Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2020

Here are five key ones to celebrate: Enjoy the feedback from every satisfied customer. Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry. Re-live that moment of inspiration that resulted in an innovative design and implementation for your product, and is now providing you with a sustainable competitive advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

A smart investor will take an independent final reading in the market on barriers to entry, active competition, demographics, and price sensitivity. Sales and distribution channel activity will be analyzed, as well as cost of customer acquisition, to make an independent assessment of your financial projections.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Well, even though that acquisition is still playing itself out on the field of battle, it appears quite clear that the new parent has directed its new subsidiary to abandon the lower end of the market and focus upon the larger sales, corporate customers, and major brands.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In today’s highly competitive ad environment, both content and data are kings. We’ve worked with lots of startups at different points in the funnel, starting from the ground up and working with them through various rounds of funding, all the way through acquisitions, including two by unicorns. The key takeaway?

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Berkonomics

MARCH 31, 2016

For larger or later stage companies, it could be to increase market share through acquisitions with the attendant elimination of competition or increase in a company’s reach. Email readers, continue here…] I prefer a financial goal, such as “achieve $20 million in revenue within five years.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2021

Especially for entrepreneurs who have not built and sold companies before, and need this startup to be an attractive acquisition or IPO target in a few years, I can’t think of a better way to enlist outside experts and keep them motivated to help you meet the challenges of a startup. In my view, nothing could be further from the truth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2019

Most founders and CEOs will not voluntarily establish a formal Board of Directors, unless they are trying to attract a major investor, preparing for an IPO, or planning for an acquisition. For Advisory Boards, I recommend three to five as max, to limit costs and time spent for support. How much are you willing to spend on your board?

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 26, 2017

The most striking example was the one hundred–million–dollar purchase of one of my companies by a New York private equity investor using only five million of its cash. Offering too little in an acquisition to satisfy the seller? But I learned it again and again in my various business lives. It’s an easy rule to remember. What power!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

A smart investor will take an independent final reading in the market on barriers to entry, active competition, demographics, and price sensitivity. Sales and distribution channel activity will be analyzed, as well as cost of customer acquisition, to make an independent assessment of your financial projections.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 24, 2018

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

If you look at the numbers from Comscore, we are doing about half the number of uniques that Maker is doing, but we''re doing it with only five channels, versus their 50 thousands channels. Is there a lot of competition for the rights to all of that content? Lee Essner: That''s one of the competitive edges we have.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

The buy puts ReachLocal squarely into the fast growing area of daily deals, but also potentially into competition with such companies as Groupon and LivingSocial. To get some perspective into ReachLocal's entry into the daily deals space and where it sees the acquisition fitting, we spoke with Zorik Gordon , CEO of the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2015

None should be considered competitive mutually exclusive to any other. I like his outline of five steps to the proper utilization of integrated media as follows: Analyze your existing media. Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2014

Projecting the financials should be the last step of your business plan preparation, since it assumes you already know the opportunity size, customer buying habits, pricing, costs, and competition. According to a recent Dow Jones VentureSource report, the average time to liquidity of an equity investment in a startup is now about five years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2016

in the first five months. That’s down from 69 in the first five months of 2015, and 115 over the same five-month period in 2014, according to Barrons. You better have lined up a major international expansion, some major acquisition candidates, or a wealth of unfilled orders. Analysts want escalating profits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2015

Here are five key ones to celebrate: Enjoy the feedback from every satisfied customer. Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry. Re-live that moment of inspiration that resulted in an innovative design and implementation for your product, and is now providing you with a sustainable competitive advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2017

Most founders and CEOs will not voluntarily establish a formal Board of Directors, unless they are trying to attract a major investor, preparing for an IPO, or planning for an acquisition. For Advisory Boards, I recommend three to five as max, to limit costs and time spent for support. How much are you willing to spend on your board?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

This is also the place to first mention patents and any other differentiators that put you ahead of competition. Every new offering has competition and alternatives, so it’s not credible to claim no competitors. I ask for five-year projections, since that’s the average time before investors can cash out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2013

Projecting the financials should be the last step of your business plan preparation, since it assumes you already know the opportunity size, customer buying habits, pricing, costs, and competition. According to a recent Dow Jones VentureSource report, the average time to liquidity of an equity investment in a startup is now about five years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2017

