Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2021

Starting a new business does put you in control, but you will face a harrowing new set of demands from partners, investors, suppliers, and customers. An internal business expansion is often incompatible with established operations, thus mergers and acquisitions are the most common scaling strategies.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

No more 60 hour weeks at a job where the owners apparently were unable to run a successful operation. My first business, a digital agency called MPSWORKS, came about purely based on demand for digital services and to generally help make a difference for small businesses across the UK by creating strong work that would help them prosper.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2019

This industry continues to expand its wings across every part of the world meeting the demands of every increasing communication needs. The company has been in operation since the year 2000 with its headquarters in New York City. The company was formed as a result of a merger between Bell Atlantic Corp. And GTE Corp.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 23, 2021

They are vitally important for functional corporate operations. All professions demand that employees must be neat and tidy. People use these events to discuss potential mergers, deals, and other various business-related decisions. So here are some business etiquettes principles that professional must abide by.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Even still, in the context of all three points, I recommend that you evaluate the most common exit alternatives and considerations, and integrate the right one into your startup strategy and plan: M&A - merger or acquisition by another company. IPO – public company initial public stock offering. You can kick-off your next startup.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

By focusing on reducing human touches and automating the sales and recruitment process, Angelichio and the Judge Group are able to minimize the cost associated with hiring additional internal staff while meeting their market demand in record time! So what does a blooming staffing company need to do in order to implement automation?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

The job changes from creating a “work of art” to operating a “cookie cutter.” So here are the most common exit strategies and considerations these days for planning purposes: Merger & Acquisition (M&A). Shareholders are demanding, and liability concerns are high. I don’t recommend this approach to startups these days.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Reverse Merger. Although some reverse mergers are legitimate, many are not. Investors typically purchase these stocks because they the demand for these stocks are huge. Companies that operate outside of the United States do not register the shares that they are selling to investors. Mining Scams. Offshore Scams.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2020

Even still, in the context of all three points, I recommend that you evaluate the most common exit alternatives and considerations, and integrate the right one into your startup strategy and plan: M&A - merger or acquisition by another company. IPO – public company initial public stock offering. You can kick-off your next startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2012

The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” patents can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors, or for M&A exits (merger and acquisition). The USPTO operates on the doctrine of “first to invent,” rather than first to patent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2011

The job changes from creating a “work of art” to operating a “cookie cutter.” So here are the most common exit strategies and considerations these days for planning purposes: Merger & Acquisition (M&A). Shareholders are demanding, and liability concerns are high. I don’t recommend this approach to startups these days.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2017

This process gets repeated when identifying “income tax” regulations in the various states where a startup operates. It’s almost impossible for a business owner to keep up with all the international and multistate tax regulations, mergers and acquisitions issues, and equity compensation happenings. Read more tax advice from Anjum.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

So I helped, I was one of his first employees and wound up becoming the chief operating officer and running part of the firm and we grew at our peak to around 50 people or so. Again, really what we’re very much focused on, how does this team become as good as it possibly can be to face the challenges what environment demands from them?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2011

The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” every patent can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors, or for M&A exits (merger and acquisition). The USPTO operates on the doctrine of “first to invent,” rather than first to patent.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2015

With the daily demands of running a business along with the financial pressures and challenges inherent in early-stage companies, a business valuation may not be the first thing an entrepreneur thinks of when he awakes each morning. Valuations for startup entities are often highly complex due to the uncertain nature of early-stage operations.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

There was no repeatable methodology, startups and their VC’s still operated like startups were simply a smaller version of a large company. But the bubble mantra of get “big fast” and “first mover advantage” demanded tens of millions more to create a “brand.” The world of building profitable startups ended in 1995.

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Early Growth Financial Services

JULY 3, 2013

Brian’s expertise includes applying financial and operational skills to guide organizations through rapid growth, turnaround, mergers and acquisitions, … Continue reading → In the News' Newly formed leadership team positions EGFS for increased rapid expansion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Even still, in the context of all three points, I recommend that you evaluate the most common exit alternatives and considerations, and integrate the right one into your startup strategy and plan: M&A - merger or acquisition by another company. IPO – public company initial public stock offering. You can kick-off your next startup.

