Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million. Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008).

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

And so the spreadsheet is built with conservative assumptions, including a final revenue target. No matter how low we make the revenue projections for this new product, it’s extremely unlikely that they are achievable. Just because entrepreneurs tend to forget about these models doesn’t mean their investors do.

San Francisco 102

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. In an entrepreneurial situation, this is hard, because artifacts that we are creating (products, code, marketing campaigns, even revenue) are of secondary importance.

Customer 156

Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Are you an entrepreneur or small business owner with questions about funding your small business? I’m the CEO of Executive Speaking Success and I’m a long-time entrepreneur. I’ve been an entrepreneur for almost as long as I can remember. One, I’m an entrepreneur or in the startup stage of a business.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

For starters – the team is exactly what I look for when I’m looking to fund entrepreneurs. This form of advertising is know at CPA (cost per action). I know of at least one very clever entrepreneur in New York looking at this space. initially captured the Internet portal revenues by aggregating eyeballs.

Advertising 284

Advertising Las Vegas Affiliate RSS 284

ConversionXL

MARCH 13, 2013

Total revenue – Yes total revenue is generally a vanity metric. Great you’ve got revenue. Get more revenue? Informly / Geckoboard or other aggregators. Of course I’m biased here but data aggregators or dashboards are awesome. Great, what action do you take now? Auto follow more people?

Metrics 111

Metrics Analytics Aggregator Revenue 111