Berkonomics

JUNE 20, 2019

Should be an easy fix for companies making annual net profit. There is a life cycle for any product, and it is much shorter on average today than five years ago, especially in the technology world. Not so much, as our rear view mirror makes obvious. The life cycle of any product. Obsolete yourself!

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

However, most often, these funds are solicited by a well-meaning entrepreneur from investors who are not qualified as accredited investors under the law (currently requiring a proved income of $200,000 a year or $1 million in net worth for an individual investor). Many accelerators have come and gone during these past five years.

Venture Capital 295

Venture Capital Startup Class Invest 295

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Even still, it was another five years before Microsoft went public in 1986, making him an overnight success worth $350 million. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63

Yahoo 127

Yahoo IBM IBM Startup 127

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

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. How about young or pre-revenue companies?

Venture Capital 296

Venture Capital Product Marketing Resource 296

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Santa Monica-based Activision reports this morning that sales of its latest Call of Duty title, Modern Warfare 3, have topped $775M worldwide, in what it says is its record setting five day worldwide sell through.

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Sales Activision Santa Monica .Net 149

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2021

Net out the problem and your solution in the first 30 seconds. I suggest a simple Excel spread sheet loaded with your revenue, cost, and margin targets covering the first five years of your business. Successful startups are all about the right people with the right stuff. Executive summary glossy.

Entrepreneur 156

Entrepreneur Tips Funding Startup 156

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The net result of this exercise. Even a five-minute introductory call to the CEO with no agenda works for later name recognition. And strengthen that at the expense of other areas of your enterprise which may easily be outsourced or reduced in scope.

Outsource Development 156

Outsource Development Paramount Outsource Research 156

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2023

Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $1 trillion. Twitter showed no focus on revenue in the first five years, but was able to parlay 500M users into a $53B public company, and now growing revenue. Both have worked.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2020

Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $1 trillion. Twitter showed no focus on revenue in the first five years, but was able to parlay 500M users into a $35B public company, and now growing revenue. Both have worked.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 19, 2020

But it made sense when you think about the amount of people who have garages, and if we got all of that junk out of our garage, we’d actually have about five things we actually need.”. . “Garage conversions were a new concept for us,” Martin McCauley told Curbed Los Angeles.

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Los Angeles Startup Culver City .Net 191

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2021

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). If you subscribe to truths one to five, startup investing can be lucrative.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Mindspeed said the patent sales puts the firm in its "strongest net cash position in over five years." The firm said the new sale comes on top of a previously announced, $10.0M patent sale it announced in July. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Another alternative is to build one yourself, starting with a few formulas to extrapolate early revenues and expenses into the five-year projections normally requested by banks and investors. The manual calculations to translate market assumptions into costs, volumes, expenses and net return are massive.

Startup 147

Startup Pricing Sample Customer 147

socalTECH

JULY 30, 2010

According to Internet Brands, it had net income of $4.6M in net income on revenues of $23.2M The firm had announced it had acquired Experthub.com, but also said it had acquired five additional, un-named web sites for the Money, Legal and Business vertical and Health vertical. in revenues, up from $2.5M in Q2 of 2009.

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Internet Brands .Net Acquisition Web 160

Berkonomics

JULY 19, 2012

There is a life cycle for any product, and it is much shorter on average today than five years ago, especially in the technology world. To attempt to find an average number, companies should “tax” themselves by reserving some percentage – say ten percent of their net revenues – for research and new product development.

.Net 136

.Net Patents Research Sales 136

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Erika Flora, principal consultant and co-founder of Beyond20, will present five ways to stand out as a project manager in todays economy at the Oct. Flora will discuss effective ways to stand out, including creating a career safety net and being viewed as an expert in your field.

PMI 113

PMI Orange County Tips .Net 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Even still, it was another five years before Microsoft went public in 1986, making him an overnight success worth $350 million. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63

Startup 111

Startup Yahoo IBM IBM 111

Berkonomics

AUGUST 21, 2013

Loan covenants are always required that clearly state how much net equity, the minimum current ratio, and other minimum financial requirements must be maintained to be compliant, and state the penalties for non-compliance – which are always severe, often threatening to call or cancel the loan in its entirety.

