Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2011

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1M each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Twitter, for example, doesn’t have a real revenue model today, and they are growing, but I’m not sure who can ever sell 140 character tweets.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Weve hosted some interesting tech entrepreneurs. Others, such as Loosecubes, are looking for a more consistent stream of revenue by switching to a subscription-based model. Advertisement. Its been a great way to meet people," says Hertz, whose suite goes for $99 a night and is occupied about half the time. Most Popular.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 27, 2013

For many, “spreadsheet modeling” can be a daunting phrase and can sometimes cause otherwise intrepid entrepreneurs to run screaming in terror. And every unit you sell, whether an hour of services or Widget #3 is made up of the selling price and the variable costs associated directly with that unit. Reward top performers.

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Genuine VC

APRIL 30, 2008

After the crash at the end of the last decade, web startups clamped down to focus on their core value proposition and were forced out of necessity for survival to hone their revenue models. The stories of tremendous growth in adoption with the promise of revenue later on has been enough to excite both entrepreneurs alike.

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Genuine VC

APRIL 30, 2008

After the crash at the end of the last decade, web startups clamped down to focus on their core value proposition and were forced out of necessity for survival to hone their revenue models. The stories of tremendous growth in adoption with the promise of revenue later on has been enough to excite both entrepreneurs alike.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Those tools do not integrate as seamlessly with e-mail as advertised. So while the abstraction shown is a failed CRM, this could just as easily be applied to a ticketing management widget. We would rather chase revenue. Of course you should chase revenue. We’ve tried it. I mean, it’s not as simple as it seems.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 3, 2018

Over the last decade, crowdspring and our 210,000+ designers have helped entrepreneurs, small businesses, agencies and Brands around the world with website design. In that time, here’s what we’ve learned about website credibility: the credibility of your website will directly impact your revenues and profits. .

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Practical Market Research Resources for Entrepreneurs. General wisdom (and Intuit’s Quickbooks blog ) recommends that would-be entrepreneurs have six months of personal living expenses in savings before starting their own business; some more cautious folk opt to have enough income saved away for an entire year’s worth of expenses.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

All you’ve proven is that you can make $200 a month in revenue off of some basic websites. If you did that, now you’ve got something like one or $2,000 a month of revenue, proving that this is interesting. Jason: In revenue. I realize it seems all kind of nebulous right now. Jason: Here’s what it seems like.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. The third option he covers is pre-selling future income by offering someone $x of every widget you sell forever (it may be a sliding scale that decreases after x units are sold). But who needs revenue?) But this drawback goes away pretty quickly.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. We believe that opting-out of advertising should be an easy, common and legitimate alternative for ad-intolerant users, provided that the content provider can remain as profitable.

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Brandanew

APRIL 22, 2016

While we’ve often talked about organic Content Marketing, today we have guest blogger and entrepreneur, Garett Gan sharing his views on Content Marketing with paid advertising. Sometimes, paid advertising tools and platforms can be a great supplement to these more traditional means of distribution. Outbrain. . .

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

This dynamic births serial entrepreneurs and motivates angels and venture capitalists to pull their friends into investment deals. For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Just don’t call Feld on the phone. “I hate the phone,&# he says.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Twitter, for example, doesn’t have much of a revenue model today, and they are growing, but I’m not sure who can ever sell 140 character tweets.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

I originally came from the entreprise software world (for 10 years) and before that I was in mobile & telecoms (8 years) so the last three years of immersing myself in consumer Internet, digital media & advertisings has been very eye opening. Ah, the joys of youthful naivete. But I did want to learn.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

trav (2010-06-19) # This is GPS for would-be web entrepreneurs lost in a sea of ideas with no sailors to steer their imaginary ship. Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. Should be read by any web entrepreneur.

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