BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

While developers can now spin up applications faster than ever before, one of the downsides is the complexity of managing these distributed applications and technologies. Year of HQ2 and Distributed Teams: It was a banner year for non-Silicon Valley cities as NYC and Northern Virginia were selected as Amazon’s HQ2.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. One that is powered by three drivers, each of which is a part of a major trend: The use of platforms enabled by open source and free software. What are the characteristics of a lean startup?

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

The Energy Internet Emerges: We will be trading energy with each other through a new type of distributed energy grid. Government Will Love Small Again : Governments around the world will finally realise big powerful companies are reducing their tax revenue.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

It seems that four different models of "discussion creation" have occurred: Organice Discussion - someone posts something interesting, lots of bloggers post on the topic, distributed discussion ensues. Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 See Five Things Meme as an example. event I did last fall.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2016

Despite a meager track record for generating outsized returns, investors keep piling money into open source start-ups. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, a minimum of 110 “open source startups” had raised more than $7 billion from venture capitalists as of 2015, up over 100% since 2013.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2010

A business model diagram also shows how the product gets distributed to your customers and how money flows back into your company. What’s the distribution channel. A Lean Startup is Eric Ries’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Snapchat may be a company with no revenue and an unrealistic valuation, but it is changing the way people think of messaging. Ouya is an open source Android-based gaming platform that is looking to compete with PlayStation and Xbox. Or it could be the next Facebook. Time will tell. IFTTT=If This Then That.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. With Netscape’s IPO , there was suddenly a public market for companies with limited revenue and no profit. 1970 – 1995: The Golden Age. Thus began the 5-year dot-com bubble.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)

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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). They might flock to new, open source solution, to reduce platform fees and increase their share.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 18, 2012

The centrepiece of the ‘free’ argument is that the price of everything drops to its marginal cost of distribution. 40-50 isn’t that much though, and software companies with license business models will need to keep their costs low and find efficient routes to market if they are to make good profits and become very valuable.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 3, 2013

Look back to the reasons why there was a Cambrian explosion of seed funding in the first place – a dramatic reduction in the initial capital requirements to launch a new company because of cloud hosting infrastructure, social graph distribution platforms, open source and low-cost development tools/methods, etc.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

It appears that LTV should be about 3 x CAC for a viable SaaS or other form of recurring revenue model. Next Generation Business Models Because a number of smart entrepreneurs realized the importance of lowering CAC, they created new business models such as Open Source, SaaS, Freemium, etc.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2013

look at the Distributions tab to see page load speed distributions). Amazon reported already in 2006 that they got 1% revenue increase for every 100ms of improvement. Tagman has a conversion loss calculator so you can work out how much revenue you could gain by speeding up your site. Featured image source.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Freenode is the network most popular with developers today, especially with open source projects (channels such as #python, #rubyonrails, ##php etc. They do the spec and marketing work and are seeing $80k a month in revenue, so a successfull relationship with contract development work is very possible. Recent Posts.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. It is about when in the life of your company you do the spending. Lets see why. Something else? Who’s the customer?

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ConversionXL

MAY 13, 2020

For a larger analysis, you can aggregate data any way you decide: average, median, percentile distribution, or some advanced statistical model. Further, as you’re now using your own data, you can remove revenue from cancelled transactions or returns. Don’t you think you should communicate differently with these two groups of visitors?

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!) - crowdSPRING Blog , September 13, 2010 At crowdSPRING we talk a great deal about how we can leverage our limited marketing resources to drive traffic and revenues and build strong community. Except they won’t be called Product Managers. That crazy chicken.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

For three years I worked at Bug Labs (open source hardware company). We not only told everyone what we did, we posted the source code and the blueprints online. flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. Nobody ever stole our ideas.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

mobile is ~50% of revenue, shorter form works better. Target email openers and clickers, run ads to people who opened but didn’t click, clicked but didn’t buy. Flip your funnel – only 5% of revenue comes from optimisation but 92% of revenue from retention. Knowledge Repo – open sourced.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Some notable metrics are revenue growth rates, free cashflow, leverage ratios, historical financing amounts, returns on marketing spend, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of customers, customer churn rates, and team social scores. Lighter Capital, a Revenue Based Investing VC, offers a Cost of Capital Calculator. 11) Exit .

