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. Flexible VC: Revenue -based. Of the Inc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. Gallup says the Boomer demographic is the largest and still growing mainstream pool of experienced talent in the market today (76 million people strong).

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2019

Thanks to an always-evolving landscape and the nearly limitless availability of engagement resources, it feels like marketing gets more difficult with each passing year. This wealth of options, in fact, can put marketers in analysis paralysis while they try to figure out which direction to go. Custom websites.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

Market dynamics also play a role, with some types of candidates in shorter supply than others. Tools such as LinkedIn are obviously useful, but it can also pay dividends to use your network to find potential hires. Your internal team creates your external results, such as new products and increased revenues.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Last week ZipCar began trading and has a market cap of about $1 billion. How They Make Money: Majority of Kayak’s revenue actually comes from advertising on their site (55%), not lead generation or referral fees to travel suppliers as you might think (more on this below). Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Online marketing can not only help you get past the initial hurdles but also enable your business to survive and grow consistently in today’s increasingly digitalised world. There are numerous online marketing tactics for nurturing a new business that promise great results and won’t blow your budget.

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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. Surprises during due diligence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Many are reluctant to really “market” themselves, and have trouble differentiating their offerings to clients, except by price. Set pricing to assure both revenue and profit. Be targeted in marketing and lead generation. Be targeted in marketing and lead generation. Don’t forget seminars and events.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2015

With an impressive product lineup of new iPhones, Apple watches, iPads and an all-new Apple TV queued for shipment this week, 2015 is the most successful year of revenue growth for Apple , according to Apple’s CEO Tim Cook. The online retailer Amazon experienced an 18 percent growth of revenue in 2015. percent) to 2014 (21.9

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these. What’s Missing?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these. What’s Missing?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2024

How to Win The Consumer Boredom-Span: The Key to Cutting Through Clutter written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Alan Dibb. 04:12] What replaces organic search once it starts to decline? [06:18]

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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. Surprises during due diligence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

His challenge is to focus on one market, with a specific design, cost, and price. At least the first time around, it pays big dividends for an idea person to find a partner with the business skills you haven’t tested yet. Only a great team, and listening to customers, will allow you to adjust as you learn more, or the market changes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2020

In the interim, there is no market for the shares, and no dividends or interest. Insist on paying market rates for commercial loans, since the IRS can instigate some nasty consequences on “gifts.” Tie payments to your product or service revenue. Make sure the money is discretionary.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 11, 2021

Thanks to Richard Burner, Goals Marketing ! #2- Your investment can be worth it since micro-influencers are prone to being more engaged with their smaller following, which helps them build more personal interactions and connections that can be more influential than other marketing strategies. Thanks to Ben Reynolds, Sure Dividend ! #3-

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

So you’ve started a business: you’ve made a great product, achieved product-market fit and have an extraordinary road map laid out. But to build a scalable business you need more than just product-market fit. Many lack intuitive financial sense that can help them build a great company once they achieve product-market fit.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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ConversionXL

JULY 16, 2021

It should be informed by your market, competitor, and user research, and optimized through feedback and testing. Figure out how your product uniquely fits into the market and drive that message home. Even then, treat your marketing messaging as a living document to match your ever-evolving audience. Start with user research.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

by Felicia Broccolo, Chief Marketing Officer for The Life Coach School. Generally, podcasts are not a quick return kind of marketing tactic. If you focus on providing value and building your expert reputation, you’ll build trust and loyalty with your audience, and those two qualities will pay huge dividends down the road.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Bottom Up Market Sizing » 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. Startups and angels: Along the way to success. Let’s start at the end. times at six years.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Building A People-Centric Culture: From Employees To Contributors written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Janstch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Kai Anderson, a seasoned strategist and the leader of workforce transformation at Mercer.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 24, 2011

The term is widely used by multilevel marketers and savvy entrepreneurs across the web to close sales on eBooks and training programs for one simple reason: the vision (of sitting under a palm tree while your bank account effortlessly collects money) sells. The result is hundreds, maybe thousands, of abandoned sites that never earn out.

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 22, 2019

Your Target Market. Knowing who your target market is, is imperative to finding the right location for your restaurant (again, concept nailed at this point). If your target market is families, then you won’t want a downtown business location or one with little to no parking. The wrong concept in the right location will fail.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2020

Ironically, though, a pandemic is a perfect time to begin a marketing campaign like this and besides, you probably have a lot of free time on your hands anyway. Businesses generate revenue by solving problems for their clients and customers. Good relationships built over time are especially evident during the pandemic.

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The Startup Toolkit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

As a founder, you get a pile of money in one of four ways: You generate profits and keep some (dividends). You’re making solid revenue (e.g. 5mm/year) and someone buys you to add that revenue to their portfolio (revenue-based acquisition). all your revenue comes from one big customer).

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Unsurprisingly, all the sharks passed, based on market size and valuation expectations. They did not have any meaningful proof of product-market fit. Revenue or distribution can both be evidence that, in the Bear and the Rat’s case, the dogs literally are eating the dogfood. This is a very niche market.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Try on these “Boom Market” stats for size: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed today at 24,642.86, up 24% since January 1st and 34% since Election Day 2016. are on sustained rises, there builds in every market a class of consumers that is flush with the feeling of wealth and liquidity, and thus becomes far less price sensitive.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Accumulating the resources necessary to hire an in-house data and analytics team pays regular dividends as your firm keeps growing. Research firm Markets and Markets predicts the WMS global market will grow to $5.53bn by 2019. Lewis Robinson is a business consultant specializing in social media marketing, CRM, and sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2018

In the interim, there is no market for the shares, and no dividends or interest. Insist on paying market rates for commercial loans, since the IRS can instigate some nasty consequences on “gifts.” Tie payments to your product or service revenue. Make sure the money is discretionary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2014

In the interim, there is no market for the shares, and no dividends or interest. Insist on paying market rates for commercial loans, since the IRS can instigate some nasty consequences on “gifts.” Tie payments to your product or service revenue. Make sure the money is discretionary.

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Founder Cram Down Angel Investor Equity 254

Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Internal Revenue Service and Canada Revenue Agency both allow small business owners to write off or deduct the funds and intellectual property that they dedicate toward nonprofit causes and initiatives. As you move closer to opening day, clarify how you’ll generate revenue. Here’s what that road map should entail: 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2021

By focusing your marketing activities on key individuals known to wield influence in your target customer market, you can deliver a more "authentic" message. But these days, it can pay big dividends to go above and beyond to make people happy or benefit society. Play to exclusivity, uniqueness, and personalization.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The region’s other strong VC presence resides in Japan, which has the typical Japanese model of a few large firms dominating the market. Singapore is by far the most developed behind those big three markets with government schemes attracting over a dozen early stage firms to set up shop here (e.g. Thus, VCs have the upper hand.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 9, 2021

REITs pay handsome dividends, and this makes it one of the most common retirement investments. What’s more, you can reinvest your dividends to grow your investment. Whichever strategy you choose, ensure that the monthly revenue exceeds your monthly expenses, including mortgage payments, taxes, interest, and maintenance costs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2016

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. Surprises during due diligence.

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