Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Big-bang hard launches make sense for large enterprises like Apple or Microsoft, who are building on existing revenue streams and have the resources for lavish events, Superbowl ads and large inventory buildups. Small real revenue today is better than large later projections. Partners and distribution channels will take you seriously.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Transportation partners play an enormous role in the supply chain as they bring products into distribution centers and sometimes directly to customers. trillion in profits due to cost-saving and increased revenues. Learn how these disjointed sources of materials affect your supply chain costs and cause potential delays.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

The concept our Guilds is simple: We want to bring together small groups of Product and Go-to-Market experts to lend their time to support our portfolio company founders and key operators. Go-to-Market Guild. Jessica Meher, VP, Marketing at Notarize. We’re calling them NextView Operator Guilds. . Back to Top).

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Between January 2015 and January 2016, we grew our platform Slidebean from $1K to $20K in monthly recurring revenue. Getting the first tracks of revenue is one of the toughest processes of building a startup. Then, in 2015, this is who we added to the team: Jan-15: Head of Customer Success (growth team). Lean marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2015

Businesses stopped hiring for lifetime commitments some time ago, as markets change so rapidly and companies need to tune their workforce for changing economic conditions. Simply defining yourself as a specialist or professional minimizes the stigma of a consultant role (think marketing specialist or staffing professional).

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Transformify

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Managing distributed workforce and remote teams was not something totally new for them. The reasons are obvious – many international companies have their production plants in China, while others are dependent on the big Chinese market and any decline in the demand for their goods and services can hit their revenue targets.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For this article, we asked 14 SaaS CEOs a simple question: “How much did you spend on your MVP before you had your first dollar of revenue?”. Running comparative calculations, Arsenault figures that “two senior engineers plus a product manager/marketer for 40 hours per month, times 6 months, would be 720 hours to get to our MVP.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

As we are now in 2015, midway through the second decade of the new millennium, I thought I’d reflect on shifts I am seeing in culture, commerce and technology. Maker Movement Momentum – Internet of Things – While both of these topics are hot, it seems price alone is not enough for both the enter the mass market.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

As we are now in 2015, midway through the second decade of the new millennium, I thought I’d reflect on shifts I am seeing in culture, commerce and technology. Maker Movement Momentum – Internet of Things – While both of these topics are hot, it seems price alone is not enough for both the enter the mass market.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2017

In 2015, 9-figure apparel retailer Karmaloop.com filed for bankruptcy. Within three months all marketing KPIs had improved. On the marketing side, I attribute our success to one thing: using data to effectively model out our customer behavior, and then develop the appropriate communication to improve it. Tripwire marketing.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 2015, Eddy Lu and Daishin Sugano launched GOAT , a marketplace for the exchange of sneakers. Julie Wainwright founded The Real Real in 2011.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

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. of market capitalization.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

The Data Warehouse market is typically estimated at $30 B in annual revenue and the big data components, where the largest need for performance gains resides, is growing at double digit rates. According to 451 Research , “For vendors with less than $1 B in revenue, we estimate a CAGR of 39%.” I am a proud investor and advisor.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For this article, we asked 14 SaaS CEOs a simple question: “How much did you spend on your MVP before you had your first dollar of revenue?”. Running comparative calculations, Arsenault figures that “two senior engineers plus a product manager/marketer for 40 hours per month, times 6 months, would be 720 hours to get to our MVP.

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ConversionXL

JULY 16, 2021

It should be informed by your market, competitor, and user research, and optimized through feedback and testing. Figure out how your product uniquely fits into the market and drive that message home. Even then, treat your marketing messaging as a living document to match your ever-evolving audience. Start with user research.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

It seems like every day there’s a new app, search engine update, or upgrade that marketers simply “must” incorporate into their marketing plan, often at the expense of other tactics. What’s more, there’s no reason to doubt that they will continue to provide marketing results for the next twenty-five years, too. And guess what?

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

As of November 2015, there were 4,144 breweries in the U.S.—more In such a crowded market, making good beer and opening the doors isn’t enough anymore. Nonetheless, their 10-barrel brewery came online in December 2015, and they began pouring beer locally and in their tasting room in early 2016. “We

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 1, 2020

We interviewed entrepreneur Mr. Peter Agarwal, President/Owner of LED Phantom Distribution, a distributor of high quality LEDs, lighting, and lighting control products. LED Phantom has become a leader in customer service and product distribution of highly efficient green energy lighting products.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

PR Malloy (@diddly_do_indy) June 13, 2015. If a company wanted to distribute software on a mobile device it need to sell via a “portal” (US term) or a “deck” (UK term) of a mobile carrier. The Mother of All Exclusivity Agreements – the iPhone Wouldn’t Exist .