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Early Growth Financial Services

JULY 3, 2013

Brian’s expertise includes applying financial and operational skills to guide organizations through rapid growth, turnaround, mergers and acquisitions, … read more > In the News' Newly formed leadership team positions EGFS for increased rapid expansion.

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Transformify

AUGUST 1, 2022

Rather than feeling the effects of the highs and lows of the local market, the businesses can use the profitable operations from the new markets to offset a negative performance in the current market. This can bring down operational or production costs permitting the companies to improve their profit margins. Easier response to demand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2016

Even still, in the context of all three points, I recommend that you evaluate the most common exit alternatives and considerations, and integrate the right one into your startup strategy and plan: M&A - merger or acquisition by another company. IPO – public company initial public stock offering. You can kick-off your next startup.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

Takeaway : If demand has firm boundaries, aim for geographic dominance. Moats built on efficient scale apply to a small number of businesses, like the aforementioned freight rail operators. Efficient scale moats depend on limited demand and geographic dominance. But demand won’t scale. Efficient scale.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

But I’m not sure that the consumer awareness and consumer demand is really there from a chat bot perspective. However, I think at this point not only is the technology a little bit too nascent to really kind of sink your teeth into.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2018

Startups are not required to have a formal Board of Directors, and can’t afford to implement many of the financial and operational controls required of public companies. Investors from the crowd have no opportunity to look at financial, operational, or management details before making a final investment decision.

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Transformify

JANUARY 24, 2021

Those businesses hiring remote teams face a common challenge – their service providers and freelancers demand to be paid in either local currency or some preferred foreign currency like USD, GBP, EUR, etc. Creating Payouts in Multiple Currencies. How Does Transformify Self-billing Module Work? Upload a csv batch payment file.

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Up and Running

APRIL 6, 2022

An entrepreneur is a businessperson who organizes and operates a business venture bearing most of the financial risk. They don’t look forward to acquisitions, mergers, franchising, or licensing. They don’t turn down an opportunity to scale, even if it demands expanding their team or opening new locations.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

The company has a large press event, and Marketing launches a series of programs to create end-user demand (trade shows, seminars, advertising, email, and so on). Assuming no early liquidity (via an IPO or merger) for the company, more fund raising is required. Marketing is at its peak.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017). The most noteworthy of these is likely Upwork (*), a company that formed from the merger of Elance and Odesk. Instawork (*) is an on-demand staffing app for gig workers (professionals) and hospitality businesses (partners).

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 27, 2015

I’m looking forward to another month of growth within our user base and expanding our relationships with more tournament operators and affiliates – lastly for successful stakes and events for all our backers and players! Thanks to Frank DeGeorge, YouStake. #5 5 – Proposals. Image Credit : Robert Barrows.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 10, 2011

This article picks up from that point onward, discussing the challenges we ran into once we went into operation mode, the invaluable lessons that only first-hand experience can teach, the exit strategy which was the $250,000 sale of the website, and finally my overall concluding thoughts on the entire experience. This was a huge risk.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

The realization of my idea started on an international trip when I was working as a consultant in mergers and acquisitions. by operating online). In further pursuit of this idea, I came to learn that designer merchandise is a high-demand market. We tried to leverage our small operation as much as we could.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

People feared they were going to have a monopoly over the Internet due to “bunding&# Internet Explorer with their operating system. In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet. A bit laughable in 2010, just 12 years later.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

If the innovation threats the company faces do not match these, the corporation may need a different approach to addressing the disruption such as making a large scale acquisition, e.g., VMWare’s acquisition of Nicira , merger, or outright selling itself, e.g., EMC’s sale to Dell. W hat would be the charter for our Innovation Outpost?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. I’m taking a 52 week course in how to start up, run, operate, and achieve self employment. Seriously mean it too.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2018

He is also a thought leader on demand planning who has employed it with other strategies to help companies of various sizes succeed with their change agendas. Karelse explains demand planning as a multi-step operational supply chain management process that results in reliable forecasts for revenue and the peaks and valleys in demand.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

Right out of Graduate School, I started my career with one of the big four accounting firms in their M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions) practice. I was trading real heavy hours for heavy dollars, and led a very mobile, demanding and by choice, a pressure packed lifestyle. The business however is doing very well today.

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