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. Teach ‘em Finance and Chase or Accenture will come and pick ‘em up 30 at a time. It’s a recipe for failure. They’re just doing it. It was easy peasy.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

It’s like we need a finance 101 course for entrepreneurs. Revenue multiple? In finance they call it “terminal value” but the truth is the price is as arbitrary at your A round as it is at your seed round. Convertible notes have both features in them but for some reason entrepreneurs don’t understand it.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

  This frequently leads to lots of expense just to get to an understanding of what’s being asked for. For angel groups, the distinction between groups and VCs on this issue is dwindling, especially as angel groups do bigger rounds of financing. I’ve attached a spreadsheet to this article to illustrate the issues in numbers.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

It’s like we need a finance 101 course for entrepreneurs. Revenue multiple? In finance they call it “terminal value” but the truth is the price is as arbitrary at your A round as it is at your seed round. Convertible notes have both features in them but for some reason entrepreneurs don’t understand it. There were no metrics.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Messy cap tables can come back to haunt you when you do a financing or sell the company. I am very surprised when that cool thing actually meets a customer need or drives revenue. If you’ve got patent or other IP needs, you may want to engage specialists in those areas.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

One of the members of the audience asked a question: Is the gaming space too crowded? Vinod wants to raise a significant amount of money to buy out an IP vendor that sells semiconductor interconnect IP, and offer value added services around them. Well, yes, and no. Is the movie business too crowded? D-Logic Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

He taught me to ask questions in meetings rather than only talking and the benefits of not always trying to be the smartest guy in the room. Since that date the S&P 500 is up 2.45% while Accenture stock is up 206% with revenue of $23 billion and a market cap of $32 billion. Double-down on great people, process & IP.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Ask your users to take action, such as signing up for a newsletter. Channel incentives – does your product or proposition extend or replace existing revenue for the channel? ——————– Class 6 Feb 8 th Testing Revenue Model. What types of revenue streams are there?

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

When people ask me what it takes to “ incorporate ,” often citing very low prices quoted by filing services, the first thing I like to point out is that they’re referring to #4 alone. Sales contracts accounting for significant revenue. In the case of revenue contracts, they help pay for the related legal work.

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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. On your journey to create your body of work, there are a variety of productive questions you might ask yourself to determine exactly what your business will look like. You might say to yourself, “who do I want to help?”

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

That's why the Corona Initiative is a Public Benefit Corporation--a for-profit company dedicated to the public good that aims to fund its research with its revenues. He worked as an engineer and then went into finance for many years and then was recruited to be president of a biotech company, diagnostics company.

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Technical Review Software Review Finance Technology 68

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Hacker News new | comments | ask | jobs | submit login Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. His quote on the subject, "no amount of finance will cure mismanagement". flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. niyazpk 215 days ago | link.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Between working with the co-founders on the strategy, validating concepts with the users, assessing the analytics, driving features and functionality with the team, and working with finance on the new business model, marketing on acquisition, and the warehouse on fulfillment, you can imagine the workload Kate faced on a daily basis.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

25 questions that DTC entrepreneurs should ask themselves before scaling customer acquisition So you run a direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand. Here are the ‘25 Important Questions That DTC Entrepreneurs Should Ask Themselves’: Will the unit economics work at 2X the CAC? Unfortunately, debt financing for DTC is still somewhat nascent.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The site had been live and we had hundreds of users at that point, so we posted a story on the site asking for name suggestions. I really had to strip everything back and ask myself why people should use our services. an international voice over IP company, was sold to Yahoo! People flooded the comments with ideas.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Investors will ask management what their “AI strategy” is before investing and will be wary of companies that don’t have one (Fred Wilson, USV). Voyager’s cognitive-computing, deep-insights platform assesses billions of publicly available, unstructured data points to provide insights for its clients in finance, retail and consulting.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

All you’ve proven is that you can make $200 a month in revenue off of some basic websites. If you did that, now you’ve got something like one or $2,000 a month of revenue, proving that this is interesting. Jason: In revenue. Let me ask you about that. I realize it seems all kind of nebulous right now.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

There’s a great quote that I love that goes “Ask not if you’re worthy of your goals, ask instead, are your goals worthy of your life?”. Ask [link] – you don’t need to be in the valley. Ask your existing users this question via a survey. I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

It’s to highlight some of the key parts of your opportunity and what makes it so amazing that whoever it is that you’re talking to, whether it’s a bank, or an investor, or a family member, or a potential business partner, that they are on the edge of their seat and they ask for your full plan, and they want to know more.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

If somebody asks me to connect a printer, I would take that job too. He was our IP attorney. Eric Ries : I was going to ask who wins most of the arguments? And then I, of course, need revenue for this." So that's what we set out to do, and every day we have to ask ourselves, "Are we still doing that?

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

But without sales there is no revenue, and without revenue there is no company. All the strategic thinking in the world won’t make up for a missed revenue plan. If sales revenue and profits are high enough, we could take the company public or sell it, and the stock would be worth more than the paper it was printed on.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 12, 2017

No, the first 2% is more valuable in terms of revenue. The entire funnel is all about asking and finding the answers to the same fundamental questions. Ask people to phrase it: “I believe that. Create a revenue forecast before you even run the experiment. You need to track the right revenue goals. 10K / 1M = 1%.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

So, even if you ask 60 an hour (which still happens to be much lower than average in my area), you’ll easily earn an average of 5000 gross for just 6 months of full time work. My original post discussed marketing and selling a software product, where achieving $2500/month in revenue is quite a task. #16 13 angelo on 01.08.09

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, where setting goals presents a fresh opportunity to achieve different objectives. We asked entrepreneurs to share their BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) and here are the insightful responses. #1- 8- Stop counterfeiting and IP infringement globally.

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