Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan » March 09, 2011. How should I finance my new venture? It’s a deceptively simple question:  what is the optimal way to finance a new startup?   Sometimes, the bonus in bootstrapping is that the venture finds it doesn’t need acceleration financing. 

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Finance Bootstrapping Startup Equity 83

Up and Running

JULY 2, 2018

As a business owner, it’s important to monitor the health of your growing company to spot warning signs—a fractured team, negative customer reviews, poor customer retention, and a lack of creative innovation. How can you keep on top of the finances from the start of your startup journey? Poor customer retention.

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Software Review Technical Review Retention Startup 78

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Salesforce, for example, increased its revenue market share to 18.4% A marketing strategy should include a go-to-market plan that is sales-led and product assisted. Product should be your main channel for customer acquisition, retention and expansion. He explained how lead generation uses a short term, sales-focused strategy.

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B2B Marketing Curation PPC 94

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

After having to reduce and rethink our strategy during COVID, we observed that our community and sales have skyrocketed. Especially during challenging times, retention is significantly more crucial than acquisition. Although our in-person services were put on hold, our eCommerce products, including virtual services tripled in revenue.

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Entrepreneur Metrics Technical Review North America 120

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 23, 2022

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. Increasing my revenue by attracting more leads is my plan for 2022. 9- Optimize sales process. Thanks to Adam Wood, Revenue Geeks ! #10- 12- Boost revenue.

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Entrepreneur Revenue Channel Technical Review 132

Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Detail your customer retention plan. Detail all revenue streams. Be sure to include all revenue streams. Depending on the type of business, these may include sales of products/services, referral revenues, advertising sales, licensing/royalty fees, and/or data sales. Need help with your business plan?

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Venture Capital Business Plan Technical Review Private Placement 129

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In this part of your plan, you will reveal what strategies you will implement to attract clients, earn sales, grow in your market, and further. The financial plan section of your fitness business plan should discuss everything relating to your revenue, income, and budget. Management team.

Business Plan 81

Business Plan Software Review Demand Operations 81

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2019

The canvas is a visual chart with elements describing your value proposition, structure, finances, and customers, to help companies identify and align business activities. Every business needs revenue to provide investor returns and offset costs. Free” is not an attractive revenue model to investors. Key activities.

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Intellectual Property Business Model Angel Investor Channel 250

Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Dr. White has one of the highest Yelp scores among private practice optometrists and has one of the highest per-patient revenues in the country. Another key piece of advice is to upgrade your patient experience and, by doing so, increase your patient retention. Instead, flip the formula like this: Sales – Profit = Expenses.

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San Diego Technical Review California Retention 111

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Contractors should also be prepared with customer-friendly financing options. Real estate professionals are well-versed in determining which properties are suitable for sale or rent. 10- Use of telephone sales and sales automation. A future trend that I see in my industry is the use of telephone sales for life insurance.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review Technical Review Entrepreneur 111

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 23, 2013

Marketo filed for IPO with impressive 80% year-over-year growth in 2012, with almost $60m in revenue. of revenue, force-feeding sales pipelines with an unprofitable product. I know the argument: The pay-back period on sales, marketing, and up-start costs is long, but there’s a profitable result at the end of the tunnel.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

It drives media attention and fosters customer retention rate, which is why most companies strive to have it in their mission statement. Shopify swiftly came in with solutions that allowed these firms to turn their point-of-sale terminals into e-commerce storefronts and begin online operations the same day. 10- Mindbody.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review SEO 124

The Startup Magazine

MAY 4, 2023

After all, navigating through State, Federal, income, corporate, and sales taxes is no cakewalk. It offers a credit of up to $10,000, which you can claim if your business revenue crosses $1 million. Employers can apply for an employee retention tax credit (ERC) to reduce their tax liability on salaries and wages.

Small Business 125

Small Business .Net Retention Employee 125

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Before raising your B round, you’ll need to be able to show how you can scale sales and marketing and that you are starting to really understand your business. Retention rate: What percentage of users can you retain quarter over quarter? This metric is over 90% for best-in-class startups and is a huge driver for above mentioned LTV.

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Acquisition Distribution Metrics Retention 150

Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

Staff functions in finance, human resources, legal departments and business units developed Key Performance Indicators, processes, procedures and goals to measure, control and execute. Finance The goals for public companies are driven primarily by financial Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s). This is a big idea. What Does this Mean?

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IRR Startup Business Model Agile 335

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 2, 2017

This keeps them aligned with their investors since a $250m exit with modest venture financing raised can be wonderful for all parties, but the same transaction can look awful if your last round was $60m on $300m pre! Next Level: Buying Customers/Revenue/Distribution. See Mint and Periscope as examples.

Technical Review 116

Technical Review Cap Table Acquisition Startup 116

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2017

The canvas is a visual chart with elements describing your value proposition, structure, finances, and customers, to help companies identify and align business activities. Every business needs revenue to provide investor returns and offset costs. Free” is not an attractive revenue model to investors. Key activities.

Business Model 143

Business Model Intellectual Property Startup Angel Investor 143

ConversionXL

AUGUST 1, 2019

There might be several scenarios where real experiments are not possible: sometimes management may be unwilling to risk short-term revenue losses by assigning sales to random customers. a sales team earning commission-based bonuses may rebel against the randomization of leads. lead-to-customer conversion rate, retention, etc.).

