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.

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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.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Edwin: Oh sorry, so the business model. Edwin: The business model is that the organizer has to pay. How do you split revenue? You may call it employee number one with a really low salary and really generous stock options and as the company grows, you’ll fix their salary. ” Jason: So?

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

They were proficient at running the current business, but lacked both the courage and the moral authority to jeopardize the old business model by embracing the new technology. The transition would have been far easier if these executives running the companies had invented the old models.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

3]   However, if they are built bottom up, they demonstrate and make explicit a range of business model assumptions the entrepreneur is using to think about his business and its revenue model.   Pre-bubble Siliicon Valley deals were popularly valued at multiples of revenue.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Therefore, when a small business tries to attract shareholders, it’s paramount to have a business model that is scalable. Before scalability has a chance to be implemented, investment will only happen when a business is able to address the big concerns every investor has at the start of a new financial venture.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2021

Some thinkers have begun to talk about the “passion economy”, suggesting that you can build a business that caters on a shared passion with 1000 or even 100 “true fans”. Finding these true fans will enable your business to exist. Without them, you cannot earn any revenue. Develop a Business Model.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

She makes money for the platform that hosts her without receiving the legal and financial protections of employee status, or the stock options typically given to the platform’s engineers, designers, and managers. “What the creator economy promises, and what it actually does”, The New Yorker.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

We’re hitting record revenue months, weeks, and margins. And they probably never will be unless business model viability is reassessed across the board. Don’t be afraid to pivot The collapse of SVB spurred us to do a deep evaluation of how we’re generating revenue and value for customers. they still aren’t profitable.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

There is an inherent conflict in a consultant’s business model and the needs of a startup. For instance, if a consultant proposes to help you with public relations, pay them a commission equivalent to the greater of a flat fee per story placed or a percentage of revenue generated from the PR coverage.

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Up and Running

MAY 17, 2012

Empower your team: 2012 Entrepreneur of the Year Daniel Lubetzky, maker of KIND Healthy Snacks , gives every employee stock options. Have a cause: Lubetsky is a social entrepreneur who’s companies operate on a “not-only-for-profit” business model, with an economic as well as social bottom line.

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Up and Running

JUNE 19, 2015

It’s not just the fact that it’s betters offer, it’s not just that it’s cloud based, it also introduces this slightly different business model, the slightly different approach to the whole thing. It’s just raise them basically so that they can stand on their own and then watch them flourish.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 27, 2015

They financed their companies, to the extent possible, in a manner minimizing the cost of capital, planning for organic growth in the number of customers served and in associated revenues. As the business owners had a longer-term perspective, decisions were made with greater deliberation and with a more conservative recognition of risk.

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Venture Chronicles

APRIL 19, 2010

Rather than focus on the valuation issue, which really isn’t that meaningful aside from generating a lot of attention and completely screwing up stock options for new employees, I’d like to look at the big picture here, which is the evolving nature of consumer buying behaviors.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 13, 2015

My boss and mentor from Open Market, Gary Eichhorn , made the entire management team read it in the 1990s to hammer home its important lessons as we stumbled through the chasm on our way to scaling from zero to nearly $100 million in revenue in a few years. Business Model: running a lot of experiments - pricing, packaging, value proposition.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You lost credibility with your statement: “The problem is that many programmers have loads of talent with no product sense and business students have great designs with no way to implement them.&# Take the top 10 largest tech innovators (take your pick of largest by revenue or largest by idea) of the last 20 years in Silicon Valley.

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