The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

By boosting short-term sales figures via discounts which lure in new customers, for instance, you can convince business lenders that your business is enjoying a surge in growth and is thus an ideal candidate for a loan. This means bolstering your cash flow to the greatest extent possible.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

I recently sat down with Matt Coffin , the founder of LowerMyBills, which sold for $400 million but was very nearly a bankruptcy only a few years early, and talked “startups.&#. I figured if Matt was on the verge of bankruptcy and one mentor changed his trajectory, what if we had a formalized, community-wide program?

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Small businesses typically have to pay special attention to advertising strategies in order to get their name and service out in a timely and efficient manner to potential clients. Social media can grow your small business and increase sales and marketing all from an increased online presence. Brand Awareness. Generate Leads.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 24, 2010

Instead of making a few dollars per sale and hoping for thousands of sales, you sell to only a few customers, and charge much higher rates. The license agreement's primary purpose, then, is to get past the customer's legal team quickly, because they stand between you and a sale. Is there progress on getting the sale done?

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

How to Win Clients, Double Profit, and Grow Your Home Service Sales. Joe’s “don’t worry about it” mentality, is rooted in his blue-collar upbringing where his father often provided services for free, and once nearly led him to bankruptcy. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! powered by

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 14, 2019

A a communications major, I always found time for the nonverbal communication classes, but I didn’t make the connection between “my great passion and the world’s deep need” until a friend of mine went through bankruptcy in 2009 walking around with the droopy shoulders a hung head. How did you come up with your business name?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

We jockey to make sure the press release has our names on it. This is the time it takes for a bankruptcy or asset sale to occur. Instead investors are looking for the next flash sale, private sale, game dynamic, social games that rely on mobile platforms with geo-fenced, location aware offers. Or a quick flip.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

In fact, since 2000, more than 10 million Americans have filed personal bankruptcy due to their employers’ failed health insurance plan. Opportunities to profit from offering defined contribution solutions include: Increased individual health insurance policy sales. For many, it’s been a struggle. Referrals from happy clients.

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Transformify

JANUARY 24, 2021

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

A big turning point in Target’s success was adding affordable versions of designer merchandise made by big-name designers like Issac Mizrahi, Mossimo Giannulli, Proenza Schouler, Rodarte, and many more. AMF’s decision to streamline production and slash the workforce resulted in labor strikes, low quality motorcycles, and declining sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

It was accept the terms or go into bankruptcy so we took the money. I told them that True Ventures had stuck to their brand name and submitted a totally clean term sheet. This states how the proceeds from a sale or dissolution of the company will be distributed. Those were the dog days of entrepreneurship. No gotchas.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Choosing a name. NameCheckr : What’s great about NameCheckr is that in addition to automatically looking up available domain names associated with your chosen business name, it checks a ton of relevant social platforms, from Facebook to Youtube to see if the name is available there. Didn’t find a satisfactory name?

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JANUARY 1, 2014

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FEBRUARY 2, 2014

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MARCH 17, 2014

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2018

This tip is part of a larger philosophy of moving away from seeing a client as an immediate sale and moving toward building a long-term relationship. Your customers will know if you are being friendly just to make a sale. Make a donation to a charity in your client’s name. Deliver consistent service.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

I can see the correlation, but the conclusion implies a causality that may or may not be there ("the product sales exceeded all internal projections!"). From that analysis, they could identify the incremental sales in country X compared to Y, Z and A. Facebook works. The case study seemed to contain a rookie mistake.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. Many VC funds rely on general-purpose CRM and sales funnel solutions like Copper , Pipedrive, Salesforce , Streak , and ZenDesk. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc. She is a model for us all!

