Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

Exit strategy. What’s most realistic these days is an exit via sale to an existing major company for which you solve a meaningful problem. Shooting for that sort of exit over a three to five year period is usually the best strategy. No exit strategy means no return to investors.

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Angel Investor Cram Down Intellectual Property Venture Capital 269

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2013

He must nail down a sales process that fits the domain and economy. Make certain you as the founder and the CEO are on the same page on mission, company values, exit strategy, and workplace model. The CEO is the check and balance on the constant parallel pushes for more development, more marketing, and more growth.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Startup Exit Strategy 219

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2012

He must nail down a sales process that fits the domain and economy. Make certain you as the founder and the CEO are on the same page on mission, company values, exit strategy, and workplace model. The CEO is the check and balance on the constant parallel pushes for more development, more marketing, and more growth.

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Founder Startup Exit Strategy Leadership 248

Up and Running

MARCH 14, 2018

Impress the investors with what you and your team have accomplished to date (sales, contracts, key hires, product launches, and so on). Customer acquisition: Marketing and sales strategy. Your exit strategy. This is your opportunity to blow your own horn! How will you reach your customers?

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Hockey Stick Exit Strategy Technical Review Angel Investor 164

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

He must nail down a sales process that fits the domain and economy. Make certain you as the founder and the CEO are on the same page on mission, company values, exit strategy, and workplace model. The CEO is the check and balance on the constant parallel pushes for more development, more marketing, and more growth.

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Search Startup Exit Strategy Leadership 224

Up and Running

JANUARY 2, 2013

Impress the investors with what you and your team have accomplished to date (sales, contracts, key hires, product launches, etc.). Most start-up teams are missing some key talent – be it marketing, management expertise, programmers, sales, operations, financial management, etc. This is your opportunity to blow your own horn!

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Hockey Stick Exit Strategy Technical Review Due Diligence 164

Up and Running

MAY 12, 2020

Think about an exit strategy. But establishing an exit strategy is another important piece that forces you to look toward the future of your business. Like the rest of your business plan, your exit strategy does not need to be set in stone. Point of Sale system (if necessary). Business phone system.

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Software Review Exit Strategy Technical Review Business Plan 153

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2016

Yet one of the first things a potential equity investor asks about is your exit strategy. Here are three important reasons for the question: Good investment paybacks normally require an exit event. Investors know that the fun of a startup turns into managing production processes, sales processes, and personnel in a few years.

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Equity Exit Strategy Private Equity Startup 120

Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Depending on the type of business, these may include sales of products/services, referral revenues, advertising sales, licensing/royalty fees, and/or data sales. Provide a clear exit strategy. Be sure to provide comparable examples of firms who have successfully exited. Detail all revenue streams.

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Venture Capital Business Plan Technical Review Private Placement 129

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Marketing and Sales Plan. What marketing and sales tactics will you be using? Highlight the key aspects of your financial plan, ideally with a chart that shows your planned sales, expenses, and profitability. Marketing and Sales Plan. Who are you selling to? Read more ». How are you going to reach your target market?

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I’m a mom, a full-time sales manager, and recruiter. Entrepreneurs need to find a way to get traction (sales) without funding. It’s because pitching is making a sale and all sales are made emotionally and followed up with logic. Wait, you didn’t want to be a sales person? I’m not your average angel.

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mashable.com

MARCH 20, 2014

Whats your exit strategy? Before accepting an offer with a startup, ask what their exit strategy is, and make sure youre on board. What is the sales strategy? In addition, the prospective employee can decide if his or her goals align with theirs. Bobby Grajewski , Edison Nation Medical. Nanxi Liu , Enplug.

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Technical Review Software Review Exit Strategy San Francisco 103

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2021

In addition, current investors want to see every startup go public or be acquired, as an exit event, so they can get their due return for that investment which has been tied up for the last few years. For these reasons, I always look for an overt exit strategy in every startup I might consider for an angel investment.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 15, 2025

By fostering psychological safety, improving communication, and rethinking job exit strategies, businesses can enhance employee retention, protect workplace culture, and build long-term loyalty. Implementing modern job exit strategies can mitigate these risks and foster long-term success. Do you wanna be in sales?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2018

How could you position your company in the sales pitch to make the growth potential visible and appealing to prospective buyers? You’ve done all the hard work of actually growing the business and getting it off the ground, and you’re now at a point where it’s time to start thinking about an exit strategy.

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Valuation Technical Review Exit Strategy Metrics 145

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Long-term value propositions to society, or paradigm shifts in technology, generate interest but don’t close sales in the time frame your startup needs to survive and prosper. Investors look for specifics on sales channels, marketing collateral, social media initiatives and customer incentives. Sustainable competitive advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2021

Present a viable exit strategy for investors to cash out. Equity investors realize that they won’t see any real return until an exit occurs, such as a sale, merger, or IPO. Some people argue that presenting an exit strategy implies a lack of a long-term commitment by the entrepreneur.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

billion for a company with less than $50 million in sales. Wouldn’t younger VCs with the incentive to climb the ranks internally be better champions of one’s startup and more likely to want to fuel growth, regardless of the exit strategy? Yahoo would hit $104/share in March 2000 with a market cap of $104 billion.)

