Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

Differences in how people are reached, their expectations of the buying process, how their trust is earned, the price point they’ll accept, what distribution methods are most efficient, the messaging that attracts them -- all these factors (and more) may represent different sub-segments. Copyright © 2012 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Entrepreneur 167

Entrepreneur Lean Southern California San Diego 167

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 24, 2013

Billion was spent online in 2012. You’re a crazy person if you have a product to sell and you don’t look at the World Wide Web as one of your top priority distribution channels. In my case, 2012 was the first year I finally took the leap and made a purchase I had been hesitant to do before… I bought shoes online.

Software Review 99

Software Review Product Australia Global 99

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 15, 2019

Between 2012 and 2017, the number of craft breweries in the US increased from 2,420 to 6,266 – an increase of 159%! The contract company would handle the other business aspects such as distribution, marketing, and sales. Brewery Sales and Sampling Laws. by Katie Lundin of crowdspring. But we’re here to help.

Small Business Administration 39

Small Business Administration Design Distribution LLC 39

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Sales and marketing plans , lists of prospects, supplier and subcontractor relationships, pricing data, media buying plans and strategies, etc. Large companies] win by locking competitors out of their sales channels. In the mean time, best wishes for a safe, happy and healthy 2012. trade secret).

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

I have been saying privately for years now that I believe online video will evolve into fragmented distribution (my next online video post) and vertical production. Nobody has figured this out better than AwesomenessTV who not only has built an enormous online media presence but also packages and distributes shows for Nickelodeon.

South America 291

South America Colombia Mexico Vertical 291

David Teten

AUGUST 8, 2013

For example, whether the data shows consumption of soft drinks, vs. amount of soft drinks entering distribution channels, will affect the interpretation of the numbers. Car sales per capita have dropped significantly due to recession, cultural change, and growth of car-sharing. Car Sales Per Capita. 6) How?

Technical Review 114

Technical Review .Net Audience Naming 114

Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

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. What is the future for good-old fashioned DVD rentals and sales? Has the U.S. What is the future of Pay-Per-View/Video-on-Demand (PPV and VOD)?

Los Angeles 85

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Technical Review Distribution 85

YoungUpstarts

JULY 27, 2018

Between 2012 and 2017, Facebook grew from one billion active users to over two billion. Direct selling business Amway has a thriving online community where Independent Business Owners can ask experienced peers questions about topics such as marketing, sales, and business management. YouTube has over 1.5 billion users. Networking.

Community 113

Community Social Media Hosting Search 113

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 11, 2020

The number of people working remotely in the United States has risen by nearly 80 percent between 2005 and 2012. For a distributed team to be successful, you must streamline communications. They can even hurt sales and customer relationships over the long term. And the trend continues to grow. Although there’s one huge caveat.

Agile 145

Agile Startup San Francisco United States 145

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. What’s Next in 2012…. Yes, we have huge challenges ahead…but if you read these 10 trends it’s hard not to be optimistic about meeting these challenges. And Beyond….

Technical Review 110

Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 2, 2013

Multi-channel attribution was the flavor of the month for every month in 2012. And just as in 2012 magic pills will be scarce, FUD will be plentiful, and vendors will promise the moon. Put them on sale! What you now see is the distribution of which link is making you how much money. MCF Assisted Conversions Report.

Analytics 159

Analytics Search Campaign eCommerce 159

uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

UX Study The State Of E-Commerce Checkout Design 2012. September 4th, 2012. Above you see the distribution among the top 100 grossing e-commerce websites in regards to the number of checkout steps they have. User Experience. UI Design. E-Commerce. WP Word Press. Essentials. Techniques. By Christian Holst. 18 Comments.

Design 98

Design Software Review HTML Technical Review 98

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Golden times for online retailers, many of whom have already hit walls when it comes to both sales and country borders. Special characteristics are especially in the distribution of digital products: Until 2015, tax matters had been transacted in the vendor’s home country. Challenges In Operation.

