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Founder Interview: Richard Lavina Innovating Accounting Services with Taxfyle

The Startup Magazine

Prior to founding Taxfyle in 2015, Richard worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers as an auditor. Fast forward to today; since we founded Taxfyle in 2015, it has earned the support and investment of numerous venture capitalists and is one of the fastest-growing companies in any sector in the U.S. Last year, Taxfyle ranked No. Magazine’ Inc.

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

But, historically, they’ve undermined monetization—requiring crawler access that savvy users exploit and demanding free clicks for searchers. In 2009, Google allowed publishers to cap FCF views at five articles per day ; in 2015, the cap tightened to three articles. The Athletic, Cook’s Illustrated, Adweek) have paywalls, too.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Hemafuse

Austin Startup

Our dual 2020 goals are continued geographic scale of Hemafuse to achieve a $1M revenue run rate and a pilot of our second portfolio product. We moved our company from Michigan to Baltimore in 2015, and it was a great decision for us. Tell us your favorite thing about being based in Baltimore.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. In 2015, Eddy Lu and Daishin Sugano launched GOAT , a marketplace for the exchange of sneakers. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0

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How to Craft (Or Pivot) Your Agency Value Proposition

ConversionXL

The goal was simple: validate demand or move on. For example, after looking at the broader market, we saw that a service that helps marketers scale their video content was in demand. Choose to expand vertically or horizontally. For ambitious agencies, taking an MVP approach can unlock incredibly lucrative revenue streams.

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Accel 2021 Euroscape: On the path to global dominance?

Cracking the Code

Back in 2016, Europe and Israel had only four public companies worth less than $9B combined and local cloud companies had raised just $900M throughout 2015. The $900M of SaaS VC funding in 2015 now represents less than Europe's largest financing round, with Celonis raising $1B in June this year. The Index added another $0.9T

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