Member Info for ERV1

Never is just waiting for the economies of Merlin to kick in 13 years later

of course you will have calculated precisely how much revenue is required to achieve breakeven then? Whether direct or indirect (resellers/wholesale) you will know how many customers are required .......

Mornings

Really no point in doing the chapter and verse on CAC and LTV or even alignment of executive pay is there dear?

Maybe wait and see the FYE 18 figures first........

well I pulled my pants up in 2016 on this one and they've stayed in situ ever since and will remain until the fat lady sings.

Tosh I do hope you achieve your target as it will mean mine is surpassed. Oh and it would be preferable before the 6 year marker (for me). Good Luck

a bit off topic, I know, however that most challenging aspect of your own business that you mentioned nearly a month ago .... I do so hope that you achieve your goal - as you stated - for October and that you have a long and prosperous future in business. ATB

"since our last trading update"

Not quite what an RNS would have people believe with the headliner - back to "how recent is recently?"

A prospectus told the story recently and most certainly at the point of issuance, so why the need for the regurgitation of what has already been made known on a certain day?

Another one to ponder is the use of the words Agreements and Contracts as in uk law they are not one and the same.

Oh I most certainly am not talking as if there is only one contract. The majority of the business being conducted is wholesale/reseller based, yet, this is not supposed to be the focus of the business as it does not make the margin required to sustain the business. Hence the begging bowl routine. This enterprise would no longer be in existence was in not for shareholder funds. Fact.

Maybe carry out a bit more research for clearer establishment of the current state of play in the telecoms sector in order to educate yourself, might not be a bad idea.

Profit is key, as you say and there you have it in a nutshell.

£180k of EXPECTED gross profit per year from a 3 year contract will really move it up - not. 3 years GP from this contract barely covers one years wages.

trouble is validating any news flow.

i..e. "uk hosted telephony for business" if you enter that into a search engine expecting the name of an enterprise where the directors anticipate hosted telephony as being a key driver for growth ... what do you find? 40 pages of scrolling later and where is Toople? Maybe try some more pages later to establish if it comes up.

Based on the discoveries made by searching, saturation or nearing it, comes to mind in this sector, unless of course you are an innovative enterprise with a/various differentiator/s.

bitter pill time then ....

lots of spooky stuff of late - comprendez?

*committee

and and and or even

Should business needs necessitate and the CFO was required to work full-time, would it be necessary for the remuneration to "sit/meet" in order to make amendments to the current pay strategy?

and and or even

The Directors anticipate hosted telephony as being a key driver for growth. Since launch in January 2017 and on the basis that an accounting period has just ended, are you able to disclose the precise amount (as in £'s) that this driver has contributed to revenues over 20 months?

you just don't know ...

Maybe an attendee at the event will choose to ask the CEO - based on forward thinking, in calculating the risk/reward of any such investment ..

What revenues do you need to achieve breakeven?

or even

There are private limited companies with successful and sustainable businesses achieving GP's in excess of 50% and very healthy and acceptable OP's within the UK telecoms sector, does Toople ever hope to achieve the same? If so how? In what time-frame?

or even

Should Toople identify any "bolt-ons"/make an/any acquisitions by the issuance of a prospectus and raising the capital required to do so, are you capable of carrying out the necessary integration internally or could outsourcing become a necessity?

yep, the list of questions for further and definitive clarification in the forward thinking, risk/reward game are endless and certainly not exhaustive....

to swallow. Maybe the singapore investor will have a representative in EC2 today, in order to gain clearer establishment of how the £350k is now worth £162k. 0.25 on the bid and the whole of the initial investment will be wiped out.

Lessons can be learned from such bitter pill scenarios.

and all permutations of the various filters on uswitch.com for business broadband deals tells you all you need to know ...

on the part of a BoD is a simple interpretation of the story to date.

Congreve satirical stuff is about where we're at.

Yep, dear weird sparkly one, bit like hell hath no fury style, minus the lovey dovey bit - oh and I don't know where you'd fit into that one on this satire.......

Good morning dear lady

Now, that's a very relevant, on-topic subject matter to mention in your post. Most especially the element of "competitive situation" as I've recently brought myself up to speed on the competition. Not the biggies, you'll understand, as this is supposed to be a disruptor to them - allegedly.

The private sector competitors accounts in this arena make for very interesting reading. Do you know what GP margins they are achieving? OP margins? It all reads like the random sample of competitors that I chose to research have got it spot on ............... If it's such a difficult market how come they can do it? is what I'm thinking.

I don't know about essays, it could easily become a chapter and verse based on the transparency of info that is available out there. However, if you're just in for a quick trade then there would be no interest in the facts - as the facts are - would there?

Any ideas about who the marketing is outsourced to? Lot of Epsilon names out there (thinking out loud).

Oh and has it been mentioned previously, Epsilon average to breakeven, I'm thinking 0.58 .......

Enjoy the sun.