Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

In the short term you need customers to find you at any price, and in the longer term you need revenue, profit, and return loyalty. Strategic threats, including new competitors, market changes, and environmental issues need deeper analysis and full resolution, before they jeopardize your business survival.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Merger Social Media 312

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

.&# Still, I’ll bet that functionally you divide areas of competence like sales & marketing, product, engineering, biz dev, etc. I usually encourage people to think about titles like, “Founder & CTO&# or “Founder & VP Marketing.&#. Create hassles for post-merger integration of technology or teams.

Operations 292

Operations CTO Hire Startup Early Stage 292

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2011

Yet a creative collaboration with your biggest competitor may be the best opportunity for revenue and survival. We were both losing in the lucrative high-end market segment. We finally decided set up a strategic partnership with a joint product to capture this elusive segment of the market. Cost sharing and economies of scale.

Partner 225

Partner Non-Compete Merger Technical Review 225

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Equity is stock, but private company stock has no market value until the company goes public or is sold or merged with another company. If you can convince investors that your startup will generate a solid revenue stream, and the market won’t go away any time soon, they may see an opportunity for an ever larger return.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

As with any large-scale acquisition, there is a degree of risk for Microsoft, especially in consumer-oriented markets such as gaming. Minecraft” accounts for nearly all of Mojang’s revenue, highlighting the risk to Microsoft should interest in “Minecraft” dissolve, or Microsoft fails to produce “Minecraft” sequels or add-on software.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

This requires a visible focus on the company’s revenue model, the costs to get there, and cash on hand. Angels expect at least a working prototype and a hint of market acceptance (traction) before investing. That means merger and acquisition (M&A), not initial public offering (IPO). Scalability. Exit strategy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Equity is stock, but private company stock has no market value until the company goes public or is sold or merged with another company. If you can convince investors that your startup will generate a solid revenue stream, and the market won’t go away any time soon, they may see an opportunity for an ever larger return.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 6 Ways You Can Improve Churn Rate and Increase Revenue | KISSmetrics blog - [link]. Choosing market segments on customer profitability | Tom Tunguz – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Cofounder 107

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Thus I’m getting more questions on new mechanisms, like crowd funding, or going public through the side door as a reverse merger. It better be an established company, with millions of dollars in annual revenue and profits, following generally accepted accounting, reporting, and audit procedures. Yet reverse mergers are not all bad.

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VC Cafe

JULY 13, 2022

In the big picture, it’s needless to say that the market is going through a challenging economic period, but despite tech layoffs and a decline investments in Q2 2022 (as was seen in the US) the Israeli tech industry faired well. As public markets continue to freeze, the M&A market is getting stronger this year.

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Technical Review Israel Early Stage Merger 158

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. The next reason is to establish a competitive advantage over your competition and quickly acquire a substantial market share. Both of which are expensive and time-consuming.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2022

AR and VR might be the next smartphone, but they might also be the next smart watch, drone, or games console – very cool but a narrow market Benedict Evans. Supply chain challenges which have caused shortages around the world will have an impact on the speed that AR/VR enabled’s devices penetrate the market.

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Technical Review Mobile Merger IP 187

Up and Running

JULY 22, 2014

It’s a table that lists all of your revenue streams and all of your expenses—typically for a three-month period—and lists at the very bottom the total amount of net profit or loss. A typical profit and loss statement should include: your revenue (also called sales), followed by. how you make money.

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Balance Sheet Forecast Equity .Net 148

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2014

Thus I’m getting more questions on new mechanisms, like crowd funding, and an old one long out of favor, the so-called “reverse merger.” It better be an established company, with millions of dollars in annual revenue and profits, following generally accepted accounting, reporting, and audit procedures.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2019

Conventional wisdom says that technology is propelling the disruption that is roiling the markets. This often means mergers and acquisitions, incremental innovation, marketing, and global expansion – which, over the long-term, only widen the gulf between the company and its customers. But this belief is dead wrong.

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Technical Review Technology Customer Qatar 145

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified. reinvented, with more people online and trained. It was mostly timing.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2022

The global games and services market is forecast to reach $188 billion in 2022, a 1.2% Private financing market continued to see strong deal activity with $3.6B The M&A market for gaming is expected to continue to heat up in the second half of 2022. The merger of Unity and Ironsource (a $4.4 as they reached 28.1

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Forecast IP Mobile Acquisition 190

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2013

If you have a deal that is related to bringing in sales and you do want to have a perpetual compensation you can use some version of a Lehman Formula that incentives the person upfront as they are bringing in revenue for you, then caps it off on an ongoing basis. Balance the risks to your reputation. White Label. In Advance vs. Arrears.

