YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

In fact, since 2000, more than 10 million Americans have filed personal bankruptcy due to their employers’ failed health insurance plan. Two, establish a formal reimbursement program to reimburse employees for their substantiated individual health insurance costs on a post-tax basis — up to a healthcare allowance specified by the company.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Yet in expansionary periods, successful leaders spent significantly less on [selling, general, and administrative costs] than did their former peers. A focus on cost cutting—every decision is viewed through a loss-minimization lens. As the authors found, “Firms that cut costs faster and deeper than rivals don’t necessarily flourish.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Of course incumbents cannot be expected to jeopardize their revenue streams or investments in CRM platforms with new concepts that wipe out the need for their current solutions. Too much was at stake, we couldn’t afford the risk of destabilizing everything and losing substantial revenue. A new paradigm. Early results are exciting.

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Programming Turkey Social Media Redemption 150

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. side note: our last fund at GRP Partners is currently ranked as the 5th best performing fund of the year 2000.

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LP Technical Review Early Stage Silicon Valley 311

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Inbound marketing service provider HubSpot recently released its first ever State of Inbound Report for Asia – which surveyed some 400 marketing and sales professionals at virtually all levels and across all industries in Asia to compile some of the most comprehensive analysis on online marketing in this part of the world.

Asia 100

Asia Las Vegas Marketing Technical Review 100

BeyondVC

DECEMBER 7, 2005

As you know, I am enamored by frictionless sales. Frictionless sales means reducing the pain for customers to adopt and use a service/product and consequently reducing the cost of sales and marketing to get a customer and generate revenue. Free software grows revenue opportunities. Just ask your carrier.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The audio destination for business professionals host Jason Bay, dives in with leading sales experts and top performing reps to share actionable tips and strategies to help you land more meetings with your ideal clients. And the two things that that person owns is the post-sale experience and the customer experience. Or onboarding.

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Hiring Email Angel Investor Technical Review 75

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Just ask anybody who was trying to close funding the fateful week of September 11, 2001 or even March 2000. Three reasons: There is a relative valuation between the price a VC pays and their expectations of what it will exit for in an IPO or trade sale. While the company continues to perform well it has come at a cost.

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Burn Rate Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Private Equity 263

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

These businesses were helping people straighten their teeth at a much lower cost and with less pain than traditional alternatives such as braces. If manufacturers can increase productivity , they can produce more without increasing costs, then they are more globally competitive. Photo Credit: Alex Dask. Photo Credit: James Parsons.

Entrepreneur 142

Entrepreneur Software Review LLC Web Development 142

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 12, 2010

It's hard to explain" should not be a standard part of your sales pitch. billion market cap), mid-sized (NetBotz with millions in revenue and funding), and small (sub-$1m operations like us). You just need to try it" and "trust me" don't cut it. They were the disruptors, but they didn't profit from the disruption.

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Technical Review Software Review Engineer Search 243

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

There are a number of trends concerning IPOs and capital formation to note: First, the raw number of IPOs has declined significantly: From 1980-2000, the US averaged roughly 300 IPOs per year; from 2001-2016, the average fell to 108 per year. 1999-2000 51.6% Time Period IPO Pop % Above IFR 1999-2000 51.6% 1990-1998 13.3%

SEC 36

SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue! I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class.

Saudi Arabia 309

Saudi Arabia Valuation IPO Technical Review 309

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In consumer packaged goods, the benchmark for a “highly successful” product launch is no easy feat: $50 million in first-year sales. Successful demand generation campaigns break down silos between marketing and sales. Another plus: It costs almost nothing to produce. Seed your launch campaign with advance sales.

Product 110

Product Campaign Acquisition Social Media 110

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 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. In 2017, the company reported sales of over $500 million.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Berkonomics

APRIL 9, 2020

And these are indeed strange times, especially if you haven’t lived through 2000-2002 and 2007-2008 recessions and difficulty in finding money from banks and investors. If the total annual potential is 100,000 units, the slower cycle to market just cost the company two thirds of a year in the product’s profits.

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Differentiation Revenue Cost Operations 62

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them.

Retention 115

Retention Customer Developer Programming 115

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them.

Retention 112

Retention Developer Customer Programming 112

ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

Better examples of a falsifiable hypothesis might be: I believe my shoe business is losing money because our sneakers are priced too high and by reducing the cost we will increase sales by at least 50%. By reducing the cost of our sneakers, sales will not increase by at least 50%. A lagging indicator is an outcome.

Marketing 133

Marketing Metrics Programming Design 133

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them.

Retention 105

Retention Customer Developer Programming 105

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them.

Retention 98

Retention Customer Developer Programming 98

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Even worse, DVD sales were starting to lag, and a Hollywood backlash further muddied the situation. Then there were challenges with fulfillment logistics, difficulty maintaining DVD quality, and trying to figure out how to do all this in a way that covered costs and generated some cash. In 1993, Word 6.0

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Big Data meets travel…in 2000. Magical, really. TripAdvisor’s History: Two Big Pivots.

