Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

He starts out by outlining five reality checks for the uninitiated who are too quick to jump in with both feet: Community building has to happen before collecting cash. He points out that the word crowd precedes funding in crowdfunding. Thus crowdfunding is clearly not the panacea for funding and success that many entrepreneurs envision.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

A business plan is the outward facing definition of the business you hope to drive with your hardware solution, with a hardware overview in the intro to highlight customer value and competitiveness. For example, “Nielsen projects that the market for smart phones will double every year for the next five years.” and trademarks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2020

He starts out by outlining five reality checks for the uninitiated who are too quick to jump in with both feet: Community building has to happen before collecting cash. He points out that the word crowd precedes funding in crowdfunding. Thus crowdfunding is clearly not the panacea for funding and success that many entrepreneurs envision.

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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? Sometimes, the person on the other side must keep to a minimum price you cannot understand or afford.

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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. Their value will be well worth the investment.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 24, 2018

Many have exited via successful acquisitions, while others have IPO’ed with the same impressive result. Not to mention there’s a chance at a possible investment from the Established Investment Community. Being a part of the SOTY alumni lasts well beyond the pitch competition. A Strong Alumni Network.

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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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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

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? Calculate cash-burn rate and investment timing.

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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 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

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

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. Re-investing profits to grow the business is organic growth.

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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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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. In contrast, low-volume, high-conviction investors like Rincon only invests in a handful new companies each year, making it much more costly (in dollars and effort expended) to invest in a loser.

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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. Immediate investment requirements and use of funds. Projected revenues and expenses over the strategic period.

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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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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

We caught up with David Siemer , both an investment banker who runs Siemer & Associates (www.siemer.com) and an early stage investor here with Siemer Ventures (www.siemervc.com), to get his thoughts on the subject. How about mergers and acquisitions? We invest globally, with 20 percent of our funds outside the U.S.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

If there are conflicts within the team, or differing views of the strategy, or evidence of missing processes and tools, the investment process will likely be terminated. Make yourself available to answer any questions, show your enthusiasm, and explain both the positives and negatives of the external investment process.

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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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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I do think the way we work with companies is a little different from other programs, in that we view it much more like the wasyI personally think about investing and venture capital. That is, once you invest in a company, you''re a shareholder, and you help that company for the course of its life. There''s many forms of data.

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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. You decide how much you want to invest in your employees and then you give your employees the control to build a custom perk package for themselves. “We Every single deal is pre-negotiated.

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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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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. In addition to paying the consultant, you must invest time to educate them. During those same 25-years, I also made innumerable mistakes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2016

What they don’t realize is that about half the investment deals fail to close at this stage, including mergers and acquisitions , during the due-diligence process. The same is true of Dragon’s Den and Shark Tank investments you see on TV. Undisclosed skill gaps or agendas can stall your investment.

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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. Their value will be well worth the investment.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. Who do you view as your biggest competition? You’re right. We met with a ton of VC’s and angels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2015

He starts out by outlining five reality checks for the uninitiated who are too quick to jump in with both feet: Community building has to happen before collecting cash. He points out that the word crowd precedes funding in crowdfunding. Thus crowdfunding is clearly not the panacea for funding and success that many entrepreneurs envision.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2016

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. Their value will be well worth the investment.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. How big is YP?

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. How big is YP.com?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We've also had great advances in engaging the trust of the commercial community, with patented advances like automatic scoring of our algorithms, which predicts the quality of translations based on a one-through-five scale. It's gone from document acquisition, to document exploitation. What's the mix now?

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From the Venture Trenches

MARCH 27, 2013

The recent firing of Groupon’s CEO Andrew Mason is a cautionary tale of the increased scrutiny and heightened expectations that come from accessing increasingly larger amounts of investment capital. Many service businesses or eTailers can quickly grow to five or ten million in revenues but struggle to expand further.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Five years ago, in November 2011, a company from Princeton, NJ, called Pharmasset shared news that would have an impact on millions of people around the world with hepatitis C. But the drugs aren’t cures, and competition looms. Has Vertex has learned from its past missteps?

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

With public interest in artificial intelligence technologies on the rise, five of the world’s largest corporations—vying against each other in so many spheres—are banding together to support research on the ethical and societal issues raised by machines with increasingly human-like capabilities.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Unlike Walmart, you don't have to walk through a reader or interrogator, because we have an active tag with a five year asset life, saying here I am. It really attacks what we consider are the five critical success factors in acute care. The difference in what we're doing, is we're an active sensor network. for a number of reasons.

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