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 16, 2020

This might be online sales and orders if that works for you, though this is not necessary within every business model. You will want to register your business name as your domain as soon as you launch and get those social media handles in place. Your business will be the better for it. Go Digital Immediately.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 24, 2013

These opponents have their own name – “rent seekers” – the landlords of the status-quo. The bill came due two decades later as the American auto industry spiraled into bankruptcy and its market share plummeted from 75% in 1981 to 45% in 2012. Yet this is where startups will run into anti-innovation opponents they may not expect.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

But nine months after the first call was made in 1998, Iridium was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. They made other assumptions about the type of sales channel, partnerships and revenue model they would need. Seven years after it was founded their satellites and ground stations were in place. It was a technical tour de force.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2010

If no financing happened then this “note&# may not be converted and thus would be senior to the equity of the company in the case of a bankruptcy or asset sale. “Honestly, [name], I wouldn’t take the money. It starts as a debt instrument (e.g. I understand the mentality of why investors do this.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

The benefits of running background checks are the same regardless of your business size (namely, that you can trust your employees), as are the consequences similar for failing to run background checks (embezzlement, negligent hiring lawsuits, and more). The truth is, however, there is no such barrier.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This includes the trading names and addresses of the company, as well as information about how it is structured and who its directors are. It’s also a good idea to look at previous trading names in order to see if there are any red flags associated with them. Payment Disputes. Shareholder Information.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Instead, credit bureaus use your business name, address and a Federal Tax Identification number (FIN), or Employee Identification Number (EIN), to create a profile completely separate from your personal credit history. Public records: suits, liens and judgments, UCC’s, business registrations and bankruptcy filings.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 2, 2014

Franchising — an arrangement where one party grants another party the right to use its trademark or trade name as well as certain business systems and processes to provide a good or service according to certain specifications — provides local, small business owners with instant, national brand recognition and an immediate, competitive edge.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

First Name. million products as of June, and this year expects to do $140 million in sales. Scandal Shakes Trading Firm Peregrine Financial Group filed for bankruptcy as regulators scrambled to track down about $215 million of customer money allegedly missing from the firm. Sales Jobs |. Why use your real name?

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Like business and personal bankruptcies and investors losing all of their money. Well, there is the financial view , namely that the rewards of a business sale are so great and life-changing that having any probability of its occurrence make the grave financial risks of business - building more than worth taking. So what gives?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 24, 2013

These opponents have their own name – “rent seekers” – the landlords of the status-quo. The bill came due two decades later as the American auto industry spiraled into bankruptcy and its market share plummeted from 75% in 1981 to 45% in 2012. Yet this is where startups will run into anti-innovation opponents they may not expect.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2018

According to a study examining the effect of color on sales, 92.6% How you use it in your business can have a big effect on how effective you convert visitors into sales. It’s not that the company name Harley Davidson by itself evokes a specific reaction from its customers. And those red sales signs?

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

And those that were successful at it by driving sales will earn for their efforts. We founded the company in 2000 and have since continued to grow our client base and revenues and, at the same time, have been named to a lot of ‘best places to work’ lists, including the big one, Fortune’s.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 12, 2012

Like business and personal bankruptcies and investors losing all of their money. Well, there is the financial view , namely that the rewards of a business sale are so great and life-changing that having any probability of its occurrence make the grave financial risks of business - building more than worth taking. So what gives?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2012

By the 1930s, P&G had grown to become an international corporation with a wide variety of new products and brand names, many acquired by purchasing other businesses. But the store had trouble moving the jeans and almost brought the company to bankruptcy.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2014

As the name suggests, cash flow is simply the money that flows in and out of your business. First add up incoming cash from operations : cash received from the sale of goods, services, receivables from customers, cash interest and dividends. “All truth is found in the cash account.” – Charlie Bahr, Management Consultant.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Top management was trying to coordinate all of the operating details (sales, manufacturing, distribution and marketing,) across all the divisions and the company almost went bankrupt that year when poor planning led to excess inventory (with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash.) What happened to him?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 14, 2016

Amazon carried out their own research in this area and discovered that, for every 100ms of page load time, there was a 1% decrease in sales. Be especially ruthless with products and product images: prioritize relevant visuals (namely, high-quality product images) over stuff that’s just “pretty” (e.g. How to Be Simple. Image Source.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I stayed up late every night after a day of meetings doing email until 3am so that I didn’t feel out of touch with our product and sales pipelines. We were weeks from bankruptcy. I was on an airplane 2-3 times / week meeting potential customers, investors, employees, business partners and the press. I thought that, too.

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