View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

The city I call home, Boston, is not known for its social products. Here is some data shared by TJ Parker, CEO of Boston-based Pillpack, as first reported by PitchBook: Bos raised roughly same VC as NY since ’06 & ’10 w/ nearly double the exit value, ranked below in ecosystem. Social Has Been a Tale of One Coast.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

On Tuesday, July 21, we hosted the first-ever Boston Consumer Tech Summit. But a large majority of our investments are in our backyard of Boston — and, aside from our work as investors, this city is near and dear to our hearts. Here’s Mike’s comment: Boston’s B2C problem is one of values.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2019

Image via Wikipedia From the advice I hear these days, if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you need to be in Silicon Valley, Boston, New York, or one of the few other financial hubs around the world. Sizing the market, projecting revenue, and calculating break-even points are critical, even for a coffee shop.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 22, 2012

Over a year and a half ago, I did a two-part blog post on the East Coast IPO malaise – one focused on Boston (Massachusetts more broadly), another focused on New York. 9-0 in IPOs and 3-1 in big M&A in favor of Boston? But then why have consumer plays like Boston-based Kayak, TripAdvisor and Zipcar done so well?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Later I realized six salespeople without revenue to match was a proxy for an out of control burn rate that now had the boards serious attention. There’s Always One in Boston. “Is Is there a salesperson in Boston?” The standard corporate presentation wasn’t working, so the Boston sales rep made up his own. (I

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Of all the billion-dollar companies we have backed, 2/3 of our initial investments were pre-revenue, and many pre-product. With Stephanie on board, we are now one of the very few bi-coastal seed funds in the industry, and all of the partners have led investments in NY, Boston, SF, and many other emerging ecosystems even before the pandemic.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Next week, I’m spending some time in Boston with my uncle Charlie Feld talking about his newest book, The Calloway Way: Results & Integrity. On Tuesday night (10/28) we’ll be at Techstars Boston and on Wednesday night (10/29) we’ll be at Yesware. 10/28 - RSVP for the Techstars Boston event.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Boston University Business Incubation. At Boston University, there’s an incredible array on business incubation opportunities. The Sandbox is designed to accelerate the process of business creation through a 12-week experiential-based program, producing either investment-ready firms or ready-to-go, revenue-generating entities.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2018

Boston, USA Oct 1st – 3rd, 2018. Boston, USA. Boston, USA. With over 40 hours of content spread across SaaStock’s three days, not to mention all of the networking events, you’ll be kept very busy indeed developing the knowledge and relationships necessary to help you reach your business goals. Business of Software.

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View from Seed

MARCH 20, 2020

A week ago, I thought I’d be travelling for my first business school spring break — not cooped up in my Boston apartment. In the face of plummeting revenues, restaurants are being forced to lay off workers to reduce costs, as they are still responsible for ongoing costs like rent and taxes.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Those companies that were considered by Forbes were publicly traded for at least a year, generated annual revenue between $5 million and $1 billion and boasted a stock price no lower than $5 a share. 13, signalling the meteoric rise of craft beer in America in recent years.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Boston, Massachusetts. Boston has recently been announced as the best American city in which to launch a new company. But why is Boston so good for business? Surprisingly, this eastern city has some very good incubators, and its startup companies are generating a lot of revenue.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2014

” I bootstrapped my first company and, while we did a lot of work for VCs, I liked taking money from them as “revenue” (where they paid Feld Technologies for our services) rather than as investment. ” One of the VCs I overlapped with while in Boston was Charley Lax.

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View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

Even if you’re in the pre-revenue, pre-seed or seed stage, there are still ways to get on a reporter’s radar. And don’t pitch a Boston newspaper on your San Francisco startup. A publication whose readers are in Boston will want to know you’re based here in Cambridge. This one is tricker in the pre-revenue stage.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2018

He is the founder and president of Revenue & Associates and the author of the book Bullseye Marketing: How to Grow Your Business Faster. Learn more about Revenue & Associates. He is the founder and president of Revenue & Associates and the author of the book Bullseye Marketing: How to Grow Your Business Faster.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2011

Your friends and family are really the only answer until you have a significant revenue stream. In fact, most of the most active investment firms are located there, although NY now has moved solidly into second place (ahead of Boston). Back to VCs, Silicon Valley venture capital firms are still the most active.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2015

With an impressive product lineup of new iPhones, Apple watches, iPads and an all-new Apple TV queued for shipment this week, 2015 is the most successful year of revenue growth for Apple , according to Apple’s CEO Tim Cook. The online retailer Amazon experienced an 18 percent growth of revenue in 2015. percent) to 2014 (21.9

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million. Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008). Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008).

