Growthink Blog

MARCH 28, 2011

They Have Valuable Intellectual Property. Companies rich in intellectual property in all its forms – patents, processes, and people – attain purchase offers on factors other than last year’s earnings. The value of a business can be doubled and tripled and more simply by credibly and excitedly forecasting its growth.

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Forecast Global 109

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Marketing and Sales Plan. What marketing and sales tactics will you be using? Your business plan isn’t complete without a financial forecast. Highlight the key aspects of your financial plan, ideally with a chart that shows your planned sales, expenses, and profitability. Marketing and Sales Plan. Read more ».

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Gust

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Product Rollout or Sales. Furthermore, Dave reminds us that “it was created specifically for the earliest stage investments as a way to find a starting point without relying upon the founder’s financial forecasts.”. Is the depth of intellectual property and competitive differentiation important to the target venture?

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2020

With fill in the blank templates, powerful financial forecasting tools, and lender approved pitch designs you’ll go from template to a full business plan in no time. . Point of Sale system (if necessary). Protect any intellectual property you may own by applying for copyrights, trademarks, or patents. Headsets or earbuds.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 11, 2019

Check your business name doesn’t conflict with that of another business, by looking up the free online registers provided by the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand and the NZ Companies Register. What’s the financial forecast? The more detailed and objective your financial forecast, the clearer your feasibility picture.

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Intellectual Property New Zealand Forecast Naming 51

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

A financial buyer will analyze your numbers, past and forecast, to the n’th degree, and calculate the price based upon the result, after carefully comparing your numbers with those of others in the same and similar industries. The price negotiated is not at all the critical factor in the emotional sale. And the emotional buyer.

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Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Acquisition Forecast 240

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Marketing and sales plan. The target market section of your subscription box business plan identifies which subset of people you will focus your marketing and sales plan on. Creating a buyer persona puts you in the customer’s shoes to guide marketing and sales decisions. Marketing and sales plan. Operations.

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Business Plan Curation Balance Sheet Intellectual Property 63

Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Set a specific time each month to review it , comparing forecasts to actuals and revising as necessary. Tailor your marketing and sales plan to attract more people like your ideal customer. Components of this section include: Your marketing and sales plan. Marketing and sales plan. Average cost of flipping a property.

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El Paso Business Plan Technical Review Forecast 61

Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2018

Revisit and update it regularly by comparing your forecasts to your actuals and adjusting as necessary. Components of this section include: Your marketing and sales plan. Marketing and sales plan. Sometimes you can increase sales by upselling and cross-selling , or offering complementary services. Your operations plan.

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Business Plan Technical Review Exit Strategy Oregon 72

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

IP (Intellectual Property) Vendors Also Offer AI Accelerators. Helpful for predicting numerical values based on different data points, such as sales revenue projections for a given business. A Sample of AI GPU, FPGA and ASIC AI Chips and Where They’re Made.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

That’s because a company’s value is a composite of all of the quantitative and qualitative factors that comprise a company: revenues, expenses, risks, growth prospects, quality of the management team, competitive advantages, strength of the intellectual property, and so forth. His website is [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

How you intend to beat specific competitors (business model, intellectual property) is a key investor decision criteria. Customers may be attracted to your marketing message, but investors look harder at the startup team, seeking superior expertise in the key areas of growing a business, product domain, financial, marketing and sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2016

The best differentiation is a patent or other intellectual property that also provides a barrier to entry. Investors look for sales at full price, to people you don’t know, to validate demand, price, and margin. Show an aggressive marketing and sales plan. Generate a 5-year financial forecast from opportunity data.

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Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy 120

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Do describe your intellectual property and “secret sauce”. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Assign real value to intellectual property. Assign probabilities to active customer sales efforts, just as sales managers do in quantifying a salesman’s forecast. New businesses normally have fewer assets, but it pays to look hard and count everything you have. Early customers and contracts in progress add value.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 270

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Do describe your intellectual property and “secret sauce”. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy.

