Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2019

Steve Blank via Flickr by jdlasica I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Great businesses begin with a customer problem that has a big and monetizable pain point. Nail the solution.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

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?” If you had huge customer growth but just didn’t focus on revenue that’s a different story. ” Harsh, but reality. Simplifying: Revenue -.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2015

In reality, a simple Excel spreadsheet model customized around your assumptions can save you hours and avoid a wasted expense in validating alternative vendor and marketing decisions. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, It should talk about how many customers you think you will acquire and how much you’ll charge for your product. Do you really want to spent $100k building a product to discover through Customer Development that the market is too small? portfolios.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

I want to understand how many units the company is selling, whether this is increasing over time and how well they’re doing at retaining the customers that they do acquire. Do 20% of the customers make 80% of the revenue or do the top 3 customers represent 80% of the revenue. My first priority is to understand “growth drivers.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2014

I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Great businesses begin with a customer problem that has a big and monetizable pain point. Nail the solution. Nail the go-to-market strategy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2017

I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Great businesses begin with a customer problem that has a big and monetizable pain point. Nail the solution. Nail the go-to-market strategy.

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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. How CapLinked Changes The Game.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Great businesses begin with a customer problem that has a big and monetizable pain point. Nail the solution. Nail the go-to-market strategy.

Startup 118

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2014

The purest form of capitalism has always meant charging a fair price and making a fair profit. 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. High customer loyalty and high team passion. entrepreneur revenue startup user count'

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Great businesses begin with a customer problem that has a big and monetizable pain point. Nail the solution. Nail the go-to-market strategy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2016

The purest form of capitalism has always meant charging a fair price and making a fair profit. Most modern investors still look for a business model that embodies a gross margin over 50%, and a net margin in the 20% range. High customer loyalty and high team passion. Re-investing profits to grow the business is organic growth.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

That business includes our main registrar platform, which supports 20,000 resellers around the world, and also includes such acquisition as we''ve done such as name.com, domain auctions with Namejet, and a bunch of other activities. The decision was made over a year ago now, to break those two pieces into two separate companies.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Rather, we value entrepreneurs' time and thus our diligence generally includes introducing them to potential customers and partners. The net was that 's app is too sophisticated for the five verbs. <Note: The difference is that VoiceXML does not leverage customers' knowledge of web development. com> 4/25/08.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

You need to focus on constantly delivering value to your customers and ensure that you are paid for all of the value that you deliver. 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. This same dogged vigilance is required in your adVenture.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

I have to say that it has netted far more than I would have thought. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2014

We do everything from picking, packing, and shipping to customer service, fulfillment, and providing the technology that powers the e-commerce site, online marketing, creative design, and digital imaging and photography. The way we get compensated, is we receive a percent of net sales that flow through the website.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The company was approached by a Big Dumb Company (BDC) who made a nominal acquisition offer within months of the company’s founding. Such offers often come from a larger company once the startup begins to gain traction with customers and prove its value proposition. The Answer Is? The “Do you want to be a millionaire?”

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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. One way to combat reckless spending is to instill a sense of pride in your employees to never pay full price. Rather, you should be ashamed to pay full price. Encourage all of your employees to ask, “Is that your best price?”

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The company was approached by a Big Dumb Company (BDC) who made a nominal acquisition offer within months of the company’s founding. Such offers often come from a larger company once the startup begins to gain traction with customers and prove its value proposition. The Answer Is? The “Do you want to be a millionaire?”

Entrepreneur 124

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

This enterprise netted the entrepreneurial student a nice fistful of bills before each test. Within days of releasing the personal version, the Founders began receiving inquiries regarding the price of a commercial version of their product. For more discussion of entrepreneurial pricing, see “At What Price?”. Execution.

Ideas 153

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these. Prices have gone up dramatically on this beachfront strip.

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