ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GrowthHackers founder and former Head of Growth at Dropbox, Sean Ellis , coined the term: “A growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth. In his course on Growth Mindset (part of CXL’s Growth Marketing Minidegree ), WeTheFuture.org founder John McBride describes three key components of a successful growth marketer: 1.

Retention 113

Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2020

by Joseph Meuse, Founder and President of Business GPS. Failure to Access Small Business Administration (SBA) Programs. The majority of businesses owners do not full advantage of the programs the government is offering. Hiding from the Internal Revenue Service. No Dialogue with Commercial Landlord.

Small Business 191

Small Business Technical Review Southern California SBA 191

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

When shelter-in-place hit last March, forcing their doors to close, their revenue dropped to nothing overnight. million of inventory online and recovered all their lost POS revenue with online sales. Not only that—they took things a step further and launched their Run Squad membership program. Paige Briscoe, founder of ReRoot.

eCommerce 155

eCommerce Cofounder Community Channel 155

ConversionXL

JULY 15, 2014

Raise your hand if you would like to get extra revenue with an ROI of 1300% , that is for every dollar you invest you get back 14. How to be successful at running your own affiliate program. Real World Examples of Revenue Growth By Adding an Affiliate Program. What I’m talking about of course is affiliate marketing.

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Affiliate Programming Marketing Software Review 111

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Bob is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency. He is also the Co-founder and Chairman of BrandCycle. They can keep doubling down on advertising with the digital goliaths of today or begin to diversify and invest in other marketing channels, with an eye toward the future.

Marketing 90

Marketing Affiliate Channel Software Review 90

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record – head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. Their idea is that consumers will want a subscription service for short form entertainment (10-minute programs) for mobile rather than full length movies. ” Fire, Ready, Aim.

Lean 335

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2020

by Itamar Gero, founder and CEO of SEOReseller.com . On their website, you can learn more about the Paycheck Protection Program or PPP, the EIDL Loan Advance, the SBA Express Bridge Loans, and the SBA Debt Relief. According to TechRepublic, ecommerce revenue in the US has jumped 37% during the outbreak.

Small Business 227

Small Business SBA Small Business Administration SEO 227

ConversionXL

APRIL 11, 2014

According to Forrester research analyst Sucharita Mulpuru , product recommendations are responsible for an average of 10-30% of eCommerce site revenues. . Way back in 2006, Amazon reported that 35% of it’s revenues were as a direct result of it’s cross sales and upselling efforts. BrainSINS founder José C.

eCommerce 118

eCommerce Revenue Software Review Technical Review 118

Steve Blank

MARCH 12, 2014

Their seniors just completed the school’s first-ever 3-credit semester program in evidence-based entrepreneurship. We realized that past K-12 Entrepreneurial classes taught students “the lemonade stand” version of how to start a company: 1) come up with an idea, 2) execute the idea, 3) do the accounting (revenue, costs, etc.).

Lean 334

Lean Customer Development Startup Silicon Valley 334

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Gavin Braman, Co-Founder @ Drifting Creatives. Salesforce, for example, increased its revenue market share to 18.4% Just like Peep, other marketers from hypergrown products, such as David Cancel (founder at Drift) argue that product-based differentiation is vanishing. The small group roundtable discussions were amazing.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Two of the teams focused on the two main sources of revenue, one team on inbound leads, and the last team on site conversion rates. My whole growth system fell apart, and I learned a lot of tough lessons about the limits of growth programs. Finding winners was never my biggest problem when running a growth program. Maybe not.

Conversion 133

Conversion Technical Review Channel Engineer 133

Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

1M/1M Program has a bold mission. One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. This is where numerous ventures fail.

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Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 116

View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new program that we hope will help our portfolio companies with two of these bullets. The concept our Guilds is simple: We want to bring together small groups of Product and Go-to-Market experts to lend their time to support our portfolio company founders and key operators. Go-to-Market Guild.

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Operations Cofounder Technical Review Angel Investor 176

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. Develop a founders agreement. A founders’ agreement is a legal contract defining and governing the relationship between cofounders.

Small Business 167

Small Business Intellectual Property Cofounder Software Review 167

Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

buy out an entire company for its revenue and profits. These include the product itself, the customer, the distribution channel, revenue model, how to get, keep and grow customers, resources and activities needed to build the business and costs.). If they decide to buy, large companies can: license/acquire intellectual property.

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Acquisition Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Startup 332

Up and Running

JANUARY 18, 2021

They led to a Shops program that arrived during the COVID crisis. Other social channels also made inroads as 2020 ended. Companies will want to observe which channels their audience use but should expect to shift some of their more traditional ad spending to social shopping and new integrations between sales channels and social apps.

eCommerce 150

eCommerce B2B Forecast Demand 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2023

If you or your team sees you as an idea person, your first task as an entrepreneur should be to find a co-founder who can deliver. Finding a co-founder is rarely a bad thing, since two heads are always better than one in meeting all the startup challenges. Passionate reiteration of the idea won’t close funding.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

by Joe Duncan, founder of Duncan Capital LP. Coupled with powerful pattern-detection capabilities, the information can be transformed into asymmetric trading signals for both fundamental and program-driven strategies. According to research from JP Morgan, revenues from investment banking peaked in 2009 at $207.7 Compliance.

Technical Review 154

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review IPO 154

Up and Running

JULY 24, 2014

Focus on keeping your current programming and organizational capacity robust and confidence inspiring. Rather than shooting for constant growth, it is more practical to consider how much you need to cover your existing program and administrative expenses, including on-going training, and build a plan for sustainability from there.

