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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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

If you hire 6 sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business for 4-6 months. ” If you’re not profitable you’re purely a cost center to them. Simplifying: Revenue -. Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) =.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

So if your costs are $500,000 per month and you have $350,000 per month in revenue then your net burn (500-350) is equal to $150,000. But those of us with longer memories remember that the revenue line can move south very quickly when the market overall turns south. Net burn is the amount of money you are losing per month.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2022

NPD reported on Friday that consumers spent 10% less in the first six months of 2022 than they did during the same time period last year, with game industry revenue down to $26.3 While mobile game revenue was down 6.6% Mobile games earned $41.2bn globally during H1 2022. year-over-year, downloads were up 0.4% as they reached 28.1

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

billion revenue in 2021 for Epic Games and was played by 83.3 The NFTs are owned by celebrities, tech execs and investors, and the NFT owners own 100% of the IP on their Apes and are able to generate derivative income from creating products bearing the apes picture: music, fashion, food/drink etc. Fortnite generated $5.8

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2019

Founders need seed capital to get their operations up and running, and to begin generating revenue. They need to comply with laws, create back-end processes, and build prototypes — all of which cost money. betting on the future value of these young companies instead of their current traction. .

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% raised from angels.

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Up and Running

APRIL 21, 2021

You made the sale, accounted for the revenue already, only to be forced to give back the money and even pay a fee on top of it all. Because of various processing fees imposed by financial institutions, some chargeback claims can cost you more than the value of the transaction itself. IP intelligence.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2019

Whether it’s streamlining in-house processes, new marketing possibilities, overcoming challenges or resolving pain points, all have one main purpose – to maximise revenue. Focus on the Benefits Instead of Cost. Cost should only matter when it comes to calculating ROI. Cost Saving by Automation. Data & Insight.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 9, 2019

In the worst case, you might end up with a cloud infrastructure that is a step down from your original solution — leading to lost customers and revenue. If your cloud servers go offline because of a disaster, then you might need to repoint your systems to new IP addresses temporarily. Create an in-house committee. .

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Knowbella Tech is an open science collaboration company that uses blockchain to deliver free tools, services, grants, and intellectual properties (IP) to researchers, particularly the underserved in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We will also seek first-mover STEM recruiting customers in order to generate revenues.

Intellectual Property 48

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

Project your costs as diligently as your revenues. Keep all IP details close to the vest. Don’t forget to account for the time and cost of crowdfunding campaigns. Several crowdfunding successes have failed as a business. Don’t underestimate the amount of funding actually required.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Given these key advantages, I believe that Lightning (or something like it) will ultimately eat all of the USD payment networks and create the foundation for MoIP (Money over IP). . And >40% of that revenue is coming from in-game purchases. The app could then take a small % of all revenue from “paid” messages.

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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. Delivery times based on geo/IP/mobile phone location.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

. – Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. Typically these outside resources are paid only on a success basis, so the marginal cost is low. . All of the strategies above have very modest fixed cost. This requires a real financial sacrifice.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

You may be able to generate revenue, but VCs want exponential growth. When I started my last company, we were focused on developing technology to lower the cost of detecting and diagnosing Type 2 diabetes. Like you, they’re looking for opportunity. Be ready when it counts. Be clear about your fundraising strategy.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 24, 2011

Of course this is Survivor Bias at it’s finest; these examples don’t prove this is a great strategy , they just illustrate that it can work: Zappos decided to sell shoes over the Internet, even though it meant eating shipping costs as customers tried shoe after shoe, constantly returning merchandise on the basis of fit or look.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

This explains more: [link] Whether something has a cost doesn't change how our systems work. The New York Times, which passed 5 million subscribers in February and cleared $800 million in revenue last year, supports that opinion. — Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) April 16, 2020. Monetizing pageviews isn’t enough.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

If companies lose substantial revenues to chargebacks, they may have to pass those losses on to consumers. Claw Back Revenues By Winning Disputes Unfortunately, some merchants are unfairly targeted by people looking to abuse the chargeback process. Unfortunately, these costs can add up and may become a serious threat to your business.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

While Zappos was doing diligence on Modista, the issue was brought up that one of other companies in this space — Like.com , founded by Munjal Shah — had filed for some IP in this area. The estimate for resolving a patent infringement dispute was about $1M in legal costs and the process could potentially take at least 2 years.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

