Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Durant lost control of GM to a bankers' trust just two years later, in 1910, due to enormous debt and a crumble in automobile sales. Saturn, Pontiac, and Hummer were all shuttered due to GM's bankruptcy, which occurred on June 1, 2009. I love how Tesla's sales are skyrocketing now, though, after seeing it go bankrupt 10 times!

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 8, 2024

Poorly managed debt can lead to financial strain, decreased creditworthiness, and even bankruptcy. Effective marketing and sales initiatives are essential to succeed. By strategically leveraging debt, businesses can access the capital needed to invest in new opportunities, expand operations, and increase profitability.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2019

I spoke with experienced Philadelphia bankruptcy attorney David Offen, Esq. who let me know about some general pros and cons of filing bankruptcy for a business. First, what is Chapter 7 business bankruptcy? Creditors frequently object to discharge or to sale of assets. First, what is Chapter 11 Business Bankruptcy?

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 31, 2023

As a result, being unaware of regular expenses can lead to overspending, cash flow problems, and even bankruptcy. For instance, if you are unaware of your business’s daily sales, you cannot identify a drop in sales at the right time. To get started, you can create a system for tracking your daily expenses.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The sales helped them raise $30K and the attention of a startup incubator, which offered them training and another $20K in funding. Before Jobs returned to the business in 1997, its sales, and popularity all steadily declined for 12 years, nearly driving it into bankruptcy. Thanks to notably Erin LaCkore, LaCkore Couture ! #8-

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

His company had marched through customer discovery, learning about the customer problem, validated solutions and was now scaling sales and marketing. I had taken the job of VP of Marketing in a company emerging from bankruptcy. Drive that demand into our sales channels. Educate our sales channel(s). All good news.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Rebranding is one way to overcome the odds of a partnership breakage or a bankruptcy, showcasing the good points of your business. Consistently support your brand during a down cycle to gain higher sales, and make sure to give back or share when your business is booming. Why are you rebranding your business?

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 11, 2020

By doing so, you can focus on improving productivity and sales. Boost Sales and Revenue. Increasing sales and income in your business is a sure way of reducing the impact of pending unpaid debt you may have. Photo by Tyler Franta on Unsplash. Use Personal Loans to Consolidate Debts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2021

Especially if people hear rumors of your interest in selling, they will assume that you are fighting bankruptcy, being pushed out, or your personal life has fallen apart. What you don’t need is a buyer dealing directly with your landlord to get your key asset, leaving you with no leverage and minimum value for the sale.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 16, 2020

The answer, unfortunately, was to declare bankruptcy. If you are a turnaround, bankruptcy or private equity investor and have questions about the sale process, you can e-mail me at charlie@brooklynbridge.vc. This is what happens when you deal with investors that aren’t professionals.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

by Larry Light, CEO of Arcature and co-author of “ Six Rules of Brand Revitalization: Learn the Most Common Branding Mistakes and How to Avoid Them “ Early this year, The Limited shut down its 250 clothing stores and not long after that the women’s apparel chain announced it was filing for bankruptcy protection.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2017

by Larry Light, Chief Executive Officer of Arcature and co-author of “ Six Rules of Brand Revitalization: Learn the Most Common Branding Mistakes and How to Avoid Them “ Early this year, The Limited shut down its 250 clothing stores and not long after that the women’s apparel chain announced it was filing for bankruptcy protection.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

“In 15 Years From Now Half of US Universities May Be in Bankruptcy.” The numerator (return) encourages more sales, which is fine. ” Such was the quote of Clayton Christensen followed by, “… in the end I’m excited to see that happen. So pray for Harvard Business School if you wouldn’t mind.”

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 1, 2019

With staggering statistics like these, it’s clear that startups need to come up with affordable ways to handle their accounting services needs in order to avoid bankruptcy. With just simple accounting software, you’ll be able to: Track sales and expenses. Image Credit: Ross Williamson | Flickr. Generate invoices. File tax reports.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

Why are there so many digital commerce companies which can challenge large traditional retailers and even force them into bankruptcy? The campaign serves not only as a mean to raise capital, but also as a strong market validation and as an excellent sales channel. finalized before the crowdfunding campaign.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

profitable and companies like Amazon who chose to focus on growth > profitability were not losing money on each book sale (ie they were gross margin positive). Poorly calculated LTVs can become BVs (bankruptcy values). Gross margin positive != The reason one would accept losses is when they are investments in fueling faster growth.

