Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Gross Burn vs. Net Burn. Burn rate in case you don’t know is the amount of money a company is either spending (gross) or losing (net) per month. (it Net burn is the amount of money you are losing per month. I often see companies burning $100,000 per month (net) looking to raise $6-8 million.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Some businesses require very little capital and the founder can self-finance the enterprise and retain 100% of its ownership and control from ignition through liquidity event (startup through sale). For you who fit that description, nice work. There is a lot to say about retaining control. composed of these investors and management.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2021

range in the $20 to $40 range for a year registration, but you may be able to find sales on certain extensions for as little as fifty cents per year. As a startup, cost to rename your company and change existing collateral may be less than dealing with unmatched names or premium domain pricing. Certain extensions such as.tv

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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. The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. You may have leverage when you DO need to fund raise. Gross Profit (also called Gross Margin or sometimes “Net Revenue”).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2020

In my experience, the top candidates will include the following: What if you have to cut your targeted price? Pricing is always a tricky issue. You need to quickly calculate the long-term impact on profitability of pricing and business model changes. What if you need to change your market size and volume projections?

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 19, 2020

These are companies like the recent Y Combinator graduates Homestead and Rent the Backyard and United Dwelling, which has just raised $10 million in funding from investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners and Alpha Edison. “[I] changed the price by 11 percent and walked that through and continued to move forward,” Dietz said.

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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. The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. They don’t want high burn rates but they will never fund slow growth. COGS” represents the amount that each sale costs you.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. Although young companies rarely measure profitability this repeatedly, more mature companies usually can bring from five to ten percent of revenues to the bottom line in the form of net profit.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 28, 2015

My House Is Not For Sale. Even the eccentric King of Pop communicated the price he was willing to pay for Neverland. Our response was that there was no “price” as our company was not for sale. What is your price?”. VC Funding Alternative. Our BATNA to a sale was to accept funding from venture capitalists.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2013

CapLinked also netted in new customers such as Thomson Reuters, Sun Capital, and Equity Partners, NextView Ventures and crowd-funding service AI Verified which will take advantage of its iPad compatibility, bulk uploading, and reporting tools. According to Eric M. The innovation is in line with the industry trends.

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Mobile Report Pricing Tool 91

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. So the people who invest in VC funds have two problems.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2010

My House Is Not For Sale. Even the eccentric King of Pop communicated the price he was willing to pay. Our response was that there was no “price” as our company was not for sale. As we were not engaged in selling our company, a “price” was nonexistent. What is that price?”. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2010

Some businesses require very little capital and the founder is able to self-finance the enterprise and retain 100% of its ownership and control from ignition through liquidity event (startup through sale). Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

It would not be a big stretch to image a well run service business like this making 15-25% net profit margins. I could go on-and-on with all of the sales-blocking messages you will hear when you try to charge for a product. That is $12 million in profits over 3 years. Who are your competitors – how much do they charge?&#.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2012

You can’t succeed in business without an operational model that delivers value to customers at a reasonable price, with an underlying cost that allows you to make a profit. A target market is the group of customers that the startup plans to attract through marketing and sales their product or service. Sales/Marketing.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 11, 2011

In the past, venture debt was often viewed as a funding vehicle of last resort. The nature of the company’s business model requires it to fund certain costs before it is paid by its customers. Thus, even though the company is cash flow positive, its growth is constrained by the amount of payables it can fund. welcome back.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2011

You can’t succeed in business without an operational model that delivers value to customers at a reasonable price, with an underlying cost that allows you to make a profit. A target market is the group of customers that the startup plans to attract through marketing and sales their product or service. Sales/Marketing.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

If there happens to be a gas station along the way where you can fill up for a reasonable price, great. Future funding should be discretionary to propel prospective growth, not a matter of survival. One way to combat reckless spending is to instill a sense of pride in your employees to never pay full price.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Let’s start with how much value you think you’ll create for your customer if they use your product in terms of hours saved, costs avoided, extra sales, better conversion rates or whatever. ’ Our Net Income will be $40 million.&#. 66% Net Operating Margins? They are not just for fund raising.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2013

range in the $20 to $40 range for a year registration, but you can find sales on certain extensions for as little as fifty cents per year. As a startup, cost to rename your company and change existing collateral may be less than dealing with unmatched names or premium domain pricing. Certain extensions such as.tv

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Startup Pricing Tips .Net 87

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The startup was so nascent that the sale would have been considered a short-term gain for tax purposes, which would have significantly reduced the Founders’ proceeds, making their small fortune even smaller. Take Home Pay – All that matters is the amount of money you net, not the size of the initial offer. To Flip Or Not To Flip.

