ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2019

As things stand, female-owned startups receive just 2% of all investor capital — even though women-founded companies generate twice the revenue per dollar of investment as companies founded by men. Putting purpose first in 2020. The post 5 Reasons Purpose-Driven Startups Will Shine in 2020 appeared first on ReadWrite.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 24, 2021

Its revenues have reached almost $3 billion in 2020, exceeding expectations and sales projections by 86%. Additionally, many entrepreneurs on the Shopify platform earn an average of $72 per customer. If you get customers every day on Shopify, you can earn more or less $2,160 every month without you doing anything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

In addition, creating a business requires leading and interacting with other people, including partners, investors, and customers. Take your time in moving from your idea to a business. The reality is that building a business always takes longer than anticipated, so don’t quit your “day job” until revenue is flowing.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 18, 2020

2020 may have been a bad year for especially due to COVID-19 pandemic while to others, it was a great year. Many businesses were launched and others were closed. In the last few days of 2020, we took some time to ask a few entrepreneurs and businesses what their biggest business accomplishments were. #1-

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

My business is also nominated for a local award, a first for us. Personally this year, my husband was able to leave his 9-5 to come work with me in our business which was a huge accomplishment. I can’t wait to see what 2020 brings! Thanks to Allison R Lancaster, Online Business Solutions by Allison R. Lancaster ! #2-

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Well, 1M/1M is focused on helping businesses generate $1M in annual revenue, whatever be the nature of the business. We see a lot of businesses that can be characterized as social enterprises, ranging from education to rural development businesses. Also, the business model for the business is unclear.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support. Freshdesk introduces itself as a kind of Salesforce.com for customer support so to speak.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2021

million businesses in 2020, up 24% from the previous year. This is the biggest surge in business formation on record. The question for many entrepreneurs is, how do you start a business the right way with the right startup business structure? Finding these true fans will enable your business to exist.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

First up was Brad Barrett presenting GrillGrate , a grill accessory with which Brad has built a year-to-date revenue of $400,000. Next, Umakant Soni discussed Vimagino.com , a software for Web-based Q&A support to engage customers better on sites that are trying to draw people in and convert them into customers. GrillGrate.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

In addition, I asked him to do a competitive analysis on the pricing models of the various mobile app platforms and come back to me with both sets of market data, namely, customer research and competitive analysis. We can derive GeoInvenio's business model and pricing model based on that.

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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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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

This company provides a crowdsourced customer service solution to enterprises. Gio pitched it to me as a crowdsourced BPO, but I think he will have more success if he simply focuses on customer service as his core value proposition. They already have several customers including some telcos, and are at about $350,000 in revenues.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

At the roundtable, five entrepreneurs pitched their businesses to me, and I interacted with them in our usual format, with active participation from the audience. First up, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, presented Freshdesk , a SaaS solution for multi-channel customer support including knowledge base and social CRM support.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

Monetization models, while not yet validated, can come from charging the customer base that is already acquainted with the service, as well as selling the white label solutions to colleges. Chris is primarily trying to assess his customer acquisition strategy, which requires that people see the game being played.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

for the app and has 30,000 customers. He asked me if he should offer the app for free to get more customers. It is much better to grow organically with revenue. Please remember, free is not a business model. Richard is currently charging $1.99 I said, no. Cortese Design Bags. The Free Rider Problem.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

As for business model, Jigar wants to sell services like refilling cards. Our discussion today was around prioritization of the next few critical steps around customer acquisition and validation. 3gSimplified is a very early concept that has just launched, and the market feedback will be rolling in over the next few months.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2022

In late 2020, Facebook announced that it would cease to support Flash-based games. Blockchain games channel mod culture and empower third-party developers to customize their own gameplay experiences through plug-ins and third-party clients. With new games come new in-game mechanics and business models. Consider FarmVille.

