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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

You can read various articles out there which will give you the cursory facts about Airbnb like their overall revenue or profitability or how their business has faired here in 2020 in the COVID environment. But ops & customer support is another 17-20% of revenue and arguably you couldn’t run the business if you took that away.

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4 Attributes Your Next VP Of Sales Must Possess When Expanding To New Markets

YoungUpstarts

by Ryan Moore, Director of Client Management, Peak Sales Recruiting. When it’s time to hire a VP of Sales, there are a few common attributes you’re probably quick to look for. Relationship sales play a critical role in expansion—whether you’re entering an unfamiliar market or launching a new service or product.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

Global interest in Canadian tech jobs has increased by 58%. Experts believe the global interest has made these jobs easier to fill. Tech companies need advertising, marketing, public relations, and technical sales professionals. This generated $16 billion in annual revenues in 2015. Websites such as 604jobs.ca

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Advice For Innovative Companies Entering Emerging Markets

YoungUpstarts

Bob Stojanovic (Head of EV Charging Infrastructure North America at ABB ) knows this very well. . ABB is a global company that has been selected by Electrify America to provide high-power electric vehicle charging stations across the country. Extend your Customer Reach with Partnerships.

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How One Startup Combines Boston’s B2B Sense with the Valley’s Social Media Style

View from Seed

My contact at Facebook assured me that this story wasn’t the only one of its kind, and that it was more common than you’d think in other offices they had globally. Incepted in 2012, Alignable’s platform hit the market in 2014, and since then, we’ve seen hundreds of thousands of business owners in North America join.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally.