Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

In most companies, maintaining momentum requires the right strategic partners and acquisitions, in lieu of short-term price adjustments and special sales. The company has since gone public, and is still a market leader. Plan a long-term strategy, and avoid crisis moves.

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TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

One way to approach that last question is to use this simple model: Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) How will your business reach prospects? Look at different customer acquisition channels, how they are converting, and the expected lifetime value of customers acquired through those channels. What does the business do?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

HR processes, legal processes, financial processes, acquisition and contracting processes, security processes, product development and management processes, and types of organizational forms etc. Over time as these organizations got large, they built process. In government agencies process versus product has gone further.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

Sales and distribution channel activity will be analyzed, as well as cost of customer acquisition, to make an independent assessment of your financial projections. A smart investor will take an independent final reading in the market on barriers to entry, active competition, demographics, and price sensitivity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Yet I still see expense budgets based on traditional channels, with no strict metrics on cost of customer acquisition by channel, or lifetime customer value. The most cost-effective marketing approaches have changed; from catalogs to web sites, and from television commercials to social media. Excessive support and return activities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even. For example, when you think about distribution channels, revenue streams, or the relationship with the customer, ask customers what they expect.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

Wessel measures a 39% acquisition advantage to being in-state. That extra two months spent traveling to fundraise is two months falling behind. It decreases your odds of being bought. When it comes to the technology ecosystem, clusters are vital.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2022

This is the end game for an industry, and many companies, characterized by mergers and acquisitions to a few dominant players. Companies with an innovative and creative bias, which thrived during the innovation phase, usually struggle in this period. The emphasis is on global processes and tight execution. Consolidation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2022

The same goes for business deals that fail during acquisitions or when it is time for you to retire. In my experience as an angel investor to startups, goodwill disagreements are perhaps the most common reason that you will fail to close interested investors as an entrepreneur.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

the government is painfully learning how to reorient its requirements and acquisition process to buy these commercial, off-the-shelf technologies. Rapid advances in these areas are now happening via commercial firms – many in China. This is a radical change in where advanced technology comes from. In the U.S., Semiconductor industry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2022

Hire entrepreneurs like you, grow like an entrepreneurial company, and stand above competitors in the acquisition process to carry that fire forward. Thus, the last thing you need as a growing startup is a “regular employee.” That’s a win-win for everyone in this new culture and new economy. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Sales and distribution channel activity will be analyzed, as well as cost of customer acquisition, to make an independent assessment of your financial projections. A smart investor will take an independent final reading in the market on barriers to entry, active competition, demographics, and price sensitivity.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

What You Can Learn From Public Markets It doesn’t really take a genius to realize that what happens in the public markets will filter back to the private markets because the ultimate exit of these companies is either an IPO or an acquisition (often by a public company whose valuation is fixed daily by the market).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. They have become a by-product of innovation rather than the cause of it: Conglomerates grew from industrialization, not innovation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

The options here include going public (IPO), merger/acquisition, liquidate, or no exit, just paying off investors. Investors want to know how and when they might see some return on their investment, since startups require some event to show value. Most investors don’t want long-term commitments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

You need to be constantly assessing mergers and acquisitions, as well as divestitures. These days, the market is moving so fast that it is rarely adequate to rely only on internal development to keep up with change. Hone your process for due diligence and integrating these new elements. Proactively prepare for downturns and recoveries.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2020

You will never seem to have the time, skills, or resources you need for that key acquisition, global expansion, or new product offering. Every time you think you understand the market, you see your growth flatten, or fail to respond to your best initiatives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Wessel measures a 39% acquisition advantage to being in-state. That extra two months spent traveling to fundraise is two months falling behind. It decreases your odds of being bought. When it comes to the technology ecosystem, clusters are vital.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Existing contractors have learned how to master the arcane defense acquisition system and live with the slow decision-making and payment processes. Startups recognize that when new circumstances arise, they can pivot — make substantive changes to their products without any new contracts.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Changing Acquisition. Then write requirements to what we think it’s going to look like and then throw a lot of money at industry to deliver that future on very long timelines. Shockingly” many of those things are irrelevant when they show up, if they ever show up at all.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

McLaren Strategic Ventures, the Sajan Pillai promoted business acceleration platform offers comprehensive business solutions to take small and medium enterprises to a global scale and McLaren Strategic Capital has made some key acquisitions in the deep tech segment in the US and India.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Enhance your startup company’s talent acquisition strategy by investing in recruiting software. The post How Recruiting Software Can Improve Your Startup’s Talent Acquisition Strategy appeared first on Young Upstarts. Here are five benefits to do so.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2019

Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even. For example, when you think about distribution channels, revenue streams, or the relationship with the customer, ask customers what they expect.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2020

is any liability incurred in the development, acquisition, use, and retirement of technology — i.e. hardware and software systems, or the skills set needed to support them. For SMBs, tech debt is a potential existential threat that could impact their future viability and very survival. Tech Debt 2.0

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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.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2021

The post MTM’s Alexei Orlov On Successful Acquisition Activation appeared first on Young Upstarts. With experience spanning 30 years, 40 countries, and 50 brands, Alexei Orlov has made life his business and business his life as a seasoned leader in global marketing.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2022

billion is attributed to the pending Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard Besides Activision Blizzard, the big deals included Take-Two’s purchase of Zynga, Sony’s acquisition of Bungie, and the ESL and FaceIt acquisition by Savvy Games Group Mobile was the most active segment with 47 deals.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 8, 2022

These days, many businesses are adopting the freemium model as their primary strategy for customer acquisition, and it’s easy to see why. After all, the freemium pricing model is an excellent way to launch new products and gain exposure quickly.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The benefits of using DataRails can clearly be seen in the rapid customer acquisition the company is experiencing and the overall excitement for the product among users.” ” Product Focus.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 8, 2022

Client acquisition is the strategy for bringing new clients into your business. With a solid client acquisition strategy, you can drive business your way and build your client base in the long term. . Here’s A Blueprint To Energize Your Client Acquisition Plan appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

I’m not going to talk about reforming the acquisition process, which many of your class speakers have mentioned and does need to get done. Your adversary, who is taking those risks, who is working through the nine failures to get to then 10 th iteration, the one that works. Three Solutions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Companies need the same service on partner and acquisition candidates, even vendors. Whether you are contemplating an investment in your favorite startup, or a little-known stock on a public exchange, there is “big data” out there that can’t possibly be evaluated by you without predictive analytics. Customer retention with churn modeling.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 5, 2023

” Team 3: Acquisition. Jason Kim : “ This course doesn’t just discuss U.S. national security issues. It teaches students how to apply an influential and proven methodology to rapidly develop solutions to our most challenging problems.” Original Problem Statement: How can the U.S.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Everybody that comes into the space force will learn coding and adopt digital engineering standards as our as our standard for acquisition. It’s all the way from requirements, to acquisition, to developing the capability, to testing the capability, to operating the capability. We’re also focusing on partnerships.

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