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

They use different technologies of course, and different distribution mechanisms. The very first thing you'll see will be the distribution between desktop, mobile (smartphones) and tablets. Transactions, Revenue and Ecommerce Conversion Rate. You have to solve for all of them. What do you learn from this report?

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2014

A couple weeks ago, we dug into internal site search & found that in some cases , searches performed by only 10% of the site’s total traffic made up nearly 40% of the companies overall revenue. If you’re using a popular open source engine known as SOLR, this page on spatial search should hopefully help get you started.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

And one day a remarkable thing happened: we started making more than five dollars a day in revenue. You mention "we had also built a simple cohort-based analytics system" Is tihs a commercial/open source systems. Slowly, over time, we optimized (or eliminated) each step in the process of becoming a customer by giving us money.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. I believe that most companies can exist in the experimentation mode for 3-4 years.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD. We live, think and breathe digital music distribution. Now your SD content can be turned into True HD.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. So from day one, my knowledge about how to do a startup was zero. Back to the top.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

In fact, in the early days, when IMVU would experience unexpected surges of revenue or traffic, it was inevitable that every person in the company was convinced that their project was responsible. 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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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

endeve – Issue invoices, manage clients and check revenues all in one place. Shoutlet – Distribute and track viral marketing campaigns across social media outlets. Office Applications Celum Imagine – Software that lets you manage and distribute your photos, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs and multimedia content.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

By generating a steady revenue from consulting projects and sales, the founders were able to spend time growing their business slowly. Today, Litmus has had over 30,000 customers, 1 million+ in revenue, and is growing by around 10% a month. Today, SparkFun has a wide following and boasts over $10 million in revenue.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

spent $20 million to get back to the same revenue that I had when I was CEO. created a vastly higher cost structure; I had 80 people mostly on base salaries under $100,000 and was bringing in revenue at the rate of $20 million annually. spent $20 million to get back to the same revenue that I had when I was CEO.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Google has been investing in a broad healthcare portfolio, Amazon has been investing in pharmacy distribution and Apple…? However, if the Apple Watch becomes a device eligible for reimbursement , there’s a huge revenue upside for Apple. Today consumers pay directly for the Watch. What’s Not Working? Great idea.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Revenue is always my preferred measure, but you can use anything that is important to your business: retention, activation, viral invites, or even customer satisfaction in the form of something like net promoter score. Or it could be that they are endlessly pecking through menus, totally confused about what to do next.

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ConversionXL

JULY 10, 2019

You’re hitting the goal, but the steady increase in list size isn’t growing revenue—a fact that’s been overlooked and gone unreported. Because you can connect to multiple sources in a single report, you don’t need to prepare or curate your data sources before connecting. Here’s a chart showing revenue and spend year to date.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

DoNanza also has a publishers program enabling websites to generate revenue and expose their visitors to the world of work-from-home projects by integrating a fully customized project board tailored specifically to their users. Binpress is a distribution platform for web and mobile developers. Fribiz incentivize everything.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 18, 2011

Celeno - Celeno is a leading vendor of standard-based WiFi silicon solutions capable of distributing up to 4 HD video streams, with full home coverage (over 500 sqm) and carrier grade robustness. 264 and multi-screen, the ICE Video Platform is the clear leader for Every Screen video processing and distribution.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Blog Blazers: 40 Top Bloggers Share Their Secrets Startup Success Podcast, Open Source For-Profit Startups, One Laptop Per Child 2008, and $19 Usability Testing → The Software Product Myth Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. 34 comments ↓ #1 Sean Tierney on 11.18.08

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