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.

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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.”. The nonprofit is designed to help low-income individuals find employment and get on the path to economic self-sufficiency, according to the company.

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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.

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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.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

A friend recently asked me to give his startup-minded daughter some advice to help her vet undergraduate entrepreneurial programs. 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.

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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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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. The first necessary mindset in communicating effectively is being convinced you have something important to say.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO. Robin Richards: Brand amplification and brand protection are critical to companies, in helping them attract and retain employees. What we found, if people wanted help finding a job right away, and didn't want to be trained in how to look for a job. What is CareerArc?

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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. And professional investors often penalize the company with lower-priced down rounds or expensive loans as a result.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2012

They can also help you with an SBA (Small Business Administration) loan, if that path is correct for you. Factoring companies can help you with working capital needs when your business grows quickly by filling the money “gap” created between new billings and actual collections. Small businesses typically underestimate this need.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

I just finished a new book, Agility: How to Navigate the Unknown and Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption , by Leo Tilman and Charles Jacoby, which has helped me net out the key principles for businesses to become more agile.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Palm is a maker of mobile computing devices, including the Pixi and Pixi Plus; HP: “Our intent is to double down on WebOS”; helps HP compete in mobile computing with Apple, RIM, Google, and MSFT. If this figure is accurate – it’s certainly a very large business even when you look at net revenues. Net income was around $1.4

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Southern California Edison Blog

JANUARY 2, 2019

and 129.6%, respectively, in the next five years.². Assess On-Net Fiber Optic Maps. To determine if local providers have the coverage you need, start by assessing their on-net maps. The four considerations above will help you choose the right infrastructure provider for your business, but they’re not catch-all categories.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I saw some excellent guidance for all of us along these lines in a new book, “ Cultural Brilliance ,” by Claudette Rowley, who has been helping both big and small companies recognize and fix their cultural problems for almost 20 years.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 5, 2012

"I think there is a fundamental difference between an incubator and an accelerator… (this) distinction helps people understand why, (even though) … there is a saturation point, but we are nowhere close to it. In a big city like LA, could you have four or five (accelerators)? In a small town like Boulder could you have four or five?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Take little to no net profit. Hire experts, not help. Low paid help isn’t cheaper if it takes them twice as long to do the job, or they do the job wrong. As soon as you bring in investors, they force you to plan for an exit (merger or sale) in three to five years. If you do, there probably won''t ever be a long run!

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

But like many companies over the past five years it hired aggressively and probably had some degree of straying off of a core strategy and some amount of excess jobs relative to its current revenue forecasts and opportunities. ” It goes like this: What is your net burn rate? It will help Twitter get healthier.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2013

Of course, you can’t predict everything, but writing down what you know will identify existing problems sooner, and allow other team members to help. Neither banks nor investors will help you on this one. If you are dealing with distributors, that wait can easily be four or five months.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2015

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.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

I have used Guy’s previous book, The Art Of The Start (Art ), in my UC Santa Barbara New Venture Creation class for the past five years. He then helps readers evaluate their results with some amusing “grades.” The time spent reading Enchantment will net a significant return. Fan, Not A Fan Boy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2016

Of course, you can’t predict everything, but writing down what you know will identify existing problems sooner, and allow other team members to help. Neither banks nor investors will help you on this one. If they are dealing with distributors, that wait can easily be four or five months.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2013

Take little to no net profit. Hire experts, not help. Low paid help isn’t cheaper if it takes them twice as long to do the job, or they do the job wrong. As soon as you bring in investors, they force you to plan for an exit (merger or sale) in three to five years. If you do, there probably won''t ever be a long run!

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

The second thing it allows them to do is save money, because the app helps them with couponing, through partnerships and local deals we have. The net-net, is they want to simplify their lives, and we've given them an application that allows them to simplify their life, save money, and share.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2016

If it's a digital channel, and there are customers to connect with, we are looking to help those companies grow. So we have around 260 people in five offices, and a $35 million run rate. What has helped you grow to the size where you are now? Those are the clients who help us growth ourselves. Plus, they are great people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Net Income: The five factors listed above all contribute to something that is directly measurable: net income. If you have a lot of non-cash items such as amortization or depreciation, or if you have unusually long receivables cycles, you should also include adjustments to reconcile net income to cash flow.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. The net was that 's app is too sophisticated for the five verbs. <Note: billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Take little to no net profit. Hire experts, not help. Low paid help isn’t cheaper if it takes them twice as long to do the job, or they do the job wrong. As soon as you bring in investors, they force you to plan for an exit (merger or sale) in three to five years. If you do, there probably won't ever be a long run!

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Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2010

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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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2012

This is for everyone else, the ninety five percent of other startups, who need a more efficient way to raise capital. That's not what Kickstarter is about, but it's the intersection of two trends, a large base of people coming together spurred by rewards, and also a mechanism where the JOBS Act can help people back stuff for equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

This one doesn’t help NewCo just yet. NewCo is projecting revenues of $25M in five years, even with a 40% discount rate, the NPV or current valuation comes out to about $3M. The cost approach attempts to measure the net value of the business today by calculating how much it could cost for a new effort to replace key assets.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

I advise all of my companies to use an impressed payroll service, one that takes the taxes from your bank account along with the net payrolls each period. Often last are the lawyers and accountants who protect you and help you to plan your recovery, only because they above all others are vested with you in your recovery and success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

In recent decades, most net job creation can be attributed to firms that have been around for five years or less. His passion today is to help entrepreneurs get their act together before they talk to investors, with a team of advisors and affiliates around the country.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

This one doesn’t help NewCo just yet. NewCo is projecting revenues of $25M in five years, even with a 40% discount rate, the NPV or current valuation comes out to about $3M. The cost approach attempts to measure the net value of the business today by calculating how much it could cost for a new effort to replace key assets.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Tag Memes - Someone posts a question and "Tags" five people to give their response. See Five Things Meme as an example. to help bloggers and blog readers with comments. Ive not found that much use for LinkedIn to help my blogging, but Im starting to think about this. Maybe this meme will help.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

This one doesn’t help NewCo just yet. NewCo is projecting revenues of $25M in five years, even with a 40% discount rate, the NPV or current valuation comes out to about $3M. The cost approach attempts to measure the net value of the business today by calculating how much it could cost for a new effort to replace key assets.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

For this morning's interview, we sat down and talked with Nick Desai , CEO of Global Fitness Media , which runs FitOrbit (www.fitorbit.com), an online site looking to help users put together a fitness and connect with fitness trainers. Only five to ten percent of people are self-motivated for fitness.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 26, 2016

—A five-day workshop in Washington, D.C., The firm has since pledged to help close the gender gap among biotech leadership. Frank Vinluan has more on Novan, which relied on a variety of high net worth individuals, rather than venture firms, to get to this point. The company gave no reason for the rejection. Morgan party.

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