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%. The opportunity to transact at the point of purchase increases the sheer number of revenue opportunities. Web businesses can now grow revenue before they can even afford sales people.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Hippoland

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Open source libraries (such as TensorFlow) make technology more accessible for less skilled or self-taught developers such as myself to use. As a result, for these kinds of businesses, investors often don’t expect that companies can earn revenue right out of the gate, because they may not legally be able to.

Startup 48

Startup Vertical Early Stage Bootstrapping 48

www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

If the idea was reliant on ad revenue for profit, it quickly becomes apparent that there will be no incoming money at all. Your projections should provide a range of best-case/worst-case revenue scenarios over a number of years. The situation becomes even worse if there is no marketing plan or budget. At this point, everyone loses.

Technical Cofounder 41

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Technical Review NDA 41

BeyondVC

AUGUST 26, 2008

Here is an excerpt from a prior post : Frictionless sales means reducing the pain for customers to adopt and use a service/product and consequently reducing the cost of sales and marketing to get a customer and generate revenue. The easier it is to scale the faster and more efficiently you can grow."

Cost 60

Cost Sales Sales Cycle Demand 60

ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

mobile is ~50% of revenue, shorter form works better. Target email openers and clickers, run ads to people who opened but didn’t click, clicked but didn’t buy. Flip your funnel – only 5% of revenue comes from optimisation but 92% of revenue from retention. Knowledge Repo – open sourced.

Retention 106

Retention Artificial Inteligence Channel Email 106

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!) - crowdSPRING Blog , September 13, 2010 At crowdSPRING we talk a great deal about how we can leverage our limited marketing resources to drive traffic and revenues and build strong community. Except they won’t be called Product Managers.

Technology 191

Technology Product San Francisco CTO Hire 191

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

That's why the Corona Initiative is a Public Benefit Corporation--a for-profit company dedicated to the public good that aims to fund its research with its revenues. I did study computer science, and I love software, especially open source software, but I just like the challenge of hardware. I liked having something physical.

Technical Review 68

Technical Review Software Review Finance Technology 68

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Some notable metrics are revenue growth rates, free cashflow, leverage ratios, historical financing amounts, returns on marketing spend, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of customers, customer churn rates, and team social scores. Lighter Capital, a Revenue Based Investing VC, offers a Cost of Capital Calculator.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution. If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors.

France 77

France Marketing Social Media Startup 77

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

An open source bit of software, Vanity allows you to conduct A/B testing on your site and returns a simple report back to you. However, they should be mindful as the brand and revenues grow, free optimization tools can have a negative impact on Total Cost of Ownership. What will you find here?

Developer 73

Developer Software Review PHP Social Media 73

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

endeve – Issue invoices, manage clients and check revenues all in one place. Shoutlet – Distribute and track viral marketing campaigns across social media outlets. MagSuite – An open source marketing automation, sales force automation, accounting, service automation and inventory control system.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

What is your viral coefficient? Include screenshots of your product , a video walk-through and one or two charts that display traction or revenue. Open Source Lists. viral video. How many customers have signed up to your service? How many have been active in the past 30 days? Don’t focus on press. Jobs Lists.

Social Media 80

Social Media Startup Angel Investor RSS 80

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

It has been awesome, flattering, and humbling to see that post went viral and has been seen by so many thousands of people — mainly aspiring entrepreneurs — and has been translated into many languages. I’m not saying don’t leverage open-source or established platforms. I am saying don’t outsource your code).

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Revenue is always my preferred measure, but you can use anything that is important to your business: retention, activation, viral invites, or even customer satisfaction in the form of something like net promoter score. If an optimization has an effect at the micro level that doesnt translate into the macro level - who cares?

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 68

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

They hope to raise awareness through viral marketing and word of mouth, since participating in professional industry events can be a pretty expensive ordeal when you take into account hotels, flights, tickets, etc. B y definition, early stage startups don’t have lots of money and resources. Fribiz incentivize everything.

Finder 128

Finder Startup Social Network Mobile 128

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. Total that up would probably cost you $100 or less. Then, you decide to throw in the towel.

Non-disclosure Agreement 49

Non-disclosure Agreement Entrepreneur Netherlands NDA 49

ConversionXL

APRIL 14, 2016

Adding all of their products to the homepage hurt revenue by nearly 48%. Oracle Makes More Moves to Kill Open Source MySQL” (TechCrunch). Why Content Goes Viral: What Analyzing 100 Million Articles Taught Us” (Okdork). Irrelevant images are the bane of low-converting product pages and ads. Negatives. “10 How To’s. 
“How

Conversion 48

Conversion Technical Review Audience PPC 48

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

He goes on to add, “Having revenue is even better, though not applicable to every startup … Passion, skill, vision and maturity really matter.&# If you’re lucky enough to score a meeting with Gordon, make the most of it — and don’t forget to talk revenue potential. Just don’t call Feld on the phone.

Angel Investor 80

Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

Setting a value is always difficult especially when you come across so many companies that are pre-revenue and sometimes pre-monetization strategy. A year or so ago the news was that Google and or YouTube was going to help small partners/studios with funding that would be recovered by ADD revenue. Open Source Lists.

San Francisco 104

San Francisco Acquisition Social Media Mobile 104

mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Mobile commerce revenues may still pale in comparison to their ecommerce brothers, but we’re already seeing signs of mobile commerce’s potential. While commercial software houses have the luxury of targeting a specific platform for a revenue-generating commercial app, business developers have to satisfy business requirements.

Mobile 90

Mobile Web Social Media Software Review 90