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How to Forecast Sales

Up and Running

Sales forecasting is much easier than you think, and much more useful than you imagine. You review and revise your forecast regularly. Since sales are intimate with costs and expenses, the forecast helps you budget and manage. Since sales are intimate with costs and expenses, the forecast helps you budget and manage.

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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations. In client coverage, that same Morgan Stanley who forecast robot’s managing 5% of the world’s wealth by 2025, in May announced their 16,000 brokers were getting a machine-learning algorithmic boost.

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? In general, IP protection will do nothing to prevent others from independently developing something similar, copying the overall business model, targeting similar customers or end users, and perhaps even mimicking the product’s look and feel.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

It’s seems very likely that the growth in time spent in app per user was driven not by the early majority, but by the late majority and laggards (see below chart below from the famous book Crossing the Chasm about how to think about which customers are adopting a given product). 2 years ago my grandmother didn’t have Facebook.

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How AI Tools Can Help You Optimize Your Marketing Budget

Up and Running

Leveraging the power of ML or Machine Learning, AI can help channelize your marketing spending in proper directions leading to a higher return on investment (ROI). Marketing is an investment where the money is spent to acquire more customers for your business, leading to higher profits and more revenue. Bring in new customers.

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How to Write a Business Plan

Up and Running

Your business plan isn’t complete without a financial forecast. Every business is solving a problem for its customers and filling a need in the market. Who is your ideal customer? If you can show that your potential customers are already interested in—or perhaps already buying—your product or service, this is great to highlight.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

She has a separate team, with its own culture and office, and a mandate straight from top management to innovate without regard to the company’s historic products, channels, or supply chain. That’s because the model is based on assumptions about customers that are totally unproven. So far, so good. If it costs $0.10