YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 12, 2019

Remember, profit is not the same thing as revenue, nor does high revenue equal profitability. However, just because you can produce 200 widgets per minute doesn’t mean you should always produce 200 widgets per minute. For a business to be healthy, it must be profitable.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Revenue matters to e-commerce companies. Revenue, profit, growth, and headcount are the main ways to measure the size of a company, so of course they are relevant. Some entrepreneurs are obsessed with venture capital. For businesses, you can show off those marketing metrics with social media widgets.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 18, 2016

For business owners and entrepreneurs heavily using Twitter to interact with potential and current clients the question boils down to this – is Twitter beginning the slow march towards irrelevancy in the digital space? Do they have some issues to work out in terms of how to grow their revenue base?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2018

For most of my 20+ year-career, I have worked with small businesses, startups, entrepreneurs and inventors, and I have seen the power public relations can have on these businesses. I’ve seen an entrepreneur take a $.40 Their perception is the most important at the end of the day because it equates to revenue. Amplify it!

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Myspace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. When their deep pockets went empty, Google stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

If you sell widgets, and a user is searching for widgets, your ad will appear on the same page as the search results for widgets. With SEM, the goal is for the search user to not only see your ad, but to click on it to get to your website (click-through), and buy your widget (conversion to sale). Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

According to XYZ Research, 30,000 people expressed a desire for Widget. However, there are no Widgets available. Make sure the venture capitalist understands you’ve done your homework, but avoid making grandstanding statements (“The Widget will revolutionize the world.”) Focus on your designated market area instead.

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Small Business Force

JUNE 18, 2017

While all entrepreneurs want to grow their business, growth is not inevitable. Because you were successful in getting to a particular level of revenue or profit for one year doesn’t mean that beating it (or even meeting it) the following year is a given. Entrepreneur , or Forbes Entrepreneurs , or blog posts like mine.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2011

Here’s another great resource for entrepreneurs – Tony Karrer ‘s StartupRoar ( www.startuproar.com ), which aggregates and filters entrepreneurial content from thought leaders such as Ben Yoskovitz , Vinicius Vacanti , Jill Hubbard Bowman and Steve Blank.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

In the Udemy course, Alistair and Ben expand these basics into a description of how to create empathy, stickiness, virality, revenue, and scale. We decided to find out, and talked with around 130 founders, entrepreneurs, investors and analysts. But if my measurements show me that people will only pay $8 a widget, is that a failure?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2011

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1M each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Twitter, for example, doesn’t have a real revenue model today, and they are growing, but I’m not sure who can ever sell 140 character tweets. So let’s take a look.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

A next generation biotech business would get priced at a higher valuation than yet another family diner or widget manufacturer. Juniors have achieved a full proof of concept around their business, with rapid user or revenue growth, approaching up to $1MM in revenues (Series A venture capital—raise $1MM to $5MM).

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Definitely not a positive sign for an aspiring entrepreneurs looking to venture into the e-Commerce business. Below are the mistakes that have cost aspiring entrepreneurs a huge amount of money. You can add a shipping calculator widget to your store to ensure transparency for buyers. E-Commerce Business Stats: The reality check.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 27, 2013

For many, “spreadsheet modeling” can be a daunting phrase and can sometimes cause otherwise intrepid entrepreneurs to run screaming in terror. And every unit you sell, whether an hour of services or Widget #3 is made up of the selling price and the variable costs associated directly with that unit. Reward top performers.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Weve hosted some interesting tech entrepreneurs. Others, such as Loosecubes, are looking for a more consistent stream of revenue by switching to a subscription-based model. Its been a great way to meet people," says Hertz, whose suite goes for $99 a night and is occupied about half the time. And the money is nice, too." E-Newsletters.

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Genuine VC

APRIL 30, 2008

After the crash at the end of the last decade, web startups clamped down to focus on their core value proposition and were forced out of necessity for survival to hone their revenue models. The stories of tremendous growth in adoption with the promise of revenue later on has been enough to excite both entrepreneurs alike.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Hang out in tech entrepreneur rich communities. Perhaps the easiest way to find potential technical co-founders is to hang out in both online and offline communities where technical entrepreneurs gather. Quora - Increasingly becoming a popular online hangout for tech people and entrepreneurs. Learning enough code. Recent Posts.

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Genuine VC

APRIL 30, 2008

After the crash at the end of the last decade, web startups clamped down to focus on their core value proposition and were forced out of necessity for survival to hone their revenue models. The stories of tremendous growth in adoption with the promise of revenue later on has been enough to excite both entrepreneurs alike.

