Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity. You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards.

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Intellectual Property Startup Angel Groups Social Media 120

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Financial Summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Milestones and metrics that you’ll need to hit to be viable. Milestones and metrics. For metrics , decide which numbers to check regularly to track your company’s health. Target market: Who is your ideal buyer?

Business Plan 154

Business Plan Technical Review Forecast Software Review 154

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Companies horde cash and squeeze the most revenue and margin from the money they use. Metrics like Return on Net Assets, Return on Capital and Internal Rate of Return are the guiding stars of the board and CEO. To manage these employees companies create metrics to control, measure and reward execution. Companies need your help.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 326

Up and Running

AUGUST 24, 2020

Simply put, IoT is a combination of sensor and data analytics systems, helping businesses aggregate metrics to make more accurate decisions. In 2020, data breaches are among the greatest cybersecurity concerns, with health records, corporate intellectual property, smart cars, and connected devices being the most vulnerable targets.

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Technical Review Analytics Forecast Artificial Inteligence 131

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The Power of the Investment Readiness Level: Different Metrics for Different Industry Segments. To understand the power of this tool, look at how the VC overseeing each market segment modified the Investment Readiness Level so that it reflected metrics relevant to their particular industry. Or watch the video here.). Medical Devices.

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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. Detail isn’t important; tracking your progress is.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Resources are what the team needs to hire or own inside their company — the team’s physical, financial, human and intellectual property. Customers, for example, are recast as “beneficiaries,” and instead of identifying revenue streams, these diplo-preneurs are interested in defining “mission achievement.”).

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Resources are what the team needs to hire or own inside their company — the team’s physical, financial, human and intellectual property. Customers, for example, are recast as “beneficiaries,” and instead of identifying revenue streams, these diplo-preneurs are interested in defining “mission achievement.”).

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Silicon Valley Washington United Kingdom Lean 120

Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2018

Financial summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Milestones and metrics that you’ll need to hit to be viable. Milestones and metrics. For metrics , decide which numbers to check regularly to track your company’s health. Do they self-pay or use insurance? Be specific.

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Business Plan Technical Review Exit Strategy Oregon 72

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Do describe your intellectual property and “secret sauce”. Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. Financial forecast and metrics.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2016

You need to quantify measurable criteria for success, using business metrics. These could include customer penetration, revenue growth, budget guidelines, and industry visibility. Patents and other intellectual property must be secured at this point. It takes the right people to make a breakthrough happen.

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Intellectual Property Advisory Board Metrics Leadership 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Do describe your intellectual property and “secret sauce”. Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. Financial forecast and metrics.

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Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2016

Remember you can’t sustain a business or social cause with no revenue or profit. The best differentiation is a patent or other intellectual property that also provides a barrier to entry. The smart ones identify and budget innovative approaches, and use metrics to tools to monitor effectiveness.

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Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy 120

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

Every customer understands that your solution has to generate more revenue than cost, but you should not put that data in a customer pitch. How you intend to beat specific competitors (business model, intellectual property) is a key investor decision criteria. Projected revenues and expenses over the strategic period.

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Product Intellectual Property Liquidity Event Burn Rate 120

Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Do describe your intellectual property and “secret sauce”. Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. Financial forecast and metrics.

Business Plan 182

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Do describe your intellectual property and “secret sauce”. Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. Financial forecast and metrics.

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Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

ConversionXL

AUGUST 27, 2015

Another scenario: you’ve been optimizing for 12 months and your revenue per customer has increased by 2%. So, we don’t actually ever have a perfect estimate of actually how much extra revenue was due to our testing, but I think that $200 million is a fairly reasonable estimate.” How do you explain this to the boss/client?

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Right now we have a lot of Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw work that crosses over between the two facets of our firm. Any thoughts on my recent post Startup Metrics ? The Startup Metrics post is a good example of what I call “holocognics.” Startup Metrics discusses what a Startup needs to consider before “going live.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

The best advantage includes intellectual property to provide a barrier to entry or incent acquisition. You need some innovative new approaches, including digital marketing, as well as metrics to measure effectiveness. Introduces a team with the balanced competencies to deliver.

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 19, 2011

Business— when a company is acquired for its actual business (revenue and earnings). These deals are typically valued (at least in part) by their financial metrics and can be extremely large (e.g. These kinds of deals typically range between $25M and $250M. Microsoft’s $30B+ offer for Yahoo!).

