Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

But if you want to build a scalable startup you need to be asking how you can you get enough customers/users/payers to build a business that can grow revenues past several $100M/year. China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. There’s nothing wrong with a business that supports you and perhaps an extended family.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The online video networks are doing terrific business, and even Yahoo is benefiting from increased brand spend, seeing revenue growth for the first time in a while. While the revenue numbers may not be huge in 2010, there is certainly promise to the business models that are developing on these platforms.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

Given the predictability of SaaS GAAP revenues on a quarterly basis, the fact that the 08/09 projections were unchanged is not a surprise. Given that the revenues are not growing very fast, this means that most of the companies have reduced their sales force and focused on productivity improvement. mba india. Amit said.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Lloyed explores the intricate art of harnessing the community’s strength as your ultimate acquisition channe l, brand differentiator, feedback source, retention lever, and catalyst for transformative change. It costs twice as much to generate the same results from the same marketing tactics. He's like, I can't, don't care.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

Occipital — makers of the Structure Sensor for 3-D data acquisition. Expensive iterations: Depending on the product doing a new rev of the hardware may cost thousands of dollars or more and could also take weeks if not at least several days. Coin — a programmable payment device in a credit card form factor.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Farming is also often overlooked, but can help grow customer accounts and revenues from 30% upwards (if successful). Great list! Michael Kassing.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 12, 2012

Startup businesses, particularly those that are growing fast, are in a constant state of acquisition. It costs money to attract customers and clients, and even more to serve and retain them. The fund is intended to help young businesses spend their investment capital on revenue-generating activities, not on technology purchases.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

How They Make Money : Facebook’s primary revenue stream is of course selling advertising on Facebook.com, which in total accounts for 85% of revenue. The next chunk comes from Facebook’s platform, in essence “taxing” the revenues of app developers like Zynga, which represents 15% of revenue.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

First up was Robert Woltz with Application Services International , whose product EMPAS will provide an on-line low cost solution that benefits medical institutions searching for qualified, credentialed and verified candidates. A customer acquisition strategy that is pragmatic, and. Distribution Channel for Product Companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. We discussed whether investing in the second largest player in a category makes sense given that Groupon is 10x the revenue, 3.5x But LivingSocial is reportedly doing around $180,000 per day in gross revenue.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. John already has a couple of customers, and needs about 50 customers to get to $1M in annual revenue.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

As a result, Pandora is nowhere near profitable at more than $103 million in quarterly revenue, paying more than half of this sum to labels for content licenses. Today, HealthTab announced the acquisition of Q&A site Avvo Health specifically to increase the number of doctors within its network, doubling it to 30,000.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2011

Mike's customer acquisition strategy is weak at this point, and he also has a rather broad strategy in approaching this market. Kelly's business has already done about $150,000 in revenue in 2010, which tells me that she has successfully validated at least some of her assumptions. You can register for the next roundtable here.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Google PPC is a key channel for customer acquisition for many e-commerce and online businesses, yet keywords have become quite competitive, and the costs of campaigns for certain keywords tend to be extremely high. For this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we discussed an important topic that many entrepreneurs are facing.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Justin is looking for a more efficient customer acquisition model, and my suggestion to him was to look into using distributors, instead of trying to do all the development and then also all the distribution himself. How is Aaron going to cover his substantial costs? Trinity Business Solutions. Photo by wax115.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghoshs research. In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. Low Cost Franchises. Deutschland.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The rest can be outsourced to wherever (Estonia – Skype; someone mentioned digg above; you can even send this junk to India and get it with questionable quality). Thus had to spend hard cash building a half way completed demo outsourced to India. The project was so low cost they did not even want to bother with it.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

In India or Japan or the United States? Economic Value (EcV) is the value of short and long-term revenue and cost savings. The causal impact does not have to be on Revenue. An example of the implication: Don't expect short term sales/revenue from any social participation. The opportunity cost.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

While finishing his final two years of his PhD, helping take reddit to acquisition in late 2006 and moving to San Francisco to start a family, Chris had realised that academia was not the road for him. “I But even with this acquisition, Loopt remains ahead of the curve. Apples China App Store Brings in 18% of Downloads, 3% of Revenue.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Where can I find co-founders who understand distributed systems and databases? How have non-technical founders found technical co-founders? Finding Co-Founders: What are some good ways to find technical co-founders in India? Building a scalable, profitable, customer acquisition engine. Building and managing a technical team.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. At 1/12th the cost, 1M/1M provides far more value. 1M/1M Program has a bold mission.

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