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TechEmpower
MARCH 4, 2024
AI empowers businesses to craft more impactful marketing campaigns by utilizing data analytics for content personalization and market trend forecasting, thereby significantly enhancing campaign relevance and effectiveness.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 8, 2020
Don’t rely on conservative forecasts to reduce risk. Investors don’t fund conservative forecasts, nor wildly optimistic ones, since both imply a lack of commitment or homework. Strategically, you need a plan to survive through organic growth, with outside funding to effectively accelerate scaling.
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Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
Don’t rely on conservative forecasts to reduce risk. Investors don’t fund conservative forecasts, nor wildly optimistic ones, since both imply a lack of commitment or homework. Strategically, you need a plan to survive through organic growth, with outside funding to effectively accelerate scaling.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 25, 2021
The most disruptive products are ones that never existed before, and no forecasts are even available to size the opportunity. Consider Apple’s move into music, telephones, and watches. Compete against non-consumption and non-existing markets. Facebook built the social media market before customers even knew they needed it.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 16, 2020
Sudden payment of unaccrued tax, bonus, or commission liabilities (this is a common bookkeeping and forecasting error for small businesses.). If your business model is profitable but you’ve mismanaged one of the above categories, you need to build a 13-week cash forecast to manage your short-term crisis. Old aging inventory.
Up and Running
APRIL 13, 2021
I used plan vs. actual analysis once a month, comparing forecasts and budgets to actual results since I started Palo Alto Software back in the 1980s. Forecasting and budget math is usually simple. Make sure the way you organize the sales forecast in rows or items or groups matches the way your accounting (or bookkeeping) tracks them.
VC Cafe
JANUARY 24, 2021
“It follows that the goal of forecasting is not to see what’s coming. It is to advance the interests of the forecaster and the forecaster’s tribe.” As a fan of prediction lists, I collected a number of interesting reports and expert forecasts for 2021 in the spaces we cover at Remagine Ventures.
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