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 2, 2023

Israeli public tech companies saw market cap decline of 65% in 2022. Sector funding distribution according to Greenfield Partners. The recent valuations analysis by Carta shows the valuation benchmarks across industry (note that the valuations are for the US market, so discretion is advised). ” Fred Wilson.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

We often talk about online conversion optimization without mentioning that many businesses, especially B2B, rely on offline sales to produce revenue. The biggest new trends, according to a 2015 Gartner study , are cloud, mobility and the use of data and AI in decision-making. Why Is This Useful To Marketers? Image Source.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

BigBand Networks, which has more than 200 customers in North America, Asia and Europe, provides broadband service providers with digital video networking solutions designed to make it easier to distribute, manage and monetize video. Fifty of its manufacturing activities and 70% of its consolidated revenues derive from global operations.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2019

The company is majorly seen to empower those who partner with them to be able to excel in whatever they do, be it marketing, sales, general management or even the distribution of the card payment programs. The company proudly announced that 2015 was its best year financially.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

As opposed to other dividends that are distributed on a quarterly or semi-annual basis, monthly dividends are paid out to shareholders each month. Main Street Capital is a publicly traded private equity firm that offers equity and debt financing to lower middle-market companies with a revenue between $10 million and $150 million.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

I love working with people from around the world and truly believe that distributed teams provide huge benefits for small businesses and startups. I’m not alone to think so – according to a study updated in September 2015, the number of people working remotely risen 103% in the past year. This thinking seems very short-sighted.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

If you look at the mobile marketing strategies, you will see they don't reflect this shift to mobile. They use different technologies of course, and different distribution mechanisms. If you are in a feature phone majority market, and that market has most of the monetizable behavior, please invest in unique tracking there.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. A description of your target market or the different market segments you’re targeting. Your competition, and a brief description of how you differ from them.

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thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Many people, some of whom who hadn’t been able to previous borrow and lend through their existing markets, were able to do so and accumulate assets; others, not satisfied with the yields they were getting in the traditional markets, turn to DeFi to increase their potential returns.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2015

How do you convince investors that your business model will really work, before you have a revenue stream that exceeds your expenses? Of course, that has be a repeatable event, with enough revenue to sustain the business. Marketing is everything these days. Plan for a real revenue model.

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ConversionXL

MAY 25, 2017

Andrew Anderson (@antfoodz) January 6, 2015. And marketers don’t just spread mistruths to others. That’s why you’ll see smart marketers calling out case studies with missing data or that seem too absurd to be true. Market researchers – well, marketers in general – can be deceiving from the start.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2017

To achieve this goal, logistics now needs to work across the company from the front-end to the back-end, seamlessly integrating production, inventory, marketing, sales, payments, distribution and product returns [3] to optimize the supply chain model that balances cost efficiencies with keeping customers happy. 10] “ Industry 4.0:

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The goal of most startup companies is to increase their market share and revenues. Go for Market Leaders. This thinking makes companies avoid acquiring costly market leaders in favor of cheaper companies with a smaller market share often with disastrous results. As of 2015, experts value it at $40 billion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

Here are the motivation elements that investors expect to hear: Size and growth potential of the market opportunity. Your customers don’t care if you are targeting a billion-dollar market and growing at double-digit rates, but investors will skip small or shrinking opportunities. First to market” is not sustainable by a startup.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

healthcare market is the least customer centric of any customer service industry. One overt sign of a lack of traditional market forces is any industry where basic customer service is not a requirement to stay in business. industries, once subject to far less competition, have been forced by the market to learn a new reality.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

In such a crowded market, making good beer and opening the doors isn’t enough anymore. ColdFire Brewing , a 10-barrel brewery, came online in December 2015, founded by Dan Hughes and his brother Stephen. The ColdFire Brewing team meets to plan marketing. In 2018, there were more than 7,450 breweries in the U.S.—well

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

There are times when small and slow is the right strategy for a specific market opportunity. Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 13, 2017

Ex: Six Visual Solutions To Complex Digital Marketing/Analytics Challenges. For example… Let’s say they end up looking at Visitors, Conversion Rates, and Revenue. Why not build in a model where the decision maker can change Conversion Rates, to see the impact on Revenue? Show impact on Revenue and Profit.

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