ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X. And yet, revenue went up by 45% YoY. At a startup, this can be as simple as defining why the founder started the company in the first place. Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. With enough resources, products can always be copied. Everyone else?

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Marketing Social Media Non-Compete Audience 109

Early Growth Financial Services

OCTOBER 16, 2014

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has been working on updating its rules for revenue recognition since 2002. They cover everything from when revenue is recognized, to the amount of required disclosures, to the degree of discretion in the use of estimates. What does this mean for your business?

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Revenue Startup Design Technology 53

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2011

Once you are able to achieve some real “traction” with your business (paying customers, revenue stream), it may seem the time to relax a bit, but in fact this is the point where many founders start to flounder. Investors often say that successfully navigating the early stages of a startup requires lots of street smarts, guts, and luck.

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Early Stage Startup Founder Revenue 246

Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

I’ve observed what may be an emerging trend, at least in some startups, that I find somewhat unsettling. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2010

Once you are able to achieve some real “traction” with your business (paying customers, revenue stream), it may seem the time to relax a bit, but in fact this is the point where many founders start to flounder. Investors often say that successfully navigating the early stages of a startup requires lots of street smarts, guts, and luck.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. I built my first startup in Argentina during the economic crisis-turned-revolution in 2001,” writes Frederic Kerrest , “and my co-founder and I started Okta in the depths of the U.S. Even less does it mean high transaction volume or revenue. What the big studies have shown.

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

View from Seed

JANUARY 20, 2015

The startup ecosystem is often full of hyperbole, which is perfectly understandable when you think about it. Not every startup is going to “crush” their original milestones and financial projections. We went public in 2002 and eBay bought the company later that year for over $1.5 Do No Harm. Don’t Blindside Them.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Startup Employee PR 120

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

August 20, 2017: This is another in my series of posts all leading up to a book on Startup Decision Making. One of the most common mistakes I see in startups is making decisions that lose sight of the context , including the past, present, and future. Sooner or later everybody in a startup knows what everyone else is getting paid.

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Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2018

The “advertising is dying” drumbeat started in November 2002 when Gallup released this study that proved traditional advertising expenditures were not generating results. So, if you want to grow revenue and successfully market your products and services, what do you do? First, slow down and shift your thinking from action to impact.

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Marketing Entrepreneur Demand Advertising 93

The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2017

Outcomes from a national study conducted by the Center for an Urban Future that reported a dramatic 52 percent growth in woman-owned business formation from 2002 to 2012.( The research suggested the best states for startup activity included New York, Memphis and Dallas. Avg Revenues / firm. Race/Ethnicity. # Avg # of Employees.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 21, 2015

The startup ecosystem is often full of hyperbole, which is perfectly understandable when you think about it. Not every startup is going to “crush” their original milestones and financial projections. We went public in 2002 and eBay bought the company later that year for over $1.5 Do No Harm. Don’t Blindside Them.

Cofounder 188

Cofounder Seed Stage Employee PR 188

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Questions I ask Mike Evans: [1:46] Could you give us a high-level overview of the startup of Grubhub to IPO to what you’re doing now? More About Mike Evans: Hangry: A Startup Journey. Like this show?

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Being enterprise scale means that your representatives have regular dialogue at CXO or at least VP level with Global 2000 accounts are they are bringing in millions of revenue from those accounts every year. In simple terms the customer's risk of doing nothing has to be higher than the risk of buying software from an unknown startup.

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Software Startup Architecture Bootstrapping 127

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Advisor. ); STARTUP. But with the help of Grahams company, which specializes in creating tech systems for start-ups, Jumpstart grew to more than $50 million in revenue--enough to make it an attractive acquisition for media conglomerate Hachette Filipacchi. Arizona Bay has also blended equity payments with revenue-sharing deals.

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Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

Agile VC

JANUARY 21, 2015

The startup ecosystem is often full of hyperbole, which is perfectly understandable when you think about it. Not every startup is going to “crush” their original milestones and financial projections. We went public in 2002 and eBay bought the company later that year for over $1.5 Do No Harm. Don’t Blindside Them.

Cofounder 100

Cofounder Seed Stage Employee PR 100

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. I wanted to touch on ‘golazo’ as it’s my fault we use this strange verbiage, but also a critical element we look for in all the startups we invest in. These are the same qualities we’re looking for in terms of ambition and potential scale of the startups we invest in.

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South Korea Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate 124

View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

It’s become increasingly common for startups to raise several seed rounds, and this has led to a bifurcation in the seed stage between what are known as “pre-seed” (or “genesis”) and institutional seed rounds. The entire funding progression of startups pushed out to the right.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

If you run a startup and are currently raising money, you probably planned for a somewhat different fundraising environment than the one you find yourself in today. Perhaps you are caught in the “Series A crunch” or perhaps you are a consumer company and expected that you would be valued on users rather than revenue like the last time.

