Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. This could equate to two technical founders (with a minimal salary), funding two developers for a year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2023

Those who respond with one of the wrong answers, such as “I want to pay myself a salary,” usually go home empty-handed. That means they normally only invest in startups with a working product that has already been sold to at least one customer for full price (beta tests, giveaways and best friends don’t count).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2020

Those who respond with one of the wrong answers, such as “I want to pay myself a salary,” usually go home empty-handed. That means they normally only invest in startups with a working product that has already been sold to at least one customer for full price (beta tests, giveaways and best friends don’t count).

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Since SayAhh is in the pre-launch development stage, the company doesn’t have any revenue yet. They also haven’t launched a product, so there is no corresponding “cost of goods sold” – the direct cost of delivering their product. The default Quickbooks setup uses “Income” to refer to “Revenue”.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Information systems analyst and consultants start at a median salary of $74,048. The most sought-after hires are computer programmers and interactive media developers. This generated $16 billion in annual revenues in 2015. billion in revenue. This is a combination of applied research and new product development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Others wait until the new business starts to generate revenue and profit before making the move. In my experience as a startup advisor, I find the minimum time to revenue is at least a year. Of course, you might be able to pay yourself a salary from the investment, but this will be minimal and critically watched. Which is right?

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

Fixed overhead for salaries, rent, equipment leases and more make up the majority of the “burn rate” (monthly expenses) for most companies. Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Here’s an example we’ve heard before: Cohen sets up an example where a senior position job candidate is stuck on a salary twice as high as the CEO is willing to pay, leading to a standoff between the two. and stock options as a perk? The post Stock options or more cash? first appeared on BERKONOMICS.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 30, 2020

My expertise in product development and project management came after working as a consultant in many industries. You decide your working hours, salary, and day-to-day decisions that are crucial to the success of your own business. We started our business in 2014, after a successful Kickstarter campaign. 20- Various ways.

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The Next Web

MARCH 6, 2014

Successful collaboration between a company’s business development and product development requires mutual understanding and purpose. Tech teams also need to understand that without business development, there is no revenue to pay their salaries. Matt Ehrlichman , Porch. Consider Using a Liaison.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2014

Those who respond with one of the wrong answers, such as “I want to pay myself a salary,” usually go home empty-handed. That means they normally only invest in startups with a working product that has already been sold to at least one customer for full price (beta tests, giveaways and best friends don’t count).

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Elevator Pitch Salary Angel Investor Viral 285

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2018

Those who respond with one of the wrong answers, such as “I want to pay myself a salary,” usually go home empty-handed. That means they normally only invest in startups with a working product that has already been sold to at least one customer for full price (beta tests, giveaways and best friends don’t count).

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Elevator Pitch Salary Angel Investor Viral 139

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Higher founder salaries, which some investors view as a sign of being less hungry or aggressive, did not affect how quickly a startup raised its Series A. Foster product development and marketing which creates organic (or somewhat organic) user traction. Generate Real Revenue. There was no meaningful difference.

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OnlyOnce

MARCH 14, 2011

We all knew if the feature or function that the client was asking for was within the realm of the possible. • We were very, very focused on creating customers and revenue —We were a startup. If we drove revenue above costs, we got to take home a salary. It was stressful, but productively stressful and fun.

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Small Business Force

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

We had some nice sustained success with six consecutive quarters of record revenues and earnings. Instead, since I felt the “rank and file” had little to do with us missing our numbers, we instituted a 25% across-the-board reduction in all management salaries and 50% at the executive level, including my own. Their fault?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2016

Those who respond with one of the wrong answers, such as “I want to pay myself a salary,” usually go home empty-handed. That means they normally only invest in startups with a working product that has already been sold to at least one customer for full price (beta tests, giveaways and best friends don’t count).

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Elevator Pitch Salary Angel Investor Viral 120

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Cohen sets up an example where a senior position job candidate is stuck on a salary twice as high as the CEO is willing to pay, leading to a standoff between the two. One of his lessons remains clearly on my mind and is a variant of the old “You name the price and I’ll name the terms” challenge that works so well in negotiation.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2010

Fixed overhead for salaries, rent, equipment leases and more make up the majority of the “burn rate” (monthly expenses) for most companies. Although young companies rarely measure profitability this repeatedly, more mature companies usually can bring from five to ten percent of revenues to the bottom line in the form of net profit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Minimum Viable Product (MVP). For startup new product development, this is a strategy used for fast and quantitative market testing of a product or product feature, popularized first by Eric Ries for web applications. Gamification. Startup pivot.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Based on my own many years of experience as both an employee and an executive, here are my key recommendations to improve your business productivity, traction and momentum: Implement business metrics, and tie incentives to results. In most businesses, 80 percent of the revenue comes from 20 percent of the customers.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

People are trapped at home, they are not getting a salary, and they are afraid to touch another person because no one knows who is and isn’t infected with the virus. It means relying on your own savings and revenue to operate and expand.”. Product development also occurs in small iterations or changes.

