Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

How many social networks, picture sharing sites, new aggregators or blogs can we really spend time on? Revenue Metrics. Revenue metrics are one of the first things I ask for from the startups in which I invest. I like to think of revenue drivers. 40% of our revenue is coming from remnant banner ads served by ad networks.

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Metrics Startup Acquisition SEM 346

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

As a small business, you might be finding it tricky trying to increase your profits and revenues. However, you will be glad to hear that there are plenty of strategies that you could implement which will be vital in helping you grow your revenues. They can actually help you grow your business and give your revenues a fantastic boost!

Revenue 100

Revenue Distribution Aggregator Small Business 100

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

The combination of services and infrastructure traditionally housed under one roof – underwriting, research, sales & trading, supported by large back office operations, and monitored by compliance systems – will remain at the sector’s core. At least for investment banks the answer is not so clear cut.

Technical Review 154

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review IPO 154

Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Increase current conversion rate by 25%, quantify how much increased revenue there will be. Aim for quintupling revenue, obviously, but calculating just 25% improvement will give you all the budget you need from your management to insert urgency into the shopping process. Significantly higher revenue awaits. Do something simple.

Conversion 124

Conversion eCommerce Artificial Inteligence Aggregator 124

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2012

It is harder to raise capital, you need to execute fast and choose the largest market with highest achievable revenue potential as your beach head market] E.G. BuzzCity, Mig33, TMGamer, ImpulseFlyer, Reebonz etc. You are either a sales or product oriented startup company when you first start. Global from day one (GD1). Enterprise.

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Singapore Technical Cofounder Product Marketing 178

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Salesforce, for example, increased its revenue market share to 18.4% A marketing strategy should include a go-to-market plan that is sales-led and product assisted. Marketing should collaborate as a business function with sales, finance and ops, but you shouldn’t replace any of their tasks as a manager.

B2B 94

B2B Marketing Curation PPC 94

Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

This week they were testing their hypotheses about the sales “Channel” – how a company delivers its value proposition (i.e. Physical channels include Direct Sales, Rep Firms, Systems Integrators, Value-added Resellers, Distributors, Dealers, Mass Merchandisers, and Original Equipment Manufacturers. The Week 6 Lecture: Revenue Model.

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Channel Artificial Inteligence San Francisco Business Model 221

Up and Running

AUGUST 24, 2020

Simply put, IoT is a combination of sensor and data analytics systems, helping businesses aggregate metrics to make more accurate decisions. To meet customers changing post-crisis expectations business owners have had to start creating new offerings or pursuing new revenue streams outside of their core business.

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Technical Review Analytics Forecast Artificial Inteligence 131

ConversionXL

JUNE 26, 2019

While this is true for all SaaS companies, it’s especially critical for those that use their product—not traditional marketing or sales—as their growth engine. I’ve seen companies apply this same framework and go from $500,000 in annual recurring revenue (ARR) to $1 million ARR in less than 12 months. How do you optimize that process?

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Framework Churn Rate Metrics Revenue 121

View from Seed

MARCH 5, 2019

There are a variety of quick write-ups on the Lyft S-1 for basic figures like annual revenue, rider growth, or who the largest shareholders are. Lyft helpfully provides the number of active riders, total number of rides, and average revenue per rider on a quarterly basis. Here’s one from Pitchbook and one from TechCrunch.

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Aggregator IPO .Net Revenue 120

BeyondVC

OCTOBER 2, 2015

generate as much revenue as you can to prove that customers find value and are willing to pay. focus first on user engagement and the revenue and bookings will follow. This is also the reason why next to VP of Sales, I would argue a VP of Customer Happiness/Success is a crucial hire. My answer is the less obvious one?—?focus

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Revenue Customer Metrics Aggregator 60

The Startup Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

As we have said, the trouble with focusing on broad markets, aggregate revenue and gross margins, is that this approach does not show us what the bottom line is for every transaction. Gross margins, for instance, do not reflect the overhead, operating and supply chain costs or sales and marketing costs.

Business Model 167

Business Model Aggregator Revenue Analytics 167

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

You take that money and invest a good portion of it in traditional sales and marketing efforts — including product developers, creative people, and salespeople, all of whom are paid to figure out what buyers want and to say good things about your company — in a quest to get even more customers. Close the sale. their peers).

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Customer Social Media Retention Canada 168

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

I can see the correlation, but the conclusion implies a causality that may or may not be there ("the product sales exceeded all internal projections!"). From that analysis, they could identify the incremental sales in country X compared to Y, Z and A. Facebook works. The case study seemed to contain a rookie mistake.

Metrics 165

Metrics Advertising Marketing Social Media 165

Agile VC

MARCH 5, 2019

There are a variety of quick write-ups on the Lyft S-1 for basic figures like annual revenue, rider growth, or who the largest shareholders are. Lyft helpfully provides the number of active riders, total number of rides, and average revenue per rider on a quarterly basis. Here’s one from Pitchbook and one from TechCrunch.

Aggregator 100

Aggregator .Net Revenue IPO 100

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The more well-known your company becomes, the harder it gets to directly impact primary KPI’s at the aggregate level because the majority of customers who buy are going to do so irrespective of if your button color is red or blue. User segmentation can be vital to gaining insights and maximizing revenue. Conclusion.

