Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

But you'd certainly share the news that you launched your new website or reached $1M in annual revenues. To document your revenue model. Documenting the revenue model helps to address challenges and assumptions associated with the model. The process of creating the business plan helps to minimize opportunity costs.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. This simply means revenues through recommendations / total revenues.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Another great, possibly business-saving tip, from Charlie is when working on your budget, your total Occupancy costs should be no more than 8% of gross sales. Those restaurants with higher Occupancy costs tend to struggle and most often fail. But, in the end, the restaurateur makes it work.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Disruption in the Education Space: When I first started looking at education technology investments in 1999, very few VCs would go near the sector. Universities are also creating more interdisciplinary programs in order to encourage this collaboration. What’s Next in 2012….

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

The startup didn’t work out, but I found ways to be around it, whether it was on the sales side in Goldman for a few years. So first, we were much more sort of with a high growth rate, and we did not even care about how we got the revenue when we got it. And now we are much more careful about revenue quality revenues.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

He says that you should never consider a public offering unless you are confident that the company will deliver increasing profits and revenue after the offering, so that the public buyer can anticipate a gain. In 1999, there were 486 IPOs nationwide; just 10 years later, in 2009, there were only 63. Do you need this for your image?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. They need a combination of capital and experience to separate from the rest of the pack – the low cost of starting a business means it is even more vital to become the market leader more quickly.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

With that implicit assumption, startups hire a VP of Sales with a great rolodex and call on established mainstream companies while marketing creates a brand and buzz to create demand and drive it into the sales channel (web, direct salesforce, etc.) After twelve months Handspring’s revenue was $170 million. End result?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Describing your product as “new and “never been done before” instead of “we’re just like those others guys, but better” could cost your company billions. By 1992 Research in Motion (RIM) had been in business for eight years, had 16 employees, sales of about $500,000 a year, and three or four business lines. New Market Revenue Curve.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

On some level we felt we did because being a SaaS company in 1999 was trailblazing. The needs are too different as are the sales channels and marketing messages. Or they have products that cost $40 / month but that require a direct sales person to close them. See definition of a whore. I see it all the time. Who else?).

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

We slept under the tables, and pulled all-nighters to get to first customer ship, man the booths at trade shows or ship products to make quarterly revenue – all because it was “our” company. In the 20 th century, the best companies IPO’d in 6-8 years from startup (and in the Dot-Com bubble of 1996-1999 that could be as short as 2-3 years.)

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I knew it was an easy fix, so I really didn’t want to pay for a tow truck in addition to the cost of the repair. It struck me that had the technology existed, travelers could have taken advantage of our empty aircraft to get back to London and then the aircraft could be dropped in Oxford, with minimal additional cost.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). I learned how to get press coverage when we were no longer “hot.&# I learned how to manage costs effectively. But in our first year of sales (and those were really shitty years to be selling software) we sold $2.1

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2017

For those that do, the benefits are a bigger customer base, higher revenues and higher profitability. There has been a tremendous revolution in software in the last 5+ years that has brought down the cost of setting up a full service, secure e-commerce store to roughly the cost of an bottle of wine (per month).

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. billion in revenue, over $1 billion in gross profit and $500 million in EBITDA. The first year of revenue (1999) was $4 million – a remarkable achievement. Gross Profit. $(60).

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2016

For example, it’s entirely possible that a huge amount of your effort is spent on daily activities that aren’t contributing to building your brand, your sales/profits or accomplishing the other meaningful goals you’ve set for your business. If your website looks like it was designed in 1999, consider a redesign.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. After paying moving costs and rent I was left with less than $50 in my bank account. We don’t just want to make a sale we want to make a difference by providing women with the tools to look their best and an avenue to help others and need. software.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

I’ve also, of course, been spending a lot of time talking about this with our rapidly growing sales team at data.world. that the leaders in your sales prospects attend and read, you won’t know if you are passionate about that industry. Opportunity cost is very real for any stage company, but it is critical for an early-stage one.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