To illustrate, let’s investigate two typical company scenarios: Company Scenario #1: A company lacking great financial traction - slow revenue growth, little profit - but one that competes in an industry attractive to strategic and financial buyers. Many software and healthcare businesses fit this description. Relationships.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 29, 2017

A 1992 study from the Harvard Business Review found that the right pricing changes can drive revenue and profit improvements faster than any other growth lever — faster than increasing the volume of sales or decreasing costs. At worst you will destroy hard earned revenue and/or profit. The importance of price.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Karl Handelsman of CMEA Capital modified the standard Investment Readiness Level (IRL) for teams developing therapeutics to include identifying clinical problems, and agreeing on a timeline to pre-clinical and clinical data, cost and value of data points, what quality data to deliver to a company, and building a Key Opinion Leader (KOL) network.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2019

IP & Technology. It’s important that you know the value of your IP and position yourself for a good startup exit. If you have real IP, patents, and trademarks, your startup is going to be worth a lot more. Or at least not as cost-effectively. . Acquiring customers can be far easier, certain and cost-effective.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

Juniper Research estimates that click fraud cost advertisers $42 billion in 2019. Some networks are highly sophisticated, and organisers disguise their IP addresses. If you conduct some intricate research (detailed below), you may be able to identify the IP address of competing businesses. Competing businesses. If you can—great!

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. You own the IP you create. This is a huge mistake.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

My belief is that these lean startups will achieve dramatically lower development costs, faster time to market, and higher quality products in the years to come. Whether they also lead to dramatically higher returns for investors is a question Im looking forward to studying. Otherwise it's a great idea.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 4, 2022

Four years ago, I had an idea to create a company that could cost-effectively recreate meat experiences without animals and lighten humanity's footprint on the planet. Thanks to Adam Wood, Revenue Geeks ! #16- Thanks to Lauren Edwards-Williams, Legend IP Consulting ! #26- Thanks to Matthew Davis, GDI Insurance ! #9-

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Part 7: Revenue Streams in Life Sciences. These clinics reduce hospitalization but Insurers weren’t paying to cover clinic costs nor would they cover the use of the Knox device. If they didn’t have a compelling value proposition for the insurers (cost savings, increased revenue, etc.) They learned a ton.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Revenue needs to grow 20x, and margins must expand dramatically. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. Let’s look at each figure.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Newzoo estimates the global games market revenue at approximately $150 Billion in 2019, across all platforms, devices etc. According to Statista, the Music industry generated around $56 Billion in revenue in 2019, and movies generated record of $42.5 Billion in revenues in 2019. Billion in revenues in 2019.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Digging through your IP closet for gold…. It wasn’t about paying for service we now expect at no extra cost just about everywhere, it was about a patent that covered that expansive service. Lots of work and millions of revenue in return. The CEO directed the Company to begin what turned out to. Don’t get me wrong though.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

So then, why are we teaching our students to trust fall without any revenues of their own to catch them? No revenues, no costs. You can tell me all you want about how many patents were filed at Columbia or wherever, or what they do in revenues—the future of the innovation in NYC is not in hard technology.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Over the years, our personal information has become a huge revenue generator. In exchange for “getting” access to that content, you are “giving” away: Your IP address. Weigh the cost of convenience. You don’t have to play along. Your location. Your email addresses. Possibly even your photos. That’s at the minimum.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

The same report states that transactional emails also generate more revenue per email than promotional emails. When anticipated messages aren’t received, you not only lose revenue, but you also lose your customers’ trust. Avoid being added to a major blacklist at all costs. Use a dedicated IP for transactional emails.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Trend to watch : an equivalent to MCNs (Multi Channel Networks) on the early days of YouTube where creators band together to generate economies of scale (and share revenue). To get $1 in the bank, creators have to generate $2 (taking into account platform costs, creation costs, promotion, taxes, etc).

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

For instance, Columbia has launched a variety of explicitly interdisciplinary centers in recent years, including the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute , Columbia Data Science Institute ; the Brown Institute for Media Innovation ; or cross-school courses such as Columbia Business and Engineering’s Research to Revenue course.

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