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Entrepreneur Acquisition Pricing .Net 124

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The startup was so nascent that the sale would have been considered a short-term gain for tax purposes, which would have significantly reduced the Founders’ proceeds, making their small fortune even smaller. Take Home Pay – All that matters is the amount of money you net, not the size of the initial offer. To Flip Or Not To Flip.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Acquisition Pricing 124

Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2010

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.

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Venture Capital Product Resource Marketing 212

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

It has historically been the case that VCs would rather fund the promise of 100x in a company with almost no revenue than the reality of a company growing at 50% but doing $20+ million in sales. Our goal is to produce a $10 billion+ winner and remain the market leader in this SaaS category of AI in Sales & Marketing.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

How is the company funded and backed? Sure, that's a decent way to approach it, but the result is, studios then want a huge minimum guarantee, which really prices startups out of the market. We're now doing revenue share on affiliate revenue, doing revenue share on DVD sales, or ads we run against that content.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 26, 2016

Mylan bumped up the price of the EpiPen 400 percent, presidential nominee Hillary Clinton responded with a tirade against drug price hikes, and—much like when Clinton railed against drug pricing last year—biotech indexes promptly plummeted more than 3 percent. It was the tweet heard around the biotech world, again.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself. A simple example might be mortgage calculator to add to your real estate sales site. Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, venture capitalists, or Angels. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook.

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Sites Commerce Startup Tool 78

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Too bad, as the initial funding round has increased over 4,000 times in value, making a $250,000 investment worth more than $1,100,000,000. Two hundred and fifty thousand would have netted my firm more than one billion dollars. s/w sales vs real-world fulfillment of a service). . Nope, that’s not a typo. If so, not a great fit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself. A simple example might be mortgage calculator to add to your real estate sales site. Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, venture capitalists, or Angels. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook.

Commerce 99

Commerce Startup Sites Tool 99

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Now the price is closer to $100 if you are willing to do the work yourself. A simple example might be a mortgage calculator to add to your real estate sales site. Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, lawyers, venture capitalists, or Angels.

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Startup Commerce Sites Blogging 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Nick Desai: FitOrbit delivers a proven solution for fitness and weight loss over the Internet, for the first time, at a price people can afford. The other founding investors are Ron Conway, who you know, and Polar Capital Group, Tim Armstrong fund. Nick Desai: With FitOrbit, there's an extremely high value, at a low cost price.

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Media Pricing Sites Training 168

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself. A simple example might be mortgage calculator to add to your real estate sales site. Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, venture capitalists, or angels. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook.

Commerce 88

Commerce Startup Sites Tool 88

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

round of funding from the Pasadena Angels and Frontera Capital for a voice-over-IP service, and we thought we'd talk with Cliff Rees, the firm's CEO, to understand how the firm is different from those many providers. Los Angeles-based XCast Labs (www.xcastlabs.com) announced earlier this month that it has raised a $2.7M

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InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2011

Such a deal ensures that your opponents will pay a higher price whenever they land on any of these properties, while you simultaneously increase your cash position by selling the lynchpin property at a premium. These funds often sustain a player and allow them to remain in the game when they would otherwise go bankrupt.

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Entrepreneur Startup Outsource Development Paramount 216

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

There was a disconnect between the product and the sales process. Dipanshu Sharpa: My third company raised a ton of money from venture funds--$26M--and I what I didn't want to do is to raise a lot of money and have lots of people. The awareness of the company took off. How big is your company, in terms of people?

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

In addition to the Luxury Tax board space, there are also Chance cards that require you to pay a percentage of your net worth in taxes. Often, these funds are all that sustain a player and allow them to remain in the game. Monopoly is no different. In business, you want to get $200 for passing “Go” as well.

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Outsource Development Entrepreneur Training Startup 154

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Venture capitalist and hedge-fund manager Peter Thiel—PayPals co-founder and Facebook s. Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these. Prices have gone up dramatically on this beachfront strip. Median single-family home price increase, Jan.-Aug. the entertainment industry.

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