InfoChachkie

AUGUST 11, 2014

For instance, a team comprised solely of engineers is greatly handicapped, as is a team exclusively made up of sales and marketing executives. Competitive Rivalry - Constructive internal competition that does not derail a startup from achieving its strategic goals will enhance your teams overall performance.

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Startup Santa Barbara Competition Journal 257

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2019

People may jump into the lifestyle to be their own boss, achieve great wealth, start a new trend, or all the above. Your great idea for the next Facebook may make you wealthy, but it probably won’t help the hungry. You have very little money, and you don’t want to give away your equity. The founder’s title and role dilemma.

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Startup USC Entrepreneur Statistics 97

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

Here are the motivation elements that investors expect to hear: Size and growth potential of the market opportunity. Investors will impatiently expect a winning business model, customer segment definitions and volume projections. Competitor positioning and sustainable competitive advantage.

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Product Slides Custom Customer 103

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. Founders point to the great number of financial unknowns in any new business, and are reluctant to “commit” to any numbers which may come back to haunt them later. Project unit-volume and price levels.

Pricing 57

Pricing Startup Entrepreneur Invest 57

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

Of course it makes no sense to have great people management and a crappy product. But I would posit that in order to sustainably build great products in an intensely competitive industry with skills shortages – people management is one of the most critical soft skills organizations need. .” Equity for the future?

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Startup Technical Review Course Press 340

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2014

People may jump into the lifestyle to be their own boss, achieve great wealth, start a new trend, or all the above. Your great idea for the next Facebook may make you wealthy, but it probably won’t help the hungry. You have very little money, and you don’t want to give away your equity. The Founder’s title and role dilemma.

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Entrepreneur Statistics Equity Satisfaction 107

InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

1) Expect Independent Channel Sales Reps To Perform Missionary Sales. Rationale: I cannot afford to hire a direct sales force. Fallacy: Third-party, OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturing) representatives succeed once the sales process is defined, proven and documented. 7) Hire A Consultant.

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Startup Outsource Development Outsource Sales 242

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

They expect to hear about founders and team member’s prior experience in building a startup, and knowledge in the relevant solution domain. Even non-profits need money to scale, but their pitch should be to philanthropists, not equity investors. Sales projections are less than one percent market penetration.

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Funding Startup Innocal Entrepreneur 98

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2015

There’s plenty of capital out there, but there’s also a lot of competition for startup funding. Make sure you understand what those expectations are before you close a round of VC funding. This can be a great way to test your product and get customer feedback. Set your fundraising expectations: Fundraising is a full-time job.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Equity Funding 40

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2017

People may jump into the lifestyle to be their own boss, achieve great wealth, start a new trend, or all the above. Your great idea for the next Facebook may make you wealthy, but it probably won’t help the hungry. You have very little money, and you don’t want to give away your equity. The founder’s title and role dilemma.

Entrepreneur 57

Entrepreneur USC Statistics Equity 57

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

It always amazes me how an entrepreneur can define his market opportunity so broadly, and then assess his competition so narrowly in the next breath. Competition and sustainable advantage. List and describe your competition, direct and indirect, including customer alternatives. Asserting you have no competition is not credible.

Competition 113

Competition Metrics Startup Invest 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2013

People may jump into the lifestyle to be their own boss, achieve great wealth, start a new trend, or all the above. Your great idea for the next Facebook may make you wealthy, but it probably won’t help the hungry. You have very little money, and you don’t want to give away your equity. The Founder’s title and role dilemma.

Startup 98

Startup Entrepreneur Statistics Equity 98

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. Greathouse: Great products and companies that came out (of) Santa Barbara. I have always worked on early stage products. Semick: They are.

Venture Capital 115

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2010

This post will be perhaps a bit longer than usual, but certainly of great interest for those with interest in or have need for more capital… This stage is critical to many businesses and a passing option to others, depending upon the capital efficiency of the enterprise. For you who fit that description, nice work.

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Venture Capital Invest Class Entrepreneur 174

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

It always amazes me how an entrepreneur can define his market opportunity so broadly, and then assess his competition so narrowly in the next breath. Competition and sustainable advantage. List and describe your competition, direct and indirect, including customer alternatives. Asserting you have no competition is not credible.

Competition 116

Competition Metrics Startup Sales 116

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

So even within the “alternative class&# our LPs are looking at other asset investment choices such as distressed buyout funds, private equity or hedge funds. But even great funds that are not in this historic and long-established funds will not find fund raising easy. Fred Wilson wrote a great piece on this.

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Venture Capital Startup Seed Funding Rustic Canyon 311

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

Bauckhage talks about the firm's recent funding from DFJ Espirit, T-Venture, Grazia Equity, and others, and how the company has been helping studios like Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Disney and Paramount market their upcoming releases. How big do you expect your operations to be here in Los Angeles?

Startup 164

Startup Paramount Netflix Entertainment 164

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Gross margin (GM) is the amount of profit you make per sale of your product or service taking into account your total costs of selling that product or service. If you have a very low gross margin (10-30%) it can be very hard to build a large, scalable business because you need to make a lot of sales to cover your operating costs.

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Startup Company Companies .Net 383

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2016

If you expect an equity investment from reputable investors for your new startup, you need to know the boundaries that often limit their interest. If you have a great social cause, perhaps you should be looking for philanthropists instead of investors. Secret sauce' or competitive advantage is not clear.

Funding 57

Funding Social Media Startup Patents 57

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs. I’m no great scholar on bubbles – I have more interesting things to spend my time worrying about than the exact definition , but having been around a few I have at least given them intellectual consideration. I believe that. People get too worked up over the word.

Pricing 309

Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

You never got around to agreeing exact equity splits but you had many conversations about it. Your contractor wrote a great V1 of the product and it helped you get angel funding. Consider it a sales & marketing expense for them. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Our lives are intertwined.

Startup 318

Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

It always amazes me how an entrepreneur can define his market opportunity so broadly, and then assess his competition so narrowly in the next breath. Competition and sustainable advantage. List and describe your competition, direct and indirect, including customer alternatives. Asserting you have no competition is not credible.

Invest 74

Invest Tips Competition Metrics 74

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. You may know how much to pay in cash or equity for your new VP Engineering. Manages board meeting expectations (before & after). Always seek input.

Tips 365

Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

But if you raise the money at the big price (or any price) please go in with the expectation that you are going to build a large, long-term business. You are either bought for stock or for equity. And represents great defensive value for Facebook as Chris Dixon aptly pointed out on Twitter. Think about it. ” So my point.

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Venture Capital Pricing Social Network Acquisition 316

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. equity debate. The speakers are great and have enough stage time to really get into the topic they’re passionate about.

Startup 191

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

To say that the tech elite were cynical of Hulu’s launch would be an understatement , but by the time it launched just a few months later it was getting great reviews. Because they are anti-competitive most countries ban cartels. I have personally always felt a sort of cognitive dissonance regarding Hulu.

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Hulu Technical Review Content Advertising 292