Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Neural networks make up the backbone of deep learning. The “deep” in deep learning refers to the depth of layers in a neural network.) The difference between the network’s guess and the ground truth is its error. This reduces network bandwidth issues and eliminates latency issues. Examples here , here and here.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

An early example occurred in 2010 when UBS Analyst Neil Currie accessed satellite imagery to monitor activity in Walmart parking lots, running the data thru a mathematical regression to translate it into customer activity for better earnings forecasts. DLT removes the middlemen by enlisting the network of users to verify transactions.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Does that muddy up the forecasting, the models, or the accounting? [12:31] More About The Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network: Check it out here. John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the duct tape marketing podcast is brought to you by the salesman podcast, hosted by will Barron brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network.

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View from Seed

MARCH 20, 2020

It will be nearly impossible to replicate organic in-person networking and relationship-building online. The National Restaurant Association forecasts sales declines of $225 billion over the next three months. Students may also find it difficult to stay focused and avoid distractions when they can multitask behind a computer screen.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

million people and generate monthly revenue. Conferences are significant events for networking and getting to know people in your industry when you are a newbie to the business. 2 Brainstorming, Forecasting, and Modeling Brainstorming within an expert team can be as effective as monitoring market trends.

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Up and Running

JUNE 25, 2020

Take the time to network and build relationships that can potentially build your business. Having a strong network can lead to new customers, partnerships, employees, and even investors. If you’ve been struggling to grow revenue from your core business model, developing additional income streams may be necessary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2016

Who would have forecast that entrepreneur Gary Ross Dahl would make millions by starting a “ pet rock ” business way back in 1975? Even social entrepreneurs need milestones, quantifiable results, and revenue to sustain their value. Giving the wrong people money doesn’t help at the idea level. Focus on customer needs.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Set time aside to sit down and revise the plan , comparing forecasts to actuals and revising as necessary. . Financial Summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Promotion : Explain your advertising plan and marketing tactics, whether they are online , print, or networking.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 20, 2017

Enterprises forecasted to be most affected by AI in Asia include: financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, retail and transportation. Data science plays a vital role in unlocking the potential of enterprise data to extract maximum value, improve revenue and increase profitability. Human-enhanced AI.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Kiwi inventory forecasting software StockTrim achieved international sales in the UK, Australia and US immediately after launching in 2017. In early 2020, Sutton set up meetings through cold and warm outreach over email, LinkedIn, and networking through angel and tech start-up groups. Some guys just won’t write small cheques.”.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad. Flexible VC: Revenue -based. Of the Inc.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Facebook is forecasting Q4 revenues of $3.6-3.8bn, A number of our companies have enjoyed great success advertising on Facebook and they’re not alone. 3.8bn, up 40-47% on the year ago quarter.

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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. See Also: A Complete Guide to Forecasting Sales for Your Monthly Subscription (SaaS) Business. Lean marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2018

Your business model must show the potential to increase the revenue with minimal expenditure in the coming months or years. Your business plan also needs to have a realistic financial forecast. You should forecast the expected cost the investment or loan will cover, and the returns it will generate in future.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Revenue needs to grow 20x, and margins must expand dramatically. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. Global smartphone revenue is about $420B.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Consumer spending is 70% of the economy and will continue to be stretched – We can look all we want at tech innovation, VC funding cycles and hot M&A deals, but ultimately growth and therefore investment must be underpinned by revenue. The IMF just raised its global growth forecast from 2.5% It is also a result of pent-up demand.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

There’s a guy in Los Angeles that I met at several tech networking events. The company had less than $5 million in revenue yet we had a multi-tab spreadsheet doing activity-based costing on our customer service staff, operations and technology. A couple of quick stories / examples: 1. Making Things Happen.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

ISRAEL’S STATISTICS BUREAU FORECASTS 4% GROWTH IN 2010. The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) forecasts 4% growth for 2010 based on data it accumulated over the first nine months of the year. growth forecast for 2010 exports. For previous editions, click here. The growth figure is largely based on a new 9.1%

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

It would have been easy to explain the difference by changes in the 2010/2011 revenue growth projections but unfortunately that is not the case. In comparison, the overall technology sector growth was projected at 9-10% in early 2010 and this forecast did not change significantly today. revenues while large caps are trading at 6.4x.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 29, 2019

