The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 21, 2024

Understanding the importance of insurance for business is essential in safeguarding your operations and assets. Common business risks include: Financial Risks: These include changes in market conditions that can affect revenue streams. Exploring multiple markets and product lines can create a more robust business model.

Technical Review 142

Technical Review Global Reputation Employee 142

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. So what is Revenue Based Investing?

Revenue 60

Revenue Term Sheet Founder Technical Review 60

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2019

The reasons are a lot more complex than the meltdown of key investment banks in the US a few years ago, so don’t expect a big change in the numbers soon, even with recent stock market rallies. Today around 90 percent of successful startups are still acquired by bigger companies, as the safer and preferred method of growth and funding.

IPO 210

IPO SEC Prospectus Startup 210

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad. Flexible VC: Revenue -based. Of the Inc.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

A version of this article appeared in the Harvard Business Review. The entrepreneur who founded and grew the largest startup in the world to $10 billion in revenue and got fired is someone you have probably never heard of. Meanwhile, inventory was piling up, the stock was cratering, and the company was running out of cash.

Michigan 299

Michigan Cofounder Stock Forecast 299

K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

One of our first customers was a stock trading company in NY that wanted to host live stock chats. In the end the revenue simply wasn’t enough to make a sustainable business and so we had to switch gears once more (in today’s parlance that would be a “Pivot”). Today, we call that an “Embed-Code”.

Revenue 72

Revenue Developer Java Customer Development 72

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

The reasons are a lot more complex than the meltdown of key investment banks in the US a few years ago, so don’t expect a big change in the numbers soon, even with recent stock market rallies. Today around 90 percent of successful startups are still acquired by bigger companies, as the safer and preferred method of growth and funding.

IPO 218

IPO SEC Prospectus Technical Review 218

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

There is nothing wrong with a focus on making the current business model work better. Typical incentives give percentages of quarterly revenues and contribution as rewards for success. An even better alternative could be stock options, linked to the long-term success of the company.

Stock Options 236

Stock Options Incubator Framework Stock 236

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. Services (Cloud, ads, music) have a very different business model. Microsoft executed its 20 th -century business model extremely well, but it missed the new and more important ones.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. Services (Cloud, ads, music) have a very different business model. Microsoft executed its 20 th -century business model extremely well, but it missed the new and more important ones.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2012

For survival, the objective of every business should be to bring in revenues which exceed their costs. Yet I continue to see business plans, or even talk to founders, and can’t find the specifics of the business model anywhere. Try to relate your business model to one that’s already successful and understood.

Business Model 238

Business Model eCommerce Business Plan Revenue 238

Board Effect

JUNE 24, 2020

Just as not all corporations within the same industry have the same business model, nonprofit organizations all need to form the best business model that works for them. The right business model can help nonprofit organizations to successfully meet and resolve the challenges they face. Revenue mix.

Business Model 87

Business Model Forecast Government Programming 87

Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

The questions every startup or small business CEO needs to ask now are: What’s my Burn Rate and Runway? What does your new business model look like? To answer the first question, take stock of your current gross burn rate i.e. how much cash are you spending each month. What does my business model look like now?

Burn Rate 436

Burn Rate Startup Valuation Sales Cycle 436

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2014

Implement a modern real business model. Even non-profits need revenue to cover their costs, and continue to provide services. Great team members may take more time to find, and cost you stock options, but a qualified and highly motivated team that stretches your budget is a good calculated risk.

Startup 283

Startup Forecast Stock Options Technical Review 283

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Implement a modern real business model. Even non-profits need revenue to cover their costs, and continue to provide services. Great team members may take more time to find, and cost you stock options, but a qualified and highly motivated team that stretches your budget is a good calculated risk.

Forecast 161

Forecast Stock Options Technical Review Metrics 161

Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

Risk capital takes equity (stock ownership) in your company instead of debt (loans) in exchange for cash. A liquidity event means that the equity (the stock) you sold your investor can now be converted into cash.) For example, in your industry do companies build value the old fashion way by generating revenue? FDA approvals?

Liquidity Event 120

Liquidity Event Founder Liquidation Preference Private Equity 120

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 18, 2015

They have everything: money, brand, momentum, existing customers, press, product teams, distribution channels, expertise, market insight, analysts, sales offices, product features, and, by definition, a working business model. The insight is: The profitable revenue stream is a prison. Not anymore. That’s a young company’s game.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Valuation Flash Revenue 120

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2023

Simply stated, it means that your business has the potential to multiply revenue with minimal incremental cost. Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. Use a minimum viable product (MVP) to validate the model.

Hockey Stick 339

Hockey Stick Intellectual Property Non-Compete Business Model 339

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

The reasons are a lot more complex than the meltdown of key investment banks in the US a few years ago, so don’t expect a big change in the numbers soon, even with recent stock market rallies. entrepreneur IPO m&a startup Stock Exchange' The M&A alternative looks simple by comparison. Constant pressure to increase earnings.

