Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

They don’t realize that according to statistics from Startup.co , almost 60 percent are funded with personal savings and credit, and another 25 percent get their money from friends and family. Identify customer executives who need your solution. Reach out to your biggest fans for investor leads.

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Funding Tips Startup Statistics 173

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Projecting financials is a natural extension of the homework every entrepreneur needs to do on customer opportunity size, product costs, pricing, competition and customer value. Check competitor numbers and industry average statistics to get you in the right range. That’s no fun for you, your investors or your customers.

Startup 116

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 1, 2013

But businesses that expose their story to tens of millions of potential customers through the Internet need additional tools. CHURN (% customer cancelling each month). CHURN (% customer cancelling each month). A simple statistic which can be derived from a good general ledger using GAAP accounting procedures.

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Acquisition Statistics Sales Custom 189

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Many first-time entrepreneurs find themselves unable to bootstrap their startups, and also unable to find early funding at the venture capital level or even with angel investors. Show them that you have done your homework with industry experts and potential customers, and convince them you are not asking for charity or a donation.

Startup 109

Startup Funding Equity Invest 109

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2015

Instead, expeditiously pick a reasonable moniker and then get back to work delivering value to your customers. In all cases, these names were derived by the Founders, without the involvement of consultants, MBAs, focus groups, statistically valid surveys or other hindrances to a startup’s ability to make quick, sound decisions.

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Custom Customer Technical Review Software Review 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

If ten percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from angel and venture capital investors. Conduct your own customized market research. Modern libraries are still worth a visit. Explore municipal development resources.

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Research Marketing Statistics Report 87

socalTECH

AUGUST 26, 2010

San Diego-based IntraStage , a developer of quality management software for companies who design and manufacture electronic products, including statistical process control (SPC) and other testing and data analytics tools, has raised a round of angel funding. IntraStage's customers include Motorola, Panasonic and Northrop Grumman.

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Angel Tech Coast Angels Funding CIO 140

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2023

Historical and current statistics still show the chances of failure on any given startup are better than even. When you are starting a new venture, raising capital, and landing those initial customers, the obstacles keep coming, so you need all the flexibility and resilience you can muster.

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Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur News 102

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Just as I was getting the swing of things the world shifted beneath my feet and the stock market went into a free fall and venture capital all but shut down for nearly a year. In the case of Invoca we led both the seed round and the A round and didn’t wait for somebody else to come and provide more capital. Over the past 2.5

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Venture Capital IP Startup Google 223

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2020

For example, Lyft and Uber were able to capitalize on the current ride-sharing trend worldwide by tracking statistics that indicated reduced interest in car ownership by millennials, lack of parking spaces, and auto ownership costs moving up rapidly. You need to build a vision of the future that can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Startup 124

Startup Statistics Custom Customer 124

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

If you don’t have a destination, don’t waste your money trying to get there, and don’t expect anyone to support you along the way Projecting financials is a natural extension of the homework every entrepreneur needs to do on customer opportunity size, product costs, pricing, competition and customer value. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 147

Startup Pricing Sales Statistics 147

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

Yet according to other statistics, vanishing few of these ever generate a significant profit. The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. Position yourself to capitalize on the next frontier. Offer premium services after user is hooked. Marty Zwilling.

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Mobile Develop Development Platform 126

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2021

Many first-time entrepreneurs find themselves unable to bootstrap their startups, and also unable to find early funding at the venture capital level or even with angel investors. Show them that you have done your homework with industry experts and potential customers, and convince them you are not asking for charity or a donation.

Funding 138

Funding Startup Equity Invest 138

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2014

If 10 percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from angel and venture capital investors. Conduct your own customized market research. Modern libraries are still worth a visit. Explore municipal-development resources.

Marketing 97

Marketing Entrepreneur Statistics Research 97

socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2012

end-of-the-year coverage, we've run through our web statistics and figured out which were the. venture capital exits in. BetterWorks--headed by prolific angel investor Paige Craig--apparently was not able to sustain a large enough market, relative to its high costs of customer acquisition. As part of our. generation of startups.

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Southern California Thousand Oaks Incubator SpaceX 211

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Historical and current statistics still show the chances of failure on any given startup are better than even. When you are starting a new venture, raising capital, and landing those initial customers, the obstacles keep coming, so you need all the flexibility and resilience you can muster.

Startup 128

Startup Entrepreneur Satisfaction News 128

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2016

If ten percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from Angel and venture capital investors. Conduct your own customized market research. Modern libraries are still worth a visit. Explore municipal development resources.

Marketing 59

Marketing Startup Statistics Research 59

socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

Form there, we got interest from incubators, angel investors, and venture capital. Brenton Sullivan: We really put the customer at the center of our business, something that many entrepreneurs miss out on. That''s the quantitative analysis of statistics to find players. How''d you get over that hurdle? It''s a big topic.

Coach 252

Coach USC Statistics Startup 252

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2017

I was influenced heavily before my career even began because in my undergraduate work I took a ton of statistics classes that showed how easily we human brains fall prey to easy biases and slights of data and try to draw conclusions that don’t exist. I read it just after I entered the Venture Capital industry more than a decade ago.