Capital 153

Capital .Net Equity Pricing 153

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

You can review all the specifics of this approach in the classic book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here.

Technical Review 143

Technical Review Customer Custom Entrepreneur 143

socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2012

Emulex said it is redesigning those products, which it says represent five percent of its net revenues. The permanent injunction gives a "sunset period" to Emulex to stop selling the products, with one period running from October 12, 2011 until April 12, 2013 and the other starting December 16, 2011 until June 16, 2013. READ MORE>>.

Patents 133

Patents .Net Report Product 133

Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

However, most often, these funds are solicited by a well-meaning entrepreneur from investors who are not qualified as accredited investors under the law (currently requiring a proved income of $200,000 a year or $1 million in net worth for an individual investor). Many accelerators have come and gone during these past five years.

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Venture Capital Class Invest Equity 266

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

As I thought about the characteristics that comprise a great program, I identified five criteria that a prospective entrepreneurial student can use to evaluate the efficacy of a collegiate entrepreneur curriculum. Thus, cast your research net beyond VC-backed companies to fully understand a school’s ability to foster viable businesses.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Class Patents 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2020

Another alternative is to build one yourself, starting with a few formulas to extrapolate early revenues and expenses into the five-year projections normally requested by banks and investors. The manual calculations to translate market assumptions into costs, volumes, expenses and net return are massive.

Startup 123

Startup Pricing Sample Customer 123

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Even still, it was another five years before Microsoft went public in 1986, making him an overnight success worth $350 million. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63

Startup 118

Startup Yahoo IBM IBM 118

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 6, 2009

The net effect is that customer-focused efforts have deteriorated during the past year. At this premier event, you will learn five keys to successfully structuring and implementing a customer centric strategy along with transforming your organization into a truly customer centric culture. But they've also had to rein in costs.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

With those two funding rounds all equity-based, to buy up property itself and provide $10,000 cash advances to all sellers, Sundae previously also raised a debt fund from high net worth individuals, and it has a “very large” debt facility from Goldman Sachs that it also non-dilutive, Stech said.

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Sales Demand San Diego Funding 282

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2020

He nets out five specific mindsets that I assure you will help any of you as a leader communicate more openly and more successfully: Be convinced you have a valuable contribution to make.

Startup 124

Startup Ideas Examples Metrics 124

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Even still, it was another five years before Microsoft went public in 1986, making him an overnight success worth $350 million. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63

Yahoo 59

Yahoo IBM IBM Startup 59

Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

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.

Venture Capital 243

Venture Capital Product Resource Marketing 243

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The net value of this solution from the customer’s perspective. In my experience, existing customer habits and loyalty will minimize customer movement to a new offering which offers a net savings of 20 percent or less. Another investment barrier is good social solutions which appeal only to people with little money.

.Net 73

.Net Examples Customer Custom 73

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2019

To refresh your memory, angel investors are typically high net worth individuals, accredited by the SEC and willing to invest their own money in a high-potential startup for a share of the ownership. On the other hand, crowdfunding platform fees cost more than finding investors; as much as five to ten percent of the money you need.

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Funding Startup Platform Examples 119

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2015

Net out the problem and your solution in the first 30 seconds. I suggest a simple Excel spread sheet loaded with your revenue, cost, and margin targets covering the first five years of your business. Successful startups are all about the right people with the right stuff. Executive summary glossy.

Startup 104

Startup Writing Entrepreneur Slides 104

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Even still, it was another five years before Microsoft went public in 1986, making him an overnight success worth $350 million. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Yahoo IBM IBM 105

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2019

You can review all the specifics of this approach in the classic book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here.

Startup 98

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 98

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2018

Net out the problem and your solution in the first 30 seconds. I suggest a simple Excel spread sheet loaded with your revenue, cost, and margin targets covering the first five years of your business. Successful startups are all about the right people with the right stuff. Executive summary glossy.

Startup 65

Startup Entrepreneur Slides Content 65

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). If you subscribe to truths one to five, startup investing can be lucrative.

Startup 76

Startup Angel Funding .Net 76

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Even still, it was another five years before Microsoft went public in 1986, making him an overnight success worth $350 million. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63

Yahoo 118

Yahoo IBM IBM Startup 118