New Venture Lab: Equipping Christian Entrepreneurs

The Nearly Impossible Ideal Company

The ideal company is one that...

…has a seasoned, high-integrity, well-educated, entrepreneurial and fully-developed management team with excellent leadership and communications skills that have successfully built other companies together, have unmatched strategic, analytic, and financial prowess, that forge warm, deep relationships with all stakeholders, and rarely miss their plan…

..while managing a successful business in a large, high-growth, non-seasonal addressable market that is experiencing favorable macro trends in an unregulated industry with little or no competitive threats, low competitive rivalry, low supplier switching costs, and low competitor and supplier concentration…

…with a capital-efficient business model that has few fixed assets, an efficient cash cycle, high gross margins, low fixed costs, outsized earnings, and high comparable valuation multiples…

…with a sharply-focused highly scalable and repeatable operation that runs like a well-oiled machine with very few operational risks and favorable labor pool characteristics…

..that delivers a proven, non-perishable offering with iron-clad intellectual property protection, few substitutes, a highly-distinctive, disruptive, and highly-automated value proposition that meets a real and unmet market need with demonstrable success that is priced lower than competitive offerings, while offering higher quality and better service…

…and sells through a broad set of highly-motivated channel partners into a fragmented, delighted set of referenceable customers that are easily identified, sold at a high price point in a short, low-cost sales cycle to one key decision maker with little or no price sensitivity whose need and purchase timing are clearly understood, while creating a strong network effect, that results in a deep, long-lasting, contractual, recurring revenue, captive relationship with high purchase frequency, and an opportunity to cross-sell and up-sell many other offerings, all of which can easily be deployed into multiple adjacent markets with little or no modification or additional cost.

For more information on how your company scores, see our free Venture Analysis from which the above list was extracted.



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