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How To Know It’s Time To Exit Your Company Gracefully

Startup Professionals Musings

For most entrepreneurs, their current business is not where they intend to stay until they die. Warren Buffett and Rupert Murdoch clearly fall into this category. Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey are business examples in this category. Cast a wide net, including people inside and outside your fields of interest.

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Smart Entrepreneurs Don’t Overstay Their Welcome

Startup Professionals Musings

For most entrepreneurs, their current business is not where they intend to stay until they die. Warren Buffett and Rupert Murdoch clearly fall into this category. Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey are business examples in this category. Cast a wide net, including people inside and outside your fields of interest.

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5 “What-Ifs” To Include In A Startup Financial Model

Startup Professionals Musings

The manual calculations to translate market assumptions into costs, volumes, expenses and net return are massive. Most entrepreneurs realize that doubling their revenue each year puts them in a premium category with investors, so that may be your first target. Investors will test your savvy by asking where your business breaks.

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TrueCar's Scott Painter On Entrepreneurship And IPOs

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We spoke with Scott Painter , CEO and founder of the company--and already a successful serial entrepreneurs--about the journey from startup to public company, lessons learned, and his advice to CEOS who might be thinking about an IPO for their own company. But, net-net, being a public company is a threshold moment for use.

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5 Startup Financial Questions Every Investor Will Ask

Startup Professionals Musings

The manual calculations to translate market assumptions into costs, volumes, expenses and net return are massive. Most entrepreneurs realize that doubling their revenue each year puts them in a premium category with investors, so that may be your first target. Investors will test your savvy by asking where your business breaks.

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6 Ways To Drive Success Through Customer Experience

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneur of the Year” finalist. One metric now commonly used is called the Net Promoter® Score (NPS). This works by asking your customers for feedback, and dividing them into three categories: Promoters. Yet we are all still learning what that means, in terms of hard business practices. Detractors.

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

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It was especially fun for me because we got the chance to talk about the VC industry and how entrepreneurs should think about the VC industry in addition to discussing deals. We discussed whether investing in the second largest player in a category makes sense given that Groupon is 10x the revenue, 3.5x Net income was around $1.4