Silicon Valley 123

Silicon Valley Government United States Programming 123

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 8, 2021

In this episode, I talk with the founder of Core Fit Hiring, Ryan Englin, about why people have such a difficult time attracting the right talent today and what you need to do to attract quality frontline workers who align with your company values — and how to get them to stay. [8:33] More About Ryan Englin: Core Fit Hiring. Like this show?

Software Review 101

Software Review Partner Hiring Channel 101

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Getting investors to trust you with their money is always a challenge, and it’s even more difficult in the early stages, where you don’t have a significant revenue stream, a few customers, or maybe even a product yet. At these stages, it’s all about you, and your ability to communicate and execute effectively.

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Due Diligence Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Preferred Stock 271

YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2011

Mawuna Koutonin is the founder of London-based GoodBuzz , and his story is the stuff of dreams. He later worked for eight years at the European Union commission helping to develop the cultural industry in Africa (cultural products being the main exports – and revenue – for poor African countries).

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

The primary source of your funds should be your paying customers, i.e., your business should generate enough revenues and profits to fund the growth and expansion. Reasons for funding. ? These usually play a role in the very early stage of your business, primarily pre-revenue. Government programs.

Startup 150

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

And yet, revenue went up by 45% YoY. At a startup, this can be as simple as defining why the founder started the company in the first place. CXL’s founder, Peep Laja, has a specific “reason why” his company Wynter exists. Marketing: Which channels are they active on? Brand is your strongest asset.

Marketing 109

Marketing Social Media Non-Compete Audience 109

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

as a distribution channel have vastly reduced the amount of capital a startup needs at the early stage when the risk is greatest. This is true whether the company is concept stage or ramping revenue. I’ve found a lot of companies in the region that have found a way to get to some level of revenue traction but haven’t broken out.

Early Stage 286

Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 286

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2010

Finally, when everyone else had their turn, the grey-haired VC turned to the founder and said, “If you do what we tell you to do and fail, we’ll fire you. In contrast, in a startup following the Customer Development process, this is when the founders realize that something is wrong with the business model (because revenue is not scaling.)

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Business Model Agile Customer Development Startup 332

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 2, 2023

It’s disheartening, but sadly, this is one experience that many startup founders face. I understand the struggles that come with being a startup founder. Use this voice consistently across all marketing materials and communication channels. Do you find yourself and your project in a similar position?

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Design Product Churn Rate Architecture 105

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

They found ways to support longterm care facilities, homeless shelters, and other locations serving those most at risk, all while schools, their main source of revenue, were closed. Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods. I'm the co founder and Chief Impact Officer at Revolution Foods.

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Cofounder Security Founder Entrepreneur 60

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers. Founded in October 2006 by Jonah Peretti (co-founder of Huffington Post). CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011.

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Partner New York City Cofounder Syndicate 240

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The reinforcement of his example, in hours of darkness, has offered me light and direction to take on a big, bold idea: restructuring capitalism through the 1M/1M program. In the 1M/1M roundtables, the vast majority of entrepreneurs we work with are in this rather vulnerable pre-$1 million revenue stage.

Silicon Valley 118

Silicon Valley India San Francisco Entrepreneur 118

ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

Automated programs (bots). Perhaps the biggest culprits of click fraud are robots—malicious computer programs ( botnets ) that automatically scan the internet and subtly carry out clicks, trying to pass as human. When the fraud hit, that fell to just a few hundred pounds of revenue a day and a ton of wasted spend. Conclusion.

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PPC IP Idaho Non-Compete 121

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support. In fact, they generated $100k in revenues over the last year, since they first pitched at one of our roundtables.

India 123

India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

ReadWriteStart

MAY 19, 2011

As a business blogger myself, I have given an inordinate amount of thought to the subject, and it has led me to create the 1M/1M Affiliate Program to support the work of media professionals who advocate entrepreneurship and innovation. One of them is the 1M/1M Affiliate Program we announced today at the roundtable. MyDataOrganizer.

India 115

India Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Affiliate 115

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

The UCSF Office of Innovation and Technology ( Erik Lium and Stephanie Marrus) is the reason the program exists. It turns out that for commercialization, the business model (Customers, Channel, Revenue Model, etc.) for therapeutics, diagnostics, devices, bioinformatics and digital health have very little in common.

Lean 258

Lean Customer Business Model Customer Development 258

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

It’s hard to do, which is why most demand generation advice merely advocates adding another channel or tool to the heap. According to HubSpot , demand generation is “the umbrella of marketing programs that get customers excited about your company’s product and services.”. This post doesn’t do that. Why does this term even exist?

Demand 132

Demand Vertical Campaign Channel 132

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2020

Getting investors to trust you with their money is always a challenge, and it’s even more difficult in the early stages, where you don’t have a significant revenue stream, a few customers, or maybe even a product yet. At these stages, it’s all about you, and your ability to communicate and execute effectively.

Due Diligence 308

Due Diligence Intellectual Property Preferred Stock Seed Stage 308

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

Melissa is the CEO and Co-founder of Webinar. As a revenue-driven founder specializing in sales and business development, Melissa has learned how to build companies with very few resources — by automating what she could, outsourcing wherever possible, and inspiring talented people to join her team with shared focus and enthusiasm.

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Technical Review Demand Cofounder Video 84