Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Finally you create and document your recipe (business plan). Have you projected sales and marketing costs, cash flow, and capital requirements? Develop metrics with which to measure yourself and use these to incrementally expand and improve your offering as fast as the market and capital will allow. Don’t stand still.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2015

As a startup investor, I often see business proposals looking for funding that really look like expensive hobbies looking for donations. I still see entrepreneurs who spend money and time for months on a new business idea without any separation of personal and business funds, and any formal accounting system for their new business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2021

If you can’t state clearly why your startup is the only choice, then it’s time to regroup before spending your hard-fought funding. You won’t need the multiple follow-ups and time to close new sales. Build a marketing plan with deliverables and metrics. Give priority to prospect quality versus quantity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Like it or not, you are now entering the dreaded realm of specifying and documenting “formal business processes.” Use a simple accounting tool like QuickBooks, get away from co-mingled funds, and you have the first business process you need. Funding process. entrepreneur funding hobby investors startup' Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2016

As a startup investor, I often see business proposals looking for funding that really look like expensive hobbies looking for donations. I still see entrepreneurs who spend money and time for months on a new business idea without any separation of personal and business funds, and any formal accounting system for their new business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2017

What metrics should you use to measure success? Define both hard data and soft (anecdotal) metrics on the new solution, as well as on the productivity of you team. That means you must know the current state of competitors against the same metrics, before you can assess progress or success. Just because Google sales hit $1.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2018

Finally you create and document your recipe (business plan). Have you projected sales and marketing costs, cash flow, and capital requirements? Develop metrics with which to measure yourself and use these to incrementally expand and improve your offering as fast as the market and capital will allow. Don’t stand still.

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Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 81

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. No investor wants to wait that long for his payback, or fund the years of waiting. Marketing, sales, and partners. Funding requirements. Financial forecast and metrics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Like it or not, you are now entering the dreaded realm of specifying and documenting “formal business processes.” Use a simple accounting tool like QuickBooks, get away from co-mingled funds, and you have the first business process you need. Funding process. The right question is “What is the minimum that I need?”

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Outsource Development Training Outsource Metrics 92

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. No investor wants to wait that long for his payback, or fund the years of waiting. Marketing, sales, and partners. Funding requirements. Financial forecast and metrics.

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Competition Metrics Startup Sales 116

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Finally you create and document your recipe (business plan). Have you projected sales and marketing costs, cash flow, and capital requirements? Develop metrics with which to measure yourself and use these to incrementally expand and improve your offering as fast as the market and capital will allow. Don’t stand still.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2018

Even if you are funding the project yourself (bootstrapping), you should be asking yourself the same question before you have burned all your resources. It takes real money to sustain a business, with a margin in the 50 percent range, and some realistic milestones and metrics. Document and initiate a multi-faceted marketing plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Use a simple accounting tool like QuickBooks, get away from co-mingled funds, and you have the first business process you need. This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Use a simple accounting tool like QuickBooks, get away from co-mingled funds, and you have the first business process you need. This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization.

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Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 95

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

It’s human nature to prioritize the metrics that get measured, so the simple act of keeping track is often enough to have a significant positive impact. You can also use this space to keep track of innovators (R&D personnel) and rainmakers (sales & marketing personnel). His website is [link].

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.Net Metrics Competition Template 89

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. No investor wants to wait that long for his payback, or fund the years of waiting. Marketing, sales, and partners. Funding requirements. Financial forecast and metrics.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2015

Why raise funds? This seems like an obvious question but you need to be clear why you’re looking to raise in order to come up with an effective game plan and determine your best funding option. And when it comes to timing, wait until you’ve come up with a working prototype and developed your product before you seek external funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2023

Professional investors expect far more than an idea pitch – they are looking for a documented opportunity analysis and realistic financial projections. Passionate reiteration of the idea won’t close funding. Managing marketing metrics and the sales pipeline. Detailed product specifications and prototypes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2020

Professional investors expect far more than an idea pitch – they are looking for a documented opportunity analysis and realistic financial projections. Passionate reiteration of the idea won’t close funding. Managing marketing metrics and the sales pipeline. Detailed product specifications and prototypes.

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Ideas Entrepreneur Startup IBM 122

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2015

Professional investors expect far more than an idea pitch – they are looking for a documented opportunity analysis and realistic financial projections. Passionate reiteration of the idea won’t close funding. Managing marketing metrics and the sales pipeline. Detailed product specifications and prototypes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2016

Professional investors expect far more than an idea pitch – they are looking for a documented opportunity analysis and realistic financial projections. Passionate reiteration of the idea won’t close funding. Managing marketing metrics and the sales pipeline. Detailed product specifications and prototypes.

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