuzzy marketing terms with value quantified in customer terms. How big and growing is the total market and your target segment? They like billion-dollar markets with double-digit growth rates.

Sweat Equity 120

Sweat Equity Advisory Board Liquidity Event Startup 120

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

Here are the motivation elements that investors expect to hear: Size and growth potential of the market opportunity. Your customers don’t care if you are targeting a billion-dollar market and growing at double-digit rates, but investors will skip small or shrinking opportunities. First to market” is not sustainable by a startup.

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Product Intellectual Property Liquidity Event Burn Rate 120

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2016

Remember you can’t sustain a business or social cause with no revenue or profit. Show an aggressive marketing and sales plan. With today’s rapid pace of change and information overload, word-of-mouth and social media alone is not a viable marketing plan. Generate a 5-year financial forecast from opportunity data.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy 120

Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. Industry & market sizing. Start with the evolution of the overall industry, market segmentation, market dynamics, and customer landscape. In this section, you need to be passionate about revenue, profit, and volume growth.

Business Plan 182

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

The Next Web

MAY 26, 2013

Unless you already have a stellar reputation, having a basic prototype and showing early success — user growth, engagement, retention or revenue — is critical to winning investor interest. Typically, this is a technology innovation, a shift in sentiment or a market landscape change. Emerson Spartz , Spartz.

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Software Forecast Startup Exit Strategy 151

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. Industry & market sizing. Start with the evolution of the overall industry, market segmentation, market dynamics, and customer landscape. In this section, you need to be passionate about revenue, profit, and volume growth.

Business Plan 186

Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

But you'd certainly share the news that you launched your new website or reached $1M in annual revenues. The business plan process involves researching your target market, as well as the competitive landscape, and serves as a feasibility study for the success of your venture. To document your revenue model. Probably not.

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Business Plan Private Placement Exit Strategy Finance 128

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

It was the biggest IPO the Australian market had seen all year , and sparked a flurry of subsequent listings – but ‘going public’ was not the only option we considered, and until we had progressed our exit strategy to near completion, it also seemed the most unlikely. Invest in your forecasts. Engage a good adviser.

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Prospectus IPO Exit Strategy Private Equity 121

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

The extreme example of this are algorithmic investors in the public markets, who design algorithms which trade on the designer’s behalf, as opposed to making trading decisions directly. High-frequency trading, algorithmic by its nature, is estimated to account for at least 50% of US equity markets trading volume. . 1) Market fund.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Up and Running

MAY 22, 2018

The ideas that I am talking about here are game-changing, have vast potential and addressable market, and can create a buzz in the industry—if and when they see the light of the day. Growth : stepping into a bigger market opportunity with expanding services or new products while maintaining constant profits. Market research.

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Exit Strategy Angel Investor Search Elevator Pitch 90

Up and Running

APRIL 28, 2015

You can talk about the current solutions in the market, but don’t spend too much time on the competitive landscape on this slide—you’ll have a chance to do that on a later slide. Slide 3: Target market and opportunity. What is the total market size and how do you position your company within the market?

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Forecast Hockey Stick Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 60

Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2013

In order to launch a successful business and raise the capital needed to do so, a startup needs to consider several aspects of the business including the management team , the size of the opportunity, the product/service/technology, the market/sales/distribution channels, the competitive environment and several other factors.

Business Plan 67

Business Plan NDA Exit Strategy Valuation 67

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Top management was trying to coordinate all of the operating details (sales, manufacturing, distribution and marketing,) across all the divisions and the company almost went bankrupt that year when poor planning led to excess inventory (with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash.) car market.

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Silicon Valley United States RSS Customer Development 156

Up and Running

MAY 21, 2015

What this means, is that he gets paid not as a portion of the profit, but as a portion of the overall revenue, regardless of the profit. They would, presumably, always buy at that discounted price because they’d be acquiring additional shares at a below market value which would, effectively, water down your ownership relative to theirs.

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