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Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Assign real value to intellectual property. Assign probabilities to active customer sales efforts, just as sales managers do in quantifying a salesman’s forecast. New businesses normally have fewer assets, but it pays to look hard and count everything you have. Early customers and contracts in progress add value.

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Up and Running

APRIL 22, 2019

Instead of a flat lifetime value—like $120 for the single sale opportunity you have with each customer or user, you might charge $10 a month per user for as long as your customer uses your service. Be mindful of your intellectual property —the code—whether you bring on an employee or outsource the technical work.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The rows cover the basic inputs to cash flow analysis: First, payments to be received from cash sales and sales on credit (which is called payments received here). So, a seasoned entrepreneur would round that up and add more, because forecasts are never exactly right. Please note that this is just one sample cash flow analysis.

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Cost Balance Sheet Startup Intellectual Property 150

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

Every year inbound brings together leaders across business, sales, marketing, customer success, operations, and more. If only we could do amazing, you know, supply chain forecasting, right? Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Jantsch (00:00): Hey, did you know that HubSpot's annual inbound conference is coming up?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Many of the best business opportunities surface by word of mouth—and are snapped up before their owners ever list them for sale. How do the company’s actuals stack up against their financial forecasts? Does the company own trade secrets, patents, or other intellectual property? Is there an up-to-date business plan

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Due Diligence Intellectual Property Balance Sheet Forecast 71

Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Do describe your intellectual property and “secret sauce”. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy.

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Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

Gust

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Assign real value to intellectual property. Assign probabilities to active customer sales efforts, just as sales managers do in quantifying a salesman’s forecast. New businesses normally have fewer assets, but it pays to look hard and count everything you have. Early customers and contracts in progress add value.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 187

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Assign real value to intellectual property. Assign probabilities to active customer sales efforts, just as sales managers do in quantifying a salesman’s forecast. New businesses normally have fewer assets, but it pays to look hard and count everything you have. Early customers and contracts in progress add value.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Startup 234

Up and Running

OCTOBER 14, 2015

New markets, unfamiliar cultures, administrative procedures, visas, sales, and potential language barriers are enough to deter any Magellan-esque ambition. Financial analysis and forecasting. Intellectual property. See Also: Intellectual Property 101. Business model. Market analysis and marketing plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Do describe your intellectual property and “secret sauce”. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy.

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Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

It probably had more to do with the fact that they had doubled their sales annually for several years, and still managed to squeeze out a profit of $11M in their year of acquisition. The best advantage includes intellectual property to provide a barrier to entry or incent acquisition. billion a few years ago.

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Intellectual Property Initial Public Offering Merger Acquisition 48

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

A financial buyer will analyze your numbers, past and forecast, to the n’th degree, and calculate the price based upon the result, after carefully comparing your numbers with those of others in the same and similar industries. The price negotiated is not at all the critical factor in the emotional sale.

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Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Acquisition Forecast 88

Up and Running

APRIL 28, 2015

If you already have sales or early adopters using your product, talk about that here. Slide 7: Marketing and sales strategy. How are you planning on getting customers’ attention and what will your sales process look like? Use this slide to outline your marketing and sales plan. Slide 6: Traction and validation/roadmap.

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Forecast Hockey Stick Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 60

Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

This year, Martin Cove Brewing Company will gross $520,000 in sales. This would be the architect, business lawyer, intellectual property attorney, banker, insurance broker, real estate agent, label maker, hop grower, malt supplier, tank fabricator, and accountant.”. Hire the right team. I’m not a big second-guesser.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

It also assumes the entire value of the investment is captured for investors at a sale of the company in the time specified in the term-sheet.   In a bottom up approach, the forecast is built from actual user projections. This results in a range of sale prices; in this example from $118.6MM to $21MM.

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www.startupsmart.com.au

MARCH 8, 2011

How to set up a sales plan for 2011 Latest Features Articles : Don’t worry about the ‘e’ word Will journalists care about your start-up? Sisters networking for themselves 10 top iPad 2 apps for start-ups Forecasting your revenue the smart way ); Comments (2) Subscribe to this comments feed What a great article.

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