The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Hosted VoiP services scale on-demand as your company grows. In 2012, the global revenue of the VoIP industry reached $43.27 Flexibility plays a crucial role in scaling your business. Your systems need the capacity to keep up with frequent changes. VoIP phone technology is inherently flexible.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Sam also had a vision as early as 2012 about how MakeSpace would be a large employer of middle-income jobs: The company would hire employees rather than just have contractors and he would lead the effort to ensure they had opportunities for growth and benefits for their families. and we were met with weak demand, slow growth and high costs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 30, 2024

By pivoting to a specialized niche, he aligned his services with client demands, enhancing efficiency and scalability through technology. Then I started my first agency in 2012, and basically we were building websites for the worst possible niche, in my opinion, solopreneurs. Eventually that turned into learning about traffic.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

oDesk claims that it dominates the market of online freelance marketplaces with $360 million spent by its clients in 2012; this number for the five closest competitors combined – Elance, Freelancer, Guru, People Per Hour, and 99Designs – reaches only $310 million. According to the last stats provided by oDesk itself, the company has 4.5

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The astute host will research and promote new experiences, self-guided outdoor excursions (check out the new apps tailored to this phenomenon) or in-home entertainment and gaming, as well as fitness equipment, in light of new consumer demands. Pam joined Avalara in 2012. With a new landscape comes new opportunities for promotion.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2012

A pair of wake-up-call studies by the Fournaise Marketing Group in London in 2011 and 2012 found that more than 70 percent of CEOs think that their chief marketing officers lack business credibility, lack the ability to generate acceptable growth, and lack the ability to explain how their programs will lead to increased business.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

Others believe in the start small, grow strong approach: build a small version of the app, test user demand, and then take it from there. Back when I was junior in college in 2012, I had an idea for an app called Recycler Spotter, a platform that rewarded users for their eco-friendly actions.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2014

DSO is the average number of days that a company takes to collect revenue after a sale has been made. China trades with the lowest number of open accounts in Asia, partly because its exports are in such high demand, and partly because China suppliers are short of working capital. Business Services Resource Guide 2012/13.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Pursuing an entrepreneurial venture is invariably a huge demand on your time. Depending on your interests, with additional research and reading and by interacting with people in the know, you can educate yourself about the inner workings of businesses well beyond what your academic curriculum demands. Business idea.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This is my recap of what stood out to me this year and what I’m looking forward to in 2012 — we are only in the beginning of many revolutions. Business schools throughout the country, include my alma mater, Kellogg, established or expanded their social entrepreneurship offerings due to increased demand from students.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

What is the future of Pay-Per-View/Video-on-Demand (PPV and VOD)? Video-on-demand alone is estimated to grow from a $1.1 billion dollar business this year to $5 billion by 2012, taking market share away from DVD retailers and intensifying the carriers' ambition to bid for the best (and first run) titles. Annual U.S. Annual U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

There continues to be an incredible demand out there for actionable, practical lessons in how to apply this emerging set of ideas. The problem is when you’re chasing revenue; any and all customers will seem like the right customer. Copyright © 2012 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2014

Indeed since 2012 the daily deal model have been observed to be dying a slow death , and even industry players agree an overhaul of their business models is due in order for them to survive. That pivot may have changed TheLuxeNomad ‘s fortunes - it has tripled its revenues in the short period of June to December 2013.

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fi.co

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Sydney Spring 2012. on Feb 22, 2012. The person was asking for benchmark data on percentages to validate the right thing to do between two co-founders and one early employee that had more demanding salary needs. Copyright 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 - Founder Institute, Incorporated - All rights reserved. Rio de Janeiro.

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Small Business Force

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

We had some nice sustained success with six consecutive quarters of record revenues and earnings. We put a management-wide incentive plan together, based on meeting certain revenue and earnings, where they could all earn back the salary reductions if we hit our new objectives. Between 2012 and 2016, Lego added 7,000 new employees.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Especially when demand for Ford’s products was ballooning — workers could not work fast enough. Both revenues and profits were beginning to decline. That’s why Fortune’s editors named it as the ultimate in their 2012 book The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time. That was inefficient! For good or ill.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

While routine services like cleanings and filling cavities are always in demand, new research shows a growing number of people are interested in cosmetic dentistry, such as whitening services and implants. As demand grows, so does the annual salary. The industry is expected to grow 16 percent between 2012 and 2022.

