Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2012

The implications of the decision you make are huge, defining your brand image, your funding requirements, and your long-term business viability. The revenue model you select is basically the implementation of your business strategy, and the key to attaining your financial objectives. Portfolio pricing.

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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?” However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web.

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Gust

AUGUST 24, 2014

The implications of the decision you make are huge, defining your brand image, your funding requirements, and your long-term business viability. The revenue model you select is basically the implementation of your business strategy, and the key to attaining your financial objectives. Freemium model.

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Revenue Startup Retention Internet 184

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it. And there’s this other thing called “gross margin,” which shows the quality of your revenue. How much ad revenue does TripAdvisor make?

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Why Small Businesses Are Building Remote Workforces | Business Insider - crowdspring.co/1aHHoaf. Good whitepaper on advertising measurement metrics | by Ben Kunz – crowdspring.co/HsVIMR. Qualities Of Truly Great Employees | Business Insider by Dharmesh Shah - crowdspring.co/1h0QmFY. GrowthHackers - crowdspring.co/1akvc2y.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2013

The implications of the decision you make are huge, defining your brand image, your funding requirements, and your long-term business viability. The revenue model you select is basically the implementation of your business strategy, and the key to attaining your financial objectives. Freemium” model.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The creator economy offers independence and the ability to monetise fan’s attention in a variety of ways (as opposed to advertising/sponsorship only), but the road to get there is riddled with challenges. “The Creator economy is in crisis, now lets fix it”, Li Jin’s newsletter. This is where new startups can help.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Once we had the user (developer) and the buyer (security team) on board, the freemium model really accelerated and made it quite resilient to this crisis. It took us longer to get into revenue, but the freemium was a real accelerator for us. What made you consider a freemium model rather than offering free trials?

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 21, 2014

But many years later, I began to appreciate that one of our core flaws was our business model. As a result, the full revenue for each deal was recognized in that quarter as soon as the software was shipped. This allowed our revenue to skyrocket from $1.8 I later came to realize that r ecurring revenue is magic.

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Revenue Valuation Churn Rate Portfolio 54

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

2) New market (less common form, examples are Lyft and eShares) and 3) New business model (least common, non-K9 portfolio examples are PriceLine and SolarCity). Direct Revenue, meaning no three-way business models and no advertising, media, or content. We don’t have categories of interest.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The best drivers apply the brakes just ahead of the curve (they take out excess costs), turn hard toward the apex of the curve (identify the short list of projects that will form the next business model), and accelerate hard out of the curve (spend and hire before markets have rebounded). Progressive. Image source ). Image source ).

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Across our portfolio and in my own entrepreneurial experience, I have seen three main sales models work successfully in scaling B2B sales: 1) Enterprise; 2) Telephone; and 3) Developer-driven. The typical quota for a sales rep varies by type of business model (SaaS vs. perpetual), product gross margin (e.g.,

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

The Future of Business Models Will Be Centered on Crowds - crowdspring.co/16aTTiD. A Startup’s Minimum Revenue Per Employee - crowdspring.co/GNlKua. “Investing early & often in customer success is essential to keeping a fast-growing SaaS business’s momentum.” ” - crowdspring.co/16aZ5Ts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2010

The implications of the decision you make are huge, defining your brand image, your funding requirements, and your long-term business viability. The revenue model you select is basically the implementation of your business strategy, and the key to attaining your financial objectives. Portfolio pricing.

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Product Startup Portfolio Revenue 247

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore. Also, many of these companies were built with heavy doses of advertising spend, a clear red-flag in our book. This is business model nirvana.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2012

It’s been over 10 years since Napster came on the scene to disrupt traditional music business models, sparking a wave of debate on the right mix of “free” vs “paid” content going forward with digital that has yet to be fully settled. In the shift to digital music, several models emerged, with the jury still out on the clear winner.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 19, 2012

Four of the portfolio companies have had successful exits: CardMunch was acquired by LinkedIn , BackType was acquired by Twitter , IndexTank was acquired by LinkedIn , and just this week, card.io Not interested in me-too businesses. No three-way business models and no content, media, advertising-based companies.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 19, 2012

Four of the portfolio companies have had successful exits: CardMunch was acquired by LinkedIn , BackType was acquired by Twitter , IndexTank was acquired by LinkedIn , and just this week, card.io Not interested in me-too businesses. No three-way business models and no content, media, advertising-based companies.

