David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

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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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

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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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

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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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Choose to expand vertically or horizontally. For ambitious agencies, taking an MVP approach can unlock incredibly lucrative revenue streams. However, it did communicate everything a potential client needed to know and was responsible for my first $9,000 in monthly recurring revenue. There’s plenty of pie to go around.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. The company’s chairman was the former General Chief of Staff of the IDF 2011-2015.

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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. The Index added another $0.9T

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Snowflake decides which channels to use according to industry verticals and where their buyers are likely to be. Inbound-call intelligence platform Invoca saw 2015’s Dreamforce event as a great opportunity to meet with key accounts face-to-face. How uniting reporting increased revenue from target accounts by 21% for Schneider Electric.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The new 2015 sans-serif logo. With all the more complex design decisions of landing pages to distract us, it’s easy to forget the simple fact that readership equals revenue. Maintain a vertical grid with a 135–150% line height. Maintain a vertical grid with a 135–150% line height. times the font size.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

billion in revenues (growing 39% year-on-year) and $25B of market cap. Compared to Salesforce, the industry leader, the stats were not too dissimilar over the same period: its market cap grew by $19B and its revenue increased by $3.3B. From a revenue standpoint, 58 companies have already crossed the $5M per year mark and 29 are $15M+.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

A photo posted by CEO Blog Nation : I am CEO (@ceoblognation) on Aug 18, 2015 at 2:23pm PDT. #1) So we opened the goFlow platform from surfing-only to 10 new verticals: Paddle-boarding, Diving, Fishing, Skateboarding, Cycling, Golfing, Snow sports, Boating, Kitesurfing and more to come. Tell us your story below! 1) Solve a Problem.

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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. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. People don’t care how media companies built their business or report their revenue by media.

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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. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. People don’t care how media companies built their business or report their revenue by media.

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Technical Review Startup Australia Artificial Inteligence 48

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 12, 2017

They’re looking to local as a way for revenue enhancement and they may talk all day long about taking care of the user, but they have a master and that master is the stock market. And that master has to be satisfied with profits and one of the ways they’re going to do that is by continuing to increase ad penetration in local.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Global SaaS revenues are expected to grow by $19 billion in 2016, an increase of 22% from 2015, while traditional software revenues are shrinking by $10B. Two dollars in SaaS revenues are created for every $1 of software revenues eaten – an impressive stat, but where does Europe stand on the global SaaS map?

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

The number of patents filed in 2021 is more than 30 times higher than in 2015 as companies and countries across the world have realized that AI and Machine Learning will be a major disruptor and potentially change the balance of military power. Until recently, the hype exceeded reality.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

It is 2015. If you are looking for short-term revenue or quick wins, you are better off skipping it (do something boring, but profitable, like Email or Affiliate marketing). The GA team pulls together analysis from your industry vertical, country and like-sized websites. You made do with what you had, and that was ok.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million). But I knew I had to look for investments in “software meets X (often known as Vertical Software solutions)” rather than necessarily horizontal enterprise software applications.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In November of 2015, I posted a tweet that declared Benchmark was interested in discovering Internet healthcare investments. market in terms of revenue dollars (there is no question that digital tools will successfully impact specific acute diseases/disorders, but it’s our intuition these are best left to 100% focused HC investors).

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