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Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2021

This led to iRobot’s sale of more than 4,000 PacBot robots that perform perilous missions (like bomb disposal) in support of soldiers and first responders in combat. Since then, more than $30 million in SBIR funds have enabled iRobot to conduct 33 research initiatives to develop new sensors and other robot capability enhancements.

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Steve Blank

MAY 16, 2024

And Kodak publicly announced they were going to make film for Polaroid’s cameras – a knife to the heart for Polaroid as film sales were what made Polaroid profitable. Kodak’s 1970 annual report said, “Government sales dropped precipitously from $248 million in 1969 to $160 million in 1970, a decline of nearly 36 percent.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

They sold 2 years later for $16 million In the financial crisis of 2008 we had a company that had jointly hired lawyers to consider a bankruptcy and also pursued (and achieved!) the sale of the company for $1 billion. It was ~30 days from bankruptcy.

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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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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

For a startup, sustained revenue is of paramount importance: a paucity of sales in one month could lead to bankruptcy the next. Professionalisms client management revenue sales Scott Tarlow startup Success Systems' By Scott Tarlow, founder, president and CEO of Success Systems. For any business, revenue matters.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 5, 2021

Declare Bankruptcy. Bankruptcy is a startup dissolution process that is often initiated by a debtor to get relief if that debtor cannot pay their debts. There are two main kinds of bankruptcy: “chapter 7” and “chapter 11”. Bankruptcy puts a halt to lawsuits and the claims of creditors, making the business more valuable. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

Sales and distribution channel activity will be analyzed, as well as cost of customer acquisition, to make an independent assessment of your financial projections. During that period, it is very difficult for either party to get out of the deal, since there is no public market for the stock, and business divorces normally mean bankruptcy.

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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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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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Due to the language and culture issues in Europe we opted for a country structure with an MD in each country and local sales, marketing & customers support staff. This is akin in the US to having sales staff in NY, SF & LA with your HQ in one of these locations. But it wasn’t just about company structures.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

The largest company, the state-run Chilean National Copper Corp CODELCO, has $23 billion in sales. Partially due to a lack of bankruptcy or commercial courts, the bankruptcy process in Chile is draconian. The clearest example is the country’s copper mining industry, which contributes 20% of the Chilean Gross Domestic Product.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

And because there was consideration paid to you in the sale, that clause is binding upon you and is effective almost everywhere. Now we add complexity to the issue: bankruptcy of the buyer Well, what if the buyer is now bankrupt? That does nothing to regain your right to its purchased information.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 2, 2020

Elvira Gavrilova with the British businessman Glyn Hutchinson, the Sales Director of Icon Connet (London). It is the equal distribution of efforts among production and sales that leads to success. Business expert Elvira Gavrilova * urges the entrepreneurs of all levels to realize that the sales are as significant as production.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Social media can grow your small business and increase sales and marketing all from an increased online presence. David Offen, a bankruptcy lawyer in Philadelphia , said, “A positive online presence is perhaps more significant for small businesses that have a smaller client base. Brand Awareness. Generate Leads.

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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!

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Which led me to feel somewhat confident purchasing a much larger niche regulatory print newsletter company out of bankruptcy. So, I accepted my limitations, and turned the situation around by partnering with another spirits industry expert, Bradd Levitan, who had an equally long spirits career but on the sales side.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 9, 2024

Despite securing massive funding, WeWork spiraled into bankruptcy after a debt-driven expansion, exacerbated by a pandemic-induced decline in office space demand. This entailed a significant reduction in their sales force by 50%, acknowledging the previous strategy’s misstep of overvaluing sales personnel over product value.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Even more impressively, Quiroga successfully navigated Australis Seafoods through the Infectious Salmon Anemia Virus crisis, an outbreak that crippled the industry and send many companies into bankruptcy. Quiroga posted profits the year of the crisis and then sold the company for a record $880 million.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2017

When I took the job of VP of Marketing in a company emerging from bankruptcy, excuses seemed to be our main product. In addition to customer discovery, creating end user demand, and product strategy, Marketing also serves as a service organization to sales. So we created The No Excuses Culture. — No Excuses as a Core Value.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

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. People often talk about what makes a great investor. Or a quick flip.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 30, 2020

I owned a mortgage company when the mortgage industry crashed and lost almost everything pushing me to the brink of personal bankruptcy. This helps them generate leads and sales. We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- From personal experience. Photo credit: Ty Crandall.

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