Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Five-year revenues, based on your volumes and prices, should penetrate at least 10 percent of the target market segment. Of course, if you are an entrepreneur with a track record of billion-dollar successes, all rules of thumb are irrelevant, and neither you nor investors need projections to test your credibility.

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MARCH 1, 2016

We All Know That Dollars into Venture Have Gone Up … As a starting point, we know that the dollars into venture have steadily rebounded to pre great-recession levels, with just under $30 billion committed to US technology venture capital in 2015. And of course, 50% want a good balance across all stages: seed, traditional and growth.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 11, 2018

In 2015, a worker in the San Francisco Bay Area earning $100,000 a year would need to put their entire post-tax salary into renting a three-bedroom apartment. Areas such as Oakland and San Francisco saw rent increases as high as 40 percent between 2015 and 2017. But, you’d be wrong, according to a new report out from LinkedIn.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

Of course, these should never be in a customer pitch, but investors expect an overall strategy with specific budgets, milestones and metrics. Partnerships, distribution channels and pricing models should be included. “If Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/29/2015.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge. Of course, there are thousands of other companies that don’t achieve their minimum goal, requiring all contributions to be returned. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 2/13/2015. Product pre-order model.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2015

Lore’s biggest promise is that Jet members will enjoy prices “10 to 15 percent below the lowest prices online,” a bold pitch in today’s hyper-competitive retail landscape. On July 21, Jet’s launch day, Profitero conducted a study to evaluate Jet’s lowest-price promise. Profitero looked at 16,028 exactly-matching products (i.e.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2015

While you are doing all this work, of course, you need deep pockets to fund all your efforts, content and growing website hosting fees. You simply negotiate a fixed price per day for displaying the ad on your site, which advertisers see as cost per day (CPD), independent of the ad’s visibility or your visitor response.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2015

Mark Suster (@msuster) July 19, 2015. Of course that’s true. But needed to be seen. Entrepreneurs could learn about loneliness of success: nobody talks about. And the immediate reaction was obvious – that failure can be pretty lonely, too.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2013

Providers make their pricing model transparent and easily available on the web, so it’s simple to calculate the cost savings of the cloud. “Of course, IT jobs within solution providers and at consultancies will remain. The job market, too, will feel a significant impact from cloud computing technology.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

After a year in which Biogen’s share price has fallen by more than a third and one of its top drug prospects failed, Scangos, who has led the company since 2010, has announced plans to step down. In January 2015, Biogen shares were at over $400 apiece as the company was gaining steam on early positive signals for aducanumab.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

” But the company insists it will stay the course with its lead product, a T cell-based cancer immunotherapy called CTL019 that Novartis could present for regulatory approval if current trials go well. The firm raised $450 million in January 2015. A spokeswoman told Xconomy it was part of an “internal re-alignment.”

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

Those loans are very mis-priced, in our opinion. We had courses together in college, and got to know each other on a deeper intellectual level, before we got to know each other socially. Brett Crosby: We have been in invitation-only mode for all of 2015, and that's been growing and growing. How did you guys start the company?

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

Celgene paid Acetylon $100 million in 2013 for an option to buy the company outright, but the deal recently expired without an acquisition, leaving Acetylon to chart a new course. The news was a relief for Redwood City, CA-based Heron, which has been waiting for word on the status of its drug since September 2015. In the U.S.,

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

But of course all of these things are intertwined. Obviously you need to be mentally flexible enough to spot if your instincts were wrong and a change of course is necessary. This got him more power and with that power he executed on his belief system and had a lousy 2015 season. Know what you believe is important.

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MARCH 30, 2016

Invoca had grown steadily and consistently since 2009 and by 2015 SaaS companies with scale had become hot – trading at a median of 7.3x Mark dutifully went to partner meetings, back-channel references began, firms started calling existing VCs to “test prices” and we started debating whom our best partner would be.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

His last company, ParkMe, was sold to Inrix back in 2015. The company is hoping to use its latest funding to expand its footprint to over 600 locations over the course of the next year. His technology can allow buildings to capture more value through other services like dynamic pricing and yield optimization as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. It pains me to see the typical (and predictable) responses on Twitter, “VCs want prices to drop!” ” “Sure, prices are dropping.

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JUNE 5, 2016

With a massive increase in companies created and a huge number of sources one trend that we witnessed from 2012–2015 was the rise of the undisciplined round. In Q3/Q4 2015 the market changed noticeably for VC funds and the market started to realize this by Q1 2016. Non VC Growth Rounds. Some called this “buying logos.”

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Lemkin (@jasonlk) January 31, 2015. I know it will be hard for you to believe in 2015 but in 2006 Palo Alto (where I lived) was kind of dead. Jason charted his own course though. Some background. I was building a document management company and he was building a document signature company. But Jason took Quora usage to 11.

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OCTOBER 18, 2015

“Trade in an asset at a price that strongly deviates from an asset’s intrinsic value” The arguments against that, “This time the startups have real revenues!” “A price that strongly deviates from an assets intrinsic value” is pretty clear. ” How elegantly stated. ” ring hollow.

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