YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

At Wildcat, we recommend benchmarking your startup against the four core architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework: product , revenue , team and systems. Each has specific requirements linked to each stage and value inflection point of the Traction Gap journey. What does this mean for their early stage investors?

Framework 127

Framework Architecture Cleveland Early Stage 127

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. In it, I got asked a question I often hear: “What if we have a web-based business that doesn’t have revenue or paying customers?

Customer Development 219

Customer Development Web Developer Customer 219

YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

At Wildcat, we recommend benchmarking your startup against the four core architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework: product , revenue , team and systems. Each has specific requirements linked to each stage and value inflection point of the Traction Gap journey. What does this mean for their early stage investors?

Framework 113

Framework Architecture Cleveland Early Stage 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups. These are emerging group of professional investors (venture capitalists, ala VCs), who are investing from a fund of other people’s money, with a particular focus on seed-stage startup opportunities. Early-stage startup. Super Angels. Lean startup.

Early Stage 253

Early Stage Finance Seed Stage Entrepreneur 253

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Set expectations accordingly.

Entrepreneur 283

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 283

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Set expectations accordingly.

Product Development 177

Product Development Cost Developer Product 177

techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups. Data Collective has already made 46 investments from its first fund, which it calls “comparable with other seed and early stage funds” (Ocko and Bogue wouldn’t reveal fund size.). Headphones. CrunchBase.

Early Stage 70

Early Stage San Francisco Los Angeles Southern California 70

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Set expectations accordingly.

Intellectual Property 309

Intellectual Property Technical Review Venture Capital Startup 309

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Solicit funds from friends and family.

Intellectual Property 134

Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 134

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2022

Running a business will likely mean simultaneously juggling between different projects, especially during the early stages. After all, good digital marketing campaigns are crucial for reaching a wider audience, beating your competition, and increasing your revenue. Web development. Project planning.

Startup 109

Startup Australia Web Development Forecast 109

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups, the hard part for entrepreneurs is figuring out what it takes to play. These are emerging group of professional investors (venture capitalists, ala VCs), who are investing from a fund of other people’s money, with a particular focus on seed-stage startup opportunities.

Early Stage 231

Early Stage Seed Stage Angel Investor Silicon Valley 231

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2011

Max and his partners had interviewed and analyzed over 650 early-stage Internet startups. In May they released the first Startup Genome Report — an in-depth analysis on what makes early-stage Internet startups successful. 93% of startups that scale prematurely never break the $100k revenue per month threshold.

Software Review 292

Software Review Early Stage Technical Review Startup 292

Gust

JULY 8, 2012

The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups. These are emerging group of professional investors (venture capitalists, ala VCs), who are investing from a fund of other people’s money, with a particular focus on seed-stage startup opportunities. Early-stage startup. Super Angels. Lean startup.

Early Stage 177

Early Stage Finance Seed Stage Entrepreneur 177

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. It always reduces risk to plan your business first. Solicit funds from friends and family.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 120

ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

And while this was a good start, a significant position of these companies were early-stage startups. After analysing our case studies and CRM, we saw that 73% of total revenue came from these two segments. Customers with the lowest revenue received automated nuturusing sequences that required significantly less effort up front.

B2B 150

B2B Sales Cycle Belgium IP 150

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2018

Apps popularly started out as a means for communication (call, SMS), which then evolved to a platform for content consumption in the early stages of data (news, MMS and YouTube), and finally to what we now define as demand services (food delivery, transport and e-commerce). What’s next?

SMS 164

SMS Japan Asia China 164

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

We’re clearly in the early stages on Twitter monetization but let me offer some views on why we find Ad.ly We’re clearly in the early stages on Twitter monetization but let me offer some views on why we find Ad.ly was the “static&# web. was the 2-way web. That was a kerfuffle too.

Technical Review 286

Technical Review Advertising Early Stage Internet 286

Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2015

Organizational debt is all the people/culture compromises made to “just get it done” in the early stages of a startup. I had lunch last week with Tom, the CEO of a startup that was quickly becoming a large company – last year’s revenue was $40M, this year likely to be $80M maybe even $100 million in ad revenue.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Salary Early Stage Software Review 120

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

These are just some of the reasons why a professionally-made website almost always edges out DIY websites (unless of course, you’re a professional web designer yourself). Once your business starts generating enough revenue, you can hire a marketing agency or consultant to handle the task. Have a Simple Online Marketing Strategy.

Dividend 113

Dividend Early Stage Social Media Hosting 113

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 14, 2012

Rachel Blankstein has launched two tech startups, including her current business Comparz , a website where independent users review web-based software. Rachel Blankstein. I asked someone who knows. She sold her first tech startup econfidant.com to a larger technology company.