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Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 20, 2011

This will work but as companies demand more (see next prediction) the ad driven model will evolve in ways not previously seen. SoLoMo: Social Local Mobile is on for 2012. What that will be I do not have a clue but sponsored tweets and ad campaigns simply cannot be anything more than a starting point.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

March 8, 2012. The secondary wave of VC-backed IPOs has also come to fruition… both consumer facing (Yelp, Demand Media, Pandora, Carbonite, HomeAway, Angie’s List, et al) and B2B (Jive Software, Brightcove, Imperva, Responsys, etc). Zynga – 8x+ trailing revenue. trailing revenue. trailing revenue.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Consider this – there were 210 billion reported incidents of spam in 2012. “With the rapid expansion of 4G across the region, there is an even greater need to ensure that checks and systems are in place to meet customer demands for a secure environment and a clean network.”

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2019

And during an era when customers are demanding fast and hyper-personalized service, AI-based technologies couldn’t be more critical. John Oechsle joined Swiftpage in July 2012 and currently serves as president and chief executive officer. AI-based technologies bolster marketing automation efforts through personalized interactions.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

The findings come from the initial results of a survey of 7,502 small privately-held businesses with revenues of less than US$5 million dollars by the Pepperdine Private Capital Markets Project with the cooperation of Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. Positions In Demand. Also, 83.0%

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

billion smartphone users in 2012. Marketers should also be looking at acquisition (visits, unique visitors, pageviews), behavior (pages per visit, time on site, bounce rate), and revenue (if you’re eCommerce). billion smartphone users in 2012. According to Dazeinfo research , there were about 1.13 This number increased by 27.1%

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ithacaVC

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Here is a post from October 2012. And here is a post from November 2012. Funding lets you invest in growing your company faster than revenue growth would normally allow. Revenue is how traditional businesses get valued. Companies like Facebook and Twitter didn’t figure out revenue for a long time. Market size.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 9, 2012

Read on to learn what you can do to make 2012 the year of the cash flow reboot for your business: Respect and understand financial statements. That is, similar to properly matching revenue and expenses to ensure that an accurate measurement of a business’s profit or loss is obtained, you should be able to match cash inflows and outflows.

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Up and Running

APRIL 13, 2016

Marijuana Business Daily projects revenue generated by dispensaries and retail stores to reach between $6.5 If you are dealing with a Schedule I narcotic, which marijuana is, you can only deduct the cost of goods sold from your revenue before you do your taxes,” Lincoln explains. Is there consumer demand? and $8 billion by 2019.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

I find it surprising that a finance professor like Damodaran did not consider the impact of price on demand. The relationship between price and demand is well understood, and while Damodaran may not have the numbers he would need to calculate Uber’s specific price elasticity , let me assure you that it is high. Different Economics.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2014

They met high demand for affordable homes with a single, replicable solution. All software is supposed to save time, raise revenue, cut costs and boost productivity, but we now know how difficult it is to meet those goals. They’re chopping costs and upping revenue. Build-it-Yourself to Do-it-Yourself.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

While it may make sense to offer very slight adjustments for favorable payment terms and one time revenue, net additions to MRR should dominate the sales rep’s thoughts. 1 of MRR generates $12 of annual revenue, so $1 commission equals 1/12=8.3% of Year One Revenue Sounds high, but is that considered a reasonable package?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. One big challenge is how to grow the company.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The company has gotten off to a fast start, $150k in revenue in the first two months, with all the marketing coming from social media. The founders have more demand than they know what to do with, and want to raise $55k for 5% equity in the company to buy a second truck. They have more demand than they can fulfill already.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 25, 2021

We’ll also share when to transition to the growth stage in the product lifecycle so you can drive conversions and revenue off your momentum. Your goal here is to sustain revenue and your position in the market. Decline: New user sign-ups and revenue begins to decrease. X demos booked in introduction, X revenue in growth).

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2016

Make no mistake: the legal marijuana industry is booming, creating huge business opportunities and massive tax revenue incomes for their communities. That’s nearly twice as much revenue than the state earned from alcohol taxes. Demand was high and supply was spotty in places. That ain’t chump change, folks.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Fifteen CFOs participated - about half of them from Bessemer portfolio SaaS companies (Cornerstone On Demand, Intacct. It is time to fix your key SaaS metrics: P&L: MRR = MRE: you control your destiny when your monthly revenue equals your monthly expenses Sales & Marketing: Your cost of capital doubled, so if a CAC ratio > 0.5

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Transformify

AUGUST 16, 2020

As millions of businesses in Asia have shifted to external workforce on-demand to optimize costs and increase flexibility, it comes to no surprise that the demand for the contingent workforce management solution provided by Transformify Freelancer Management System has skyrocketed.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Startup accelerators were a big story in 2012. It took a few years – and a few thousand failed consumer internet startups – but investors have gone back to the basics and now demand that companies they fund have income, not just a lot of Web users or app downloads. Big data startups were a big deal in 2012.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Video on Demand. In aggregate, the various revenue streams would continue to support the creation and distribution of high production value content. In the shift to digital music, several models emerged, with the jury still out on the clear winner. People were quick to draw parallel comparisons for video: Music. A la carte.

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