ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

He is heading straight into an intensely competitive market without adequate differentiation or competitive positioning. Anupam Rajey from Lucknow, India, presented Acelerar Technologies , an outsourced accounting services BPO project from India. Anupam has serious segmentation issues.

Spain 115

Spain Entrepreneur India San Francisco 115

ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

Things to pay attention to: Steps that don’t make sense from your customer’s perspective; Steps that are combined or eliminated compared to your funnel, as they may be superfluous; Upsells and cross-sells, which are additional revenue opportunities you could exploit. What I’m looking for are common trends within that vertical.

SEO 126

SEO Conversion Analytics Design 126

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Instead of a Sales team and organized to sell with a consistent and successful sales roadmap generating revenue, it is a disorganized and unhappy organization burning lots of cash. Because the company based its headcount and expenses on the expectation that the Sales organization will bring in revenue according to plan. innovation.

Customer Development 228

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 228

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2023

ChatGPT's data is two years old and when actual tech humans can't really differentiate easily between pre-seed and seed, who's a lead and who isn't, and whether or not someone is a real fund or just a broker, I wouldn't expect a bot to. I have revenue. and get an autogenerated list. And yes, I tried ChatGPT. Am I still pre-seed?

ChatGPT 78

ChatGPT Database Salary Naming 78

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. As a founder, one of the most painful things in the world to hear is criticism of your baby. Do you think they even notice when you leave?

Retention 115

Retention Customer Developer Programming 115

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. As a founder, one of the most painful things in the world to hear is criticism of your baby. Do you think they even notice when you leave?

Retention 112

Retention Developer Customer Programming 112

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. As a founder, one of the most painful things in the world to hear is criticism of your baby. Do you think they even notice when you leave?

Retention 105

Retention Customer Developer Programming 105

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. As a founder, one of the most painful things in the world to hear is criticism of your baby. Do you think they even notice when you leave?

Retention 98

Retention Customer Developer Programming 98

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

The strategy of GigaOm and where they differentiate in the market. Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Hippoland

JULY 24, 2016

Your startup’s valuation is not based on a proforma of your revenue. This is really key to understand, because so many founders wonder, “Why was that company over there who has 0 revenue able to raise their round at a $10m cap convertible note? Supply - amount of your round and Demand - investor demand.

Seed Stage 48

Seed Stage Valuation Vertical Demand 48

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2011

Kelly's business has already done about $150,000 in revenue in 2010, which tells me that she has successfully validated at least some of her assumptions. He has run some experiments within the entrepreneurship training vertical, and has seen success when he has brought on known thought leaders.

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Vertical Massachusetts 114

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

No changes were made to the customer journey, and it had nothing to do with revenue lift. It isn’t about finding quick hacks to boost short-term revenue. Growth marketing doesn’t prescribe quick-fix hacks that any company can apply to “10x their revenue.” For example, say you’re trying to improve top-line revenue.

Framework 102

Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102

ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

I suggested LinkedIn, oDesk, and eLance with the caveat that the field is extremely competitive and crowded and differentiation would be tough to achieve. Today, he has over a thousand, and he has chosen to focus on the realtor vertical. She has, thus far, not done any other formal customer acquisition initiative. Happy Grasshopper.

San Francisco 125

San Francisco Entrepreneur Silicon Valley India 125

ConversionXL

JUNE 3, 2019

Because a Manta report found that 61% of small businesses surveyed indicated that more than half of their revenue came from repeat customers. As a founder, one of the most painful things in the world to hear is criticism of your baby. Case study: How Terminix used customer feedback to recover $20 million in lost revenue.

Retention 82

Retention Developer Customer Programming 82

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

But, as he contended, if you can show someone that for every $5 spent you generate $25 in revenue, you have their attention. How many customers and much revenue could this channel bring if successful? For MST Solutions, Bogdanovich has focused on executing well on one vertical per quarter, then expanding to other verticals.

