Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2020

In the spirit of helping you prepare and respond positively, I offer my list of the most common new venture founder unexpected realities, with some thoughts on how to mitigate each one: The business seems to be driving you, rather than you driving it. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 06/17/2020.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2021

2020 was a good year for Zoom. Now synonymous with video-conferencing, the company-name-turned-verb stock peaked in October 2020, a market interpretation of how the Zoom Boom has defined the daily lives of many millions throughout the COVID-19 outbreak. Their latest round of 138 millions dollars, led by Viola Growth ?-Next47

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

Tim Sweeney, the founder and CEO of Epic is a long term visionary of our online future and the Metaverse. billion revenue in 2021 for Epic Games and was played by 83.3 Tim Sweeney, Epic Games’ founder and CEO. monthly active end-users who are engaging with content created or operated by Unity solutions in 2020.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2020

It’s been growth ever since, and in 2020 the company pitched for funding to scale up. In early 2020, Sutton set up meetings through cold and warm outreach over email, LinkedIn, and networking through angel and tech start-up groups. A company is more than the CEO / founder, so tell your angel investors who’s in your team.

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Photo by Thomas Park on Unsplash In 2020, Marc Andreessen published a profound essay in response to the COVID-19 pandemic that became a rallying cry for startups called; It’s Time To Build. A lot has changed since the middle of 2020, but much has remained the same. I wanted to take things a step further.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Founders face multiple challenges when they are in the initial faces of a startup. The daily customer engagement, whether from your customer success team, sales team, or customer support team, contains crucial market and revenue intelligence. Convin was founded in 2020 in Bangalore, India. Customer demands . Market trends, etc.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

2020 transformed the world of commerce. "Années Folles" — Web Smith (@web) December 27, 2020. "Années Folles" — Web Smith (@web) December 27, 2020. When shelter-in-place hit last March, forcing their doors to close, their revenue dropped to nothing overnight. Paige Briscoe, founder of ReRoot.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The number of local (AUS & NZ) billion dollar companies, as well as the rapid growth of publicly listed tech firms, is growing (Crossroads, 2020). Yet, founders bet their company’s success in finding small investment rounds in these unfavourable conditions. Each stage of tech company growth has unique challenges.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2021

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. 3- Double our revenue. It’s a big goal, especially because our original goal for Anvil was 2in2, meaning double our 2019 revenue in 2021, but COVID delayed that target.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

2020: “Hold my beer.” One of my founders texted me, “What are you telling people to do about the Coronavirus?” One just got a seed term sheet for twice the valuation I put in at in the pre-seed and the other is doing $200k/month in revenue. It’s not the telling my story or that of the founders I’ve backed.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 6, 2021

Muhummad Mahdi (left) and Arifin Hasan (right), Founders of Nitex In 2012, Bangladeshi computer science student Muhammad Mahdi received a call from an old high school friend, Arifin Hasan. HITTING THE RUNWAY For three years the company relied on revenue alone as skeptical investors failed to see their vision.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

The military awarded $445 billion in contracts in 2020. To attract interest the Defense Department is handing out unprecedented numbers of small contracts and in 2020 seeded 1,635 firms with more than $1.5 Dozens of outreach programs across the military now offer quick revenue to early-stage companies. Defense Department.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It partners with sales to close more revenue, informs product teams to deliver better products, and in some cases, co-owns demand generation activities with marketing teams. Founder Nathan Barry launched in 2013 to help creators sell their books and courses but failed to meet revenue goals and eventually stalled.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

The housing demand has far outpaced the supply in 2020 and this will continue into 2021. All throughout 2020, people have decided now is the time to start a business. I am the CEO and co-founder of a dating app called So Syncd that is based on matching compatible personality types. Thanks to Kurt Bodenstedt, PDAFL LLC ! #3-

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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. The number of black female founders has doubled since 2016, for instance, and female-founded unicorns are now growing faster than ever before.

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View from Seed

JULY 8, 2021

Today Lula announced its $18M funding round led by Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures. We couldn’t be more thrilled for co-founders Michael and Matthew for this next phase of building the business with substantial additional backing. I first met the Lula co-founders in Boston about 2 1/2 years ago, at the very end of 2018.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 13, 2022

Digital marketing has opened many doors for businesses to earn higher revenues and have a name in the international market. The next decade 2020 – 2030 will be the decade of the technology industry, and some experts have created TECHADE. It has an optimistic future, having grown drastically compared to 2020.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

So when Sherri Tafoya, President and Founder of Customs Blinds & Design contacted us raving about the system, we asked her to share her experience and she graciously obliged. Fast forward to 2020 . We kicked in 2020 with outstanding sales. Our company goal for 2020 was set at $4.1 I have no credit card debt.

