The Revenue Group

It might seem strange to consider exiting when you're just starting up and preoccupied with assembling a team and getting funded. But thinking through, planning for and working toward an eventual exit is something every entrepreneur needs to do.

Why is having a startup exit plan important?

Your end goal affects everything from how you run your business, to...

When you try to figure out your strategy as an early stage company, it's quite easy to find all kinds of theoretical advice online put forth by economists and academics.  In fact, when I was in business school we even had to create a business plan that was probably about 40 pages long.  Oh, the horror!

But in the real world, when you actually have to...

Have you ever been told you need a Go-To-Market (GTM) Strategy for your company, whether it is a startup or your launching a new product at an established company?

We all kind of "get it" but when you actually try to create one it gets a little complicated.  For instance, how is it different than a marketing strategy or a business plan?

What is a GTM Strat...

The problem of managing information often prevents business CEOs from growing their business.  They are prevented from working on (not in) their business, not being able to spend time on the things that really matter.

Beyond perfecting the product or service, hiring excellent team members, and securing financing, an owner must dedicate care and a...

New businesses often run in perpetual crisis mode. Every day brings new challenges that urgently need resolving and management spends most of their time troubleshooting.

As your business grows, this approach simply doesn't work. While a short-term crisis is always urgent, it may not matter nearly as much as other things you could be doing. Spending your ti...

While exiting your startup might not seem like the goal in the beginning, it will be if and when you take investor money.  And while you may think you'll want to run your business forever, the reality is that the time to move on will eventually present itself.

So the issue at hand should not be deciding whether or not to sell, but rather deciding what you...

Having A Powerful Financial Forecast

When it comes to start-ups it is very difficult to know where you will be in 5 years. However, having a powerful financial forecast will help you in understanding the capital that is required for at least the next 18 to 24 months of runway.

Now, what should you present in your financial projections to justify both the am...

As we become more interconnected and interdependent, concern about a business trust gap has grown: 58% of CEOs worry that lack of trust in business could harm their company’s growth, up significantly from 37% in 2013. I believe this breakdown in public confidence creates risks for individual companies, but also political, economic, and social systems arou...

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Over the past six months we have been collecting feedback from startup entrepreneurs looking to garner VC funding and have noticed one major pain point that each of you experience.

You each ask yourself: “How do I know what VC Firm is right for my company?”

While you might be thinking, “ANY VC firm willing to give me mo...

As the founder of a startup you have legal issues to work through, the development of a roadmap for your company, addressing your customers' problems  - or maybe finding some customers (that's a biggie!) - raising capital, and ultimately making the world a better place, right?...

It's hard to know what to focus on first.

When I listen to founders pitch thei...