Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. June 5, 2011. Filing Date: initial filing June 2, 2011. How They Make Money: Groupon keeps a share of the coupon value (typically 40-50%) as its net revenue (1). Run Rate Revenue: $2.6B (Q1 2011 annualized). Run Rate Gross Profit: $1.1B (Q1 2011 annualized).

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. Compensating the sales force is a difficult task and the key is usually to keep things simple, so that each sales rep knows what he needs to optimize to make more money at the end of the quarter. which is very close to the typical 8% paid for sales commissions. . $1

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

I emphasize that the best PR you can build is through satisfied customers with high Net Promoter scores. Nominate company representatives as speakers for tech or entrepreneurship conferences. For a full list of major tech conferences, see technologyconference.com. x% of sales made today will be donated to __).

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David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

I enjoyed participating in last week’s Capital Roundtable Private Equity Masterclass on “ Best Practices for Sourcing Quality Deal Flow & Developing New Business ” (May 26 th , 2011). Otherwise, private owners tend to have unrealistic expectations or an arbitrary sale price expectation. View more presentations.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 4, 2011

We didn’t assume our students had any existing tech knowledge and just wanted to watch our videos and copy what we did and then get a result. Become A Blogger Goes Premium Due to the success of the free videos Gideon and I decided to team up and form a partnership to create a premium version of the videos that we would sell.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

I emphasize that the best PR you can build is through satisfied customers with high Net Promoter scores. Nominate company representatives as speakers for tech or entrepreneurship conferences. For a full list of major tech conferences, see technologyconference.com. x% of sales made today will be donated to __).

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

Ratiopharm, a privately-owned subsidiary of German holding company VEM, was founded in 1973 and has annual sales of about $8.6 ISRAELI CABINET APPROVES 2-YEAR MODEL FOR BUDGET 2011-2012. The Israeli Cabinet approved Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz’s proposal to continue with the biennial state budget model in 2011-2012.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

The percentage rake is the amount that the marketplace charges as a percentage of GMS (gross merchandise sales), which typically represents net revenues for the marketplace. As an example, eBay’s 2011 marketplace revenues were approximately $6.6B Many Internet marketplaces also have a rake or vig. Everything looked incredible.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Small business and startup issues: net neutrality and H.R. Small business and startup issues: net neutrality and H.R. 90+ creative advertising & design from January-February 2011 – [link]. BlockBuster puts itself up for sale – [link]. 1 – [link]. 1 – [link]. – [link].

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

“The tech industry creates roughly 10 awesome companies per year,” he says. “Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. She has been covering technology news for over 15 years, most recently as a senior editor for TechCrunch. Scanadu: Technologically-savvy healthcare. Open Sesame! (A

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Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan » March 09, 2011. But, this should lead to a thorough, well-planned review of bootstrapping alternatives, since bootstrapping can reduce cash requirements in the pre-cash flow phase. Example one: Sustainable net operating income with some growth in a stable market. 

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Amazon S3 Reports Staggering Growth in 2011 – [link]. Amazon Misses; Q4 Sales Up 35% To $17.4B; Net Income Down 58% To $177M – [link]. An interesting drill-down into Apple’s valuation – [link]. Understanding J.C. Penney’s Risky New Pricing Strategy – [link]. Is Apple building a holographic TV?

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. Loading… Tech. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. View All Search Results » |. The Wall Street Journal. Welcome, Logout. Customer Center. My Journal. Message Center ( new). Edition Home.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I have the knowledge in tech to implement it. If you’re looking for technical talent – go to the dev meetups. Do that – nothing else but one product / company / focus and get to $1M in sales with atleast $15% net profit. I think it’s a huge mistake to outsource technology as a startup. No, I have many ideas.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Posted by Philippe Botteri.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

I can see the correlation, but the conclusion implies a causality that may or may not be there ("the product sales exceeded all internal projections!"). From that analysis, they could identify the incremental sales in country X compared to Y, Z and A. Facebook works. The case study seemed to contain a rookie mistake.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 6, 2007

developed a white paper on performance metrics for Technology service Vendors (TSV) and this post present the key elements of his reflexion adapted for SaaS companies. While upgrading a customer in a perpetual license model is comparable to a new sales, a renewal for a saas company is significantly easier to get than a new account sale.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

In 2011, it accounted for approximately $2.3 billion in total industry sales. To find out what people are complaining about, read forums, turn to your social media accounts, and read reviews. If you have multiple products, your price may even affect sales. For anyone who doesn’t know, the hobby jeweler’s market is huge.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

in 2008 as illustrated below: Parker Harris, EVP Technology and co-founder of Salesforce.com was our keynote on the 23rd and Gary Griffith, president of Webex, spoke later in the day as well. As soon as you’ve climbed the Sales Learning Curve, begin ramping your sales force by hiring renewal-oriented account managers.

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