Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2013

Even though it has been a long haul, it’s nice to see some optimism surfacing in 2013. Earlier this year, a new study “ 2013 Business Outlook Survey: A New Reality Of Cautious Optimism ” was published by EKS&H. These initiatives, in concert with current findings, support economists’ forecast that the U.S. fiscal cliff.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 30, 2020

Since 2013, M&A activity has created $10 trillion in domestic transactions. Forecasters believe that M&A deal activity will continue to happen, though these figures may be tempered by the economic issues created already in 2020 due to the coronavirus. Mergers and acquisitions are an integral part of the business world.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2020

Free, downloadable SAAS sales forecast template. 50 percent of consumer packaged goods growth from 2013-2018 came from sustainability-marketed products. Some businesses are even building fully remote workforces to avoid the high costs of living and working in the highly saturated Bay Area. . Resources for starting a tech business.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2015

billion – masks how sagging performance from its PC business wiped out the momentum Lenovo had generated since 2013 and has forced Lenovo to reset its profit and revenue growth expectations for its enterprise and mobile device businesses. Lenovo’s modest overall revenue growth in calendar 2Q15 – 3.1% year-to-year to $10.7 and Europe.

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Financial, technical and operational plans and forecasts of all kinds (trade secret). By 2013, the U.S. Building and populating databases of user-supplied information and content (copyright). Designing and producing marketing and PR materials (copyright, trademark). In practice, this leads many U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2014

Though Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg likened Facebook to electricity, a utility that sparked great interest at the time of its discovery before settling into the commonplace, 2013 saw a decline in teen use of Facebook, one of the flagship social media platforms. Will 2014 see the death of Facebook a la MySpace? Probably not.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 13, 2014

New forecasts out from Forrester predict that online retail sales in the US will be $294bn this year, rising to $414bn by 2018. The growth rate from 2013-2018 is forecast to be 9.5%. Better still, even after this growth online retail in the US will only be 11% of total retail sales, up from 9% this year. I love this market.

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Spencer Fry

MAY 2, 2014

It’s something that we began working on in July 2013, only to release it ten months later on April 30th, 2014. We started in July 2013 with the intention of getting something testable in the hands of a few customers by September and releasing it to everyone else by Thanksgiving. OMG is the best way to describe how I feel right now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2013

The stock market reached a new all-time high in 2013, and is finally providing some liquidity relief to concerned investors and startups alike. Home prices are slowly coming back, and consumer spending reached a new high of almost $11 billion in May 2013. This forecast is really their commitment. Venture capital firms raised $4.1

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 5, 2013

If you are a revenue generating company, you’ve probably got a formally approved 2013 plan by now (if not, why not?) Step 4: Re-forecast Q1 and the rest of 2013 based on what you expect the actuals for Q1 to be. Use it to re-forecast based on the new information you learned in January, February, and Step 2.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 14, 2013

It’s my hope that these tips will help you make 2013 a year to lead without regret. This means putting together a sales forecast and a budget, as well as two to five strategic objectives. What changes can you make to lead without regret in 2013? Plan ahead. The start of the year is a perfect time to set goals.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

The National Retail Federation (NRF) reported that 90 million shoppers descended upon shopping malls, strip malls and freestanding retail outlets on Black Friday in 2013. The average shopper spent $423 over the Black Friday weekend in 2013, which is a 7% increase over 2011. increase over 2013’s actual sales numbers.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

I wondered if business plans and 5-year forecasts were the right way to plan a startup. The sum of these parts is now the cover story of the May 2013 Harvard Business Review. . —– Life is full of unintended consequences. Ten years ago I started thinking about why startups are different from existing companies.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan » March 09, 2011. April 2013. January 2013. Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. « Leaving a Trail | Main. | How should I finance my new venture?     Search. Signup for email updates.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Global revenue from mobile advertising increased by 92 percent from 2012 to 2013, growing from $10.1 a leading information technology research and advisory firm, forecasts mobile ad spending to reach $41.9 New data on mobile ad spending confirms that more advertisers are incorporating the medium in their advertising budgets.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2014

The Barometer EVP 2013 American Express Voyages d’Affaires, a survey of 600 companies belonging to 11 European countries, reveals that 87% of the sample firms collected have as their priority the control of costs. Therefore the forecasts generate optimistic expectations with some spirit.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 11, 2013

According to Gartner, the worldwide video game market, which includes video game console hardware and software, online, mobile and PC games, is forecast to reach US$93 billion in 2013 and US$111 billion by 2015. Specifically for the mobile games, worldwide revenue is forecasted to surge from US$13.2 billion to US$22 billion.

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gigaom.com

JULY 10, 2012

In 2013 a point-based fee structure will kick in. Mobile Q4: The scramble for spectrum continues Updated: Forecast: global mobile subscribers, 2010–2015 Carrier IQ and the continued erosion of operator trust. Watson does have one big advantage to the average dev: it’s cheap – at least until the end of the year.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Ascendant are now predicting that £800m will be invested in UK companies in 2013, which compares with £987m in 2012. . £178m was invested in Q3, down slightly from £183m in the year ago quarter, but that combined with a slow Q2 compared with 2012 makes it look like we will be down for the year. This is data for deals over £0.5m.

