Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

They’ve grown from nothing to >$2B in revenue in 30 months time, making the company among the fastest growing businesses in the histroy of the world. How They Make Money: Groupon keeps a share of the coupon value (typically 40-50%) as its net revenue (1). Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $713M. to the merchant.

North America 100

North America Chicago Boston Silicon Valley 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Along with Greycroft Partners we were the first investors in Maker Studios 3 years ago when the company had no revenue and limited infrastructure. but not that this justifies take a 45% revenue share. Industry averages for talent revenue shares are about 70% with top talent making even more. ” YouTube takes 45%.

Networking 366

Networking Media Distribution Video 366

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

After all, without customers, there is no revenue. … Due to the relatively small potential contract values in restaurants, startups serving these customer segments have to build very efficient sales teams or online customer acquisition tools to aggregate many of them inexpensively. Who is correct?

Small Business 110

Small Business Marketing Startup Silicon Valley 110

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

Just consider this for a moment: 29 of America’s 100 top-paid CEOs collected more in compensation than their corporations paid in income taxes. Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Artificial Inteligence 48

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

Just consider this for a moment: 29 of America’s 100 top-paid CEOs collected more in compensation than their corporations paid in income taxes. Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Artificial Inteligence 48

Occam's Razor

JULY 13, 2017

Here’s a valuable dataset from the Equal Justice Initiative on Lynchings in America. For example… Let’s say they end up looking at Visitors, Conversion Rates, and Revenue. Why not build in a model where the decision maker can change Conversion Rates, to see the impact on Revenue? Show impact on Revenue and Profit.

Analytics 124

Analytics United States Audience Cyprus 124

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Recording Industry Association of America. In aggregate, the various revenue streams would continue to support the creation and distribution of high production value content. Interestingly enough, a key theme resonant throughout the evening was the eventual consolidation of the industry.

Business Model 159

Business Model Distribution Aggregator Channel 159

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

You'll see in an instant the very cool things you can track and analyze… With a little bit of smart tagging you can track your internal promotions ( buy one Make America Great Again hat and get one Stronger Together hat free! ), transactions with coupon codes, affiliate sales and more. Very nicely summarized above. Take a break.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

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! Philippe Botteri.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2015

What is revenue going to look like? A persona is an aggregate of all the traits that your customers have, so that it becomes your most common customer. I want to have enough revenue to hire a manager. If you were to say, who is the target market for Crocs, in America? Planning makes me sleep better. That’s okay.

Forecast 60

Forecast Video Business Plan United States 60

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

In addition, those humans, collectively, are the majority of America and they reside disproportionately in non-primary markets. Grew up here in the Central Valley of California, left for early work and career in college, bounced around North America for a while, returned home to start this company. It feels really, really obvious."

Fresno 60

Fresno Community Technology California 60

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Respondents deemed between 12%-16% of companies generating revenues to be essentially “worthless” and deemed 20%-26% of their pre-revenue investments to be “worthless.” Spend the time raising money yourself, using oblique sources of revenue such as contract work or any one of a hundred others. Add to this that 72.7% Translation?

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

This highest quality of the traffic information, never achieved before, together with the perfect applications generate significant revenues for the operator and maintain customers’ loyalty. Logia has the unique combination of being both a content aggregator and a billing aggregator. Craze Productions. GoNet Systems.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

The central team is responsible for analytics frameworks, centralized contracts (tools, consultants), for aggregated company level analysis, complex project execution (experimentation, media mix models etc) and for setting standards. Examples: Improve the checkout process (small work, big revenue impact). Focus on doing analysis.

Analytics 124

Analytics Channel Metrics Web 124

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

T he response rate has been overwhelming and we ended up with 40+ companies and 80+ attendees, most of them CEOs and CxOs of leading public and private saas companies representing around 80% of the revenues of the SaaS industry in 2007. Your key business metrics are CMRR (Contracted Monthly Recurring Revenue) and cash. Stay local.

Software Review 48

Software Review South Korea IPO Portfolio 48

Occam's Razor

MAY 18, 2010

I have said: All data in aggregate is "crap" Because it is. You can imagine then how absolutely heartbreaking it is for me to note that nearly all reporting that I see is data in aggregate. Total revenue. Tons of data "puking", all just aggregates. My love for segmentation as the primary (only?)

Analytics 123

Analytics Web Acquisition Metrics 123

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Corporate America could learn from this. I was about to become the first person in America to sell condom key chains. Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

He is on the board of the Angel Resource Institute, and is a partner with Montlake Capital (a late stage growth capital fund) and with Revenue Capital Management (a royalty based lender). When you aggregate all of the data, these angel investors (across the U.S. He’s c0-authored two books and many academic articles.

Angel Investor 103

Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 103

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. The employer is in the system for what reason exactly? That creates a ton of problems.

Singapore 43

Singapore Government Silicon Valley Software Review 43

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Central America. If you are looking for short-term revenue or quick wins, you are better off skipping it (do something boring, but profitable, like Email or Affiliate marketing). but then ignore them as they are quite useless aggregated at this level. Sadly, the same for perhaps the entire African continent. They should, right?

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Non-Compete Search 60

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2018

Ryan Urban: What’s interesting is on aggregate, say, we all remember, five, ten years ago companies were sending one or two emails a month, maybe one email a week. We’ll have one group that gets two emails a week, and we’ll have the other group that gets three emails a week, and we’re gonna look at the revenue.”

Marketing 63

Marketing Europe Canada Email 63