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Transformify

APRIL 12, 2020

Some of them invest money and effort to familiarize themselves with the median market salary and the best practices locally. These companies usually pay 30%-50% above the local median market salary to motivate their employees and support the local economy. No revenue at all. It includes overseas remote workers and a subsidiary.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

They’re looking to be paid properly in the context of the overall salary structure, including cash, benefits, and equity, and to be paid commensurate with performance. Your Product Plan must fit into context of your overall business mission. I am very surprised when that cool thing actually meets a customer need or drives revenue.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Not just about expenses, about increasing revenue. Voluntary salary reduction program. Make sure for planned revenues you have "leading indicators" to know if you will hit it. This can take the form of a traditional sales pipeline or a registration-activation-revenue chart. Offer equity instead of cash.

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Berkonomics

MAY 26, 2010

One of his lessons remains clearly on my mind and is a variant of the old “You name the price and I’ll name the terms” challenge that works so well in negotiation. . Cohen sets up an example where a senior position job candidate is stuck on a salary twice as high as the CEO is willing to pay, leading to a standoff between the two.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

Put everything else on your "wish list" to buy with revenues from sales or additional financing. Providing enough capital for 1 to 2 years of operations, funds obtained from the Series A round can be used for the full gamut of needs-from product development and marketing to employee salaries.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 24, 2023

Employee benefits For most businesses, the cost of employees is more than just salaries. List out key roles and teams If you have a small team, you can simply list out your employees and their salaries. Be sure to list those future positions and add their salaries in the month or year that you plan on filling those roles.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). I learned how to better run a product management process. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process. I learned about revenue recognition. million, then $5.9m, $7.7m

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2022

By establishing a company dedicated to inventive and speedy product development, I am able to use cutting-edge technologies and consistently innovate faster than competitors. A few years ago, I landed a job at a high-end company with a decent salary for an 8-hour workday. Thanks to David Wurst, Webcitz ! #3- 22- Enjoy life.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 2, 2006

All too often we are enamored with how cool or sexy a technology is, invest lots of dollars to create that killer product, and sometimes forget that it is all about the people. From a philosophical point of view, I view compensation as the combination of salary, bonus (if any), and equity.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

You have your general management meeting and in your general management meeting you talk about product development, about marketing and about finance. So again, none of this is me trying to say what you should do for product development, in fact, or what you should write in code in fact. How do you split revenue?

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Most developers start as salaried employees, slogging through code and loving it because they never imagined a job could be challenging, educational, and downright fun. In addition, growing a product to the point of providing substantial income is a long, arduous road. Aside from working at Best Buy. Except for one thing.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Or should I launch products and a startup for each of them, focusing on only 1 product at a time? I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Do that – nothing else but one product / company / focus and get to $1M in sales with atleast $15% net profit. do something else.

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Small Business Force

JANUARY 2, 2017

For example, if you’re a company whose revenues are around a $1 million, it would be senseless to hire somebody whose background only included Fortune 500 type companies, no matter how deep their experience. Explain to them their role in your product development or delivery process and their importance to you and your customers.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Ownership and management were one and the same – the owners managed, and there were no salaried middle managers or administrators. By the 1920’s, in the Age of the Automobile and Oil, large companies sought to control the new product development process. These specialist companies were still small local businesses.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Options and future value are great ‘add ons’ but not for a welfare check salary until ‘this great idea makes it.’ You lost credibility with your statement: “The problem is that many programmers have loads of talent with no product sense and business students have great designs with no way to implement them.&#

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Occam's Razor

MAY 27, 2015

Our advertising will rain down massive revenues! !" Who is then going to ensure that S-T-D-C thinking drives content, which drives ads, which are delivered to audiences who, because now you don't stink, deliver brand love and company revenue? " Just buy a programmatic stack, and all our problems will be gone!

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