Chad 112

Chad Mobile Technical Review Aggregator 112

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. is an AI bot which helps companies refine their sales pitch to VCs.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

ConversionXL

APRIL 29, 2013

By the time you’re done with this article, I guarantee you’ll be thinking more strategically about Autoresponders, and ready to create content that’ll help you automate trust building exercises, shares, and sales. Disclaimer: This is provided you’re making sales. A Quick Note About What’s To Follow.

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Campaign Email Framework Clickthrough 130

The Startup Magazine

JULY 9, 2020

Are you a startup struggling to optimize your sales and revenues because of the Coronavirus pandemic? Do you know how you can sustain your business, improve sales, and pay-off salaries even during the pandemic? They not only earned credibility and trust during the pandemic but also increased sales volumes.

Social Media 91

Social Media PPC Marketing SEO 91

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Certain experts have described the situation as a Keynesian supply shock, a negative event that triggers aggregate supply shortages with bigger impacts than the prior reduction in labor supply. Ultimately, optimizing deal management strengthens your supply chains and even makes your sales team more effective. Data-Driven Insights.

B2B 153

B2B Cost Management Forecast 153

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Bikky aggregates customer data from many disparate and traditionally siloed sources: point of sale, payments, online ordering, loyalty, and reservation data. This unified view makes it easy to see how revenue moves through restaurants so that improvements (menu optimization, promotions, etc.) can be made efficiently.

New York City 60

New York City Customer Aggregator Retention 60

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

After all, without customers, there is no revenue. Let’s illustrate with an example – using a fictional new online marketplace for the purchase and sale of art. For example, approximately one-half of the art market worldwide is auction sales. The other half is commercial gallery sales.

Small Business 110

Small Business Marketing Startup Silicon Valley 110

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

You can read various articles out there which will give you the cursory facts about Airbnb like their overall revenue or profitability or how their business has faired here in 2020 in the COVID environment. But ops & customer support is another 17-20% of revenue and arguably you couldn’t run the business if you took that away.

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North America IPO Prospectus Europe 401

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Invoca is now doing 10s of millions in recurring revenue and is growing > 75% year-over-year but it took the first 3 years to really build out the technology and acquire our initial enterprise clients. I mentioned that we sold our position in Kyriba for > $1 billion but when we invested it had virtually no revenue.

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IP Intellectual Property IRR Cofounder 223

Growthink Blog

JANUARY 6, 2016

A classic Business Stretch Goal is the subject line of this post: Doubling Your Business’ revenue in 12 short months. To demonstrate, let's break that “Double Revenues in 2016” Stretch Goal down into a series of Attainable Goals whereby we improve performance of the below four key business processes by just 20% each : 1. 20% Better.

Sales 48

Sales Aggregator Campaign Revenue 48

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

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2020

Using digital and technology to boost sales, find consumers and improve branding is something, entrepreneurs should start focussing on. They should also work on aggregator platforms to improve exposure and reach out to audiences. This means that they have not yet been able to reap the advantages of search and social. Conclusion.

Social Media 176

Social Media Aggregator Analytics Global 176

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

Intellectual Property 175

Intellectual Property Aggregator Startup IP 175

Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

Given the predictability of SaaS GAAP revenues on a quarterly basis, the fact that the 08/09 projections were unchanged is not a surprise. Given that the revenues are not growing very fast, this means that most of the companies have reduced their sales force and focused on productivity improvement. Posted by Philippe Botteri.

Software Review 63

Software Review Technical Review Cloud Forecast 63

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. billion for a company with less than $50 million in sales.

Silicon Valley 223

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 223

The Startup Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

As we have said, the trouble with focusing on broad markets, aggregate revenue and gross margins, is that this approach does not show us what the bottom line is for every transaction. Gross margins, for instance, do not reflect the overhead, operating and supply chain costs or sales and marketing costs.

Business Model 78

Business Model Aggregator Revenue Analytics 78

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. This simply means revenues through recommendations / total revenues.

Conversion 48

Conversion Product Technical Review Widget 48

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Average Revenue Per Customer. So by segmenting your data, you can learn things you couldn’t from the aggregate data. Customers that converted in the last year that had a sales cycle of less than x weeks. Optimizing the sales process is a tricky topic, as there are many ways to do it. Total Customers.

Conversion 48

Conversion Retention Acquisition Metrics 48

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. I agree with YouTube (that they provide more (hosting, ad sales, etc.) but not that this justifies take a 45% revenue share. but not that this justifies take a 45% revenue share.

Networking 366

Networking Media Distribution Video 366

View from Seed

JUNE 13, 2019

Chewy sells tens of thousands of products from many 3rd party brands, as well as its own private label brands (though latter remains <10% of sales). revenue business still growing >50% YoY? Chewy now has over 10 million customers, repeat purchases by existing customers account for approximately 90% of their revenue today.

Leadership 214

Leadership .Net Revenue Acquisition 214

Scalable Startup

JANUARY 12, 2015

RI primarily needs to accelerate revenue growth and market share in order to build new products, increase salaries to market rate and defend their position against a large number of competitors. No matter the segment, reviews directly impact sales, market position and business health. Yelp pioneered 2.0

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Management Los Angeles Angel Investor B2B 20