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

In two cases, these businesses were doing significant early revenue ($500K/month+), so could be considered “post-seed”, although both of these companies had not raised significant institutional capital before we led their rounds. Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, 8 have been pre-product or pre-seed style rounds.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2012

Both companies generate direct revenue from their platform in the form of a revenue share / platform tax (typically 30%) on software and digital goods sold through the respective platforms. Facebook’s direct platform revenue accounted for about 15% of the company’s overall sales whereas Apple’s was less than 1%.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 11, 2021

Much of our revenue for the month had come from one highly productive though erratic undergraduate developer, Mike, who was working on a billable client project. Now we had no choice: we fired everyone, shut down our month-to-month office, sold all the office furnishings, and moved the business to our apartments in downtown Boston.

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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.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

Fareed Mosavat is the product lead for Upgrades and Expansion at Slack, focused on revenue growth for Slack’s small business customers. Prior to InVision, Jessica held several senior marketing roles at HubSpot, helping the company grow from $18m to $130m+ in revenue, and from a private company through a successful IPO. Back to Top).

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Every year, companies lose 20 to 30 percent in revenue due to inefficiencies. Prior to moving to Silicon Valley, Nick led operations at Crimson Hexagon, a Boston-based social media insights company, which was the first to partner with Twitter in understanding brand sentiment.

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 22, 2019

As mentioned in our previous article, Boston Restaurant Group Founder, Charlie Perkins, tells us that total Occupancy costs should not exceed 8% of gross revenue. And then there is the licensing… especially in the City of Boston, this can be a tough and bumpy road to navigate. www.cafcoconstruction.com. About the Author.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

My long time friend Warren Katz pointed me out to an event on March 3, 2010 called EO Boston Accelerator Shark Bowl 2010. It’s a competition for entrepreneurs under 40 with businesses between $100k / year and $1m / year in revenue. In 1993 I was the founder of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization Boston Chapter and member #1.

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Rob Go

MAY 21, 2014

Everyone knows that nobody gets consumer in Boston. Boston has amazing consumer companies, but the region gets no love for some reason. Care just went public, is an $80M+ revenue business, and has a multi-hundred million dollar market cap (not a vapor private valuation). It’s just a given. Couple thoughts.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Once you identified that What to Wear Daily was worth building, what worked in acquiring your first 100 users — especially since it was focused on just Boston to start? Any success (growth, revenue, or profits) we have will follow from that. At the time of this writing, What to Wear Daily is available in Boston.

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Rob Go

MAY 2, 2013

It was a wonderful showcase of all the great companies, people, and investors that have helped the Boston technology market come roaring back in recent months and years. I was reminded last night why I moved to Boston from Silicon Valley many years ago and why I think the ecosystem is so great. Boston founders want to finish.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2020

Financial capital – revenue, equity, debt, funding. Startup neighborhoods develop more readily in larger cities, like Boston, New York, London, or the San Francisco Bay Area. Most people I know credit Steve Job’s success to his ability to attract top technical talent, starting with Steve Wozniak who designed the first Apple computer.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Venture Capital used to be a tight club clustered around formal firms located in Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York. Meanwhile every other department in the company would be making their plan – meaning the company was burning cash without bringing in revenue. and there were no books, blogs or YouTube videos about entrepreneurship.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In an article you wrote for Techcrunch in 2019 about Revenue Based Investing you mentioned that “ traditional equity VC is biased structurally against some women and underrepresented founders”. Another example of a structural solution is the “ alternative VC ” or “ Revenue-Based Investing ” structure that Versatile VC frequently uses.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Starting in three cities - Tel Aviv, London and Boston - at almost the same time helped, but can you walk us through how you thought about building a global company from day one? The company started as a two-headed monster, evolving into three and four heads with Ottawa and Boston. What have you learned from it?

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View from Seed

JULY 8, 2021

I first met the Lula co-founders in Boston about 2 1/2 years ago, at the very end of 2018. They quickly ramped to seven figure recurring revenue just a few months after that. The Lula team took this from an idea to live with paying customers in their first market segment within about 5 months.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

In the United States alone the self storage market is worth $24 billion in annual revenue and is totally fragmented with the largest player having around 10% of the total market. It’s not just big in Dallas but in San Diego, Phoenix and Sacramento but also Boston, Chicago, Washington and of course San Francisco.

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Technical Review San Diego Dallas Sacramento 150

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

This year we will hit over $15m in gross revenue. This year we will hit over $15m in gross revenue. . In six months, the following was accomplishes: a one year lease was signed, I had made a public commitment to my business, and we were generating zero revenue. Know the revenues, the expenses and your cash flow status.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

This year we will hit over $15m in gross revenue. This year we will hit over $15m in gross revenue. In six months, the following was accomplishes: a one year lease was signed, I had made a public commitment to my business, and we were generating zero revenue. Can you find a way to improve on what already is generating revenue?

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