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Transformify

MARCH 4, 2020

Although Wirecard has denied all claims, an independent auditor, KPMG, has been assigned and the findings are expected to be disclosed in April 2020. The consideration Wirecard has agreed to pay is almost ten times the price an investment fund called EMIF 1A had paid to the founders of Hermes iTickets. Roundtripping.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2021

Anecdotally, we at Remagine Ventures are investors in EchoAR , a CDN and CMS for 3D content which has seen the number of developers on its platform grow from 300 in March 2020 to over 10,000 in April 2021, with almost zero marketing effort. The According to Alon Grinshpoon, co-founder and CEO of EchoAR: “3D content is now everywhere.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 19, 2011

In my post Making Money With Blogs , I have articulated some of my thoughts on the subject and presented some possible models that would enable blogs and small media properties to sustain themselves with a proper revenue framework. One of them is the 1M/1M Affiliate Program we announced today at the roundtable.

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View from Seed

JULY 8, 2021

Today Lula announced its $18M funding round led by Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures. We couldn’t be more thrilled for co-founders Michael and Matthew for this next phase of building the business with substantial additional backing. I first met the Lula co-founders in Boston about 2 1/2 years ago, at the very end of 2018.

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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? Revenue-Based Flexible VCs.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

Couple that with Mulesoft being bought for 21x TTM revenue ( see Tomasz Tunguz analysis ) at $6.5 There will also be the few new SaaS app founders who have incredible domain expertise reinventing pieces of the old guard public SaaS companies. Their growth to over $509mm of revenue from $281mm 2 years ago is a case in point.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 28, 2021

And elsewhere creator monetisation tools and revenue streams continue to expand: Ads and bran deals – Youtube reported $6 billion in revenue for Q1 2021 , a 50% growth rate from the equivalent period last year. The sum is equivalent to the combined annual revenue of Snap and Twitter for 2020. Billion in 2020.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2020

Founders like Gates and Zuckerberg always had projects going, and even dropped out of school to start their big business. For example, Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard made it clear from the beginning that his company mission was to save the environment, not just be another outdoor clothing seller.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

Yet there are clearly some positive steps I can recommend for getting you (and him) over the bridge: Find a co-founder who has been there and done that. 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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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JULY 2, 2019

Not only are women-owned businesses increasing at two and a half times the rate of all US businesses combined, but both the revenue growth and employment growth of women-owned businesses have also outpaced the national averages for all businesses. Black Female Founders. EBW2020: Empowering a Billion Women by 2020 .

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ConversionXL

JULY 19, 2018

This resulted in a $2 million increase in revenue in three months. In 2018, revenues from the AI market worldwide were $7.35 It’s expected to reach about $17 billion in 2020 and jump to $89.8 In the future, content marketing will continue to be critical: By 2020, content marketing spend in Europe alone is going to reach 2.12

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

In his vision for 2020 , Mark Zuckerberg said it’s likely that AR and VR will be the next major platform after the mobile phone. Mark Zuckerberg’s 2020 vision. According to the Verge , Pokemon Go broke new records in 2019 reaching $900 million in revenue through in-app purchases (r.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2015

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. B2B salespeople will lose their jobs to self-service e-commerce by 2020. While digital marketing departments are equipped to handle inbound inquiries, to really drive revenue a company needs aggressive and effective outbound sales teams to achieve growth.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

I asked him to review the TrueCFO project in my Vision India 2020 book. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

In How To Defend Your Dream Against All Odds , Alex and I explore the company's journey to $200 Million in revenue, while their VCs wrote them off. Zoho is already over $100 million in revenue and is seeing tremendous traction. So, please don't get discouraged; there are many paths to success. Statisco Economic Analytics.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2020

by Will Schneider, founder of insightQuote. The industry is booming with the average revenue per user (ARPU) in the US expected to exceed $1,450 in 2020. As at March 2020, a staggering 88 percent of shopping carts were abandoned. More than a third of Amazon’s revenue can be attributed to upsells and cross-sells.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 27, 2019

I’m excited that we have a robust business platform that will allow us to help more people and grow my business exponentially in 2020! Inclusive, I had to remain focused on achieving my goals in 2019 by weeding out distracting people, places, and things since what I would accomplish in 2019 would catapult me in 2020, a new decade.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

You can read various articles out there which will give you the cursory facts about Airbnb like their overall revenue or profitability or how their business has faired here in 2020 in the COVID environment. One of the most highly anticipated startup IPOs of recent years, we now get a peek inside Airbnb’s business.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

The founders, Sunil Guttula and Abinasha Karana, are experienced IT professional with 15 years of experience between them solving various enterprise IT problems. In fact, they generated $100k in revenues over the last year, since they first pitched at one of our roundtables. And you can sign up for the 1M/1M premium program here.

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