Technology 132

Technology Seed Stage San Francisco Limited Partner 132

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Now that Groupon and Living Social (a Lightspeed portfolio company) are growing s0 fast, it is attracting even more attention from startups. Usually they start with a self service business model, expecting local businesses to go to the web to sign up for service on their own. advertising local'

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 15, 2019

It’s here that the most important business lesson my father taught me comes to mind: Never grow your vegetables in someones else’s garden. Make sure your own and control where you build your assets and revenue streams. The most important piece in the Steve Sammartino portfolio is my own webpage and this blog.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

When we create new platform initiatives, our team tries to think about how we can be the most impactful with our portfolio companies. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new program that we hope will help our portfolio companies with two of these bullets. Building a great product. We want to talk to you! Back to Top).

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Operations Cofounder Technical Review Angel Investor 176

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. The opportunity to transact at the point of purchase increases the sheer number of revenue opportunities.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2022

I was recently in a board meeting for one of my portfolio companies, and we had a discussion that must happen in almost every board meeting. The CEO shared the revenue target for the year at X, and the revenue target for next year at 3X. One of the board members asked a simple question: “Why is revenue our North Star KPI?”

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Metrics Revenue B2C Portfolio 179

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

These partnerships may take the form of Proof of Concept projects with startups, getting to know VC firms and their portfolios, and familiarizing themselves with university groups doing research in the established strategic problems. (It In exchange, the startups provide companies with their disruptive ideas, technologies and business models.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 11, 2018

This year I counted at least 5 sessions related to blockchain and cryptocurrency, with much more engagement and heated opinions…in fact Bill Barhydt, CEO of FPV portfolio company Abra went head to head with economist Nouriel Roubini and wrote about it after in this piece. And what are we getting in return?

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 28, 2010

K9 expects to be an active investor in portfolio companies and will typically make only 4-6 new investments per year. Direct Revenue : The company must have a direct revenue model. K9 began investing in 2009 and is honored to have the following five companies in its portfolio: CrowdFlower (Seed and Series A).

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time. we had no revenue. But with so many investors still licking their wounds from the dot-com bust, many focused on proven business models, such as advertising or e-commerce.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

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. So there was always the affiliate program and then all this other and business development, I think now it's all coming under one roof under one platform.

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Marketing Affiliate Channel Software Review 90

BeyondVC

MAY 18, 2007

I first met David in 1996 when he made his move from offline to online advertising as my prior fund invested in the initial round of 24/7. With AQuantive, Microsoft will get advertiser relationships and a platform from which to build a real online business. The post Internet Ad Frenzy – what’s next?

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Revenue is the lifeblood of your tech startup. But too many startup tech entrepreneurs focus on a single revenue stream—a primary source of income that will exclusively sustain the business. This model won’t necessarily doom your startup to failure. Why Are Multiple Revenue Streams So Valuable?

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 26, 2021

For a business issue, I’ll say something like, “Here are three reasons why advertising might be this company’s most important business model. This is why advertising is a really good business model. This is why it applies to this company. And this is why it’s worth considering a change. But get real.

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Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The Business of Social Networks: We have seen a coalescing of business models form around social networks and not surprisingly the vast majority of them are evolutions of advertising models. Brand Marketing Meets PPC: In most companies marketing exists in two forms, brand management and promotional marketing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 25, 2013

Don’t Confuse Growth with Success, and Don’t Delay the Revenue Model | Startup Management – [link]. Running a SaaS business? The Right Way to Hire Your Customers | Bill Lee – Harvard Business Review – [link]. Is Native Advertising an It Girl? Digiday by Josh Sternberg – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2013

This agreement hope to build a business and technology ecosystem around the media and advertising sectors and to grow more successes along the lines of A*STAR start-up Knorex. These newspapers have also generated new sources of revenue that amount to over S$3 million in total to date.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Edwin: Oh sorry, so the business model. Edwin: The business model is that the organizer has to pay. How do you split revenue? And then the final thing is just getting the revenue up. Jason: A lot of things are solved with revenue. Do you think that’s a good business model?

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 22, 2012

This theory suggests that the sectors that NY is particularly strong in – consumer, advertising technology, media – are out of favor for some reason. Perhaps the poor performance of the Facebook IPO soured Wall Street on the consumer sector and advertising-based business models? NYC companies are more sizzle than steak?

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 14, 2020

If you’re not generating enough recurring revenue, you can invest heavily in marketing and advertising to get more visibility for your brand—no sweat. They had multiple rounds of successful funding or generated enough revenue to build up significant cash reserves. Multiple Revenue Streams.

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