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.

Startup 383

Startup Company Companies .Net 383

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2023

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. Understanding competitive early mover requirements. High customer loyalty and high team passion.

Organization 94

Organization Invest Customer Custom 94

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2020

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. Understanding competitive early mover requirements. High customer loyalty and high team passion.

Organization 173

Organization Invest Customer Custom 173

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?” They have have raised $2-3 million, built a product that has some amount of market traction and got to annualized revenues of around $1 million. ” The Details.

Startup 418

Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Certainly, bootstrapping is a preferred method of funding growth if it does not hold back the speed of growth or hobble the quality of product or service to the extent that better-funded competitors can overtake the business. There is a lot to say about retaining control. It’s an option, even though an expensive one.

Venture Capital 266

Venture Capital Class Invest Equity 266

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2015

Not so long ago, every business assumed that the keys to success were the highest quality product, the best value for the buck, and the best customer service. Exploit your product and service differences. You must be able to highlight these differences between your products and services, and those of your competitors.

Customer 100

Customer Custom .Net Competition 100

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

This statement leaves no confusion in the minds of investors, or customers, of what the company does and how it is different (and better) than the competition. Great products solve painful real problems, and are not just “nice to have” or “easier to use.” The net value of this solution from the customer’s perspective.

.Net 73

.Net Examples Customer Custom 73

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. I have seen really great product people espouse the death of the business plan. Do so at your peril.

Web 2.0 334

Web 2.0 Venture Capital Web Technical Review 334

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.

Mobile 91

Mobile Report Pricing Tool 91

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

This market structure in which the few, large players use their market position to eliminate competition is inevitable. Of course our great technology industry did itself rise on the back of infrastructure created by telecommunications & cable infrastructure as well as decades of media production. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

Course 280

Course Startup Framework Marketing 280

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. The most common failures are solutions looking for a problem, lack of a defined market, and giving away the product. Production. Competition.

Sales 97

Sales Customer Custom Outsource 97

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2014

Not so long ago, every business assumed that the keys to success were the highest quality product, the best value for the buck, and the best customer service. Exploit your product and service differences. You must be able to highlight these differences between your products and services, and those of your competitors.

Customer 98

Customer Custom .Net Competition 98

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. The most common failures are solutions looking for a problem, lack of a defined market, and giving away the product. Production. Competition.

Sales 98

Sales Customer Custom Outsource 98

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Component production – someone needs to manufacture all of those components. Data centers are a strategic layer of the value chain: data center efficiencies and deployments are some of Google’s key competitive advantages and trade secrets. ISP executives have publicly spoken about violating net neutrality.

Google 92

Google Web .Net Yahoo 92

Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2010

Certainly bootstrapping is a preferred method of funding growth if it does not hold back the speed of growth or hobble the quality of product or service to the extent that better-funded competitors can overtake the business. There is a lot to say about retaining control.

Venture Capital 174

Venture Capital Invest Class Entrepreneur 174

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. Understanding competitive early-mover requirements.

Entrepreneur 98

Entrepreneur Organization Invest Customer 98

InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2010

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?”. We were not rude nor indignant. We simply stated the truth. Do Nothing.

Company 160

Company Companies Pricing Santa Barbara 160

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. Understanding competitive early mover requirements. High customer loyalty and high team passion.

Startup 58

Startup Organization Invest Customer 58

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. He is the passionate visionary behind the product. People needed a service that would give them that human connection, and wasn't just a product, but a real, human-touch based service.

Media 168

Media Pricing Sites Training 168

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

LP’s who invest in funds are typically university endowments, public & private pension funds, insurance companies, large corporations and very high net worth individuals called “family offices.&# To give you an indication of how bad, for example, university endowments are suffering check out this chart.

Venture Capital 311

Venture Capital Startup Seed Funding Rustic Canyon 311

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

For example, we support promotions for Sony movies, a combination of database and telecom work for interactive TV shows like the Price is Right, Deal or No Deal, the Game Show Network, and I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here. We think Asterisk is an entirely different marketplace, and therefore not a competitive threat.

IP 165

IP Pasadena Angels Pasadena Los Angeles 165

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Our approach is often additive to all parties, resulting in ongoing, productive relationships. The net was that 's app is too sophisticated for the five verbs. <Note: thinks his product is probably much easier to (use than) VoiceXML, but he is not sure that the ease of use will offset the market confusion. com> 4/25/08.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Dan, now named as Product Manager for the Blockchain acquired Zeroblock apps, tells the audience about life after acquisition. Overall, he remains optimistic towards Bitcoin prices and cues the Dogecoin community’s phrase “to the moon! The ultimate plan? Be the Bloomberg of Bitcoin.

Startup 104

Startup Venture Capital Draper Invest 104

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Anybody who is able to create a customer relationship online can have some degree of success with Hydra, given that their product is desirable. Publishers run with Hydra because we've eliminated the risk and so forth in pricing. So, it's all over the map. How's the economy affecting that growth curve? It's really a high touch service.

Advertising 100

Advertising Beverly Hills Networking Customer 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Anybody who is able to create a customer relationship online can have some degree of success with Hydra, given that their product is desirable. Publishers run with Hydra because we've eliminated the risk and so forth in pricing. So, it's all over the map. How's the economy affecting that growth curve? It's really a high touch service.

Advertising 100

Advertising Beverly Hills Networking Customer 100