IPO 120

IPO SEC Prospectus Startup 120

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 1, 2023

Thanks to Abdul Saboor, The Stock Dork ! #2- Though it took some effort and money to incorporate these outside resources into my business, it was well worth the expenditure. To prepare for a bad economy, businesses should focus on activities that produce the highest free cash flow. 2- Create an emergency fund.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Software Review Technical Review Revenue 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Your firm worked with an investment banking firm that underwrote and offered stock (typically on the NASDAQ exchange) to the public.

Silicon Valley 236

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 236

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. Government programs.

Startup 150

Startup Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Seed Stage 150

Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2015

I had lunch last week with Tom, the CEO of a startup that was quickly becoming a large company – last year’s revenue was $40M, this year likely to be $80M maybe even $100 million in ad revenue. to drive traffic to their site, which they then turned into ad revenue. Refactoring” organizational debt. the company had.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Salary Early Stage Software Review 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 26, 2022

They offered desperate founders more cash but insisted on new terms, rewriting all the old stock agreements that previous investors and employees had. Some even insisted that all prior preferred stock had to be converted to common stock. Other times it was simply a take-it-or-leave-it, here are the new terms. Why do VCs Do This?

Cram Down 417

Cram Down Founder Venture Capital Recapitalization 417

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2022

That approach may work for an entrepreneur who just sold a successful business for a huge profit, but it doesn’t work for the rest of us who are not proven successes yet, or don’t even have a business yet. Undefined business model or very low gross margins. Ask only for the money you can justify.

Due Diligence 271

Due Diligence Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Preferred Stock 271

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 9, 2022

I’ve been asked by portfolio companies and plenty of others about how they should be changing their strategy given the stock market pullback and what they’ve been hearing on “VC twitter”. There could be lots of things wrong with their business model that you didn’t notice until the company folded—and not just because of financing issues.

Stock 97

Stock Marketing Valuation Later Stage 97

VC Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2021

Now synonymous with video-conferencing, the company-name-turned-verb stock peaked in October 2020, a market interpretation of how the Zoom Boom has defined the daily lives of many millions throughout the COVID-19 outbreak. Next47 and American Insight Partners VC, demonstrates growing trust in its current and future business model.

Vertical 148

Vertical Video Technical Review Europe 148

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

For a business that anticipates needing, for example, $500,000 in startup capital, that means that best-case scenario Klemm can expect to give up half of his business’s common stock (and an even larger percentage of control of the business once the deal’s fine print provisions are considered).

Private Equity 94

Private Equity Pre-Money Valuation Equity Startup 94

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

I like the work just published by Bob Rice in “ The Alternative Answer ,” which does a great job of summarizing the investment universe, starting with the “conventional” stocks, bonds, and real estate, but moving on through more esoteric alternatives, including hedge funds, private equity, real assets, managed futures, and finally venture funding.

Angel Investor 269

Angel Investor Cram Down Intellectual Property Venture Capital 269

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

There is nothing wrong with a focus on making the current business model work better. Typical incentives give percentages of quarterly revenues and contribution as rewards for success. An even better alternative could be stock options, linked to the long-term success of the company.

Stock Options 141

Stock Options Incubator Framework Stock 141

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2022

The reasons are a lot more complex than the meltdown of key investment banks in the US a few years ago, so don’t expect any real change in the numbers soon, especially with recent stock market downturns. The M&A alternative looks simple by comparison. Constant pressure to increase earnings.

IPO 245

IPO SEC Prospectus Startup 245

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Angel investors will perk up if you have a prototype or a few real customers, while venture capitalists will likely choose to wait until you have achieved several million in revenue or customer count. Be prepared to explain your business model. How much do you really need for the next 12 to 18 months?

Preferred Stock 304

Preferred Stock Exit Strategy Equity Angel Investor 304

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2020

Simply stated, it means that your business has the potential to multiply revenue with minimal incremental cost. Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. Use a minimum viable product (MVP) to validate the model.

Hockey Stick 386

Hockey Stick Intellectual Property Startup Non-Compete 386

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

And >40% of that revenue is coming from in-game purchases. When they can invest the marginal engineering hour in listing a new token that drives revenue vs. saving some costs on settlement, it’s hard to justify. synthetic stocks or futures) and prediction markets. This could change very quickly, however, with a new bull run.

Networking 168

Networking Global OTC Security 168

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Implement a modern real business model. Even non-profits need revenue to cover their costs, and continue to provide services. Great team members may take more time to find, and cost you stock options, but a qualified and highly motivated team that stretches your budget is a good calculated risk.

Startup 120

Startup Forecast Stock Options Technical Review 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Companies horde cash and squeeze the most revenue and margin from the money they use. The stock market clearly values companies that can deliver disruptive innovation. The first will be commodity businesses that are valued for their ability to execute their current business model. Act Like a Startup.

Private Equity 330

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 330