Here’s where old-fashioned networking comes in. For example, you may assume that your earnings could take you into the six-figure range. , you can still reach out to those with similar business and revenue models. From there, do an actual sales forecast to model the revenue you think you’ll be able to bring in.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Set a specific time each month to review it , comparing forecasts to actuals and revising as necessary. Financial Summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Promotion : Explain your advertising plan and marketing tactics, whether they are online , print, or networking.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

A VC: MBA Mondays: Revenue Models – Subscriptions – [link]. The Dunbar Number, From the Guru of Social Networks | Businessweek - [link]. Social Networking Eats Up 3+ Hours Per Day For The Average American User - [link]. Creative Forecast: How Marketing Will Change In 2013 | Co.Create – [link].

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Brandanew

DECEMBER 2, 2015

This may differ based on the channel – ranging from National Geographic photographs to recipes from the Food network. Other than these platform led initiatives, videos and real time content curation by consumers using brand hashtags is moving forward with a gusto on all social networks. #2 Appssaavy, Martini Media.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

Forecasting production quantities, planning for how many parts you will need and when, accounting for the lead times on those parts is all a complicated endeavour. This introduces new risks in terms of forecasting, financing, and logistics. Financing/Forecasting: Financing a hardware company has it’s own challenges.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

What I did is I learned the art of a pro forma and the value of a pro forma which basically is a forecast. Two, revenue. If you don’t know what your cash flow forecast is, you don’t really understand your capital needs. You heard a little bit from others about that. What do you do? One, profit and loss statement.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 3, 2016

That’s who you will market to and network with so that the general contractors know you and come to trust you. Trade memberships give you a built-in way to network with the other firms you may be bidding on jobs for, so be sure to accept those event invitations. See Also: Do You Know How to Face Your Fears and Get Out to Network?

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Expedia grew to account for roughly one third of the company’s revenues.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 21, 2014

As a result, the full revenue for each deal was recognized in that quarter as soon as the software was shipped. This allowed our revenue to skyrocket from $1.8 But the downside to our business model was that we did not have hardly any recurring revenue. . I later came to realize that r ecurring revenue is magic.

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Up and Running

JULY 27, 2016

I’ve talked before about the metrics you need to know and track when you are running a subscription business, but there are really only three things you can do to move the needle of growth: reduce cancellations (churn rate), increase average revenue per user (ARPU), and increase the number of people who signup. Improve signup rates.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 28, 2013

Revenue Traction Doesn’t Mean Product Market Fit – [link]. Forecasting Fox | NYTimes – [link]. Amazon’s New Mobile Ad Network Is A Huge Threat To Google | Business Insider – [link]. How Groupthink Can Ruin Startups | The Next Web – [link].

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). First and foremost, we believed there would be a “professional” social network.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

So, here is the first edition, including the recent Q4 2009 earnings and the updated 2010 forecast. Given the predictability of SaaS GAAP revenues on a quarterly basis, the fact that the 08/09 projections were unchanged is not a surprise. Feedburner Network. Paperblog network. David Cowan. Justin Label. Jeremy Levine.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 11, 2013

According to Gartner, the worldwide video game market, which includes video game console hardware and software, online, mobile and PC games, is forecast to reach US$93 billion in 2013 and US$111 billion by 2015. Specifically for the mobile games, worldwide revenue is forecasted to surge from US$13.2 billion to US$22 billion. .

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Tim Keane

JUNE 21, 2011

How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan.   Think about having the same discussion in a different way - by preparing your sales forecast by making your assumptions explicit.  By this time (in six months) we will be getting 20 orders per day from these two callers and our revenue will stabilize at that rate.

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Up and Running

JULY 15, 2014

They tell me things like, “My market is everyone who eats dessert,” or, “Everyone in my community who drives a car,” or, “Anyone in the world who uses social networks.”. Another good reason to calculate TAM is that it will help you when you’re developing your revenue forecast. Revenue forecasting with your TAM.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Master the Art of Trend Forecasting (or Onboard Someone to Do it For You). Staying ahead of market trends in your industry, and forecasting what will be in demand in the coming five to ten years is a non-negotiable skill. The most effective way to find the right patent attorney is through your personal or professional network.

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