Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Then companies can determine promotional effectiveness by narrowly defined customer segments, by location, or by delivery channel. Companies need the same service on partner and acquisition candidates, even vendors. Predictive advertisement targeting. Online, everyone wants to know which ad each customer is most likely to click.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Unfortunately, your personal assessment that you have traction probably won’t be convincing to potential investors and partners, so it’s important that you create and track your progress against some metrics. Assemble a credible inside advisory board and partners. Who you know is still often more important than what you know.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

In SaaS the main benchmarks being measured are revenue growth, sales efficiency (unit economics), churn and burn rate. Example of Baremetrics revenue per user benchmarks. Top-line metrics are indicators of success, not the one bar to clear to raise funding for your startup. Software as a Service (Saas) benchmarks.

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B2C Technical Review Startup Retention 141

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2022

Every business needs revenue to provide investor returns and offset costs. Free” is not an attractive revenue model to investors. Popular revenue models today include recurring subscription charges, licensing, as well the traditional sale or lease model. Investors will demand clear channel definitions. Key partners.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Since 2015, clothing brand ASOS has grown revenue by an average of 22% year over year. Your ecommerce marketing strategy is the blueprint and high-level vision that guides how you’ll interact with prospects, the channels you’ll use to reach them, and the messaging you’ll develop to communicate benefits and build your brand.

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eCommerce Marketing Social Media Retention 129

View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

For this reason, we’ve partnered with Guild members who have experience across different kinds of customers, business models, and distribution channels. This is an initiative that we will continue to refine in the coming years, but we are so excited to be partnering with these Guild members going forward. Back to Top).

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 13, 2024

Increased Revenue Loyalty programs directly impact revenue, but they also help decrease customer acquisition costs. Customers often enjoy these incentives for personal reasons, but they can also help increase your revenue by encouraging recurring visits.

Programming 52

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2023

Let me be a bit more specific on how follow-up trumps ideas for success in the key challenges of a startup, or any small business: Networking with investors, partners, and customers. They watch for formal follow-up to questions, demonstration of real product, and revenue results. Customer acquisition, retention, and support.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

billion in ad revenue in 2020. But you can also accumulate significant exposure and revenue through an organic YouTube strategy. Given that most users abandon apps within 30 days post-installation, high downloads don’t lead to high audience retention, satisfaction, or revenue. YouTube generated $19.77 Overview metrics.

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Analytics Metrics Channel Video 134

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Bob is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency. They can keep doubling down on advertising with the digital goliaths of today or begin to diversify and invest in other marketing channels, with an eye toward the future. 9:14] How do I find partners? [12:58]

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2021

Provide initial and long-term sources of revenue. Every business, including non-profits, need a viable source of revenue to cover the costs of operation and sustainability. The most attractive revenue model today for services is subscriptions, and for products it is sales and support. Patents are a good place for you to start.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Then companies can determine promotional effectiveness by narrowly defined customer segments, by location, or by delivery channel. Companies need the same service on partner and acquisition candidates, even vendors. Predictive advertisement targeting. Online, everyone wants to know which ad each customer is most likely to click.

Analytics 177

Analytics Retention Social Media Campaign 177

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2015

A unified Microsoft has set the stage for sustained revenue growth. Nadella’s efforts to reboot Microsoft positions the company to more effectively engage with channel partners and enterprise customers. 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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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2013

I pointed out that the “data” you gather in 10 weeks (talking to 100+ customers, partners, payers, etc.,) Now that you’ve gotten to know your potential channel and customers, regardless of how much money you’re going to make, will you enjoy working with these customers for the next 3 or 4 years? see 0:30 in the video below).

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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

Acquisition segments. Acquisition segments. It is about focusing your marketing efforts on a few select companies that could represent huge revenue streams. Second-party historical data is first-party data of a partner who agreed to share it with you, on a “bilateral” basis. Contextual segments. Behavioral segments.

Programming 97

Programming Revenue Analytics Software Review 97

ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

Using a tool like SparkToro , you can uncover the channels and influencers that your audience is most engaged with. Interviewing them will provide you with their wants and needs from a messaging perspective and uncover topic ideas and distribution channels. Select your content distribution channels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Then companies can determine promotional effectiveness by narrowly defined customer segments, by location, or by delivery channel. Companies need the same service on partner and acquisition candidates, even vendors. Predictive advertisement targeting. Online, everyone wants to know which ad each customer is most likely to click.

Analytics 257

Analytics Entrepreneur Retention Social Media 257

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

How to Scale Unicorns With Partner David Zhang, TVC. Joining us for this episode is our partner David Zhang, Partner at TCV (( Technology Crossover Ventures ). I’m a partner at TCV, which we founded in 1996. And now we are much more careful about revenue quality revenues. Jonathan Siddharth .

