www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I’d like to take a few minutes to dispel the top five myths of software startups. I could point to countless examples of mediocre software being unleashed upon the general population, after which people like you and me have to help replace it with something decent. In fact, not having one can be more helpful than anything else.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

Click fraud first came to light in 2005, when several major cases were taken to court. Wired refers to these as “hordes of linked machines controlled by rogue software.” When the fraud hit, that fell to just a few hundred pounds of revenue a day and a ton of wasted spend. Consider click-fraud software.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it. And there’s this other thing called “gross margin,” which shows the quality of your revenue. How much ad revenue does TripAdvisor make?

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 24, 2015

A study in the Harvard Business Review noted that increasing customer retention by 5% can generate a 25%-95% increase in profit. Virtual training academy Treehouse teaches beginners coding, app development, and business skills. Due to the software’s complexity, Autodesk turned to gamification to create captivating tutorials.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

In 2010, I started building a software that analyzed why websites ranked highly on Google’s SERP. After a few years building and refining the software, I knew more about the algorithms Google used to rank pages than just about anybody outside Mountain View. Thanks to Jeremy Britton, 24HourWealthCoach.com ! #21-

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. Kayak Software Corporation. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million. Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. Google bought Gil’s company in 2003 (pre IPO) for $100+ million and this business now represents about 30% of all of Googles revenue. We raised $16.5 million in our A round.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

A key aspect of our personal due diligence is then is assessing our partners, particularly learning how they react under stress." — Whitney Johnson , Co-Founder, Rose Park Advisors. And usually, its something that has a serious revenue-generating impact on my company. ©2005-2013 Mashable, Inc. startupcto'

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

AUGUST 3, 2010

Such facilities can take a lot of cash to launch due to the cost of facility rent and equipment costs, and the aspiring entrepreneur had no ready source of cash. F]rom 2005 to 2008 we grew revenue by 1,067% from $373,866 in. 2005 to $4.4 employees, a ton of servers, niche software, and 1 dog. We did that with 8.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

I spent 6 months coding and building Dogster myself. I wish I could claim I deftly foresaw this, but I was just seeking recurring revenue to to cover OneMatchFire’s office expenses. Though I should point out was still doing client work for OneMatchFire until mid-2005 until the business could pay full salaries.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

LinkedIn’s product had only been live for a couple months, we only had tens of thousands of registered users, and wouldn’t start generating revenue for more than a year after this point. Thanks for sharing a candid view of what went on; I’ve heard Reid discuss the process in 2005 at a conference in the UK. Congrats!

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2017

I run award-winning agency InsideOut PR (established 2005) and founded social influencer agency #AsSeenOn last year. AsSeenOn was founded due to the shift in media landscape and the rising importance of social influencers. Whilst volunteering with CoderDojo I could see that there was a strong demand for children’s coding classes.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 9, 2011

However, think about the implications of Google creating a “Click to Schedule&# function for AdWords units, Places Pages, and Review Pages like those in HotPot. For many industries this could be a game changing kind of social action and another big revenue generator for Google.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! And that was, you know, 2004, 2005 was, I was realizing that it was no longer about working harder. So now it's the chief revenue officer, right. Look, you've worked hard to grow your business and finding CRM software. More About Cameron Herold: The COO Alliance.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

The interesting part is that my own path moving from consulting to products followed the same steps, as you can see in my product revenue chart from the past decade: Each revenue jump is when I made the move to the next step of the Stairstep Approach. Step 3: Recurring Revenue. Step 2: Rinse and Repeat.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! And I think as we talk just a little bit, as we got started, you started in 2005. Even the blogging software is really referred to as just content management, mm-hmm software systems. They've got lots of great software out there now for editing. Like this show?

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

The interesting part is that my own path moving from consulting to products followed the same steps, as you can see in my product revenue chart from the past decade: Each revenue jump is when I made the move to the next step of the Stair Step Approach. Step 3: Recurring Revenue. Step 2: Own Your Time.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2018

I started PromotionCode.org as an online spreadsheet of coupon codes for teachers out of necessity ten years ago with no idea it would eventually become a business. 8 tons transportable dome capable of withstanding 200 or more mph winds due to its shape and design. We will NOT trade USA jobs for foreign profits…”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue! It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. I said that at the Founder Showcase, too. and profits! That doesn’t mean it’s not a bubble.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? Unfortunately they will be very expensive (30-50% or more of gross revenue).

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mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Mobile commerce revenues may still pale in comparison to their ecommerce brothers, but we’re already seeing signs of mobile commerce’s potential. Choosing Between Mobile and Native Apps One of the resounding themes for mobile software developers in 2011 is the debate between building a native app or building a mobile web app.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

And this rapid prototyping thing when your back's against the wall and your revenue model's gone from 100% to 10%, if you're a small business, restaurant owner or you're running a small curbside, even a consignment store, I'm trying to help a leader understand how he can serve. So, how are you investing in being even better?

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

The interesting part is that my own path moving from consulting to products followed the same steps, as you can see in my product revenue chart from the past decade: Each revenue jump is when I made the move to the next step of the Stairstep Approach. Step 3: Recurring Revenue. Step 2: Rinse and Repeat.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market. Consider just how much exposure the Austin community gets every year due to SXSW. They haven’t launched their next gen product – watch this space.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 17, 2009

pre-revenue and maybe even pre-product), I recommend a discretionary plan, particularly when you're dealing with annual plans. And finally, once the business has achieved greater scale and size (50+ people, $10MM+ revenue, etc.)  If you have an important software release coming up, that could be included.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 27, 2019

And IM (Instant Messenger) has now been replaced with texting as well as software like Microsoft Lync, which are more secure and have built-in video conference features now that virtually all laptops and tablets have cameras built in. From: Brett Hurt Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 10:52 AM To: All Bazaarvoice?—?Internal

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

The only thing that seemed to be consistent about my growth was that my revenue was relatively flat while my user base kept growing. This turned out to be a good move since it doubled their revenue that month. He has a great stats page that shows everything from monthly revenue to the breakdown of users by plan type.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. Want to start a startup?

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Professor VC

JULY 31, 2008

I assembled textbook chapters, Harvard Business Review articles, cases, and notes to pull together my own textbook. The artists received very little of album sales, but kept concert and merchandise revenue. The artists received very little of album sales, but kept concert and merchandise revenue. hp coupon code.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

Adding Ad Revenue. I hired those writers, the traffic increased, I started getting more revenue from advertising, and the income increased to about $1,500 per month as a result of that. I paid him half of the Adsense revenue, which turned out to be about $500 a month, and he just managed the whole site. We increased the revenue.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

By 2005, it became clear that more people were reading GigaOm than they were reading my then employer, Business 2.0. Lesson Learned : Build a peer review mentoring culture. None of them were hired by me, and instead they were picked up through a peer-review-hire process. Back to the top. ARE YOU WINNING AS A FOUNDER?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

or just present your crappy, first-run code to investors then pay someone to re-write the entire thing. The contract work burn out is totally where I’m coming from… chip WAAIIITTT… wasn’t the coding of the first version of Digg outsourced to some guy on Elance? What did you do again? Who knows.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

We got to thousands of customers and millions in recurring revenue. On the other hand, I haven’t done client based marketing since 2005 when I swore I’d never do it again. It’s software with a service. Could you leave an honest review? Still to this day never bores me. I’m not jaded yet.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

After I left academia (too slow moving) and the consultancy company I worked for (lack of vision), four friends and I applied that puzzle-solving passion to creating software for solving supply chain puzzles. Back in 2005, I started Cellit, a company focused on helping companies communicate with their customers via text messages.

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