Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Apply for contests and business grants.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2022

The way to start is with a sample financial model, available from many sources on the Internet, such as over 200 downloadable free from the Corporate Finance Institute website. Don’t try to build the “ultimate” business model, for all possible alternatives, in multiple business domains.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Apply for contests and business grants.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Apply for contests and business grants.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2023

Some analysts argue that revenue drives growth, while others say user growth drives revenue. Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $1 trillion. A business only achieved critical mass by becoming cash-flow positive. Both have worked.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2014

Some analysts argue that revenue drives growth, while others say user growth drives revenue. Both have worked.Google reached $1 billion in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $400 billion. A business only achieved critical mass by becoming cash-flow positive.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

Additionally, the major factors contributing to its high growth are better Internet access, e-commerce platforms, the scope of international trade, smartphone usage, and a rise in disposable income. Various business models in an on-demand courier delivery app.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Let’s now explore the major developments and ultimate use cases for the Lightning Network in two categories: A) payments/finance and B) Web3. . Use Case I: Payments and Finance . And >40% of that revenue is coming from in-game purchases. 1) Generalizable Payments . Instant: all settlement on Lightning happens instantly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Apply for contests and business grants.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

The pervasive ability and need to communicate constantly and globally through the Internet and smartphones is incenting everyone to get more out of their own assets and time, and capitalize on the idle resources of others. Usually these are revenue-generating e-commerce sites, or have the potential to be revenue-generating.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2020

The way to start is with a sample financial model, available from many sources on the Internet, such as over 200 downloadable free from the Corporate Finance Institute website. Don’t try to build the “ultimate” business model, for all possible alternatives, in multiple business domains.

Conversion Ratio 308

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2016

Some analysts argue that revenue drives growth, while others say user growth drives revenue. Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $400B. A business only achieved critical mass by becoming cash-flow positive. Both have worked.

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Revenue Valuation Startup Viral 145

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. Companies horde cash and squeeze the most revenue and margin from the money they use.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2022

After many years in business, I’m convinced that none of us has the strengths and interest in all the areas needed for success, including solution changes, finance, marketing, and operations. If your relish the challenges of creating an innovative solution or business model, then this is the type of work you must seek.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Funding might be a need in some cases — but it’s not an absolute necessity. ? The business should be self-sustainable. The primary source of your funds should be your paying customers, i.e., your business should generate enough revenues and profits to fund the growth and expansion. Incubators and Accelerators.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2011

billion to work across 738 financing deals with U.S. Your friends and family are really the only answer until you have a significant revenue stream. It also helps to keep track of the business sectors VCs are focusing on. Internet and healthcare deals stayed flat and funding actually dipped. Overall, investors put $7.5

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

Facing continuous disruption from globalization, China, the Internet, the diminished power of brands, changing workforce, etc., The Enterprise: Business Model Execution We know that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. The question is – why?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

The fact that today’s Internet bubble does not represent all companies does not disprove its existence. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue! Or worse yet they may never get financed. Those with strong business models suddenly stand out when the tide goes out. and profits!

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

The pervasive ability and need to communicate constantly and globally through the Internet and smartphones is incenting everyone to get more out of their own assets and time, and capitalize on the idle resources of others. Usually these are revenue-generating e-commerce sites, or have the potential to be revenue-generating.

Cuba 246

Cuba Venture Capital Community Valuation 246

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

And, oh by the way, we also really like the idea of the 1M/1M entrepreneurs building valuation and negotiating leverage through these business development efforts, instead of signing off large chunks of their company in form of equity early on. The business is already profitable with $2.9 million in revenue.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

In this excerpt from The Lean Entrepreneur , by using fishing as an analogy, Brant and Patrick reveal how market segmentation influences your business model and why “For Whom” is as important as “What” to build. Market segments drive your business model. Or perhaps you need to chum (freemium) the waters a bit?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. There was now a public market for companies with no revenue, no profit and big claims.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

At today's roundtable, we had a chance to discuss a topic that continues to bother me endlessly - the Internet's obsession with FREE. You then become dependent on outside financing, and that is a slippery slope. It is much better to grow organically with revenue. Please remember, free is not a business model.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

That's hundred grand annual revenue. And that became about, and now is about 40% of HubSpot's revenue. I always stayed there until that team was counter million in annualized revenue, which was around 2016. I was 15th employee, I remember the hundred person party, the hundred customer party. Social media. Yeah, CRM data.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Ernst-Jan Pfauth is the former Editor in Chief of Internet at NRC Handelsblad, as well as an acclaimed technology author and columnist. In the future, we will white-label this CMS to further finance our journalistic adventure. He also served as The Next Web’s blog’s first blogger and Editor in Chief, back in 2008.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Or will the convergence of content, internet, mobile applications, games and social media be the onrushing asteroids that will soon destroy the movie dinosaurs? How about Internet Video? revenues from internet video services spanning user-generated content to television shows and movies will exceed $7 billion this year.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

As many of you know, in the past I’ve done a series of posts deconstructing the S-1s of VC-backed internet startups going public. So their revenue figures, pre IPO financing and ownership, and other info is all widely available. Three Ways to Make Money On the Consumer Internet.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2013

Lots of people talk about business models these days, but what does it really mean? When it comes to starting or planning for business success your model is essentially your decision about how you intend to add value – which is another way of saying – how you intend to make money. Clarity.fm

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Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

However, it will create a big shift in the short to medium term of how many crowd-powered or user centric internet services currently operate. Last week a report was released by the bipartisan Senate Committee on Australia as a centre for finance and technology. Of their $US12 billion in revenue, 27.5 Gigs and Big Tech.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

While I am extremely proud of that team’s accomplishments (the parent company recombined Nordstrom.com in 2002 and the direct division now has revenue of over $1.25B and is the fastest growing unit inside of Nordstrom ), I built a healthy respect for the complexities and difficulties of managing women’s fashion inventory.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Small Business Success | Mondays and Thursdays. The Goods: Your Business Toolbox | Thursdays. Finance | Tuesdays. Todays Small Business News | Daily. Financing a Small Business. Buying a Small Business. RUNNING A BUSINESS. Financing A Small Business. Business Taxes.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2016

The steps focus you on developing your business model. But they only require “the back of an envelope” to figure out how you are going to make money, how much it is going to cost to run your business, and how soon you will generate a profit and reach breakeven. Calculate revenue per quarter and revenue per year.

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Up and Running

MAY 3, 2012

From a young person’s perspective, with tight labour markets, decreasing barriers to entry, low capital-intensive business models and immediate free access to a global market, the appeal is also compelling. What is there not to like? The signs to me are all too obvious from our conversations.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2010

Now with customers and early revenue, it was out raising its first round of venture money. They used Customer and Agile development to search for a scalable and repeatable business model to become a large company. They grow their business via profits or traditional bank financing. Take No Prisoners.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2016

The pervasive ability and need to communicate constantly and globally through the Internet and smartphones is incenting everyone to get more out of their own assets and time, and capitalize on the idle resources of others. Usually these are revenue-generating e-commerce sites, or have the potential to be revenue-generating.

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Cuba Marketing Venture Capital Community 120

Eric Friedman

JANUARY 4, 2017

With CES in full swing, I have been thinking more about hardware businesses that have a SaaS component for ongoing revenue and support. Just see Internet of S**t for some hilarious tweets. Can a locked in monthly SaaS fee cover the business model needs of a new startup to compete with a large hardware co?

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