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 distribution, manufacturing, and service businesses fit this description.

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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. Those with the best teams, and which are well managed always win. Distribution & Customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Very useful perspective - as a first-time CEO managing a small startup, these ideas are timely and thought-provoking. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In my days as a product manager, the conventional rule for user generated content was the 1% rule. 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). Gen Z and the 1% rule. The 1% rule is now changing with Gen Z.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

And worse, even if someone does manage to start something new, our management structure has so many financial, legal and HR hurdles that every initiative needs to match our existing business financial metrics, processes and procedures. They’ve learned the best distribution channel to get the product from their company to the customer.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

Last week the teams tested their Revenue Models hypotheses: what are customers willing to pay for? The concept of Partners , took some explanation as some teams confused partners with the Distribution Channel.). Of real interest was their evolving view of their revenue model. Any IP you need to license? Veritas turbines.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Company plans to use money to expand inventory and distribution capabilities, and build more social features. Revenue of ~$160mm in 2008. TechCrunch. GroupSpaces.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2023

So I've got my three year plan and it's mapped out exactly what's gonna happen, you know, 36 months from now where our revenue's gonna be and this is a plan and we're sticking to it. With chat-based commands, you can manage contacts, run reports, and even ask for status updates. These are all factors that matter.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 5, 2018

In grocery, which represents over half of Walmart’s revenues, it plans to add 1,000 online grocery order pickup locations in 2018 in stores around the US; in December 2017 it unveiled a meal kit option and a partnership with Buzzfeed that will integrate Buzzfeed recipes with Walmart groceries. Increase in-store efficiency.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Justin is looking for a more efficient customer acquisition model, and my suggestion to him was to look into using distributors, instead of trying to do all the development and then also all the distribution himself. The IP vendor does about $2 million to $3 million a quarter, but the market leader is EDA giant Synopsys. D-Logic Inc.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Distribution and cashflow pose challenges in China. Furthermore, the steady cashflow in the Western market also comes about because of one key factor: the distribution model. The relatively straightforward distribution model in the US for mobile app developers is contrasted by a landscape in China that is simply put, a maze.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Good investors use the valuation discussions to gauge the business savvy of the management team and to understand their ability to appreciate and deal with economic market forces that set values.   For individual angels and others investing their own money, this may be more fluid than for someone with responsibility for a managed fund.

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Take any steps needed to qualify Newco to conduct the business it plans to conduct wherever it’s located (for example, a filing made in California qualifying a Delaware corporation to do business there if the management team is located in San Francisco). Strategic partnership or distribution agreements. Office and equipment leases.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

In case you don’t know, many of them of have the pleasure of only paying 1% tax on their revenue. Their ‘so called’ profit numbers are much lower than you’d expect them to be based on their revenues. So low, that you’d probably close down the business if your profit to revenue ratios ever got that low. tax on $10 of revenue.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Anyway, the way to manage that is still to execute better. flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. Ran if for two years before we shut it down with almost no revenue achieved. From the link: Oh, and what was the company? It was yet another Web 2.0

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Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

Growthink Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

The movie business of today is all "pre-sold" IP. revenues from internet video services spanning user-generated content to television shows and movies will exceed $7 billion this year. Toy Story 3? Karate Kid 3? Iron Man 2? Sex and The City 2? The A-Team? Where are all of the NEW Ideas in Entertainment? How about Internet Video?

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Most CEOs assign the responsibility to establish and manage their innovation outposts (and the outpost’s relationships to startups) to their R&D organizations. While that avoids internal management conflict, it’s the wrong way to make an innovation outpost decision. Startups are developing IP relevant to the disruption.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 14, 2014

by Simon Whitford, Senior Regional Marketing Manager, Content Solutions Business, APAC, WD. The result – a lot of anxiety, stress; and in the case of businesses, lost productivity and revenue. Simon Whitford is Senior Regional Marketing Manager of Content Solutions Business (APAC), WD.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The start of the argument is that you need to separate using the Internet into “infrastructure & cloud services&# (basically the protocols of the Internet such as HTTP, TCP/IP, SMTP, etc. + Lock users into proprietary rights management, distribution or consumption models? But what about the “fixed&# world (e.g.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 18, 2011

BroadTec - Broadtec’s MYTV integrated broadcast management system incorporates sophisticated playlist scheduling, planning, logistics, rights management, Commercials, media production & inventory. 264 and multi-screen, the ICE Video Platform is the clear leader for Every Screen video processing and distribution.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

They use geo/ip to work out where I am. The product/brand managers at 7 for all mankind clothes, Bertolli pasta sauce, Pepsi, Dodge Dart, etc. I have zero doubt that the brand manager for Ragu and SVP of the foods division are amazingly smart people full of passion. Don't you love happy customers and big revenues?

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. I have a proposal written up including full cost and revenue projections. Once you’ve done that – then. P.S. Do #1.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

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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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Its i-nigma solution comprises of a mobile multi-barcode reader application and an integrated platform for managing barcode services. This allows customers to create, manage and track processes that include tagging of physical objects using barcodes. Allot Communications. 4G/LTE and WiMax networks and provide full cell awareness. .

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, where setting goals presents a fresh opportunity to achieve different objectives. 8- Stop counterfeiting and IP infringement globally. Setting up a publishing company to internationally distribute the book, initially in 3-4 languages.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In this case, a simple distribution of overall search traffic and the amount that is coming via paid search. It shows Traffic Share and distribution of the share. If you are looking for short-term revenue or quick wins, you are better off skipping it (do something boring, but profitable, like Email or Affiliate marketing).

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ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2019

Occurs when your business achieves $100k+ in revenue monthly. Ben Labay: “How to Add Millions in Revenue with Voice of Customer”. As marketers, we compete for revenue and conversions. Create the new reality for management: Create the process, measure the real bottom-line outcome. What is it? Who is it for?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. Nothing worked, until we finally had one of our community managers start talking to real customers on the phone.

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