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Analytics Non-Compete HTML Conversion 118

www.avc.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

This "best value" can be the valuation on the last round of financing. Whatever approach you use, it should be the value of your company that you would sell or finance your business at right now. Or it can be a recent offer to buy your company that you turned down. Or it can be the discounted value of future cash flows.

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Equity Employee CTO Hire Fractional CTO 64

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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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

I wish I could claim I deftly foresaw this, but I was just seeking recurring revenue to to cover OneMatchFire’s office expenses. By the end of 2004 I had brought on two co-founders: John Vars – who is now the Chief Product Office at TaskRabbit, and Steven Reading took over Sales and Revenue.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder SMS 48

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

When you add up all our costs in Sales and Marketing (SaaS metric: CAC), the result is very small compared to the total revenue we’ll earn from than customer over the next few years (SaaS metric: LTV). But we also know many companies think this way but are not profitable in the long run. Some say 5 is truly healthy.

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Metrics Revenue Flash Later Stage 238

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Labels: Cloud Computing , SaaS , sales and marketing. sales and marketing. (10). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. Measuring sales and marketing effectiveness of Saa. The recession created opportunities! Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 12:41 PM.

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Software Review Technical Review Cloud Europe 48

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Investors want to know the critical thinking behind the inputs and value-drivers of the business, and how that results in the outputs on the critical metrics and finances. All of these questions can be addressed in an additional slide that take a closer look at the (sales &) marketing function of the organization and the results to date.

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Seed Stage Retention Restful Valuation 166

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Your product or service must have a unique sales proposition, a pitch that differentiates yours from others. It needs performers to run finances, operations, and marketing. As long as the product is yours, you manage the relationship and retention. Revenue follows sales. Making your startup succeed. Grow business.

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Delaware Retention Differentiation Sales 100

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

After I sold Smart Bear, that division has increased revenue and profit every year, for five years, even through the 2008/2009 economic disaster. GroupOn’s engine that turned capital into revenue growth was a form of force-feeding rather than building a product). But really, are all those acquirers so stupid? Surely not.

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IPO Flash Bootstrapping Private Equity 240

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2018

He is the president and founder of Revenue & Associates and the creator of The bullseye marketing framework and we’re going to talk about a book built on that called Bullseye Marketing: How to Grow Your Business Faster. They have a website, they probably have a sales team, is that kind of where it ends? John Jantsch: Yeah.

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Marketing Social Media Analytics Software 56

www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

If the answer to the question centers around “We will achieve revenue soon so our net will improve and give us more runway,” it means the company is in trouble because no product ever ships on time nor achieves the company’s “conservative forecast.” These days revenue is the best source of capital. No customers no sales, no startup.

Software Review 68

Software Review Startup Post-Money Valuation Technical Review 68

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

In SaaS the main benchmarks being measured are revenue growth, sales efficiency (unit economics), churn and burn rate. Example of Baremetrics revenue per user benchmarks. cohort retention curves that flatten (stickiness) actives/reg > 25% (validates TAM). Software as a Service (Saas) benchmarks.

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B2C Technical Review Startup Retention 141

Up and Running

AUGUST 13, 2019

Whether summer or winter is your business’s busiest season, all seasonal businesses are best positioned for success when peak-season revenue can be used to fuel growth, rather than cover past expenses. Have you thought of options to generate revenue in the off-season? Lenders want to know that you manage these expenses wisely. .

Revenue 69

Revenue Operations Retention Small Business 69

Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

Your revenue plans are no longer valid. What’s your monthly cash burn at your new low revenue level? Sales pipeline/forecast. The CEO should dial through as many of the largest existing customers to get a firsthand understanding of the magnitude of any revenue shortfall. The ripple effects won’t be obvious at first.

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South Korea Salary Business Model China 333

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. Of all your hires, if you have commissioned sales people, those will give you the most problems if they’re not all given an equal chance to make their quotas and achieve their personal earnings goals. You’ll just never create the sales momentum you need. Not really.

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Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 3, 2023

All the sales are typically happening from the founder going out there and knocking on doors almost. 07:40): Now, obviously, that may not make the phone ring, that may not actually take you from a revenue standpoint where you want to go. There's no sales process, not one that's repeatable anyway. They're in a startup mode.

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Customer Marketing Engineer Advertising 87

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. The cap is irrelevant if the next equity financing is at a valuation below the cap amount.) was spun out, and the valuation was set by that financing round.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

Growthink Blog

JANUARY 20, 2015

Especially this time of year - when so many of us are assembling and committing to our professional resolutions and goals, questions arise as how to best develop financial (growth, revenues, and profits) projections for our businesses. to proposals, to sales, to retention, to ongoing revenue. What Does Management W ant?

Conversion Ratio 48

Conversion Ratio Venture Capital Business Model Retention 48

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2022

All the sales are typically happening from the founder, going out there and knocking on doors. John Jantsch (07:39): Now, obviously that may not make the phone ring that may not actually take you from a revenue standpoint where you want to go. There's no sales process, not one that's repeatable. They're in a startup mode.

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Customer Marketing Social Media Engineer 78

Growthink Blog

MARCH 1, 2016

Especially this time of year - when so many of us are assembling and committing to our professional resolutions and goals, questions arise as how to best develop financial (growth, revenues, and profits) projections for our businesses. to proposals, to sales, to retention, to ongoing revenue. What Does Management W ant?

Conversion Ratio 48

Conversion Ratio Business Model Retention Revenue 48