Technical Review 164

Technical Review Securities and Exchange Commission Non-disclosure Agreement Due Diligence 164

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2018

Thus I’m getting more questions on new mechanisms, like crowd funding, or going public through the side door as a reverse merger. It better be an established company, with millions of dollars in annual revenue and profits, following generally accepted accounting, reporting, and audit procedures. Yet reverse mergers are not all bad.

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Merger OTC IPO Due Diligence 198

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Premium ventures need real traction, such as 100 million users, 10 million in revenue, or brand recognition around the world. If you don’t yet have a hundred investors knocking on your door, it’s time to put more focus on viral marketing, closing customers, and exponential growth. Active interest by a multitude of investors.

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Intellectual Property Valuation Merger Exit Strategy 120

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Could allow the corporation to be disruptive by entering adjacent markets to the ones it currently serves. Could create and introduce new and disruptive products and/or services for new markets. In Stage 2, the corporation adds venture capital and/or mergers-and-acquisition teams to provide these functions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2016

Equity is stock, but private company stock has no market value until the company goes public or is sold or merged with another company. If you can convince investors that your startup will generate a solid revenue stream, and the market won’t go away any time soon, they may see an opportunity for an ever larger return.

Equity 120

Equity Exit Strategy Private Equity Startup 120

YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

Market Research. In this stage, you will also search the market to check if your idea is viable. If there is a gap in the market, there will be demand. Now the question is: How to find gaps in the market? MVP is the product that you can bring to the market. Next is marketing. There is a simple rule of thumb.

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Startup Technical Cofounder Merger Early Stage 113

Gust

MAY 24, 2012

Some commentators have suggested this is the wave of the future, signifying a shift in the balance of power from investors to founders of the relatively small, elite group of growth companies that make it to public markets.

IPO 159

IPO Equity Common Stock Stock 159

BeyondVC

APRIL 1, 2004

Performance is key-revenue visibility is of utmost importance because the street does not forgive Case in point-if you miss your numbers within the first two quarters after you go public, forget about it. The company went public in mid-November, hit a high of close to 21 and was recently punished for preannouncing a shortfall in revenue.

Software Review 78

Software Review IPO Merger Revenue 78

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

What a CFO Can Do For Your Agency written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jason Blumer. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Jason Blumer. More About The Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network: Check it out here. So it's a tough market.

CPA 94

CPA Technical Review Revenue Forecast 94

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Thus I’m getting more questions on new mechanisms, like crowd funding, or going public through the side door as a reverse merger. It better be an established company, with millions of dollars in annual revenue and profits, following generally accepted accounting, reporting, and audit procedures. Yet reverse mergers are not all bad.

Merger 261

Merger OTC IPO Due Diligence 261

NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

With the pandemic, climate crisis, global economic shifts and rapidly changing consumer markets, it is clear that many businesses of today will no longer be relevant tomorrow. Addressing real world problems, they thrive in uncertainty, generating new jobs and new revenue streams in new markets. Our world is changing, and fast.

Technical Review 102

Technical Review Software Review New Zealand Due Diligence 102

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

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

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. Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product. The final product works great, and all the early users love it.”

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Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 370

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

We will invest pre-revenue and even pre-product if we have discovered the right team in the right kind of market. We look at huge markets where there are large incumbents that might not be incented to innovate or react to what they perceive as an insurgent. You had a very interesting perspective on the AOL/Time Warner merger.

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Cofounder Merger Founder Venture Capital 277

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2013

Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came quickly. Fresh customer base. Marty Zwilling.

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Merger Acquisition Startup Bandwidth 243

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Finally, the Israeli stock market outperforms global peers despite war, surging 27% in 2024. source ) Sacra estimates that Wiz hit $500M annual recurring revenue (ARR) in July 2024, up 103% YoY. Funding for startups is also up 35% in the first 9 months of 2024 compared to the equivalent period in 2023, pre-war.

Israel 88

Israel ChatGPT Artificial Inteligence Australia 88

BeyondVC

APRIL 1, 2004

Performance is key-revenue visibility is of utmost importance because the street does not forgive. The company went public in mid-November, hit a high of close to 21 and was recently punished for preannouncing a shortfall in revenue. You need good recurring maintenance revenue. The stock now trades at $8.34.

Software Review 60

Software Review IPO Merger Revenue 60

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

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. Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product. The final product works great, and all the early users love it.”

Angel Investor 313

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 313

Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The IT team has developed an internal applicant tracking system that allows the Judge Group to go to market quicker. Angelichio recommends exploring large off the shelf automation systems currently available on the market. The truth is economies change, revenues change, and sometimes things just happen.

CPA 76

CPA Software Review LLC Technical Review 76

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2021

Airlines, for example, have difficulty scaling up through mergers and acquisitions (M&As), but they can spin off their maintenance businesses and let the spin-off do the M&A in its own field. The guaranteed revenue and incentives were only loosely tied—at best—to the spin-off’s performance. Fostering dictatorial leadership.

Startup 313

Startup Non-Compete Merger Leadership 313