VC Cafe

MAY 1, 2023

Android may have a larger global market share, but Apple’s loyal customer base, strong brand, and profitable ecosystem made it the clear winner. App Store Wars: Apple dominated the app store wars, building a walled garden around its App Store and generating significant revenue from app sales and in-app purchases. Space Race 2.0:

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

It's difficult not to include Steve Jobs at the top of that list; he established a brand in Apple that altered global habits and elevated the importance of design in our daily lives. He has also been an outspoken advocate for the power of collaboration and open-source software. #8- Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, and Reid Hoffman.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Your time at ESADE has trained you to become a global business leader. Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. The Perfect Storm.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

The opportunity set is much bigger than ever (50x more users, 10x time online, mobile, social, credit-card enabled, global) … when things work they work faster and at an unprecedented scale. Time to massive revenue is the most compressed in history due to scale and Deflationary Economics.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

But in the real world, when you get to business numbers, sales are not accounts receivable and revenue isn’t income and people who read financial projections need to know that an apple is an apple, and not an orange. . Numbers are numbers, after all.

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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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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Now, open source and low code tools make it easier for developers and product teams to start experimenting and executing AI/ML into their own products and processes. Also, the CB Insights' Industry Analyst Consensus says that the global meat market could get the estimated value of $2.7 trillion by 2040.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. Facilities and staff.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Small Business Marketing Tip: Send Email Campaigns At Night To Increase Revenue | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. The Meme Hustler | by Evgeny Morozov (long & critical of Tim O’Reilly; good history of open source software) – [link]. Bitcoin May Be the Global Economy’s Last Safe Haven – [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. Facilities and staff.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

On one hand, it’s never been easier to reach a global audience, but on the other, it’s extremely hard to cut through the noise. Trend to watch : an equivalent to MCNs (Multi Channel Networks) on the early days of YouTube where creators band together to generate economies of scale (and share revenue).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally. The opportunity to transact at the point of purchase increases the sheer number of revenue opportunities.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

“The Centaur is a business that reaches $100 million of annual recurring revenue (ARR)—a rare breed of cloud business, part of an elite subset of the growing unicorn herd.” Today there are over 1,000 unicorns globally. ” Bessemer. Here’s the benchmarks Bessemer uses to measure this growth.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Foundups : Michael Trout, from Fukui, Japan, pitched Foundups , which he claims will be a platform for open corporations. He talked about everything from raising funding for pre-seed entrepreneurs to get them to the seed stage, crowd funding, social media marketing and open source. You can't tell what the company does.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? When you outsource…at least in the early days…it matters little wheter you pick a local bank or a global one. Unfortunately they will be very expensive (30-50% or more of gross revenue). PR/Marketing.

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Gust

JUNE 10, 2012

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. Facilities and staff.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

TokyoYuki Question: What about giving an added incentive to potential developers, in exchange for part of up-front fees, a percentage of the revenue generated from the app/program? View More » Business The 12 Days of Holiday Revenue Maximi. That's my old keyboard (in the post image)! Saitek Executive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. Facilities and staff.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2013

Amazon reported already in 2006 that they got 1% revenue increase for every 100ms of improvement. Tagman has a conversion loss calculator so you can work out how much revenue you could gain by speeding up your site. Featured image source. What will a 1-second delay cost you? Find the answer on the image below: Image credit.

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ConversionXL

MAY 13, 2020

Further, as you’re now using your own data, you can remove revenue from cancelled transactions or returns. You can also calculate more advanced and confidential metrics, such as margin instead of revenue. If you sell globally, wouldn’t you want to know which countries’ sales are most impacted by bank holidays? Data pipeline.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Data companies more focused on later-stage companies include Avention , Bureau Van Dijk , BizQualify, Dow Jones , FactSet , Genesis , S&P Global Market Intelligence , DueDil , Core 2 Group , D&B Hoovers , InsideView , LexisNexis , Pitchbook , Preqin , PrivCo , SourceScrub , Refinitiv , and Unquote. See their blog post on multiples.).

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 16, 2013

It’s also widely reported that from back in Q1 2013, tablet shipments passed the half a million per day mark (the global birth rate is only 370,000 per day). This combined with an open source platform simply does not give the same level of confidence as the Apple environment.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution. Amidst an increasingly connected world, globalization is the order of the day. With that in mind, here are four tips for entrepreneurs looking to expand globally. BonitaSoft has offices in France, the U.S. Follow Miguel on Twitter @MiguelValdes.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2014

A couple weeks ago, we dug into internal site search & found that in some cases , searches performed by only 10% of the site’s total traffic made up nearly 40% of the companies overall revenue. ” As international sales for global eCommerce is projected to reach $1.5 But we’ve only just scratched the surface.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Sign up for your free account, set up a container tag, add that to a global element on your site and as soon as you add your GA Web Property ID , you are in business. Transactions, Revenue and Ecommerce Conversion Rate. Dive into the outcomes reports to measure in-app revenue by day or a time period that makes sense.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD. Cell Buddy will be the world’s first Mobile Virtual Global Operator (MVGO). ClarityRay - Company Website.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

endeve – Issue invoices, manage clients and check revenues all in one place. Xing XING – A global networking and contact management site for business professionals. CEOWorld.biz – Global networking for managers, entrepreneurs, and senior execs. Invoice Journal – Free invoicing program.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2014

Their biggest competitors in 5 years is more likely to come from outside their industry, as is of course any new revenue opportunities. The world in 20/20 will be one which is open source, built by crowd dynamics, collaborative, and all about the leverage of new data points created by businesses and their customers.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2024

billion in annualised revenue , an a myriad of new companies were born, from open source LLMs to application layer startups that were able to move fast and do much more with less. Open source LLMs have been improving at a rapid pace, have an active developer community and can be an attractive alternative, if managed properly.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Just a few years on and Snyk has evolved from being an open source vulnerabilities scanner and to becoming the world’s first developer security platform that start-ups worldwide can build upon. The go-to-market strategy was to start free and open source and grow from there. Everything about it was built through that lens.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Include screenshots of your product , a video walk-through and one or two charts that display traction or revenue. Open Source Lists. Global Syndication Partners. How many have been active in the past 30 days? What is your viral coefficient? If you have a good video pitch, include that too. Don’t focus on press.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

From the start we said that we would never make a decision as to what features to build or what products to sell based on revenue alone, rather we would focus on things that make our customers smile and by doing so lots and lots of revenue will fall out over time. I’m not saying don’t leverage open-source or established platforms.

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Kodorra

AUGUST 23, 2018

You just a domain name, a web hosting account and online software, which could be free, thanks to open source. 6 months down the line, after burning $6,000 or so, you’re not seeing much traction or revenue. Mistake – Not Thinking Global Enough. Total that up would probably cost you $100 or less.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 14, 2016

If your site receives high volumes of traffic that are globally distributed, third-party solutions can be a tremendous help. Adding all of their products to the homepage hurt revenue by nearly 48%. Oracle Makes More Moves to Kill Open Source MySQL” (TechCrunch). seconds to 1.6. John Capes). Negatives. “10 How To’s. 
“How

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 18, 2011

The International Broadcast Convention (IBC) 2011 is the leading global tradeshow for broadcasting media and entertainment industry, covering the latest developments in broadcasting, mobile TV, IPTV, digital signage and forward looking R&D.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

So here it is: for all the privacy invasions, security risks and and fundamental changes in our personal and domestic domains, this is what these companies* generate in revenue: Google – about $150 a year per person. It became a global news story – yet still nothing has changed. Facebook – about $80 a year per person.

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