United Kingdom 100

United Kingdom Monaco Cyprus Cofounder 100

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 29, 2023

Every year inbound brings together leaders across business, sales, marketing, customer success, operations, and more. That's something we realized around 2012 and then after around 2017, so between 2012 and 2017, progress was very linear. (05:28): That's right. It'll be in Boston from September 5th through the eighth.

Artificial Inteligence 64

Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Algorithm Networking 64

Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

1) Qwikster May Have Different Owner in Longer Term – It was obvious before and it’s explicit now… the future of Netflix is digital distribution. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets? 9 July 2012, 1:10 pm Directr – Tell Your Story 30 June 2012, 1:55 am. What’s Your Favorite Future?

Silicon Valley 100

Silicon Valley Private Equity Seed Stage Syndicate 100

Brandanew

JUNE 15, 2015

Storytelling as a Content Marketing technique that was introduced in 2012 by the co-founder of Contently, Shane Snow. Storytelling is the art of convincing your target audience to buy your products and services without actually giving them a sales pitch. He described storytelling as the number one business skill for the coming 5 years.

Viral 100

Viral Marketing Social Media SEO 100

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 8, 2018

When you distribute work effectively, you increase your own productivity while developing your employees’ skill sets. With an increased focus on quarterly returns and monthly sales targets, many managers look for the quickest, easiest solutions to their organization’s issues. Think Long-Term.

Private Equity 127

Private Equity Employee Global Operations 127

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2012

I recently had the privilege of assembling an all-star group of media executives in Beverly Hills to discuss the challenges they face in distributing, monetizing and delivering their video content. In aggregate, the various revenue streams would continue to support the creation and distribution of high production value content.

Business Model 153

Business Model Distribution Aggregator Channel 153

ConversionXL

MAY 6, 2014

In 2012, I launched a kind of ‘Groupon deal for musicians’, where I gave away $1,250 worth of products, including recording time, iTunes distribution, and a guitar string endorsement deal for just $69 for 100 hours only. How I Increased Sales By 332% Using Scarcity & Urgency. There were only 5,000 packages available.

Sales 132

Sales Conversion Stock PPC 132

pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

by Sarah Lacy on February 26, 2012. Now that content creators (musicians, producers, writers) can control more of their distribution, Ive caught myself following specific writers and less concerned about what brand their write under. link] February 27th, 2012 | Category: Entrepreneurship [.]. Get Tickets. Post navigation.

Entrepreneur 45

Entrepreneur San Francisco Silicon Valley Technical Review 45

Tim Keane

OCTOBER 4, 2010

 If you are using a sales force making customer visits, how much behavior is driven by territory size and quotas as opposed to market coverage? And, of course, there are plenty of near real-time distribution statistics available if your capture system works.  Which salespeople/partners/territories are the best?

Wisconsin 60

Wisconsin Marketing Angel Investor Startup 60

Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

It also assumes the entire value of the investment is captured for investors at a sale of the company in the time specified in the term-sheet. This results in a range of sale prices; in this example from $118.6MM to $21MM. Let’s start at the end.   So, let’s assume here we have an 8% non-cumulative dividend.

Term Sheet 68

Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

That could be a standard sale contract, i.e. buy and sell single items or batches, or a partnership agreement, i.e. contract manufacturing, sales agency, or distribution agreement. Founded in New York City in 2012, Kinnek bases its business model on quality over quantity. B2B Marketplaces in Asia. Kinnek is the newcomer.

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B2B Saudi Arabia Global United Kingdom 124

Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

Beginning as a small red cart in Eugene, Oregon, today Red Wagon Creamery has a downtown storefront, local retail distribution, and online ordering. In our second year, we bought a small commercial ice cream machine, added a second cart, and almost tripled our sales.”. Again, sales tripled. “By The cook and the lawyer.

