reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

we had no revenue. As a result, we knew that our pitch would need to steer into investors’ biggest concern: the lack of revenue. We are the leader in the professional domain with viral growth. Instead, our strategy was to steer immediately into the revenue question because that was the top concern of investors in 2004.

Entrepreneur 111

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 5, 2022

They operate on the premise that if you don't get results, you won't get results. Specifically, I plan on putting out one study per quarter that I'll send out to reporters and hopefully get viral coverage on social media. Additionally, some employees have requested that they work remotely, which has not been possible so far.

Entrepreneur 114

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

Their innovation lay not just in their product, but their viral video marketing campaign involving slamming raw eggs on their mattress to show that they wouldn’t break due to their mattresses’ high-tech cushioning. The company has three large operations across the world, with 20 smaller operations across the US. 19- Bitcoin.

Artificial Inteligence 77

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

There are two reasons to raise money: You have a killer idea that is only partially validated, that you think can get to $50M+ of revenue in 5 years with 80%+ gross margins (if margins are lower, you need a lot more revenue)and you need money to get to product-market fit, or. Revenue per customer? Number of employees?

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Claire got to experience, and played a large part in, Stripe’s proverbial rocketship, blossoming into thousands of employees, generating billions of dollars in revenue and valuation. For example: On her viral ‘ Working With Claire ’ guide I think that founders should write a guide to working with them.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Ed Fry – Customer Data Operations: Unleashing your hidden growth engine. mobile is ~50% of revenue, shorter form works better. Flip your funnel – only 5% of revenue comes from optimisation but 92% of revenue from retention. Dropbox: first achieved growth through virality. branded header and tagline.

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Retention Artificial Inteligence Channel Email 106

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million). I began asking around who the smartest people in the online media industry were and two names came up again and again — Jonah Peretti (social & viral content) and Ze Frank (social video). I asked Jonah about this. “I

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2013

Viral marketing campaigns to lure new customers will cost you big money. Maybe it’s time to outsource that call center operation, or complex manufacturing setup. Look for operations that are hogging resources without generating significant revenue. Look for hidden sources of revenue. Focus on your core competency.

Startup 247

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2018

The challenge is to convince investors that your business will attract real customers, before you have a revenue stream that exceeds your expenses. Build a realistic revenue model and price, based on cost. Word of mouth and viral marketing alone are not adequate, and a website is not all you need for credibility.

Angel Investor 147

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2012

Then came the advent of social media companies like Facebook and Twitter that declared a critical mass with no revenue, counting on their user base of millions of people to get them market values in the billions of dollars. Should they focus on revenues and profitability, or focus on growing their customer base at all costs?

Social Media 242

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. Point Nine Capital uses 15Five for continuous employee feedback. We are also seeing technology evaluation as an increasingly important part of LP operational due diligence. 1) Manage the firm .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2012

Viral marketing campaigns to lure new customers will cost you big money. Maybe it’s time to outsource that call center operation, or complex manufacturing setup. Look for operations that are hogging resources without generating significant revenue. Look for hidden sources of revenue. Focus on your core competency.

Entrepreneur 234

Entrepreneur Viral Revenue Distribution 234

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2020

It is true that larger firms tend to lay-off and/or furlough full-time W2 employees during times of uncertainty, but they also need work done. In such circumstances, many new or former employees have turned to 1099 contract relationships with new or former employers to complete such projects. Become a viral success.

Startup 120

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

I don’t know exactly when the agency to product transfer happened at Buddy, or at what point you can start calling yourself a software company (when service revenues dip below subscription/license revs?), Our current focus is on creating sticky, super viral applications that help users get more out of Facebook and other social media.

Software 112

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Then came the advent of social media companies like Facebook and Twitter that declared a critical mass with no revenue, counting on their user base of millions of people to get them market values in the billions of dollars. Should they focus on revenues and profitability, or focus on growing their customer base at all costs?

Startup 229

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Hearpreneur

JULY 3, 2019

The only blog post I had ever written went viral in 2014. Coming from over 12 years of corporate sales and over 100M+ in technology sales with the largest mobile operators in the world, I can say the daily challenges that I encounter as an entrepreneur cannot be matched. It did mean, however, that I wasn’t the right fit for Apple.

Entrepreneur 107

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

2:17) Some of the teams and projects Sam has been impressed with and how inspired he's been by the way the biotech industry has pulled together and operated with newfound speed. (6:56) There's a good enough vaccine to get the virality rate below one. 7:35) Sam gives advice for investors looking to help. (11:45)

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

It has been awesome, flattering, and humbling to see that post went viral and has been seen by so many thousands of people — mainly aspiring entrepreneurs — and has been translated into many languages. If we don’t enjoy working with someone - an employee, a partner, whomever - we’re just not going to do it.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

That's why the Corona Initiative is a Public Benefit Corporation--a for-profit company dedicated to the public good that aims to fund its research with its revenues. You really want to see how your company treats its employees, treats its customers, treats the environment, taking a longer-term view." I want to see more inventors.