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Down Round Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation 78

Campus Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2012

From Kevin Kiley of Inside Higher Ed : In inflation-adjusted dollars, total state support for the top 101 public universities declined by 10 percent between 2002 and 2010, with nearly 75 percent receiving cuts. . — sound like its time for the Lean University. global competitiveness.”.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 1, 2015

Social media (2002). There are dozens of examples of new ideas, inventions, and machines that launched a small business that grew and grew into business powerhouses. Photo: Wikipedia ). Every day (well almost every day) I wake up with a reminder from Facebook that this friend or that one has a birthday today.

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Small Business Social Media China Mobile 48

Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

If you run a startup and are currently raising money, you probably planned for a somewhat different fundraising environment than the one you find yourself in today. Perhaps you are caught in the “Series A crunch” or perhaps you are a consumer company and expected that you would be valued on users rather than revenue like the last time.

Marketing 46

Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation Down Round 46

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Past (1985-2002). billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace. The Present Era. Plaxo & LinkedIn.

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 5, 2020

The SARS outbreak in 2002 leads to the tremendous growth of online marketplace platforms in China. It helped them to engage already existing customers with the brand and kept the revenues steady. Also, it is important to note business leaders believe that 4IR tech will safeguard them against an economic downturn in the future.

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Technical Review Software Review Entrepreneur China 153

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2018

My father and I started the business back in 2002 with the following dream: “our mission is to support USA families and jobs by producing high-quality clothing, in the USA, at an affordable price. The city needed what i’d been working so hard on in all other cities – revenue and advertisers. Photo Credit: BJ Nickol.

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www.humbledmba.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. 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. Check out my newest company. Click here to get priority access. humbledMBA.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery.

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Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 326

Gust

MAY 24, 2012

As a quick review, most startups begin life as corporations with a single class of equity securities, referred to as Common Stock , issued to founders, employees, and outside service providers. Options and warrants, when issued, are also typically exercisable for shares of Common Stock.

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IPO Equity Common Stock Stock 159

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

billion Iridium was one of the largest, boldest and audacious startup bets ever made. It crashed back down to earth as one of the largest startup failures on record. They made other assumptions about the type of sales channel, partnerships and revenue model they would need. The result was a classic startup failure writ large.

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Business Plan Customer Business Model Customer Development 335

om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Being a startup founder is hard, tough, frustrating and rewarding – possibly all within the space of a nanosecond. Before I started GigaOm (the company) in June 2006, I had never really worked for a startup. The closest I got to having a startup experience was being a member of the founding team of Forbes.com.

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Founder Conversion Distribution Silicon Valley 80

Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

It is apparent that the United States has the highest performing entrepreneurship, but what is truly amazing is how women contribute the biggest growth in revenue, employment and financial efficiency. Here are some of the most interesting facts about female founders as well as startups. Background Image: Unsplash/Rawpixel. Kathi Kruse.

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Entrepreneur Social Media B2B Cofounder 76

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2012

Harrison says he regards charity: water as a for-profit startup that has no profits, saying, “We give away 100% of our profits. Despite adhering to practices that many businesses claim limit profits, Hollender and his associates have built Seventh Generation into a major corporate force, bringing in over $150 million in revenue in 2010.

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Egypt Entrepreneur Senegal Africa 250

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

During my second startup we never considered using cloud computer processing for our real-time processes but we did run some batch processes there. But sure enough over time Amazon was able to prove that they could reliably meet performance targets and so many startups bet their who infrastructure on Amazon. Processing. Management.

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Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343

ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

The quote first surfaced in 2002. Three tactics to maximize revenue from a CRO program: Free test software. 3 Growth hacks for early stage startups: Find your scaling lever (HouseTrip, Facebook). As a publisher, content doesn’t make you very much money (with ads at least), so: Think about additional revenue streams.

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PPC Analytics Video Non-Compete 48

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

There’s been ample coverage in the popular press of course highlighting everything from the company’s revenue growth, lack of profitability, and the well-publicized fact that founder/CEO Jack Dorsey is also CEO of Twitter so would theoretically be running two public companies simultaneously. Revenue Composition. Starbucks Deal.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

At crowdSPRING we talk a great deal about how we can leverage our limited marketing resources to drive traffic and revenues and build strong community. OK Go is an indy rock band formed in 2002, with three albums released since their inception. Most important lesson: hire a 6-foot tall chicken to promote your brand.

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