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 237

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Credible yet flexible exit strategy. The smartest ventures are always courting a multi-billion dollar sale or merger with giants in the industry, including Google (YouTube), Microsoft (Skype), and Facebook (WhatsApp).

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Intellectual Property Valuation Merger Exit Strategy 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2021

You should plan an exit strategy, and optimize your activities and timing to get top dollar. What you don’t need is a buyer dealing directly with your landlord to get your key asset, leaving you with no leverage and minimum value for the sale. Neither perspective is good for credibility or a fair result from your sale.

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Due Diligence Intellectual Property Bankruptcy Exit Strategy 410

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Once you identify your ideal customer, you can tailor your marketing and sales plan to that person. Components of this section include: Your marketing and sales plan. Your funding ask and exit strategy, if applicable. Marketing and sales plan. Exit strategy : Needed if you’re seeking investment.

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Business Plan Technical Review Forecast Software Review 154

Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2014

To demonstrate traction you might recruit a good management team, start making sales, build an advisory board or secure strategic partnerships. This is where the ‘exit strategy’ comes in. An exit strategy is not your plan for when the business fails, but rather, your strategy for returning money to investors.

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Up and Running

JULY 24, 2017

For example, with an existing company, that information might be as simple as adding recent annual sales or number of employees to the basic company information in the first bullet here. For a startup, it might be a brief description of aspirations, such as a sales goal for the next year or three years from now.

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Software Review SBA Due Diligence Business Plan 151

Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2018

Every business has long-term and short-term goals, sales targets, and expense budgets—a business plan encompasses all of those things and is as useful to a startup trying to raise funds as it is to a 10-year-old business that’s looking to grow. The projections include sales, costs, expenses, and cash flow. Market trends.

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Business Plan Technical Review Lean Forecast 119

Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2018

Components of this section include: Your marketing and sales plan. Your funding ask and exit strategy, if applicable. Marketing and sales plan. Sometimes you can increase sales by upselling and cross-selling , or offering complementary services. Strategic partnerships or alliances. Your operations plan.

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Business Plan Technical Review Exit Strategy Oregon 72

BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 14, 2004

Sales Review -Detailed sales pipeline review by region -Key wins/losses – detail on the losses and to whom. Professional Services (usually incorporated in context of sales discussion for smaller companies) -Status of existing customer implementations and satisfaction. This is where the heavy lifting happens.

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Balance Sheet Technical Review Framework Stock Options 99

BeyondVC

JULY 31, 2008

Exit Strategy Unfortunately, the market for IPOs is currently dead, but it may reopen in 2009. In the end, I continue to tell my portfolio companies that if you focus on what you can control (growing and managing your business), then the external factors (exit strategy) will take care of themselves.

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Jordan Exit Strategy IPO Semantic 78

Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

what’s behind your financials, your go-to-market strategy, your current traction in the marketplace, your competition and why you’re better, your intellectual property or “secret sauce,” your exit strategy, etc.). I also learned quickly that no two angels are alike. What one angel likes another may not care about.

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Angel Investor Technical Review Due Diligence Startup 161

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Instead of funding, you pay the investors a structured royalty, which is a portion of the sales. Royalty based investment. A royalty based investment is an exciting mode of funding. The royalty may be of a limited timeline, variable rate, or perpetuity based on the investment agreement. ? Convertible bonds and convertible equity.

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Startup Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Seed Stage 150

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2015

If you’re plagued by any of these warning signs at the office, it may be time to come up with an exit strategy: 1. But when you’re devoting the bulk of your waking hours to your professional life, is it too much to expect to enjoy yourself some of that time? Fed up with being the fall guy.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 10, 2011

This article picks up from that point onward, discussing the challenges we ran into once we went into operation mode, the invaluable lessons that only first-hand experience can teach, the exit strategy which was the $250,000 sale of the website, and finally my overall concluding thoughts on the entire experience.

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Technical Review PPC Due Diligence Exit Strategy 71

Berkonomics

JANUARY 16, 2014

Create roles and guidelines in the potential partnership: What role and responsibility will each of the partners have including operation, financial, sales, marketing, etc.? Perform preliminary due diligence: Review the business plan including marketing, sales strategies and financial needs. Is it by committee?

Technical Review 81

Technical Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy Partner 81

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2021

There is no magic formula for a formal business plan format or sequence, but I would recommend the following ten sections, in this sequence, with relevant content: Executive summary Problem and solution Company description Market opportunity Business model Competition analysis Marketing and sales strategy Management team Financial projections Exit (..)

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Silicon Valley Exit Strategy Business Plan Restful 342

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In addition, current investors want to see every startup go public or be acquired, as an exit event, so they can get their due return for that investment which has been tied up for the last few years. For these reasons, I always look for an overt exit strategy in every startup I might consider for an angel investment.

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Exit Strategy Valuation Acquisition Metrics 248

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. Exit strategy. For a family business, don’t project an exit.

Business Plan 290

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2012

Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. Exit strategy. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)? What is the timeframe for the exit? What is the timeframe of return on investment?

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Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 247

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

One of those ventures was the creation, establishment, growth and sale of an e-commerce business. My business concept was one based on volume (sales), and not product margin (profit per item sold). I will also discuss the exit strategy, which was the $250,000 sale to the second largest Power Seller on Ebay at the time.

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