YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2015

Gauge word-of-mouth promotion with the Net Promoter Score. The Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a popular way of measuring customer loyalty through understanding word-of-mouth marketing. But using the Net Promoter Score as a predictive analytic tool can help prevent disasters and identify winners early. Be aware of bad profits.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I’ll focus for now on the business itself, there’s plenty of other info on the web if you care to understand the equity ownership or financing history of Facebook and frankly this has been fairly well known for awhile. ==. Financial Snapshot : 2011 Revenue: $3.71 2011 YoY Revenue Growth: 88%. 2011 Net Income: $1.00

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 9, 2017

million for the then 200 unit restaurant chain, along with an "handshake deal" for 1/2% of the companies revenues, into perpetuity. And to a personal net worth in today’s dollars of over $3 Billion. And then the rest of the story, more complex but no less revelatory as to the competing priorities and values of modern business.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 2, 2010

What I’m concerned about is that while your near term chances of survival go up, because you’re flush with cash, the net-net percentage chance of eventual “success” (defining success as a situation where most people, especially the entrepreneur, walk away happy) actually goes down. The solution? Try to prove one thing. Is it users?

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2010

Some businesses require very little capital and the founder is able to self-finance the enterprise and retain 100% of its ownership and control from ignition through liquidity event (startup through sale). And even with the significant cost of credit card debt, many entrepreneurs aggressively use existing cards to finance a startup.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

I thought there was some chance that it would stay contained or that the rest of the world would follow their example and do really great in the stage where you still can contain it. That would be a pretty obvious connection, but what about the rest of us? I think a lot more people can figure out ways to help out than they think.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Google realized that being the way to find the world’s information was a blitzscalable market, thanks to the network effects in its AdWords revenue engine. In other words, what percentage of sales are available to pay for growth, and to reward investors for financing that growth. The third is high gross margins.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

There are two reasons to raise money: You have a killer idea that is only partially validated, that you think can get to $50M+ of revenue in 5 years with 80%+ gross margins (if margins are lower, you need a lot more revenue)and you need money to get to product-market fit, or. Not all startups need outside investment to grow.

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blog.simeonov.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

In one case the CEO had a different vesting schedule because he had spent a lot more time than the rest of the founding team on the idea. However, founder agreements are not set in stone and it is common for them to be tweaked by a little or a lot during the first financing by professional investors. more details ].

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

His quote on the subject, "no amount of finance will cure mismanagement". flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. Ran if for two years before we shut it down with almost no revenue achieved. From the link: Oh, and what was the company?

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

My finance career began with a long commute and a cramped cubicle. I wouldn't be happy doing this for the rest of my life. That gave us the safety net we needed to feel as comfortable as possible with me leaving my job. Thanks to Danavir Sarria, SupplyDrop ! #4- 4- Get away from personal problems. Photo Credit: Susan Smith.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2021

And if marketing is promising something that the rest of the company can't deliver on, and then you've got a big problem. Dan Gingiss (13:20): And so we often get stuck on metrics like NPS net promoter score. These are all finance questions that have a big impact on the customer experience. It's a wonderful measurement.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

But if you want to accelerate growth and improve your revenues and profits, you need to up your game. It is a key factor in the success and prosperity of all businesses and nonprofits, regardless of their revenues. This is also known as the Net Promoter Score (NPS) question. Are you interested in comparing revenues?

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Investors will read your executive summary and decide whether or not it’s worth their time to read the rest of the plan. Financial Summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Your financial plan helps you track your finances so you can accurately gauge your business’s performance.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

At that scale, you can reach billions of dollars in revenue. General news carries the lowest CPCs whereas specific verticals like healthcare and finance command higher CPCs. The rest is just semantics. But they do $50B in revenue. net neutrality. Andres Moran. 26 September 2012 at 4:36 pm. #. Matt DeLoca.

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Mucker Lab

MARCH 19, 2015

I took it upon myself this week to at least try to solve the first question (the rest will come in the coming weeks) using publicly available (both “leaked” and “released”) data to reconstruct Uber’s topline revenue. From NYE 2012 to NYE 2013, its day over day revenue grew by 369% (source: Business Insider ). Much better.

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Up and Running

JUNE 19, 2015

They have resources as a person and so they use those resources in their business so they start to mix their personal finance and their business finance. Every single piece of financing, every trade account, personally guarantee, and it always made me sick that those were always piling up. Jonathan: Awesome.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Do that – nothing else but one product / company / focus and get to $1M in sales with atleast $15% net profit. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost.

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Up and Running

APRIL 29, 2014

If you have those goals in mind and you understand where you’re going with your business, you have so much more power to plan for them, both on the tax side as well as on the revenue and expense side for your business and cash flow management. But it’s one of the most highly-audited areas of the Internal Revenue.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. My original post discussed marketing and selling a software product, where achieving $2500/month in revenue is quite a task. #16 many startups think that they can start any type of business without planning their finances carefully before hand. Check out my book Like this post?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 27, 2011

ME: Of course getting tied up with that might distract you from other growth opportunities, and sometimes buyers don’t like that you’re dependent on another company for revenue. “Net net,&# some people say. That’s post-tax, post earn-out. Do you want to stop having to go into work every day?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Bates: Good morning and welcome to our CEO panel, “How to Fine-Tune Your Small Business Finances From Funding to Growth” which I think is the direction that we would all like to be going. I’m here with some really phenomenal CEOs who are going to talk to us today about small business finances from funding to growth.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

We appreciate you writing back and letting us know what you thought of the episode, and of course for the rest of our listeners if you are interested in contacting us, you can do that by emailing bcast@bplans.com. They never worked with the startup who had needed to raise multiple rounds of financing. That’s bcast@bplans.com.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The rest said companies are mostly still hanging on. As a result, Pandora is nowhere near profitable at more than $103 million in quarterly revenue, paying more than half of this sum to labels for content licenses. iOS App Store revenue still dwarfs Google Play’s, but the challenger is catching up fast. November 29, 2012.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2020

The first, the Made in China 2025 plan, is the country’s roadmap and financing vehicle to update China’s manufacturing base from making low-tech products to rapidly developing ten high-tech industries including electric cars, next-generation computing, telecommunications, robotics, artificial intelligence, and advanced chips.

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