But back in 1999, a then very young Netflix based in Los Gatos with less than 20 employees, was on the edge of going bust. Even worse, DVD sales were starting to lag, and a Hollywood backlash further muddied the situation. To be specific, AdWords is currently 16 years old, and last year alone it generated well over $50B in revenue.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

million in 1999, Zappos is now worth $1 billion. These include the hiring of virtual assistants, which lowers operational costs while increasing the level of productivity. . By outsourcing services, the small business owner can capitalize on comparative advantages in costs, particularly labor. . From a company worth $1.6

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. The difference here is the entry-level cost to buying web property, not physical property, is much lower than what it is to buy real-world properties.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

And like the LITERATI, professionals we work with are educated on how to market their business in order to increase revenue opportunities. I also wanted to future proof my business – to position it for growth, and ultimately sale, so giving it my name was out of the question. Thanks to Anita O’Malley, Leadarati ! #16-

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BeyondVC

JUNE 8, 2004

I have always been a big believer of the hosted software or ASP (application service provider) model since we made our first investment in LivePerson in January 1999. One of our main competitors of that era was Kana, which at that time, did way better than LivePerson in terms of customers, revenue, and market capitalization.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

So the question is, does emotion play a role in making more sales online? Before we look how emotion affects sales, we have to ask if emotion plays a role further up the marketing funnel – specifically for driving awareness and getting more reach. Emotional Design Influences Sales. 1999) – 300,000+ customers.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 20, 2019

Take for example, your beverage costs. Wine costing is pretty easy as you generally just sell wine by the bottle or glass. Assuming you appropriately cost out your wine list, then you should be hitting your wine cost consistently every week or month – usually somewhere between 25% and 30%. In my example of $1.00

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

When Iridium was first conceived inside Motorola in 1987, worldwide cell phone coverage was sparse, calls were unreliable and per minute costs were expensive. Cell phone handsets were the size of a lunch box and cost thousand of dollars. iridium-9500 satellite phone ~1999. Motorola Dynatac 8000x ~1987.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

A high performing, high-growth SAAS company that may have been worth 10 or more times revenue was suddenly worth 4-7 times revenue. In 1999, record valuations coexisted with record IPOs and shareholder liquidity. If 1999 was a wet (read liquid) bubble, 2015 was a particularly dry one. 2015 was the exact opposite.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Small” IPOs — companies with less than $50m in annual revenue at the time of IPO – have declined from more than 50% of all IPOs in the 1980-2000 timeframe to about 25% of IPOs from 2001-2016; Companies are staying private much longer — the median time to IPO from founding hovered around 6.5 1999-2000 51.6% 1999-2000 37.5%

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Companies with less than $2 million in revenue were asking for $50-60 million valuations and getting them. The parallels to the music industry are too obvious even though the industry players, the medium and the cost structures are different. Don’t spend like it’s 1999. When I first got into the industry it was 2007.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

has sales offices throughout Korea and over 1,000 retailers carrying its product line, in addition to a local formulation facility. The lightweight wind turbine is said to reduce installation costs by at least 50 percent. From 1999 to 2009, Teva’s revenue grew to about $14 billion from $1.3 (Bravo AG). billion in 2010.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

When I started my first company in 1999 we spent more than $2 million on technology infrastructure including Sun servers & Solaris operating system, Oracle databases, EMC storage, load balancers, app servers, back-up devices, disk mirrors and on and on. So I still had to outlay $50-80k for hardware costs. Processing.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The site owners need to maintain it skillfully enough to make sure that it ranks for the right search terms, create new blog content, and generate newsletters, but beyond that, there isn’t much other effort going into making sales. For example, taking out a mortgage to pay for a home that you’d rent out for monthly recurring revenue.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

According to an interview with Elon Musk, this campaign cost Paypal about $60 million , which most Silicon Valley historians would consider money well spent. It would cost a tremendous amount of money to run such a program. With the 7% banker fee that is a 35% AVERAGE cost of capital. Billions of dollars. first-day “pop.”

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

is mostly sanguine, claiming that the market’s standards for viability have increased since the 2000 bust and citing Twitter (revenue but no profit) as the model for the new public tech company. But its stock is trading at twenty-odd times the company’s annual sales.” First Street and Market Street by Leo vanMunching.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Economic Value (EcV) is the value of short and long-term revenue and cost savings. The causal impact does not have to be on Revenue. An example of the implication: Don't expect short term sales/revenue from any social participation. The opportunity cost. It is not that hard. The Business Framework.

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