Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2019

This metric helps determine how much cash you need for operation and expansion. Revenue growth rate: measures the month-over-month percentage increase in revenue and is the most common and important metric for startups. Revenue and wins by type: compare revenue and wins among existing and new businesses.

Founder 71

Founder Retention Metrics Technical Review 71

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

These days, many agencies start as a lean operation. Much like our digital PR offering, we started with a lean operation: We used Google Sheets to manage content operations across all accounts, along with dashboards that each client had access to. Choose to expand vertically or horizontally.

PR 120

PR B2B Lean Audience 120

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

On the heels of seeing the 10% influencer base increase the referrals process yielded, the team at Intellifluence pushed to create a brand-to-brand referral program as well, intent on creating user acquisition flywheels wherever possible. Photo Credit: Matt Daigle. There is so much for me to be proud of in 2019! 11- Four things.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 120

ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2021

Sorry, but ABM is not B2B, nor is it right for all markets, business models, or companies (just like every company should not be running freemium aka PLG for acquisition.) This is important for multiple reasons— but imagine that you’re trying to sell to the VP Operations at a big pharma company but have no idea what their name is.

IP 98

IP Marketing Technical Review Software Review 98

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. There was now a public market for companies with no revenue, no profit and big claims.

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Revenue needs to grow 20x, and margins must expand dramatically. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. Global smartphone revenue is about $420B.

Valuation 48

Valuation Technical Review Forecast Social Network 48

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Compounding is the ability of an asset to generate earnings that are reinvested in order to generate exponential revenue growth. It has never paid out dividends, and clocks around $200 billion in revenue. million in revenue at the time. To some extent you can manage the revenue for a quarter or 2. Alpha generation.

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Founder Valuation Dividend Startup 118

Transformify

APRIL 21, 2017

And we’ll be expanding into more business verticals soon. Finance was a logical expansion for us, though coming across the right acquisition while having it on our strategic roadmap accelerated the launch. Why did you prioritize finance over another capability? Focus on what to focus on.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Silicon Valley Software Review Cofounder 40

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

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. Through these efforts, we will continue to build trust and credibility in the eyes of all stakeholders – employees, customers, prospects and other vendors in our verticals. .

Entrepreneur 122

Entrepreneur Social Media Vertical SEO 122

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. YouAppi (2011)- YouAppi creates adtech to streamline mobile user acquisition.

Artificial Inteligence 122

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

In it, I got asked a question I often hear: “What if we have a web-based business that doesn’t have revenue or paying customers? And without revenue how do we know if we achieved product/market fit to exit Customer Validation?” They’re putting money into web services/business – most without early revenue. End of theory.&#

Customer Development 219

Customer Development Web Developer Customer 219

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Expedia grew to account for roughly one third of the company’s revenues. Think about that.

Part-Time VPE 54

Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

I have been saying privately for years now that I believe online video will evolve into fragmented distribution (my next online video post) and vertical production. It turns out that when you develop strong vertical content you often find you have great collaboration opportunities and don’t have to consider everybody a competitor.

South America 291

South America Colombia Mexico Vertical 291

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

If you like this, go see his Shockwave Innovations blog ) Anyone that has taken an accounting class or learned basic business financials knows the interaction between key elements of a P&L (revenue, cost, expense) and a balance sheet (assets, liabilities, equity). Basic Concepts The concept of the graphic shown below is very simple.

Churn Rate 288

Churn Rate .Net Metrics Hosting 288

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

These products encourage all individuals to participate in and have a point of view on investing, rather than operating under the assumption that it’s strictly for the wealthy. The cost of originating and servicing small loans is comparable to larger loans, but the interest and fee revenue is far less.

IPO 36

IPO Stock Software Review API 36

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. We are also seeing technology evaluation as an increasingly important part of LP operational due diligence. Lighter Capital, a Revenue Based Investing VC, offers a Cost of Capital Calculator.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

We will invest pre-revenue and even pre-product if we have discovered the right team in the right kind of market. Both AOL and Time Warner had existing VC operations. When the companies merged, those operations also merged. A contemporary analog to this type of vertical integration is Comcast/NBC-U. Can you talk about it?

Cofounder 277

Cofounder Merger Founder Venture Capital 277

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

But look, recruiting's a life, but of any program, the way a lot of people have operated their program is inbound only, right? And then I show you four baby subscription services afterwards for which I get, you know, 30% of the first year revenue, if you sign up for them. And then they're a lot more interesting.

Marketing 89

Marketing Affiliate Channel Software Review 89

ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

Marketers should also be looking at acquisition (visits, unique visitors, pageviews), behavior (pages per visit, time on site, bounce rate), and revenue (if you’re eCommerce). For example, according to Mona Elesseily , “conversions in the health vertical have the best ROI during work hours and into the evening on tablet devices.”.