Technical Review 159

Technical Review CTO Hire Software Review Startup 159

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Thanks to Rodney Warner, Connective Web Design LLC ! #2- In a small business environment, losing even one loyal customer can disproportionately affect our revenues and growth prospects. Entrepreneurship is often about pushing boundaries and thinking outside the box, something that's hard to achieve if team members aren't fully engaged.

Entrepreneur 112

Entrepreneur Employee Revenue LLC 112

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Thanks to Rodney Warner, Connective Web Design LLC ! #2- In a small business environment, losing even one loyal customer can disproportionately affect our revenues and growth prospects. Entrepreneurship is often about pushing boundaries and thinking outside the box, something that's hard to achieve if team members aren't fully engaged.

Entrepreneur 112

Entrepreneur Employee Revenue LLC 112

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 31, 2011

Max and his partners had interviewed and analyzed over 650 early-stage Internet startups. In May they released the first Startup Genome Report -- an in-depth analysis on what makes early-stage Internet startups successful. 93% of startups that scale prematurely never break the $100k revenue per month threshold.

Software Review 134

Software Review Early Stage Startup Technical Review 134

The Next Web

JANUARY 22, 2014

Our report last week on the salaries that startup founders pay themselves stirred up a lot of discussion here on The Next Web, Hacker News , Twitter and beyond. Startup revenue and founder salary. The closest tie between founder salary and another datapoint was found in revenue. Founder age and salary.

Salary 152

Salary Founder Entrepreneur Burn Rate 152

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

Because it can be hard to define or agree company objectives at an early stage I believe most people avoid them. If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? Revenue Metrics. Revenue metrics are one of the first things I ask for from the startups in which I invest.

Metrics 346

Metrics Startup Acquisition SEM 346

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

It has grown recurring revenue by more than 500% and deal-size by 276%. The explosion of mobile phones has led to a boom in inbound click-to-call traffic that has proven to convert at a higher close rate and increase average-order-value over web-only sales & marketing. It’s the people who want to work with you.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Fractional CTO Cofounder Early Stage 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers. CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI. I would also note that they claim 2.1 Founded in 2007.

Partner 240

Partner New York City Cofounder Syndicate 240

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

That is to say, they’d want to be able to control costs and revenues at a high level. million early-stage raise that involved pitching to over a dozen PE firms, which took months to negotiate. Background: Recording Excellence , an online music mixing startup, closed a small PE early-stage funding round a few years ago.

Private Equity 94

Private Equity Pre-Money Valuation Equity Startup 94

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? Ive personally been involved in the start-up world in Los Angeles for about 15 years, and have had the opportunity to work on many early-stage companies (e.g.,

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It partners with sales to close more revenue, informs product teams to deliver better products, and in some cases, co-owns demand generation activities with marketing teams. Founder Nathan Barry launched in 2013 to help creators sell their books and courses but failed to meet revenue goals and eventually stalled.

Marketing 110

Marketing Product Audience Equity 110

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 26, 2016

There have been countless debates about the demise of the mobile Web at the hands of mobile apps. One pundit sees apps dominating users’ attention ; another predicts apps will kill off the entire Web. Mobile apps represent a small fraction of the total mobile revenue for all but a handful of the biggest brands.

Mobile 100

Mobile Web SEM Affiliate 100

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2015

The Mobile Web Will Continue to Dominate As Apps Play a Supporting Role. It’s therefore not surprising that for most retailers, the mobile web plays a larger role in mobile commerce than do apps. times as much revenue per visit as consumers shopping on their smartphones. The mobile web will continue to dominate over mobile apps.

Mobile 100

Mobile Software Review eCommerce .Net 100

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Between January 2015 and January 2016, we grew our platform Slidebean from $1K to $20K in monthly recurring revenue. Getting the first tracks of revenue is one of the toughest processes of building a startup. Customer Lifetime Value (LTV): The potential revenue that you’ll be receiving from a given user.

Revenue 60

Revenue Acquisition Channel Campaign 60

nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

New Web Order. Webmasterworld - A popular forum for web developers. SitePoint Forums - A popular marketplace and forum for web developers. 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. New Web Order.

Cofounder 40

Cofounder Web Founder South Korea 40

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2009

To be clear: most serial entrepreneurs who are working on an early-stage concept know that whatever they’re working on in year 1 is likely to be dramatically different than what they’re doing in year 5. The best entrepreneurs seek advice from everybody they need, learn lessons and make minor adjustments on a monthly basis.

Entrepreneur 291

Entrepreneur Term Sheet Early Stage Affiliate 291

SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. Common revenue streams are consulting, training, support, customization, upgraded versions for corporate applications, etc. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

Open Source 150

Open Source Business Model Technical Cofounder Southern California 150