Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2015

These include the following: Take inventory of your resources before you start. Funding is only one of the critical resources you need to start a business. Plan ahead to add more structure, people and financial resources to convert initial success into long-term growth. Define metrics to keep on track for the journey.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2018

A technical champion may drive a specific innovation, but the business leader has to own the result, in order to drive an appropriate business model, customer acquisition, support, and a growth strategy. Net result and reward. People are your best innovation resource. Ownership. Business risks are not just development risks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2016

A technical champion may drive a specific innovation, but the business leader has to own the result, in order to drive an appropriate business model, customer acquisition, support, and a growth strategy. Net result and reward. People are your best innovation resource. Ownership. Business risks are not just development risks.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

If this figure is accurate – it’s certainly a very large business even when you look at net revenues. Its net income for the 2009 period is $11.66 Net income was around $1.4 million, compared to a $7 million net loss in 2008. But LivingSocial is reportedly doing around $180,000 per day in gross revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2014

Most modern investors still look for a business model that embodies a gross margin over 50 percent and a net margin in the 20 percent range. Startup productivity is embodied in key ratios, including low cost of customer acquisition, high retention and high revenue per employee. High customer loyalty and high team passion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2016

Most modern investors still look for a business model that embodies a gross margin over 50%, and a net margin in the 20% range. Startup productivity is embodied in key ratios, including low cost of customer acquisition, high retention, and high revenue per employee. High customer loyalty and high team passion.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

To grow faster businesses need resources in today’s financial period to fund growth that may not come for 6 months to a year. When they look at buying your company they often think in terms of “how long will it take until I earn back the profits to pay for my acquisition price?” Simplifying: Revenue -.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

To grow faster businesses need resources in today to fund growth that may not come for 6 months to a year. Amazon is continuing to grow at such a rapid pace that of course it should take some of today’s profits and reinvest them in growth (or acquisitions). (They actually lost about $175 million in cash in that quarter, FWIW.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2014

The way we get compensated, is we receive a percent of net sales that flow through the website. That''s one of the biggest challenges of running an e-commerce company, which is figuring out where to focus your time, effort, and resources, and figure out which technology to use, and to figure out which operational processes to implement.

Commerce 203

Commerce Venture Capital Internet Brands Startup 203

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Most rational adults are fairly judicious with their own money (obviously to varying degrees), but many of these same adults often spend their company’s money as if it is an infinite resource. In a company’s latter stages, a wasted dollar directly impacts the company’s exit valuation, which is influenced by the company’s net income.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Such Donors are willing to expend time and resources to assist the startup, often without monetary gain. Even favors that do not net positive results should be acknowledged and verbally appreciated. Give Your Donors Their Tax Deduction. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School.

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Entrepreneur Help Networking Startup 210

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

But throughout the transition I had my safety net. One of the interesting questions I’m keeping an eye on is at what level users will consume compute resources, in particular, where in the spectrum between infrastructure as a service and platform as a service. The transition [from Citrix Online] to RightScale was similar.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

This enterprise netted the entrepreneurial student a nice fistful of bills before each test. Mini-ventures allow you to demonstrate that you can pull together disparate resources and bring multiple parties to the table by creating and then delivering a viable value proposition. Smooth Operator. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

Ideas 153

Ideas Startup Pricing Entrepreneur 153

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2022

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Just like a seasoned stock investor would never put all his investible resources into a single stock, don’t put all your money into startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 9, 2013

You might net $1 million and that would change your life. At least I have more resources. Make sure the acquisition is still on target. If you don’t you may have to lay off staff in eight weeks. How can you process that? Even more difficult. You have an offer to sell your company. Should you? Upside scenarios.

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News Venture Capital Yahoo .Net 405

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

Most existing metrics and analytics for measuring customer satisfaction and loyalty, including the popular Net Promoter Score (NPS), don’t distinguish between recommend messages to others (word-of-mouth), detract messages or no message at all. Marketing-driven customer acquisition. Word-of-mouth driven customer acquisition.

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Customer Custom Satisfaction Social Media 100

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2009

One or both of your parents may have the personality of an entrepreneur, but if their parents were struggling entrepreneurs who put in long¬-hours and netted meager returns, then your parents may have rejected their latent entrepreneurial tendencies. Does this make them courageous? John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School.

Entrepreneur 153

Entrepreneur Ideas Writing Startup 153

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Most existing metrics and analytics for measuring customer satisfaction and loyalty, including the popular Net Promoter Score (NPS), don’t distinguish between recommend messages to others (word-of-mouth), detract messages, or no message. Marketing-driven customer acquisition. The challenge is to measure resources spent against return.

Customer 97

Customer Custom Satisfaction Social Media 97

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Just like a seasoned stock investor would never put all his investible resources into a single stock, don’t put all your money into startups.

Invest 89

Invest Entrepreneur Startup Equity 89

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Just like a seasoned stock investor would never put all his investible resources into a single stock, don’t put all your money into startups.

Invest 73

Invest Startup Equity Incubator 73

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Just like a seasoned stock investor would never put all his investible resources into a single stock, don’t put all your money into startups.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Startup Invest Incubator 102

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Just like a seasoned stock investor would never put all his investible resources into a single stock, don’t put all your money into startups.

Startup 87

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Just like a seasoned stock investor would never put all his investible resources into a single stock, don’t put all your money into startups.

Startup 91

Startup Invest Incubator Ideas 91

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Ran gold Resources Ltd. Network for professionals engaged in the acquisition, disposition, operation, development, leasing, brokerage, project management, tenant representation, and asset management of office, retail, land, industrial, and multi-family properties. Professor Journal. SmartMoney. Student Journal. Virtual Stock Exchange.

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