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Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 2, 2015

For the first time, entrepreneurs could build consumer services AND distribute them at scale with almost no physical middle men and inventory costs. Like the SaaS companies that would arrive years later, Apple also created a recurring revenue model through iTunes (although they had to compete against pirated music sites).

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

So while the abstraction shown is a failed CRM, this could just as easily be applied to a ticketing management widget. As we see it we think there’s a whole variety of features that we can actually integrate and that this one widget will provide ranging from attachment indexing and e- mail archival. Jason: Oh, good.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

How to write an effective company “teaser” is one of the most common topics I’m asked about by entrepreneurs and I think Ted has some excellent thoughts on how to prepare a company summary that hits the right points but isn’t so long that you’ll lose your reader’s attention (or make them abandon the summary before reading the important parts).

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

They found ways to support longterm care facilities, homeless shelters, and other locations serving those most at risk, all while schools, their main source of revenue, were closed. So it was much less about sort of what's the next cool widget that you can design and more about, where do you see a need in the world around you?

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Transcript of Advice for Entrepreneurs Who Want to Sell Their Companies written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. And I’m guessing one of them certainly is a lot of, “What’s the revenue? So what’s your top-line revenue? So subscription-based, annuity-based revenue, why is that important?

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Practical Market Research Resources for Entrepreneurs. General wisdom (and Intuit’s Quickbooks blog ) recommends that would-be entrepreneurs have six months of personal living expenses in savings before starting their own business; some more cautious folk opt to have enough income saved away for an entire year’s worth of expenses.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 28, 2011

The company has created a plug-in which displays a Group Gifting widget on e-retailers’ product pages. Now, when your friend’s birthday comes round, one person can identify a gift, click on the product page’s Group Gifting widget, and invite a group of friends via social networks to contribute to paying for the gift online.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. The third option he covers is pre-selling future income by offering someone $x of every widget you sell forever (it may be a sliding scale that decreases after x units are sold). But who needs revenue?) But this drawback goes away pretty quickly.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

All you’ve proven is that you can make $200 a month in revenue off of some basic websites. If you did that, now you’ve got something like one or $2,000 a month of revenue, proving that this is interesting. Jason: In revenue. Jared: That takes revenue that I don’t have yet. Let’s say they all do it.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 3, 2018

Over the last decade, crowdspring and our 210,000+ designers have helped entrepreneurs, small businesses, agencies and Brands around the world with website design. In that time, here’s what we’ve learned about website credibility: the credibility of your website will directly impact your revenues and profits. .

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Up and Running

JANUARY 20, 2015

The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs. WHY I’M INTERESTED: Will knowing “six essential skills” make you or me a better entrepreneur? Find Your Super Users, Master the Forever Transaction, and Build Recurring Revenue. Research-driven with a healthy dose of humor and pop culture, WIDGETS is a.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Cause I'm pretty bad at, uh, monetization and revenue. Like that's what the kinda revenue charges we're targeting. Like had their little floating thing, their floating messenger, messenger widget in the corner. And getting something out the door that we could start playing with and showing the people.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. Restoration: Pirate ad-blockers, which directly damage revenues, hamper with the entire eco-system – including the consumer, as eventually less content will be produced.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 1, 2013

Instead of aiming for hundreds of millions of dollars in software licensing revenue – they want to conquer existing industries and aim for tens of billions of dollars in widget revenues. Valley VC’s and entrepreneurs will not have a monopoly in software eating industries. Yes, the stakes are much higher this time.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

endeve – Issue invoices, manage clients and check revenues all in one place. Advisor Garage – A social network that connects entrepreneurs who need advice with advisors on just about any business-related topic. CEOWorld.biz – Global networking for managers, entrepreneurs, and senior execs.

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grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

I think it’s difficult, if not impossible, to value a pre-revenue company with any reasonable accuracy. The company did have some revenue and paying users, but not enough to make any judgement on the company’s future prospects. The company with all the revenue is Company C. If you think I’m wrong, awesome.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

This dynamic births serial entrepreneurs and motivates angels and venture capitalists to pull their friends into investment deals. For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Just don’t call Feld on the phone. “I hate the phone,&# he says.

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Brandanew

APRIL 22, 2016

While we’ve often talked about organic Content Marketing, today we have guest blogger and entrepreneur, Garett Gan sharing his views on Content Marketing with paid advertising. The platform’s claim is that their publishers make the highest RPMs (Revenue-per-Thousand-Impressions) through their platforms, as compared to competitors.

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