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Up and Running

MAY 9, 2016

million in 2013—and the average firm had fewer than 10 employees. Sales Forecast: Show a projection of monthly sales estimates during the first 12 months of operation, and annual sales estimates for the first three years of operation. Bureau of Labor Statistics, employed an estimated 5.8

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Up and Running

MARCH 6, 2015

If you’re serious about your research, also be sure to have a look at the “What’s Hot Culinary Forecast” compiled by the National Restaurant Association. It’s not surprising given how well this industry does; according to financial information company Sageworks, privately-held clothing stores averaged a net profit margin of nearly 7% in 2013.

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

In 2013, North America accounted for just over 40 percent of the global home health care revenue. Home health care is unique in many ways, but the one thing it has in common with every other new business venture is that a lack of adequate planning and forecasting is a sure way to undercut its potential success.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 17, 2013

Gartner have just released revised mobile advertising projections, showing a total market of $11.4bn for 2013, up 19% from last year. The numbers are up from their November forecast due to faster than predicted take up of tablets and smartphones, and the growth has come at the expense of print advertising.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 1, 2018

Founded in 2013, Genesis Mining allows users from around the world to mine both Litecoin, a popular digital currency, and other Scrypt-based cryptocurrencies without having to build or use mining rigs of their own. Gardner is also behind Augur – a blockchain-based market forecasting tool that raised $5.3 Jeremy Gardner.

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Africa Forecast .Net Technology 145

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2022

during the forecast period 2022-2028. Users of Google Reader are still bitter with the closure of their much loved product back in 2013 and have learned the hard way that if products don’t pay the bills, they are likely to be killed. Other market research reports say that the global Cloud Gaming Market was valued USD 1.5

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Tim Keane

JUNE 21, 2011

How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan.   Think about having the same discussion in a different way - by preparing your sales forecast by making your assumptions explicit. Listed below are links to weblogs that reference How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan : Comments. April 2013.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 22, 2015

Source: “Forrester Research Online Retail Forecast, 2013 To 2018 (US),” Forrester Research, Inc., March 21, 2014; “Forrester Research Online Retail Forecast, 2013 To 2018 (Western Europe),” Forrester Research, Inc. December 12, 2013. December 12, 2013. trillion by 2018.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

A 2013 MotherJones article titled, Ladies Last: 8 Inventions by Women That Dudes Got Credit For , cites seven women in history who broke new ground, inventing everything from the ability to solve mathematical equations using computers to the iconic Parker Brothers’ game, Monopoly.

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Intellectual Property Forecast LLC Acquisition 157

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

In October 2013, OzForex listed. However, the potential upside in terms of growth, geographic expansion and business improvement with the right buyer was a very attractive proposition, so our journey began in February 2013. Invest in your forecasts. Engage a good adviser.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

You can pre-order on their site until February 10 th 2013, and after that on Amazon. As we head into 2013, it's a good time to reflect on how far the Lean Startup movement has come: When I first started blogging in August of 2008, I had no idea what to expect.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

I wondered if business plans and 5-year forecasts were the right way to plan a startup. The sum of these parts is now the cover story of the May 2013 Harvard Business Review. . —– Life is full of unintended consequences. Ten years ago I started thinking about why startups are different from existing companies.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

The EIA compiled comparative graphics of the 2013/14 retail prices for gasoline vs the 2014/15 prices. The 2013/14 price of Crude oil futures was hovering above $95 per barrel. In 2013, WTI Crude was trading at $97.98 The short-term projection for energy consumption is forecast to decline between October 2015 and March 2016.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 26, 2012

That’s why ReadWrite turned to famous and fearless tech prognosticator Paul Kedrosky , a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation , focused on entrepreneurship, innovation and the future of risk capital, to ask him his predictions for the startup world in 2013. Kedrosky predicts the talent gap will be closed in 2013.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 19, 2013

As you can see from the chart below the latest projections for 2013 revenues are 2x what they promised in their 2011 IPO, and EBITDA is forecast at over 2x. That meant ramping promises to the maximum credible level and thereby increasing the chances of disappointment and missing forecasts afterwards.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

  In a bottom up approach, the forecast is built from actual user projections.   In a bottom up approach, the forecast is built from actual user projections. April 2013. January 2013. .   And if they are built from the top down, they’re pretty much useless. [3]   Search. Signup for email updates.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 7, 2013

2013 is going to be an "interesting" year (evoking the Chinese curse). And the so-called BRIC countries are forecasting tepid growth (we could rename them "ICK" if we added in Borat's home of Kazakhstan and dropped Brazil and Russia.). Unfortunately, 2013 will see plenty of it for start-up executives. Clench (the teeth), esp.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This is the lowest growth rate since 2013. The Reuters survey found a range of forecasts for the capital, for example, ranging from a price rise of two percent to a fall of six percent in 2018. However, it is important to recognise that – on a national level – the UK property market is still growing. Annual price growth is at 3.1

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