Demand 132

Demand Vertical Campaign Channel 132

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. In November of this year, the company announced that it had achieved “substantially” more than $1B in revenue in the third quarter. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2014

Herb Kelleher, founder and former chairman of Southwest Airlines, is a great example of how great leaders develop influence. Innovation is a function of sticking with and executing on ideas— whether new or old — that don’t conform to the status quo, which results in turning an idea into something tangible, useful, and differentiated.

Leadership 169

Leadership Employee Community Non-Compete 169

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

But if you want to accelerate growth and improve your revenues and profits, you need to up your game. Your brand positioning explains how your company differentiates in the marketplace and how you are different from your competitors. For example, Charles Revson, founder of Revlon, always used to say he sold hope, not makeup.

Marketing 162

Marketing Charlotte Naming Design 162

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

If you are genuinely passionate about it, that will shine through and you will immediately be differentiated from the many sales people that attend these events. They will bring you revenue, delight your clients (the right salespeople care about the ultimate value delivered?—?not make that fourteen years now).

Software Review 48

Software Review Sales Cofounder Analytics 48

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market (and when perhaps you shouldn’t try). Well when I hear that I think of writing checks because I feel like that’s all I do sometimes as a founder of start ups is write checks because you don’t see them when they come in. Ryan: C-H-E-X-T. Jason: Wow, Chext.

Cofounder 208

Cofounder Technical Review Software Review Differentiation 208

Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

It might cater to new customers, it might solve a different need, or it might involve a different revenue model. For example, if you’re an early-stage SaaS provider that is shifting from a horizontal solution to a vertical focus, your mission, culture, and competencies can stay the same and the pivot transition will probably go smoothly.

Startup 36

Startup Silicon Valley Business Model Mobile 36

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

I am founder on an unconventional online gallery, The Art and Craft Gallery. So we opened the goFlow platform from surfing-only to 10 new verticals: Paddle-boarding, Diving, Fishing, Skateboarding, Cycling, Golfing, Snow sports, Boating, Kitesurfing and more to come. Thanks to Alexi Venneri, Digital Air Strike ! #6)

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Australia Technical Review Community 48

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Sir Martin Sorrel , the founder of WPP (the worlds largest media organization), recently said he went to Tech Punta in Montevideo instead of the CES in Las Vegas. The art of activating idle assets to bring in new revenue is occurring for both the service provider and the service creator. Cities are now becoming vertical again.

Uruguay 123

Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Global SaaS revenues are expected to grow by $19 billion in 2016, an increase of 22% from 2015, while traditional software revenues are shrinking by $10B. Two dollars in SaaS revenues are created for every $1 of software revenues eaten – an impressive stat, but where does Europe stand on the global SaaS map?

Europe 48

Europe Artificial Inteligence Vertical 48

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Respondents deemed between 12%-16% of companies generating revenues to be essentially “worthless” and deemed 20%-26% of their pre-revenue investments to be “worthless.” Been there Done that This is very depressing for all future founders, or even currently early stage founders. Add to this that 72.7% Translation?

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

To learn more about the product and the founder’s ambitious vision, I interviewed Erez Pilosof, founder and CEO of Libox who also founded and ran Walla! VC Cafe: What would you say are your killer differentiators? How are you planning ramp up the revenue? We have indirect competitors in each of those verticals.

Media 84

Media Management API HTML 84

Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

I am the founder and Program Director of a very unique and dynamic community-based outpatient behavioral health treatment facility based in Brooklyn, New York called One World Counseling. Phlatbed is unique in-that it is a peer to peer moving services platform that enables people turn idle capital into revenue sources.

Entrepreneur 92

Entrepreneur Technical Review Harvest Portfolio 92

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million). That is why I invited the Founder & CEO, Jonah Peretti , to come talk at the 2017 Upfront Summit and make the case himself. The 30-minute interview of Jonah Peretti is here but my summary in the notes below.

Media 210

Media Los Angeles Russia Viral 210