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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. I believe that Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem.

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Startup Lessons Learned

We were even more embarrassed by the pathetically small number of customers we had, and the pathetically low amount of revenue we had earned so far. We’d always cringe as we admitted that, no, we really only had a few thousand customers and a few thousand dollars in monthly revenue. Retention cohort analysis. I am chugging along.

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The Very Best Digital Metrics For 15 Different Companies!

Occam's Razor

Outcomes: Revenue | Ideas Funded Behavior: Path Length | Cart Abandonment Rate Acquisition: Assisted Conversions | Share of Search. Every ecommerce site has to obsess about Revenue. Newspapers: Tampa Bay Times. With advertising revenue in a tailspin, it is more important than ever. Yet, you won’t notice it in my KPIs.

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5 patterns behind successful billion-dollar consumer Web companies

The Next Web

Whether this cyclic process is deliberate or inadvertent, it certainly goes a long way in creating company value and revenue. Groupon, in its early stages, aimed at increasing consumer purchasing power. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the other team to react.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Dedicated To Steve Jobs, Reinforcing Mission To Restructure Capitalism

ReadWriteStart

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. And today, we have a group of early adopter premium members who are making good use of the program.