Tim Keane

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. Forward to the past: The (re) rise of direct marketing » October 08, 2008. Last week, our angel group reviewed a business with an online lie detector technology.  Funding startups. Startup ideas. Resources for startups. Being The Best You Can Be.

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Tim Keane

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. Bottom Up Market Sizing.   (Google: Bottom up market sizing).    For an example written by a VC, see A Startups Guide to Market Sizing from DocStoc. .    (Google: Bottom up market sizing).  Do we really need this help?

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. We Only Need 1% of The Total Market! Is Business Model Analysis Important To You? Investors love entrepreneurs who understand their business model, and can describe it accurately. Is Business Model Analysis Important To You?

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. Technology versus market risk in angel investments.  One of his points is that angels tend to lose money because they take on companies with high market risk and low technical risk. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. Bottom Up Market Sizing » January 12, 2010. Good investors use the valuation discussions to gauge the business savvy of the management team and to understand their ability to appreciate and deal with economic market forces that set values. times at 5 years and 11.39

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 11, 2013

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. The Myth of Private Markets: Symmetry and Expectations » January 11, 2013. Funding startups. Startup ideas. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. Resources for startups. Books I Like.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. Market Math. If your business sells to a quantifiable and identifiable group of business customers who are in the tens of thousands, or less, there's really no reason not to individually identify every one of them and track all of your contacts with them. Market Math.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. I'm just reading a post  from Wisbusiness.com  by Joe Kremer of the Wisconsin Angel Network. I'm just reading a post  from Wisbusiness.com  by Joe Kremer of the Wisconsin Angel Network.   Posted at 03:23 PM in Funding startups | Permalink.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. « Technology versus market risk in angel investments | Main. | While it isn't always top of mind for entrepreneurs caught up in the rush of running and growing their businesses, long term thinking, including thinking about relationships, is pretty important. .

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. Market Math » September 30, 2010. I'm in Dublin this week and was at the Halo Business Angel Network meeting on Monday evening. business model to reduce hypotheses to facts. business model to reduce hypotheses to facts. Funding startups.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 5, 2013

It is the perfect confluence of my startup experiences/business education and my PhD research and teaching/work at the Mason Center for Social Entrepreneurship. We are experiencing a confluence of forces of change,” Molly Broad, the council’s president, recently told the University of Wisconsin System’s Board of Regents.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 3, 2007

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. « Is Business Model Analysis Important To You? We Only Need 1% of The Total Market! It means that the entrepreneur hasnt done the hard work of figuring out a business model at a detailed level, nor allocated the total investment required to achieve their goals.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 21, 2011

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan. First develop a business model. presence of new competitors emerging over time, size of the served market, ability to expand, etc. How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan. Funding startups.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 8, 2010

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. « Bottom Up Market Sizing | Main. | Posted at 06:38 AM in Funding startups | Permalink. Funding startups. Startup ideas. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. Resources for startups.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 4, 2011

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. « Market Math | Main. | Funding startups. Startup ideas. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. John Mullins: Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model. Google Ads.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 17, 2009

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. « How does your marketing react to the economic crisis? Funding startups. Startup ideas. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. Resources for startups. Entrepreneurship for everyone.

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Tim Keane

DECEMBER 30, 2009

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. « Starting Startups | Main. from a new social entrepreneurship Honors Symposium, “How To Change The World,” Fall, 2009 at Marquette University).   You may need medical knowledge, engineering skill, marketing people. Learn the market. Learn the market.

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Tim Keane

JULY 16, 2008

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. Here are nine simple thoughts about entrepreneurial ventures that apply to most startups. Here are nine simple thoughts about entrepreneurial ventures that apply to most startups. Use your business model to build an early warning system. The Lessons of Experience.

