VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Most startups equate the process of fundraising to dating – founders have to typically kiss a lot of frogs until the find the right fit. Productivity gains Agents that act as systems of action – agents that can complete common consumer tasks like booking a restaurant or finding and sending a gift to a friend.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2018

As part of The Startup Magazine founders interviews, we sat down with Lee Thompson and Radha Vyas, the co-founders of Flash Pack , a lifestyle travel company specialising in adventure trips for solo travelers in their 30’s – 40’s. . Flash Pack turned over its first £ 1 million in 2016/17 and grew to £4 million revenue in 2017/18.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. 23:25] Where can people find the book and connect with you? He's the founder of GrubHub and he founded in his spare bedroom and grew it to a multi billion dollar online food delivery. Marketing Podcast with Mike Evans.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

You can review all the specifics of this approach in the classic book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. Process myth: Why building a product leads to failure.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2021

by Swapnil Shinde, Co-Founder and CEO of Zeni. Don’t rely on spreadsheets to track revenue and expenses; start using accounting tools as soon as possible. Do you categorize your revenue and costs using departments and classes? Don’t use cash basis accounting; track revenue and costs on an accrual basis.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

When your business, book or podcast needs additional support, sponsorship can make a huge difference. Regardless of whether you’re seeking sponsorship for a product, event, book, or podcast, the overarching aim of attracting corporate sponsors remains the same: you need sponsors that engage your audience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

But for founders who do their homework, the cost of entry is lower and the opportunity is higher than ever. Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. The cost of social media done well is low.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2022

The CEO shared the revenue target for the year at X, and the revenue target for next year at 3X. The discussion that ensued was insightful and I thought it would be worth sharing it here for founders who are dealing with a similar issue. One of the board members asked a simple question: “Why is revenue our North Star KPI?

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

But have you ever had the opportunity to pick the brains of founders who created amazingly successful startups and companies like Envato , Backblaze , Simple , or Treehouse ? Few people like talking about their mistakes, but thankfully nine founders took some time to share some of their hard-earned knowledge with you. Find your niche.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

You’re a startup founder, whether actual or aspiring. You own a wall of books, or perhaps a Kindle or iPad bulging at the edge of its hard disk with non-fiction you’ve earmarked for future reading. Business books are a founder’s learning tool. But what about other kinds of business books?

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 29, 2024

Paul is also a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the MIT Sloan School of Management and the co-founder of Oceanworks. 12:00] How do the illustrations in the book augment the entire message? [14:39] 18:52] Talk about the easter eggs laid across the book for reader to discover? [22:53]

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

All startups, including non-profits, need revenue to thrive, such as such as from subscriptions, retail, online, licensing, or services. They want to see revenue to share in the return. Here I recommend a 5-year projection of revenues, expenses, and funding requirements. Provide specifics on the customer business model.

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Up and Running

JULY 28, 2022

Small Business Administration , an organization is considered to be a small business if their: Firm revenue ranges from $1 million to $40 million Number of employees is between 100 and 1,500. It covers creations such as music, books, sculpture, paintings, and films. Develop a founders agreement. Maintain clean books.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

Matt Blumberg has a new book out titled Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. Matt was the co-founder/CEO of Return Path. The book is 132 chapters broken into 11 sections.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

To most founders a startup is not a job, but a calling. Founders can now access the largest pool of risk capital that ever existed –in the form of Private Equity (Angel Investors, family offices , Venture Capitalists (VC’s) and Hedge Funds.). (BTW, What does this mean for startup founders? Here’s the thing most founders miss.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

I recently found the classic sales training book “ Bootstrap Selling The Sandler Way ,” by Bill Morrison, who has 20 years in sales leadership roles, and I was amazed at how many of his sales lessons are great lessons for new entrepreneurs as well. With the best solutions, the customer gets value which exceeds your revenue.

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Up and Running

JULY 18, 2017

As a founder, you’ve probably been focused on writing your business plan , building out your financial forecasts to position yourself to get funding, and managing the day-to-day minutia of running a business. Founders of young organizations sometimes feel like they’re under a microscope. It’s not going to happen overnight.”

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The company landed one big customer representing 80% of total revenue, but that customer canceled. When a company has revenue but is susceptible to the fatal afflictions above, I call it “brittle.” Another is to prioritize accelerating sales until that customer represents a percentage of revenue that you can stomach.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2020

Also referred to as Book Value . Capitalization Factor – This can be defined as a multiplier used for converting projected future earnings and revenue into present day value. Strohl, CPA and founder of Protax Consulting, a firm that offers tax services to expatriate Americans , “everyone wants to live someplace warm and beautiful.”

