Agile VC

JUNE 13, 2019

revenue business still growing >50% YoY? Chewy now has over 10 million customers, repeat purchases by existing customers account for approximately 90% of their revenue today. This is analogous to SaaS companies like Slack or Dropbox, which have strong revenue growth just as their existing users consumer more of their service.

Leadership 100

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 30, 2019

In other words, you go to a website and they’ve got all these glowing reviews on their website, but then there’s Google who is aggregating these theoretically in a sort of impartial way. John Jantsch: Okay, so on Google’s five point or five star scale, is there a perfect aggregate score that you should be aiming for?

Software Review 65

Software Review Reputation Small Business Aggregator 65

Venture Chronicles

APRIL 20, 2014

A successful organization that fed impressive growth, reaching growth and revenue records year over year, the marketing organization relied on a proven B2B outbound marketing model that precisely measured lead capture rates. Ping Identity has gone through a top to bottom transformation in marketing over the last year.

B2B 45

B2B Marketing SEM Bandwidth 45

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. We are also seeing technology evaluation as an increasingly important part of LP operational due diligence. Lighter Capital, a Revenue Based Investing VC, offers a Cost of Capital Calculator.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

ConversionXL

MARCH 16, 2016

NPS is a valuable customer experience tool, and companies everywhere are using it to improve their experience and boost revenue. What’s So Special About The Net Promoter Score? Net Promoter Score is a customer loyalty metric developed by (and a trademark of) Fred Reichheld, Bain & Company, and Satmetrix. Image Source.

.Net 48

.Net Metrics Retention Aggregator 48

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

2:17) Some of the teams and projects Sam has been impressed with and how inspired he's been by the way the biotech industry has pulled together and operated with newfound speed. (6:56) All the other things that matter, aggregating talent, getting people to care, all of that stuff that's hard in a boom and easier now. SA : Right.

Silicon Valley 68

Silicon Valley Technical Review Government .Net 68

Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2015

What is revenue going to look like? A persona is an aggregate of all the traits that your customers have, so that it becomes your most common customer. I want to have enough revenue to hire a manager. In this screenshot, what it’s showing you is this particular business needs to get a loan or it cannot operate.

Forecast 60

Forecast Video Business Plan United States 60

abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Most large healthcare IT systems are chosen based on one primary objective: revenue management. healthcare system is complex and difficult, and most of these large EHR systems’ number one purpose is to deliver revenue. As an example consider Pediatrics After Hours which operates in Dallas as a pediatric urgent care facility.

Customer 59

Customer Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 59

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Instead, they prefer to buy through large distribution companies that aggregate products from lots of suppliers and then make that inventory available to retailers to purchase. A typical P&L will be a spreadsheet that includes the following: Sales (or Income or Revenue). This is the sum of your Operating Expenses and COGS.

Business Plan 163

Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

No other metric so holistically captures as many critical aspects of a web site – user design, usability, performance, convenience, ad effectiveness, net promoter score, customer satisfaction – all in a single measurement. As a result, AdWords boasts over one million customers and over $30B in annual revenue.

Metrics 93

Metrics Conversion Internet Acquisition 93

ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

Revenue, downloads, and sign-ups are all examples of lagging indicators. Common examples are Revenue and Conversions. After conducting the test, the revenue gained from the additional foot traffic to the store was nullified by increasing margins. In 2013 Kohl’s was looking for ways to significantly cut operating costs.

Marketing 133

Marketing Metrics Programming Design 133

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

If viewed holistically, this data is just a generalized aggregation of disparate data points. Revenue impact: $260,408. Average revenue per user: $0.02. Defining a highly profitable segment is the most important step towards achieving revenue growth. in revenue. Are these numbers useful? See what I’m getting at?

eCommerce 78

eCommerce Analytics Revenue Customer 78

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Many have noted that the aggregate shareholder value created by all of the Unicorns will vastly overshadow the losses from the inevitable failed unicorns. A high performing, high-growth SAAS company that may have been worth 10 or more times revenue was suddenly worth 4-7 times revenue. This is uncharted territory.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

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. Farming is also often overlooked, but can help grow customer accounts and revenues from 30% upwards (if successful). Great list! Philippe Botteri.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

In other words, they've more than proved their plan can work--so much so that Bitwise now operates in two more cities and plans to keep growing. They are now operating in nine States. And then I, of course, need revenue for this." I do not have a safety net. And so she had an Academy. "I So she started a co-working space.

Fresno 60

Fresno Community Technology California 60

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’ Looking at the conference agenda , it’s not hard to spot the trends for 2010: Mobile Clouds – additional storage and new revenue streams to operators.

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. Respondents deemed between 12%-16% of companies generating revenues to be essentially “worthless” and deemed 20%-26% of their pre-revenue investments to be “worthless.” Add to this that 72.7%

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. The art of activating idle assets to bring in new revenue is occurring for both the service provider and the service creator. Especially when the brand normally operate in an invisible category like washing powder.

Uruguay 123

Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

i-nigma was successfully deployed by hundreds of enterprises, among them operators, advertisers, integrators and solution providers. This highest quality of the traffic information, never achieved before, together with the perfect applications generate significant revenues for the operator and maintain customers’ loyalty.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. There is more parking spaces, it’s easier to pull up. You pay premiums.

Singapore 43

Singapore Government Silicon Valley Software Review 43