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Tim Keane

JULY 16, 2007

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. A New old Idea: Direct Marketing Revisited » July 16, 2007. I just talked to a business owner the other day who has grown her startup nicely - 15% a year or so - up to revenue of a bit over $2.5MM. Posted at 08:30 AM in Startup ideas | Permalink. Startup ideas.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 14, 2008

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. As one example, think about forecasting sales based on market potential and competition, rather than simply on historical results by salesperson. If we see that our total accounts are underpenetrated in one market, can we test how much it costs and how long it takes to acquire new ones?

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Tim Keane

JULY 20, 2007

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. « A New old Idea: Direct Marketing Revisited | Main. | Is Business Model Analysis Important To You? I was in Italy a couple of weeks ago at the request of the US State Department to discuss angel investing with IBAN, the Italian Business Angels Network.

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Tim Keane

JULY 6, 2007

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. The idea must be focused on the market. That is, the entrepreneur must be able to articulate what problem the company and its product is solving, why that solution is of value to the marketplace, and how the market will value it (and pay for it.). Funding startups.

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Tim Keane

AUGUST 21, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. Do we as investors owe an entrepreneur not only our courtesy and respect but also our active participation in the mutual discovery process about assumptions, markets, and so forth? The entrepreneur has a better understanding of the business model and whether it really can be high growth.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. In a lot of startups (especially good ones) the founder/CEO/leader is a customer-oriented sales person. In a lot of startups (especially good ones) the founder/CEO/leader is a customer-oriented sales person. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 30, 2007

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. « We Only Need 1% of The Total Market! So often when people talk about businesses and startups, there is a great deal of high level talk about strategy, broad vision, and so forth. They would like businesses solving “big hairy problems” of real value to the customer.

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Tim Keane

MAY 2, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. The company cannot get the pulse of the market into the product cycle and make the rapid, instinctive changes and improvements that come from customer contact if the customer contact is relegated to a “function” on the team. Funding startups. Startup ideas. Books I Like.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 11, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. Calculating Market Share » October 11, 2006.   Telling a customer you are busy--when you aren't 2.    Telling a potential business partner you are close to signing with his competitor -- when you aren't 5.  Funding startups.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 7, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. Do you know how a banker looks at your business? To do that, its necessary to test the advice against the market and make sure that it is consistently accurate. Next, as the business grows out of the advisors experience, its time to move on. Funding startups.

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Tim Keane

MAY 1, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. Heres a succinct comment by marketing guru Seth Godin on funding companies. Every entrepreneur thinking about funding a business ought to read it. If the deal wont come out economically, it is the market telling you its not a great idea. Funding startups. April 2013.

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Tim Keane

MAY 8, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. " Possible answers might be prototypes, market tests, potential customer testimonials, or some combination of these and other factors. By taking these risk reducing steps in increments, and assuming that the market is attractive to investors, the entrepreneur can achieve her goals.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 13, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. They understand their customers and the market the customers live in. Smart customers ought to treat startups very well. They understand their customers and the market the customers live in. Smart customers ought to treat startups very well. Funding startups.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 13, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. In other words, if you are forecasting 100 orders in the next quarter, at $10,000 each, I’d ask how many potential orders there are in the market, whether there is any existing competitive experience, and how you derived your timing. This takes a lot of risk out of the business process.

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Tim Keane

MAY 18, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. These are in addition to market opportunity-competitive matrix-deal issues, which I assume would also be covered. Understand the principle of risk reduction and its role in your business. Explain your valuation in terms of others in your industry/market/stage. Startup ideas.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 26, 2019

Here’s a complete, 9 step guide on how to start a brewery business. Choose a business model. Fill in the business blanks. Choose a business model. Before you can start to seriously plan your own craft beer business, you need to understand the end goal that you’re aiming for.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 12, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. What are their expectations for intellectual property-protectable businesses? When they discuss market size, do they distinguish between current and addressable markets? Even in biotech businesses, new tools, methods or discoveries almost always eventually displace something.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 30, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. She also wants to know if you understand the market dynamics for your proposed business, and if you have thought deeply about eventualities and alternatives. Next, I suppose, comes a firm grasp of the facts of the market and the competitive environment.

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