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Acquisition Technical Review Intellectual Property Silicon Valley 78

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2023

Thus I often recommend that entrepreneurs keep their day job until the startup is producing revenue. It’s easy for part-timers to make excuses that other priorities caused you to miss milestones, but predictable results and metrics in this mode are even more critical than for full-time members.

Intellectual Property 275

Intellectual Property Cofounder Salary Metrics 275

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The subscription box industry is growing rapidly thanks to a steady revenue model and tapping into people’s love for surprises. Financial summary : Project your revenue for the first few years. Companies that become a big subset of your revenue are likely strategic alliances, though, which is a later section. Key metrics.

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Business Plan Curation Balance Sheet Intellectual Property 63

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2020

Thus I often recommend that entrepreneurs keep their day job until the startup is producing revenue. It’s easy for part-timers to make excuses that other priorities caused you to miss milestones, but predictable results and metrics in this mode are even more critical than for full-time members.

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Intellectual Property Cofounder Startup Salary 376

Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

3]   However, if they are built bottom up, they demonstrate and make explicit a range of business model assumptions the entrepreneur is using to think about his business and its revenue model.   Pre-bubble Siliicon Valley deals were popularly valued at multiples of revenue. This is why a bottom up approach is more credible.

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Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Milestones and Metrics. Intellectual Property : Again, this mostly applies to technology and scientific ventures. But, if you have intellectual property that is proprietary to your business and helps your business defend itself against competitors, you should detail that information here. Milestones and Metrics.

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Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. Lighter Capital, a Revenue Based Investing VC, offers a Cost of Capital Calculator. Similarly, Corsis uses benchmarking data to understand technology spend patterns.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

BeyondVC

JUNE 11, 2007

Sure, while some of these venture debt firms recognize that web-based businesses may not have as much hard and true intellectual property, the fact that they are more capital efficient and can scale more rapidly means they can also generate pretty nice returns from the warrant portion of their deal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Thus I often recommend that entrepreneurs keep their day job until the startup is producing revenue. It’s easy for part-timers to make excuses that other priorities caused you to miss milestones, but predictable results and metrics in this mode are even more critical than for full-time members.

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Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Cofounder Salary 256

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

12:22] Would you look at the value derived by digital technologies differently than by producing customer value or revenue? [14:23] But there isn't actually a top down roadmap of how to do it with real milestones and metrics and uh, around it. (07:01): 16:32] Are there organizations that are significantly behind in this rewiring ?

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Generative AI Arizona 66

Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Financial Summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Milestones and metrics that you’ll need to hit to be viable. Others predict Automated Valuation Models will provide more sophisticated revenue and expense information, possibly replacing financial analysts. Be specific.

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El Paso Business Plan Technical Review Forecast 61

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2014

Thus I often recommend that entrepreneurs keep their day job until the startup is producing revenue. It’s easy for part-timers to make excuses that other priorities caused you to miss milestones, but predictable results and metrics in this mode are even more critical than for full-time members.

Intellectual Property 274

Intellectual Property Startup Cofounder Salary 274

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

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.”. Within any model, there are things breweries can focus on to stand out and increase revenue. Metrics: Know your numbers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Incorporate your business today, register intellectual property, document partner equity agreements, and meet real customers. Define clear goals and metrics for your productivity. An entrepreneur’s ultimate task is to define success in term of results desired – number of customers, revenue, and profit.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Database Restful Equity 120

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

We’ve collected some of the essential marketing tools and services that can help you improve your marketing and grow your company’s revenues, even if you know little about marketing. Getting started with Google Analytics can be a little daunting at first, as it has a considerable array of metrics and data available.

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Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 51

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 24, 2018

We’ve collected some of the essential marketing tools and services that can help you improve your marketing and grow your company’s revenues, even if you know little about marketing. Getting started with Google Analytics can be a little daunting at first, as it has a considerable array of metrics and data available.

Social Media 48

Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 48

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Thus I often recommend that entrepreneurs keep their day job until the startup is producing revenue. It’s easy for part-timers to make excuses that other priorities caused you to miss milestones, but predictable results and metrics in this mode are even more critical than for full-time members.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Cofounder Salary Metrics 120