Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Define some intellectual property. File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property. Build a prototype product. Investors expect a one or two-page executive summary sheet for the initial screening, backed up by a ten-slide Powerpoint investor presentation. Close at least one initial customer.

Angel Investor 260

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch Angel Groups 260

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.

Intellectual Property 223

Intellectual Property .Net Valuation Distribution 223

Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2018

Executive summaries are short—keep it to one to two pages. Financial summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Future products and services : Name the products/services you will offer as your practice grows and earns more money and as your patients develop new needs.

Business Plan 72

Business Plan Technical Review Exit Strategy Oregon 72

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Every plan must start with the problem you are solving, not a description of your company and product. This is not the place for a detailed product specification, but an explanation of how and why it works, including a customer-centric quantification of the benefits. Do describe your intellectual property and “secret sauce”.

Business Plan 283

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 283

Gust

DECEMBER 16, 2012

Define some intellectual property. File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property. Build a prototype product. Investors expect a one or two-page executive summary sheet for the initial screening, backed up by a ten-slide Powerpoint investor presentation. Close at least one initial customer.

Angel Investor 179

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch Angel Groups 179

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Every plan must start with the problem you are solving, not a description of your company and product. This is not the place for a detailed product specification, but an explanation of how and why it works, including a customer-centric quantification of the benefits. Do describe your intellectual property and “secret sauce”.

Business Plan 290

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

It wasn’t pure research, but rather a culture of taking sufficient risks to get products to market through learning, discovery, iteration and execution. They’ll explore the best way to deliver the product to customers, the resources required, as well as competing technologies. See the NSF web page here.

Engineer 280

Engineer Silicon Valley United States Intellectual Property 280

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Who am I providing a service or product to? You’re more likely to succeed if you start your business with a specific product or service designed for a particular group of people. Rather, it should be one or two pages, identifying the key elements of the clothing line’s business strategy. What is the purpose of my business?

Business Plan 64

Business Plan Small Business Administration Hiring Social Media 64

Early Growth Financial Services

DECEMBER 1, 2014

For individuals, its the personal legacy you leave at the end of your life, including all the tangible and intangible things you have created … For organizations, it is the products, property, inventions, ideas, and value they share throughout the course of their existence.”. – Pamela Slim, Body of Work.

Intellectual Property 78

Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Naming Finance 78

Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Every plan must start with the problem you are solving, not a description of your company and product. This is not the place for a detailed product specification, but an explanation of how and why it works, including a customer-centric quantification of the benefits. Do describe your intellectual property and “secret sauce”.

Business Plan 182

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

Arlo and AJ had built a stunning new way of doing product discovery for soft goods. So far, almost every shopping website shows products either in an endless list of “Next Page” links (hint hint Amazon — you have so much room for improvement!), or by using keyword search, which doesn’t really cut it.

Software Review 134

Software Review Technical Review IP Finance 134

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Every plan must start with the problem you are solving, not a description of your company and product. This is not the place for a detailed product specification, but an explanation of how and why it works, including a customer-centric quantification of the benefits. Do describe your intellectual property and “secret sauce”.

Business Plan 186

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.” Step 2: add product to cart.

PPC 48

PPC SEM Technical Review Conversion 48

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2011

It wasn't pure research, but rather a culture of taking sufficient risks to get products to market through learning, discovery, iteration and execution. They'll explore the best way to deliver the product to customers, the resources required, as well as competing technologies. See the NSF I-Corps web page for details.

Silicon Valley 118

Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Balance Sheet Lean 118

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

However you get to a good product is how you need to get to a good product. If youre in a market like pharmaceuticals, where all user testing can be done in a lab, execution in a bubble makes sense, but if your startup is a web product it sounds like hubris. Idea (A) is just a broad concept of a new product.

Stealth 41

Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

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. Solution : How does your box and the products it contains solve that problem? Financial summary : Project your revenue for the first few years. Target market : What groups of people will want your box?

Business Plan 63

Business Plan Curation Balance Sheet Intellectual Property 63

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

The reasoning for that is twofold: 1) you want your business plan to be read (and no one is going to read a 100-page business plan), and 2) your business plan should be accessible, something you continue to use and refine over time. It comes first in your plan and is ideally only 1-2 pages. Products and Services. Read more ».

Business Plan 163

Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Point Nine Capital’s website is now powered by Contentful ; they use Unbounce for landing pages ; and Typeform for surveys and other data collection. Automation allows you to spend less time on tedious tasks and will help boost productivity, especially within a small marketing team. Earnest Research * mines proprietary data sets (e.g.,

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

ConversionXL

JUNE 10, 2020

You’ve spent hundreds of hours perfecting your product and countless meetings defining your brand. Before you go back to the drawing board, reconsider your product positioning. Taken together, the messaging, pricing, features, branding, partners, and customers create context and set the scene for the product. Zen Proverb.

Product 80

Product Intellectual Property Social Media Audience 80

Up and Running

APRIL 28, 2015

If it makes sense for your business, you’ll want to divide your market into segments that you will address with different types of marketing and perhaps different types of product offerings. Finally, you get to dive into describing your product or service. Now your product or service is coming to the rescue to help solve that problem.

Forecast 60

Forecast Hockey Stick Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 60

Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Limit it to 1 to 2 pages. Financial Summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Future products and services. Name the products/services you will offer as your company earns more money and as your market develops new needs. Executive summary. Be specific. Operations.

El Paso 61

El Paso Business Plan Technical Review Forecast 61

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. How to Write High Converting Landing Pages . How much time did they spend on a particular page? Search marketing. We have your back.

Social Media 51

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. How to Write High Converting Landing Pages . How much time did they spend on a particular page? Search marketing. We have your back.

Social Media 48

Social Media Marketing Analytics Audience 48

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. During the Internet Bubble there were a number of startups founded by business people who then wentlooking for hackers to create their product for them. This doesnt work well.

Startup 105

Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105

Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

Not too long ago it seemed like every product I knew was offering some sort of free plan. The strategy was brilliant: get loads of people using your product and eventually turn them into paying customers. We want people to experience the product, the interface, the usefulness of what we’ve built.

Software Review 78

Software Review Software Revenue Cofounder 78

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 14, 2019

Who am I providing a service or product to? Rather, it should be one or two pages, identifying the key elements of the clothing line’s business strategy. Your business plan doesn’t need to be 100 pages long. This looks at the target market for your product or service. What is the purpose of my business? Market analysis.

Business Plan 79

Business Plan Limited Liability Company Small Business Sales 79

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Jamie Lieberman: Intellectual property, particularly if you are a creator or a creative, understanding what it means when you create for others or if you are putting information out into the universe, what that means in order to protect the information that you’re creating is important. That’s your intellectual property.

Small Business 88

Small Business Non-Compete Intellectual Property New York City 88

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 25, 2010

Here’s what Costolo wrote in his post: As our primary concern is the long-term health and value of the network, we have and will continue to forgo near-term revenue opportunities in the service of carefully metering the impact of Promoted Tweets on the user experience. Twitter Ads. I am worried about Twitter’s credibility.

API 87

API Intellectual Property Advertising Social Media 87

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Then you can gradually transformyourself from a consulting company into a product company, and haveyour clients pay your development expenses. There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. To be a startup, a company hasto be a product business, not a service business. No, not generally.A

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76