Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

If you sell widgets, and a user is searching for widgets, your ad will appear on the same page as the search results for widgets. With SEM, the goal is for the search user to not only see your ad, but to click on it to get to your website (click-through), and buy your widget (conversion to sale).

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2011

You’ll find content categorized into different topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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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. Not easy, but your business model has to change to survive.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2011

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1M each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Twitter, for example, doesn’t have a real revenue model today, and they are growing, but I’m not sure who can ever sell 140 character tweets. Twitter has no model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2010

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1M each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Twitter, for example, has no revenue model today, and they are growing, but I’m not sure who can ever sell 140 character tweets. It’s hard to find investors for that model today.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Americas new business model: Sharing. What distinguishes the latest generation of start-ups is a confluence of new technologies and more-efficient business models that leave much of the logistical heavy-lifting to peers who share. Airbnb, Zimride, RelayRides and others have embraced the fee-per-transaction model.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

These playlists can even be embedded into any website through a widget, enabling any site to share relevant material to enhance existing content.

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Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Second, Apple vertically integrated the user experience, business model and distribution model. Like the SaaS companies that would arrive years later, Apple also created a recurring revenue model through iTunes (although they had to compete against pirated music sites).

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

.” If the company adopted this model, not only would they have more revenue ($24K/year vs. $20K one-time) from the sale of the robot, but they would end up with a recurring revenue model, which would make for a much better business model for the company rather than selling complex widgets.

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Genuine VC

APRIL 30, 2008

After the crash at the end of the last decade, web startups clamped down to focus on their core value proposition and were forced out of necessity for survival to hone their revenue models. The stories of tremendous growth in adoption with the promise of revenue later on has been enough to excite both entrepreneurs alike.

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Genuine VC

APRIL 30, 2008

After the crash at the end of the last decade, web startups clamped down to focus on their core value proposition and were forced out of necessity for survival to hone their revenue models. The stories of tremendous growth in adoption with the promise of revenue later on has been enough to excite both entrepreneurs alike.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 25, 2015

On the web, not only does no one know much of who you are, but no one cares how you sourced your widgets. My preconceived notions of the possible range of business models simply didn’t include this one. Really, that’s a business?

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

A well-written teaser describes for a prospective investor the three main benefits that the business offers its customer base, in descending order of importance. From that, a prospective investor can weigh the likelihood of robust sales and revenue — crucial elements in the decision whether to fund. (An

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 30, 2014

What they did was adding a customer testimonial widget to their product pages. A company increasing sales – not by changing business models, adding products, giving offers – but just recognizing a persuasion hook and using it to drive more conversions. This is how the control and the variation looked. Comparison Image.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This is where you’ve found a page, widget, or process that’s not working well but doesn’t reveal a clear solution. If you call tests when you hit significance, you’ll find that most lifts don’t translate to increased revenue (that’s the goal, after all). This bucket is where you place stuff for testing. Instrument. Hypothesize.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

All you’ve proven is that you can make $200 a month in revenue off of some basic websites. Let’s just for now go with this Craigslist assumption, because at least it’s a business. The other stuff you’re talking about, to me – I still don’t understand the business model and the pain point.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 22, 2015

It’s proven to work across industries and business models. SaaS, ecommerce, lead gen, affiliate models. In a nutshell, we can learn: what people are doing, the impact and performance of every feature, widget, page, where the site is leaking money, … but we won’t know why. B2B and B2C. Hypothesize.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 20, 2015

Find Your Super Users, Master the Forever Transaction, and Build Recurring Revenue. WHY I’M INTERESTED: I work for a software company that offers a subscription-based product, but I still have a lot to learn about this kind of business model. Research-driven with a healthy dose of humor and pop culture, WIDGETS is a.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 1, 2013

Instead of aiming for hundreds of millions of dollars in software licensing revenue – they want to conquer existing industries and aim for tens of billions of dollars in widget revenues. Not content to simply sell incumbents software, these companies merge domain expertise with software native DNA to attack incumbent head on.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Some startups die because their business model is platform-dependant. Specifically, an advertiser might be willing to pay $3 to have someone with 10,000 followers tweet about how great their widget is, as in this Ad.ly Companies like TweetUp and Ad.ly popped up as liaisons between advertisers and popular Twitter-ers.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2015

This is where you’ve found a page, widget or process that’s just not working well but we don’t see a clear single solution.). If you’re calling your tests when you hit significance, you’ll find that most of your lifts don’t translate to increased revenue (that’s the goal, afterall). (This bucket is where you place stuff for testing.).

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

From live & on demand video with endless interactive overlays, through 2nd screen, synchronized & social experiences, to brilliant mobile apps that may function in all connectivity environments and support every possible business model. Now your SD content can be turned into True HD.

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grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

I think it’s difficult, if not impossible, to value a pre-revenue company with any reasonable accuracy. The company did have some revenue and paying users, but not enough to make any judgement on the company’s future prospects. You don’t have a defensible business model. I’m wrong all the time.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

“I pre-stage my investments by developing my own ideas of great business models & frameworks — when I meet a founder doing something similar I can make a quick decision,&# says Craig. Procter & Gamble Launches Widget to C. Just don’t call Feld on the phone. “I hate the phone,&# he says.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’ Looking at the conference agenda , it’s not hard to spot the trends for 2010: Mobile Clouds – additional storage and new revenue streams to operators.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Twitter, for example, doesn’t have much of a revenue model today, and they are growing, but I’m not sure who can ever sell 140 character tweets. Twitter has no model.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

The programmer will probably not understand your business model, and therefore cant help you point out anything that doesnt make sense in the requirements. I use two mental models to motivate myself, team, and developers to do this. Every requirement, idea, UI widget, is a box. ", but probably "Version 0.x"

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