Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2020

The norm for entrepreneurs is to be optimistic on revenue projections, and miserly on funding needs. YouTube and Facebook, for example, both advertised themselves as dating sites until they recognized from results that the dating market segment was already over-saturated. Getting to the next level of growth is a constant challenge.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

We've seen explosive growth in brand pages, types of advertising and other fun ways to monetize this audience. Increased investment in Facebook as an engagement/acquisition channel has translated into requests from CEOs, CMOs and other CxOs about the return on that investment. Facebook Advertising's Offline Impact. #5:

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Photo by Vanna Phon on Unsplash Customer acquisition is the lifeblood of many startups from e-commerce to gaming to marketplace companies, among others. But if you ask anyone in the ecosystem of customer acquisition?—?founders, and you’ll hear the same thing: customer acquisition (CAC) is getting harder and more expensive.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2022

billion is attributed to the pending Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard Besides Activision Blizzard, the big deals included Take-Two’s purchase of Zynga, Sony’s acquisition of Bungie, and the ESL and FaceIt acquisition by Savvy Games Group Mobile was the most active segment with 47 deals. as they reached 28.1

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

SEO, email marketing, Facebook advertising). Acquisition. For each potential channel, look at: Customer acquisition cost How many customers you can reach Whether the channel reaches the right audience. Where the acquisition stage solves problems with content, the activation stage solves them with a sample of what you can do.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

The website, the mobile application, the advertising, the support, the different screens and features of the product… everything could be personalized. Acquisition segments. Acquisition segments. It is about focusing your marketing efforts on a few select companies that could represent huge revenue streams. Image Source.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Customer acquisition cost (CAC) is an important metric for any ecommerce business. Put simply, you need a healthy customer acquisition cost for your business to succeed. It’s up to every ecommerce business to find the middle ground between investing too little in customer acquisition and spending beyond your means.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2013

For starters, here is my selection of some key metrics that every six-sigma joint like GE tracks without thinking, but that too many small businesses haven’t yet formalized: Sales revenue. Sales data needs to be correlated to advertising campaigns, price changes, seasonal forces, competitive actions, and other costs of sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2023

Some analysts argue that revenue drives growth, while others say user growth drives revenue. Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $1 trillion. Long-term stability requires revenue growth and profit. Both have worked. Traditionally, it was simple.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. Unfortunately, the mainstream customers who can really drive revenue care more about price. Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2015

A unified Microsoft has set the stage for sustained revenue growth. Expenses related to supporting Microsoft’s growing devices businesses will offset overall profit growth and search revenue gains through 2015. year-to-year revenue gain in calendar 4Q14, to $26.5 While Microsoft’s 7.9% year-to-year in 4Q14 to $16.3

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2014

Some analysts argue that revenue drives growth, while others say user growth drives revenue. Both have worked.Google reached $1 billion in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $400 billion. Long-term stability requires revenue growth and profit.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs? We weren’t in enough cities to do national advertising campaigns yet we weren’t centralized enough to benefit off of our central marketing traction. How profitable is my product or service? We recently added Richard Mumby to our leadership team.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2019

This often means mergers and acquisitions, incremental innovation, marketing, and global expansion – which, over the long-term, only widen the gulf between the company and its customers. New customers are expensive to acquire, and typically produce less revenue than would current, satisfied customers. Here’s a look: 1.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Since 2015, clothing brand ASOS has grown revenue by an average of 22% year over year. Tactics are the specific activities you’ll use to communicate with customers (for example, advertising on social media with a 20% discount code). Not for lack of competition, but as the result of a carefully designed ecommerce marketing strategy.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

He published revenue figures even when they were still pathetic , he pledged loudly and eagerly to give away lots of free copies to non-profits, and he revealed all his (remarkably effective) marketing strategies (updated here ) even though it meant competitors would learn them too. Advertising ?? transmogrification] ?

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2011

We started this week's One Million by One Million roundtable with a discussion of online advertising trends, looking at them from the perspective of cost-effective customer acquisition and brand building, as well as entrepreneurial opportunities.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

To assist his consulting firm clients with attracting investors willing to fund an unknown business, Luke Lazarus uses an IPO or acquisition model to ensure the highest possible value for his client’s organization.