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

How about young or pre-revenue companies? Although young companies rarely measure profitability this repeatedly, more mature companies usually can bring from five to ten percent of revenues to the bottom line in the form of net profit. All investors, including the VC firm, lost everything. first appeared on BERKONOMICS.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 28, 2012

But when it comes to core technical skills, more and more entrepreneurs are opting to partner with technical co-founders rather than hiring someone for an in-house position. I really believe that what’s most important for a founder is the ability to have a vision for the company, make sales and hire well. Laura Roeder , LKR.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2015

One 11-year study of over 200 companies, detailed in “ Corporate Culture and Performance ,” found that those working on their culture improved revenue by 516%, and increased net income by 755%. I saw a good summary of these in a recent book, “ Ethical Leadership ,” by Andrew Leigh, an expert in this area.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2017

by Mark Gilbert, founder and CEO of MBS Accounting Technology & Advisory. Many young startups might believe they just don’t have the exposure to reach investors, but more than likely, the inability to raise investor dollars stems from their books. At the root of fundraising, it all boils down to the books.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 3, 2024

” Martin Gonzalez is the creator of Google’s Effective Founders Project, a global research program that decodes the factors that enable startup founders to succeed. 10:03] Would you say that a lack of leadership training is a blindspot for most founders? [12:31] Book your call today, DTM world slash scale. (01:03):

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

At Scorpion, he played a pivotal role in growing the agency’s revenue 8x in 5 years to a remarkable $150M. Corey is also the author of ‘Anyone, Not Everyone,’ a comprehensive guide for agency founders looking to move beyond founder-led sales. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Not everyone.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2023

It could be more revenue, hiring clients, or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. 12- To diversify revenue streams Photo Credit: Mangla Sachdev In 2024 , my top priority is crafting an income engine that generates multiple streams of revenue.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

Last September (2020), six months after the 1st lockdown, my co-founder Vladimir Blagojevic and I decided to run market research to figure out what challenges B2B companies face and how they solve them. After analysing our case studies and CRM, we saw that 73% of total revenue came from these two segments. Let’s dive in.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 16, 2020

by Lamar Tyler, founder of Traffic Sales & Profit. Many retail businesses make the bulk of their revenue during the 4th quarter and this is largely propelled by holiday spending. Lamar Tyler is creator and co-founder of Traffic Sales & Profit , a premier community for purpose-driven African American entrepreneurs.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

It is about focusing your marketing efforts on a few select companies that could represent huge revenue streams. As Des Traynor , co-founder of Intercom put it in the Intercom on Jobs-to-be-Done book : Des Traynor: Some products are better defined by the job they do than the customers they serve. Behavioral segments.

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View from Seed

JUNE 23, 2022

Founder: Dennis Chim. Get to know the founders. RH: Founders, please introduce yourselves. . To my surprise, people actually watched my channel and several years later I launched an eCommerce website to better monetize my channel, which became my top revenue stream. Company: Influencer Direct. And your least?

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. Where else can fast-growing companies get funding?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2019

You can review all the specifics of this approach in the classic book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. Process myth: Why building a product leads to failure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

I’ve spent many years in each of these business worlds, but I never made the A-Player entrepreneur connection until I read the classic book, “ The A Player ,” by Rick Crossland, who comes from almost 30 years of experience developing, recruiting, and leading high performance cultures in bigger companies.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

You can do that through working hard and saving every penny or you can think outside of the box, ask questions and create the multiple revenue streams that would allow you to increase your money with less effort and more ease. Are you willing to create the multiple revenue streams that would allow you to do that? Ask questions.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 30, 2019

Transcript of How Reducing Friction Increases Revenue written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. He is the founder of Dooley Direct. He’s an author and keynote speaker and he’s got a new book called Friction: The Untapped Force That Can be Your Most Powerful Advantage. Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In the end the revenue simply wasn’t enough to make a sustainable business and so we had to switch gears once more (in today’s parlance that would be a “Pivot”). Over the course of that relationship that lasted several years, we did over $1M in revenue just from HP. Let’s take another scenario — this time in my second company.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 14, 2022

As part of our Female Founder series , The Startup Magazine caught up with Amy Wilhelmi. Amy is a successful multi-entrepreneur as the founder of Balance Wellness Collective and Ascension Mentality, business & performance coach at Strategic Voyages Business Consultants, and licensed mental health therapist. TSM: Absolutely.

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