Technical Review 68

Technical Review Software Review Finance Technology 68

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you’re a startup entrepreneur, you risk facing a competitive disadvantage if you wait too long to expand your operations. If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors.

France 77

France Marketing Social Media Startup 77

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Viral marketing campaigns to lure new customers will cost you big money. Maybe it’s time to outsource that call center operation, or complex manufacturing setup. Look for operations that are hogging resources without generating significant revenue. Look for hidden sources of revenue. Focus on your core competency.

Startup 127

Startup Viral Revenue Distribution 127

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Early this year Amie Fineberg, who has been my amazing assistant for over 10 years, mentioned that she and several other employees at Benchmark had fallen in love with a new ecommerce service, and that I might want to check it out. Awareness of the service was clearly spreading virally through word of mouth.

eCommerce 62

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Whether data come from our own analytics or an external source, we are can implement changes to the way we operate in a matter of hours. When you are an employee of a company, you are often weighed down by corporate rules, procedures and a chain of command that is never as responsive you need them to be. 8 – Worst Employee Ever.

Entrepreneur 48

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Topics are divided into IT, marketing, sales, finance, customer service, operations and human resources sections, which makes it easy to search for the latest discussions on your interest area. The site is run by Mercy Corps , which intends to help “small businesses grow faster, generate more revenue, and employ more people.&#

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 25, 2012

And the funds came from revenue generated by my portfolio of web applications and websites that I’ve built over the past several years. Depending on your market, the ROI can be better any other traffic source you can find (with viral traffic the most common exception). I also put in quite a bit of coding time myself.

Acquisition 63

Acquisition Software Review Fresno Algorithm 63

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

We’re at 70 people, and we’ll do $40 million in revenue this year and should get to cash flow breakeven this quarter. ” Sales (and/or customer acquisition in a multi-sided market) becomes achievable by a sales force (or network effect or virality) without heroic efforts from the founders. It sounded like he was living the dream.

Startup 120

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

But in today’s world, speed-to-scale entrepreneurship is what we need to improve society, transform industries, and create massive value for customers, employees, and investors. When the market conditions are right, you should blitzscale for the benefit of all stakeholders: customers, employees, investors, and society.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Smart enterprises are analyzing all of this data to make better decisions, increase revenue, and improve operating performance. In industry terms, this means we looks for companies that have a high viral coefficient. Storing and scaling tons of data cheaply and efficiently is already done.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. At this stage, simply list your primary revenue streams and your key expenses. At this stage, simply list your primary revenue streams and your key expenses.

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Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Revenue guidance. Traditional business strives for order and regularity in management, operations, and financial results. Chaotic, unstable organizations make employees nervous and hurt morale. There were no one-on-one career development conversations with employees. Rule #1: Embrace Chaos. Annual plans.

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Finder Rhode Island Cofounder Engineer 28

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

endeve – Issue invoices, manage clients and check revenues all in one place. GroupSwim – Social collaboration and community tools to bring your employees, customers, and partners together. Employee Management, Payroll & Human Resources Taleo – Taleo is e-recruitment and talent management software.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

In normal times, every company operates against some hypothetical growth model—a data-driven framework that describes how your product grows and how you acquire new users. In normal times, every company operates against some hypothetical growth model—a data-driven framework that describes how your product grows and how you acquire new users.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Salesforce.com just has average to below-average profitability" Everyone would agree that the value of an operating asset is defined by the sum of its discounted future cash flows. because all your costs are up front, and your revenue is over a five year period, the more you sell, the more you lose. Post a Comment. Newer Post.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 4, 2019

Your mission, values, brand story, employees, and product/service itself. ” It reinforces the playfully irreverent nature of the brand, which disrupted the industry, while also connecting back to their original viral ad. Be supported by operational changes to achieve stated goals. There are three aspects: Brand identity.

Marketing 125

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

If the idea was reliant on ad revenue for profit, it quickly becomes apparent that there will be no incoming money at all. Don’t forget to factor in operating overhead including accounting, legal, insurance, etc. Your projections should provide a range of best-case/worst-case revenue scenarios over a number of years.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I don’t actually have any employees. As I said, I have a very small operation and I’m able to make much more than the average person. It made this site very sticky and it grew organically through viral word-of-mouth as a result of doing that. Adding Ad Revenue. I’m about to show you a slide show. I’m the content creator.

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