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Venture Capital Statistics Writing Report 182

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Yet according to other statistics, vanishing few of these ever generate a significant profit. The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. Position yourself to capitalize on the next frontier. Offer premium services after user is hooked. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 98

Startup Platform Pricing Netflix 98

socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Southern California's technology community--despite all of the recent excitement around Silicon Beach--continues to be underserved in terms of capital, with a lack of venture capital funds (with money), and other private technology investors. to $10M in revenues and are tracking towards profitability.

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Acquisition Software Review Technical Review Equity 168

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Asking for early-stage money before you have customers and revenue will likely kill your credibility with real investors. Seed-stage, meanwhil e, is technically that critical period when you need funding to do solution- and business-model development, to prove that your new product or service works, before you try to sell it to customers.

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Funding Venture Capital Startup Seed Funding 104

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

I still see a big opportunity to capitalize on sustainability, attract investors, be the next unicorn, and leave a legacy you can be proud of. Today, statistics find that big trucks are sitting idle or deadheading empty as much as 50 percent of the time. There are plenty of smaller success examples, including Impossible Foods, Inc.,

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Artificial Inteligence Resource Examples Startup 79

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2012

Obviously we can find many critical success factors, like finding and retaining high-value customers, which apply to companies that are product centric or services centric. Customers don’t like people who don’t show their passion and love for the job. Customers don’t like to see you learning on the job or outsourcing.

Satisfaction 91

Satisfaction Patents Outsource Development Services 91

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Statistics show that at least 50% of new startups fail within five years, and many of the survivors eventually fail. You can’t start a business without capital, but having capital doesn’t mean you can start one. Some of these reasons seem obvious, so forgive me for restating, but I still hear them too often.

Startup 93

Startup Statistics Entrepreneur Resource 93

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2016

They don’t realize that according to statistics from Startup.co , almost 60 percent are funded with personal savings and credit, and another 25 percent get their money from friends and family. Identify customer executives who need your solution. Reach out to your biggest fans for investor leads.

Startup 61

Startup Entrepreneur Statistics Social Media 61

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Statistics show that at least 50% of new startups fail within five years, and many of the survivors eventually fail. You can’t start a business without capital, but having capital doesn’t mean you can start one. Some of these reasons seem obvious, so forgive me for restating, but I still hear them too often.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Statistics Startup Resource 111

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2015

If you don’t have a destination, don’t waste your money trying to get there, and don’t expect anyone to support you along the way Projecting financials is a natural extension of the homework every entrepreneur needs to do on customer opportunity size, product costs, pricing, competition and customer value.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Startup Pricing Sales 102

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Obviously we can find many critical success factors, like finding and retaining high-value customers, which apply to companies that are product centric or services centric. Customers don’t like people who don’t show their passion and love for the job. Customers don’t like to see you learning on the job or outsourcing.

Product 91

Product Services Satisfaction Patents 91

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

Statistics show that at least 50% of new startups fail within five years, and many of the survivors eventually fail. You can’t start a business without capital, but having capital doesn’t mean you can start one. Some of these reasons seem obvious, so forgive me for restating, but I still hear them too often.

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Statistics Entrepreneur Startup Resource 108

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2015

Image via Flickr by Jupiter Labs Many first-time entrepreneurs find themselves unable to bootstrap their startups, and also unable to find early funding at the venture capital level or even with angel investors. Their only recourse is that first tier of investors, fondly called Friends, Family and Fools.

Entrepreneur 106

Entrepreneur Startup Equity Invest 106

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Venture capital investments are returning to startups. Venture capital firms raised $4.1 Startups are springing up all over to capitalize on these opportunities. Unless your volumes are in the millions or higher, the difference between manufacturing cost and customer price better be 50% or greater. Margin is everything.

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Startup Tips Venture Capital Demand 86

socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Now we have a thousand large companies into it, and if you name a big company, they're a customers of ours, from Starbucks to NASA. The minute a customer hired us to deal with their transitioning employees, the first thing we could do is sayhey, it's not all bad, there are over 150 companies looking for someone just like you in your area.

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Content Social Network Coach Help 193

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Based on some good estimates of how many new ventures have been started in the last five years, the statistical odds of any individual startup making it to this level are less than one in a million. But, of course, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. Keep working on increasing the momentum. Experienced team of superstars.

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Company Companies Startup Statistics 100

Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

Let me give you a few examples: SwingbySwing Golf created an iPhone/Android app that lets golfers use the GPS in their phone to measure distance to the hole and track statistics. One of the founders wrote a Python script that sent out custom emails to a list they had developed. Capital to date? $20k It took month and years.

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Incubator Entrepreneur Web Santa Barbara 91

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2016

They don’t realize that according to statistics , more than 90 percent of satisfied entrepreneurs use bootstrapping, since other people’s money always comes with strings, most of them negative. It’s very common for founders who find venture capital funding, to soon find out that they are being replaced by a CEO who has “more experience.”

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Funding Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur 57

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2017

From my perspective, projecting financial returns is part of the homework every business person needs to do in sizing customer opportunity, product costs, pricing, competition and customer value, before expending their own resources in a highly risky venture. Set a target growth and market penetration rate.

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Pricing Startup Entrepreneur Invest 57