ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

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. In very few specific cases, depending on the nature of the business, the business model might demand a considerable gestation period or extensive research and development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2016

Even still, in the context of all three points, I recommend that you evaluate the most common exit alternatives and considerations, and integrate the right one into your startup strategy and plan: M&A - merger or acquisition by another company. IPO – public company initial public stock offering. You can kick-off your next startup.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

If there is a gap in the market, there will be demand. How much revenue are you generating on an annual basis? These partnerships need to bring in more revenue. And, the last choice is Merger. You can also opt for a merger with a company of similar nature. Market Research. There is a simple rule of thumb.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue).

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

By focusing on reducing human touches and automating the sales and recruitment process, Angelichio and the Judge Group are able to minimize the cost associated with hiring additional internal staff while meeting their market demand in record time! The truth is economies change, revenues change, and sometimes things just happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue).

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

At this stage, your startup better be selling a commercial offering, have price and cost validated, with significant customer sales and a real revenue stream. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Angels may be less demanding, but typically add less value. Growth stage. Exit stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

Assuming your startup takes off, you will probably find that the fun is gone by the time you reach 50 employees, or a few million in revenue. So here are the most common exit strategies and considerations these days for planning purposes: Merger & Acquisition (M&A). Shareholders are demanding, and liability concerns are high.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2011

Assuming your startup takes off, you will probably find that the fun is gone by the time you reach 50 employees, or a few million in revenue. So here are the most common exit strategies and considerations these days for planning purposes: Merger & Acquisition (M&A). Shareholders are demanding, and liability concerns are high.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2010

At this stage, your startup better be selling a commercial offering, have price and cost validated, with significant customer sales and a real revenue stream. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Angels may be less demanding, but typically add less value. Growth stage. Exit stage.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 27, 2015

I am looking forward to the possibility of selling several proposals I have developed that could generate tremendous advertising revenues for newspapers, broadcasting companies, magazines, internet media companies and the internet divisions of multimedia companies. . #5 – Proposals. Image Credit : Robert Barrows.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

And in order to compete against the big guys, the Deloittes, the McKinseys, the Accentures, our niche became large scale change projects, anything from mergers and acquisitions to large scale system integration work. A lot of our customers brought their packaging back in-house, there wasn’t as much demand. Knock on wood.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2017

And as the Internal Revenue Service continues to wage war against fraud and identity theft, filing clean, complete returns is key — especially as your business scales. Anjum Tunuli is the chief tax officer at Early Growth Financial Services , a firm that addresses the lack of on-demand financial support available to startups.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

At this stage, your startup better be selling a commercial offering, have price and cost validated, with significant customer sales and a real revenue stream. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Angels may be less demanding, but typically add less value. Growth stage. Exit stage.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. With Netscape’s IPO , there was suddenly a public market for companies with limited revenue and no profit. 1970 – 1995: The Golden Age. Thus began the 5-year dot-com bubble.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2015

With the daily demands of running a business along with the financial pressures and challenges inherent in early-stage companies, a business valuation may not be the first thing an entrepreneur thinks of when he awakes each morning. A company can have value, even if there is no current income or revenue.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 16, 2012

Mergers and acquisitions have a notoriously high failure rate and as a result investors knocked a couple of percent off Cisco’s share price yesterday following the announcement of their $5bn acquisition of NDS Group.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

Until 1995 startups going public typically had a track record of revenue and profits. Suddenly there was a public market for companies with limited revenue and no profit. The size of the red bars (IPO’s) versus blue (mergers and acquisitions) illustrates that while venture-backed startups did get acquired, the IPO market was booming.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet. AOL is in the process of rebuilding itself and emulating a little-known LA-based startup called Demand Media.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 10, 2011

But when you are running a website with over 1,000 different products that change frequently (in size, quantity, branding, name, description, etc), as well as one that demands consistent improvement in process and technology, it is almost impossible to provide an ideal user experience without full time help by your side. This was a huge risk.

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Thus, it’s in everyone’s best interest to see the startup raise more capital rather than declaring default and demanding repayment. In practice, if the notes mature and a startup has no cash and minimal hard assets, investors are left with little more than theoretical claims against an insolvent business entity (usually a corporation ).

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In November of this year, the company announced that it had achieved “substantially” more than $1B in revenue in the third quarter. Assuming a marketplace rake of something like 11%, this would imply gross room revenue of over $9B for the quarter — which would be $36B annualized. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 11, 2010

Each time a new set of docs get released, I don’t cringe because it means I then have to remove the hockey stick from my revenue projections. There will always be demand for good counsel. Next up: the model reincorporation merger kit).

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 11, 2010

Each time a new set of docs get released, I don’t cringe because it means I then have to remove the hockey stick from my revenue projections. There will always be demand for good counsel. Next up: the model reincorporation merger kit).

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Yet we used the product development model not only to manage product development, but as a road map for finding customers and to time our marketing launch and sales revenue plan. The company has a large press event, and Marketing launches a series of programs to create end-user demand (trade shows, seminars, advertising, email, and so on).

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

For example, Google’s acquisition of Nest (which had customers, revenue and a distribution channel) allowed it to enter the connected home market immediately. W hat would be the charter for our Innovation Outpost?

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Small” IPOs — companies with less than $50m in annual revenue at the time of IPO – have declined from more than 50% of all IPOs in the 1980-2000 timeframe to about 25% of IPOs from 2001-2016; Companies are staying private much longer — the median time to IPO from founding hovered around 6.5 Time Period IPO Pop* 1980-1989 6.1%

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2018

He is also a thought leader on demand planning who has employed it with other strategies to help companies of various sizes succeed with their change agendas. Karelse explains demand planning as a multi-step operational supply chain management process that results in reliable forecasts for revenue and the peaks and valleys in demand.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I know one company demanding something like 15K just to use his product in my portal. 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. Hopefully your idea of business model isn’t “ad revenue based”. Seriously mean it too. I am like dude WTF.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

Right out of Graduate School, I started my career with one of the big four accounting firms in their M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions) practice. I was trading real heavy hours for heavy dollars, and led a very mobile, demanding and by choice, a pressure packed lifestyle. In “normal” market conditions, 20% is the norm.

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