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Up and Running

JULY 6, 2021

eCommerce has become a major business , so it’s no surprise you’re considering joining the 7.9 million online businesses that sell products via the web. Research published by Statista in March 2021 showed revenue from eCommerce in the United States reached $431.6 billion in 2020 and is expected to reach $563.4

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

This is an open opportunity for an entrepreneur to build a custom solution. Today, the telecom industry charges customers based on fixed price business models for data services. SurgeForth has since graduated to paying customers, and is making good progress. Cion has 18 customers and is considering funding.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 16, 2020

The year 2020 marked the end of a fantastic decade. A decade where we all witnessed the emergence of new businesses that changed how we humans functioned. Making your startup thrive is all about how efficient your business model is. Focusing on marketing is a quintessential part of every business, whether big or small.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 16, 2020 Maria Tanjala , co-founder of FilmChain , is passionate about tech solutions that bring transparency and automation to creative industries. Its automated platform collects and allocates revenues in real-time, from tickets sold to filmmakers’ pockets. What is your top goal for FilmChain for 2020?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

To be clear, I define a product specification as the technical definition of your product, to be used for development and testing purposes, with a quick business summary for context. Use non-fuzzy terms to quantify customer value. Provide specifics on the customer business model. Budget time and dollars for each.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

But other businesses like law firms, contracting firms, real estate firms, will take hits, too. Your customers will no longer be your customers. Your revenue plans are no longer valid. What’s your monthly cash burn at your new low revenue level? Out of business? Your customers start buying.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

This partnership speaks to a core philosophy of the program where we encourage entrepreneurs to get as much customer validation as possible before raising too much money, use other people's channels if you can get to them, don't burn too much cash, and all that good fiscal conservative stuff. The business is already profitable with $2.9

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

She realised the revenue operations market was booming, especially within the tech industry, and therefore wanted to explore what is largely an untapped market within the UK and Europe. RevOps, or “Revenue Operations”, is a B2B function that uses automation to help teams make the right decisions to grow their business.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Then Praful Thachery pitched Delyver Retail Network , a home delivery solution through which Praful is already delivering food, flowers and a variety of other products and services (like dry cleaning) to over 5,000 customers in Bangalore. I detected a major flaw in Kiran's business model assumption. Saagam.com.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 30, 2020

Last summer, we found our business in this predicament. Our revenue was consistently correlated to marketing spend, which to us indicated that it was unsustainable and there was low product/market fit, and we knew that lack of fit was the most commonly cited reason for why startups failed. we were tired, and the pivot seemed daunting.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

2020 has produced significant challenges for businesses of all sizes across the entire world. Brick and mortar type businesses were forced in many states to close their doors for the safety of their patrons and employees. Through this economic turmoil some businesses have collapsed and others have flourished.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

Current worldwide statistics as of 10 May 2020, (from gisanddata.maps) show that there are over 10 million people infected with this virus and just over 503, 500 deaths. Governor Cuomo, governor of New York State, USA, highlighted the quintessential issue with the coronavirus pandemic in his conversation with Howard Stern on 13 April 2020.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

especially if the startup already has a product and revenue? Pre-seed rounds accounted for 14% of all seed stage deals in 2023, up from just 5% in 2020 according to Pitchbook data and I predict it will be even higher in 2024. who’s talking to customers?) A founder asked me what makes a $2M round “pre-seed”?

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

and SEO as two of the most effective and affordable customer acquisition strategies. First up, Raj Sheth from Bangalore, India, presented Recruiterbox , a SaaS recruitment management tool for small businesses, with co-founders Raghu Kancherla and Girish Redekar. and an affiliate program would also help with customer acquisition.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2019

In fact, remote work is on the rise – especially in the form of virtual assistants – and it’s one of the primary reasons why more small businesses are opting to outsource work. Inefficiencies can often cost businesses between 20-30% of their annual revenue. Virtual Assistants: What’s All the Fuss? They help filter communication.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The effects of being unable to open a restaurant business go beyond losing revenue during the quarantine; closure at short notice also means wasted produce and refunded deposits issued to pre-booked customers. These factors can have a disastrous impact on a business. Image Pixabay CC0 License.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 7, 2020

Suddenly, capital is harder to come by , customers aren’t buying , and none of us can leave our homes. According to the research firm STR , during the week of April 19-25, in comparison to the previous year, the hotel industry saw its benchmark rate of “revenue per available room” drop 78.4%, to just $19.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 26, 2011

make so little use of the affiliate business model for monetization purposes? Please use the comments below to give your thoughts and analyses on why you think Twitter is not using the affiliate business model to monetize its immense traffic. This is a question I would like to address to you guys as well.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

I asked her not to assume that investors will be investing in this business idea, at least not until she can acquire some level of validation, which means tens, if not hundreds of thousands of customers, and several partnerships with daily deal sites. Venture capitalists today don't exactly practice venture capital.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

In our Business Incubator series of interviews, we have invited many leaders from the industry to come share their best practices and challenges with us. We have also facilitated open discussions on Why Do Business Incubators Fail and Incubator Business Models , which turned out to be animated, active and extremely constructive discussions.

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