Oregon 60

Oregon Prospectus Southern California California 60

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 26, 2019

Between 2012 and 2017, the number of craft breweries in the US jumped from 2,420 to 6,266 – that’s an increase of 159%! The contract company would handle the other business aspects such as distribution, marketing, and sales. Alcohol production, distribution, and sales are all heavily shaped by laws.

Small Business Administration 94

Small Business Administration Distribution LLC Small Business 94

Tim Keane

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Long term thinking -- for entrepreneurs » October 03, 2012.  They believe they can see the market need, sometimes make a personal decision about whether they would buy or not, and get "bought in" by the prospective sales pitch to the market. October 2012. Technology versus market risk in angel investments.

Technology 74

Technology Marketing Intellectual Property Montana 74

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The FDA is strict with PMAs and in 2012, only approved 37. The company distributed a neurovascular medical device called Onyx. According to the FDA, between 2005-2009, sales reps from ev3 encouraged surgeons to use Onyx outside the brain in unproven and dangerous ways. Know that apps aren’t automatically exempt from regulations.

Technical Review 111

Technical Review Software Review Canada Startup 111

finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Exclusive: Returns for brand-name VC funds By Dan Primack August 20, 2012: 12:15 PM ET. The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. In parenthesis is the cumulative distribution divided by called capital.

Naming 49

Naming Term Sheet Private Equity Equity 49

Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The sharks greeted this with skepticism, and rightfully so, especially given the short time the company has been in business and the relatively low sales volume. Pro NRG had made $126k in sales in the three months that it had been available. In 2011 they did $100k in sales and $40k in profits. In 2010 they did $10k in profits.

Pre-Money Valuation 101

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Dilution Differentiation 101

aweissman.com

JANUARY 31, 2012

Jan 31, 2012. What networks do is that they take the traditional "distribution" roles associated with information - production, marketing, promotion - and push those to the edges, the nodes, as opposed to a centralized source. Instead, information just wants to be distributed friction-free. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

Non-Compete 50

Non-Compete Distribution Networking Media 50

Software By Rob

MARCH 13, 2013

Then enters Gumroad, proposing a partnership in which Onepager would use Gumroad as its e-commerce tool, giving us the functionality we needed, and providing Gumroad with wider distribution. We gained wider distribution. That’s high volume sales without much work. Since then, our revenue has increased by 50%.

Revenue 68

Revenue Cofounder Distribution Partner 68

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2013

2012 became the year that a number of very well-known content producers embraced the podcast format, producing and distributing audio content in a very big way. Discussions and more with today’s top authorities on sales, marketing and much more than just business. My personal listening list. Improve your impact.

RSS 70

RSS Audio Social Media Syndicate 70

Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 13, 2006

" Distribution is everything. But it isnt the same as having the sales instinct down so well that he can taste it. He used to sneak out every now and then and go on sales calls with GE sales guys, often from Plastics, where he grew up at GE. Sometimes the leader caves to the sales manager hes hired.

Wisconsin 60

Wisconsin Angel Investor Bootstrapping Distribution 60

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. He searched and pitched planners who worked at companies with 500+ people and closed $200k himself before he made his first sales hire. spent $20k on their MVP.

Sweat Equity 78

Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 78

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? How wide do you want to grow production and distribution, or do you want to focus on selling over your own bar? Relationships.

Oregon 60

Oregon Jordan SBA Cofounder 60

www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

Sales & Marketing. --> Bloggers. --> Resources. MediaNext 2012. 07/25/2012. Advertising/Sales. Distribution. Sales/Business Development. --> ENTER a CITY and/or SELECT STATE. Web Designer, Sales/Mktg - Md. Sales Executive - New Jersey. -->. --> Grab this swicki from eurekster.com. -->.

Social Media 40

Social Media Rhode Island Media South Dakota 40

ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

In contrast to “distribution-first content,” movement-first content is a conscious sacrifice of reach: “it isn’t beholden to any SEO tactics like word count and keyword density.” Identified a communication gap between customers and the sales and marketing teams as a primary pain point. Original research.

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Naming Conversion Flash Cofounder 119