As an angel investor and business advisor on new ventures, I expect to see five-year financial projections from every entrepreneur. Does this entrepreneur understand the basics of business costs in the selected business domain, growth dynamics, and the competitive environment? Set a target growth and market penetration rate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2017

None should be considered competitive mutually exclusive to any other. I like his outline of five steps to the proper utilization of integrated media as follows: Analyze your existing media. Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2014

Both have worked.Google reached $1 billion in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $400 billion. Twitter showed no focus on revenue in the first five years, but was able to parlay 500 million users into a $22 billion public company, now growing revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2016

Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $400B. Twitter showed no focus on revenue in the first five years, but was able to parlay 500M users into a $22B public company, now growing revenue. Understanding competitive early mover requirements. Both have worked.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2016

Here are five key ones to celebrate: Enjoy the feedback from every satisfied customer. Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry. Re-live that moment of inspiration that resulted in an innovative design and implementation for your product, and is now providing you with a sustainable competitive advantage.

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Satisfaction Startup Customer Custom 61

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2010

October” because of his consistent ability to hit home runs during clutch situations in playoff and World Series games, which contributed to his teams winning five Championships. As such, he played for five different teams during his career. Reggie earned the nickname “Mr. Matching Maintenance With Productivity. Cal Ripkin, Jr.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2017

It's very exciting to find these apps, and once we make those acquisition and changes, see if our expectations and projections are meeting up with what happens in reality, once we actually own the application. It seem that now, versus a few years ago, it's a lot more competitive to try to get out and acquire a user profitably for an app.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

Competitor positioning and sustainable competitive advantage. Typically, investors want to see five-year financial projections to check your commitment and understanding of the business's potential. Investors will impatiently expect a winning business model, customer segment definitions and volume projections.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The huge importance of this is that when you have a high-level of loyal customers you get repeat purchases that are significantly more profitable because you’re not spending new acquisition dollars acquiring them. companies that have to spend too heavily on customer acquisition). I don’t use the word ‘spectacular’ lightly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2015

Especially for entrepreneurs who have not built and sold companies before, and need this startup to be an attractive acquisition or IPO target in a few years, I can’t think of a better way to enlist outside experts and keep them motivated to help you meet the challenges of a startup. In my view, nothing could be further from the truth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2015

The advertiser sees it as cost per acquisition (CPA) or pay per performance (PPP). Even Facebook required nearly five years and 300 million users before it became cash-flow positive from advertising. This is called pay per action (PPA) or pay per lead (PPL). This model arose a few years ago to mitigate the risks of click fraud.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2011

When you have a hundred to five hundred employees, they save a ton of time, the employees can pick exactly what they want. And we hired folks who had previous leadership positions and proof points of being competitive. We quintupled our sales per sales person and reduced our acquisition costs by 80% during that (boot camp) period.”.

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

Google Fiber plans to acquire Webpass in a deal that trims the ranks of independent Internet service providers—an industry already maligned for its lack of competition—but ultimately could boost consumer access to high-speed Internet. The terms of the deal, which Barr wrote is expected to close this summer, weren’t disclosed.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The net was that 's app is too sophisticated for the five verbs. <Note: <Note: at the time, Twilio offered users five basic actions> was surprised that there were some VoIP tools that Jeff wasn't aware of, such as SIP-T (which allows you to dip into the Caller ID, even if their ID is blocked). com> 4/25/08.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

A smart investor will take an independent final reading in the market on barriers to entry, active competition, demographics, and price sensitivity. Sales and distribution channel activity will be analyzed, as well as cost of customer acquisition, to make an independent assessment of your financial projections.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

While we still will have a period of three to four months where things will be the most intensive, and we''ll also have a demo day, it''s not limited to three, four, or five months. Instead, you have to prepare those companies, and make them competitive with the best companies in Silicon Valley who are getting funded.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Pull Quote: “If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do you will have the best experience of your life. If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do you will have the best experience of your life. I also read them “my speech” which goes something like this: . ‘If

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InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

As an entrepreneur and startup investor, I have helped create companies which achieved two IPOs which collectively raised over $100 million, as well as two acquisitions which totaled $385 million. Even benevolent BDCs lose interest in your solution once this competitive risk is eliminated. 5) Allow Partners To Write Your Agreements.

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