Part-Time VPE 54

Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 28, 2015

The most famous, and I believe the first, study that pointed to the adverse effects of choice was in 2000 and the subject was jam. When the number of available options is small, these costs are negligible, but the costs grow with the number of options. When Reducing Options Increases Sales. But what about online sales?

Conversion 48

Conversion Software Review Retention Email 48

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

s form of no-holds-barred capitalism, our financial markets were slow to adopt the idea, with the trend really only taking hold during the heady securitization period of the mid-2000’ s. The cost of capital nor commercial insurance pricing improvements are enough to excite the public. Ironically, given the U.S.’s Public Good Concerns.

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Private Equity New York City Chicago Investment Bankers 129

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. SALES & MARKETING. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. Theres a huge opportunity cost in not taking equity," he says. And his vendors ended up with nothing when his company, OpenAuto.com , went out of business, in 2000.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” As a result, AdWords boasts over one million customers and over $30B in annual revenue. Compare Amazon’s one-click experience with an e-commerce site that requires five pages of information input in order to affect a sale.

Metrics 93

Metrics Conversion Internet Acquisition 93

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

When new companies enter the market they really have no chance to initially unseat the incumbents because the performance gap is too large and the costs / time of catching up too unachievable. In 1999-2000 they weren’t doing enterprise-wide installations at Merrill Lynch, Dell and Cisco. Enter Salesforce.com. They can’t.

Vesting 376

Vesting Framework Revenue Technology 376

Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 2, 2013

The LA Times and Chicago Tribune are for sale. Mobile ad units are cheaper and more ineffective than online units, putting even more pressure on newspaper revenues. In the US, newspaper revenues in 2012 were half what they were in 2000. The structure of payments costs has simply been too high.

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Brazil New York Germany Chicago 167

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Of all your hires, if you have commissioned sales people, those will give you the most problems if they’re not all given an equal chance to make their quotas and achieve their personal earnings goals. Can you acquire them at a sustainable cost? I am very surprised when that cool thing actually meets a customer need or drives revenue.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2018

You can get big-time, modern, virtual phone functionality at a fraction of the cost. He is the president and founder of Revenue & Associates and the creator of The bullseye marketing framework and we’re going to talk about a book built on that called Bullseye Marketing: How to Grow Your Business Faster. John Jantsch: Yeah.

Marketing 56

Marketing Social Media Analytics Software 56

Eric Friedman

JANUARY 4, 2017

With CES in full swing, I have been thinking more about hardware businesses that have a SaaS component for ongoing revenue and support. This is a great example of a hardware sale that probably happened at a nominal profit (maybe loss?) Can hardware costs come down to $0? Just see Internet of S**t for some hilarious tweets.

Non-Compete 74

Non-Compete Business Model Green Revenue 74

Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2012

from box-office revenue. But the total movie industry revenue was $87 billion. From sources that the studios at one time claimed would put them out of business: Pay-per view TV, cable and satellite channels, video rentals, DVD sales, online subscriptions and digital downloads. Where did the other $57 billion come from?

Silicon Valley 336

Silicon Valley Distribution Washington Channel 336

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 11, 2016

The Cost of Customer Acquisition: How Much Can You Spend to Earn New Business? Marketers spend a lot of time and energy looking at the metrics that illuminate the costs of finding new customers and keeping current customers. Is it revenue or is it bookings? written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. asks Allen.

Acquisition 43

Acquisition Cost Customer .Net 43

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

Carl was also worldwide head of stores at Home Depot when Hurricane Katrina hit, running sales out of the backs of trucks and accepting IOUs for payment. I think about this in customers and protecting your employees and customers, always protect your P&L, your revenue. So, how are you investing in being even better?

Technical Review 148

Technical Review Balance Sheet Texas Austin 148

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The DIY mentality can really bog you down and become a burden eventually, plus it can really cost you more time and money in the grand scheme of things. I just wanted to break down those two pieces real quick the time side and the cost side. Then the second one here which I eluded to is really all about cost. Two, revenue.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

Reach $125 billion in sales by 2000.” billion in revenue, with a total revenue of $136.3 But a BHAG shouldn’t focus solely on revenue or growth. “Democratize the automobile.” Ford wanted to make the automobile something everyone could enjoy, not just the wealthy or elite. In 2018, Walmart had $500.3

Connecticut 180

Connecticut New York City New York Australia 180

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 13, 2015

and 5%” or “cost to acquire a customer between $50 and $500″ or “average monthly revenue per customer between $20 and $200.” So they’ll need 1666 customers to achieve their revenue target. (We Including future cancellations, they’ll need to sign up a total of 2000 customers to net 1666.

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Business Model Affiliate Startup Bootstrapping 120