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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. Cost of Acquisition (CAC): The total cost of acquiring a user through a given channel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2022

Many businesses these days serve both paying and non-paying customers, such as Google and Facebook, who count on millions of non-paying users to attract advertisers, who really pay the bill. Every business needs revenue to provide investor returns and offset costs. Free” is not an attractive revenue model to investors.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Safari and Firefox have already started to wean advertisers from them. Decisions that affect Chrome—with a nearly two-thirds market share —are decisions that affect the Internet, especially paid advertising. The first three go hand-and-hand—if advertisers can measure and get a good return on ad spend, they’ll keep buying ads.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

There are common components in every business plan, but a SaaS (or subscription) business plan should have a special focus on customer acquisition (ie. Customer acquisition plan. Customer acquisition strategy. When we talk about customer acquisition, we’re talking about marketing and sales. Yes, of course. Churn rate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Having enough revenue to finally give yourself a salary is an inspiring event, and one that you should savor. New business models that provide an ongoing revenue stream, or a secondary stream from advertising, raise your margins and can give you some additional satisfaction. Celebrate the ability to pay yourself a salary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2016

Some business successes can be attributed to luck, timing, or available funding, but in this case most agree that Gary was simply a marketing genius and he created his own market through creative advertising, emotional appeal and exclusivity. Even social entrepreneurs need milestones, quantifiable results, and revenue to sustain their value.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. They have have raised $2-3 million, built a product that has some amount of market traction and got to annualized revenues of around $1 million.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2016

Some analysts argue that revenue drives growth, while others say user growth drives revenue. Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $400B. Long-term stability requires revenue growth and profit. Both have worked. Traditionally, it was simple.

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Revenue Valuation Startup Viral 145

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

You may be surprised, but technology companies are one of the biggest spenders when it comes to advertising. In fact, in 2011 Google literally doubled its global advertising and promotion spending from the previous year to US$1.5 billion (interestingly, 96-percent of its US$38 billion worldwide revenue actually came from SELLING ads).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. Unfortunately, the mainstream customers who can really drive revenue care more about price. Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive.

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Hockey Stick Guerilla Acquisition Revenue 307

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million. Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008). Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. .

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

At the eight minute mark, YouTube allows for creators to put extra ads in the content so they’ve got an incentive to show those longer videos and generate more ad revenue. Advertising. In most cases, you’ll want to turn on advertisements for your videos. So what does it take to make sure your advertisements are profitable?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2020

Having enough revenue to finally give yourself a salary is an inspiring event, and one that you should savor. New business models that provide an ongoing revenue stream, or a secondary stream from advertising, raise your margins and can give you some additional satisfaction. Celebrate the ability to pay yourself a salary.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Google Analytics is the standard for measuring acquisition—identifying the sources of traffic to your website or app. You’ll be able to see which acquisition channels are best for long-term retention or lifetime value, not simply those that drive initial conversions. Acquisition. Anything else is merely a list of data points.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

Paid Acquisition. You’re undoubtedly familiar with paid acquisition, as it’s the digital equivalent of traditional advertising. Here are some resources to learn more about paid acquisition: Customer Acquisition Master Course (includes SEO). When Does Paid Acquisition Work for SaaS Startups?

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Austin Startup

MAY 23, 2019

In-game advertising sucks. It’s as frustrating for advertisers as it is for developers, and gamers are equally jaded. In other words, in-game advertising sucks for everyone. In other words, in-game advertising sucks for everyone. Advertisers (??) That’s not news, but it bears repeating. Why Does It Suck?

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Explain exactly which marketing/advertising strategies will be used and why. Detail all revenue streams. Be sure to include all revenue streams. Depending on the type of business, these may include sales of products/services, referral revenues, advertising sales, licensing/royalty fees, and/or data sales.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The goal of most startup companies is to increase their market share and revenues. For most of those that manage to grow big, acquisition of other companies plays a major role in their success. While many businesses are aware of the importance of importance of acquisitions as a growth strategy few get it right when making acquisitions.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 28, 2018

If you want to run a business today, you need to be advertising on Facebook and Google. These two tech giants dominate the online advertising market, and their reach is so incredibly broad (both have billions of users each month) that to leave them out of your strategy is to not have an online strategy at all. Determine Your Budget.

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