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Partner Cofounder Retention Acquisition 132

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2019

Every business needs revenue to provide investor returns and offset costs. Free” is not an attractive revenue model to investors. Popular revenue models today include recurring subscription charges, licensing, as well the traditional sale or lease model. Investors will demand clear channel definitions. Key partners.

Intellectual Property 250

Intellectual Property Business Model Angel Investor Channel 250

Board Effect

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Personalized Outreach and Engagement Generative AI can help nonprofits create effective messaging and personalized appeals, as well as identify the best channels for reaching various target audiences. Social Media Content Creation AI can help generate engaging, relevant content for social media channels within seconds.

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Artificial Inteligence Generative AI Government ChatGPT 52

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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Marketing Product Audience Equity 110

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

There are two reasons to raise money: You have a killer idea that is only partially validated, that you think can get to $50M+ of revenue in 5 years with 80%+ gross margins (if margins are lower, you need a lot more revenue)and you need money to get to product-market fit, or. Not all startups need outside investment to grow.

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Cofounder Seed Stage Valuation Metrics 429

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2010

Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came early. Fresh customer base. Economies of scale.

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Acquisition Merger Startup Bandwidth 214

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2013

Then companies can determine promotional effectiveness by narrowly defined customer segments, by location, or by delivery channel. Companies need the same service on partner and acquisition candidates, even vendors. Predictive advertisement targeting. Online, everyone wants to know which ad each customer is most likely to click.

Analytics 246

Analytics Retention Startup Social Media 246

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2020

Let me be a bit more specific on how follow-up trumps ideas for success in the key challenges of a startup, or any small business: Networking with investors, partners, and customers. They watch for formal follow-up to questions, demonstration of real product, and revenue results. Customer acquisition, retention, and support.

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Entrepreneur Cofounder Term Sheet Acquisition 307

Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

25 questions that DTC entrepreneurs should ask themselves before scaling customer acquisition So you run a direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand. You just spent a few thousand dollars on advertising and your paid customer acquisition cost (CAC) numbers tested well relative to your best guess for customer lifetime value (LTV).

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Technical Review Software Review China Acquisition 49

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2010

How much dilution should I take for it?&# My friend’s company was pre-revenue. 500k had come through the last acquisition. My recommendation to our lead partner looking at the deal, “Pass. There’s really no such thing as a merger – only acquisitions. Me: “Zero dilution. million uniques.

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Merger Technical Review Early Stage Dilution 276

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Then companies can determine promotional effectiveness by narrowly defined customer segments, by location, or by delivery channel. Companies need the same service on partner and acquisition candidates, even vendors. Predictive advertisement targeting. Online, everyone wants to know which ad each customer is most likely to click.

Analytics 120

Analytics Retention Social Media Campaign 120

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

The reason that incumbents can’t react is that their revenue and defensibility are continued by serving the high-end of the market for which it would take too much time & money for any competitors to effectively challenge. new arrivals plus library versus just library) or even create channels (i.e. No time soon.

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Los Angeles Revenue Retention Acquisition 329

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

1) It all starts from the Growth Hacking Funnel - in the early stages, startups should not just focus on top/bottom line metric like unique users and revenue. They should understand the different states of the user (Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Revenue) and focus on moving users from one state to the next.

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API Viral Startup Retention 167

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

17:07] I’m seeing more and more agencies talk about growth through acquisition – is that a good way to grow? So a lot of times we'll help, 'em understand they wanna buy controllership work, which is just the, you know, the full on financial cash movement of all of their revenue through all of their systems. Blumer CPAs.

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CPA Technical Review Revenue Forecast 73

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The $130 million Series D investment round was co-led by New York-based global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners and Hanaco Venture Capital. Audiences constantly consume information through the different content channels daily. The creator economy has changed the way we, as a society, experience social networks.

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Private Equity Developer Venture Capital Merger 144

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 4, 2022

You put in keywords about your brand, your industry, your competitors, your products, and the social listening tool goes out there into the worldwide web and on social media channels and listens for those terms that you've put in and then brings all of the information back to you on what's being said about those terms.

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Social Media Conversion Media Artificial Inteligence 89

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2013

Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came quickly. Fresh customer base. Economies of scale.

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Merger Acquisition Startup Bandwidth 243

mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

The search giant’s VP of Corporate Development, along with CEO Larry Page, signs off on the dozens of acquisitions and acqui-hires made every year, large and small. There’s YouTube , of course — well established in its own right, it rewrote the book on how an acquisition can be run delicately, as a company within a company.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Say your objective is to increase sales revenue from your existing customer base, and your key result is to generate an additional $500k from these customers by the end of Q2. Your hypothesis might be that if you remove the promo code field at the checkout, cart abandonment will go down, and revenue from existing customers will increase.

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