Mobile 48

Mobile Technical Review Software Review Metrics 48

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Most businesses have a handful of target accounts they dream of closing—big, prestigious companies that could generate a whole lot of revenue in a single deal. It’s been the industry’s go-to resource for 15 years, covering every imaginable nuance of call-center operations in a staggering level of detail.

B2B 133

B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We talked about the negative effect of Apple’s closed system attitude but how that will be a gift to the market because Apple’s cracking of the operator hegemony has forced the industry to innovate. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season.

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Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Living Social recently bought a controlling stake in JumpOnIt, a local deals site in Australia, and have launched owned and operated sites in the UK and Canada. Vertically focused deals. Their acquisition of Urban Escape is helping them create these amazing adventure experiences. Lifestyle focused deals.

Canada 113

Canada Australia Vertical Acquisition 113

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. Diving in a bit more into some thoughts here: 1b) Ad-based revenue streams generally have terrible unit economics. don’t think about at all. This is obvious.

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. Diving in a bit more into some thoughts here: 1b) Ad-based revenue streams generally have terrible unit economics. don’t think about at all. This is obvious.

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

The most poignant realisation of this for me has been the general awareness that few of them pay their fair share of taxes in localised operations. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. Cars becoming mobile rolling lounge rooms where screen time becomes a major revenue source for auto makers.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Artificial Inteligence 48

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

The most poignant realisation of this for me has been the general awareness that few of them pay their fair share of taxes in localised operations. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. Cars becoming mobile rolling lounge rooms where screen time becomes a major revenue source for auto makers.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Artificial Inteligence 48

The Startup Toolkit

JULY 13, 2013

The only concrete actions we’re privvy to are about creating better development tools, continuing to merge the various platform operating systems, and re-organising the engineering team. These are going to be big, strategic acquisitions too, well beyond the startup’s revenues and traction. Colour me skeptical.

Engineer 41

Engineer Vertical Framework Acquisition 41

Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 24, 2013

It’s a perfect storm waiting to take flight – as software continues to eat industries and verticals we believe this BloomNation story will repeat itself over and over again across more and more industries. Real businesses have multiple employees, they have processes, and they have sizable existing offline revenue base.

Vertical 74

Vertical Retention Green Acquisition 74

VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

ForNova provides a B2B turnkey solution to enable building aggregation solutions for classifieds eCommerce, travel and many other specific content verticals. The platform supports multiple verticals such as real estate, cars, travel, hotels, flights, jobs, events, products, eCommerce and more. com, LIVEPERSON, Conduit and others.

Media 145

Media Social Network Flash 145

Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 23, 2013

It’s a perfect storm waiting to take flight – as software continues to eat industries and verticals we believe this BloomNation story will repeat itself over and over again across more and more industries. Real businesses have multiple employees, they have processes, and they have sizable existing offline revenue base.

Vertical 60

Vertical Retention Green Acquisition 60

ConversionXL

MAY 3, 2017

A customer survey conducted by BigCommerce revealed that 51% of SMBs expect social advertising channels (specifically Facebook Ads) will play a major role in accelerating revenue throughout 2017 and beyond. If you have a strong CRM, and an effective email marketing operation, you have a head start over plenty of advertisers, believe me.

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San Jose Customer Database Campaign 133

Austin Startup

JULY 5, 2017

Rather, Tesla will be a full stack, vertically integrated clean energy company. For a sense of scale, consider that Tesla generated $7B of revenue in 2016. Of that, Tesla does not even break out non-automotive revenue, meaning that their battery/solar business today is small fraction of total sales.

Nevada 66

Nevada Global eCommerce Engineer 66

The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Even if a mobile app developer manages to cross the distribution hurdle and starts raking in some revenue, the next challenge is even worse: getting copied. You figure out a way to compete with them, not on the surface but in a different direction… Make a vertical (niche) so good that you own a large market share.

China 122

China Developer Intellectual Property Mobile 122

ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2016

Each app in each vertical is a world of its own. Stage 2: Optimize Your User Acquisition Campaigns. Connecting meaningful in-app activity to its acquisition source is important. Table sorted by Average Revenue Per User (ARPU). Think about travel marketers operating in a seasonal industry. Image Source.

Mobile 48

Mobile Conversion Retention Campaign 48

BeyondVC

JULY 23, 2007

While this acquisition in and of itself is not mind blowing, the fact that Nokia has made a number of acquisitions over the last 18 months encroaching on possible carrier revenue does make the story more compelling (see an earlier post- Nokia’s Coopetition with Carriers ).

Internet 60

Internet Acquisition Vertical Software 60

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

We already have some competitors in the vertical and while there is no point in trying to hide the actual idea, there are differences in the way we implement stuff that can get us an advantage over the competition. >> flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy.

Stealth 41

Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Snowflake decides which channels to use according to industry verticals and where their buyers are likely to be. This approach works for both new account acquisition and account expansion. How uniting reporting increased revenue from target accounts by 21% for Schneider Electric. Results from SE’s ABM efforts.

Marketing 105

Marketing Campaign Artificial Inteligence Sales Cycle 105