ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For this article, we asked 14 SaaS CEOs a simple question: “How much did you spend on your MVP before you had your first dollar of revenue?”. Presently, Rejoiner serves about 150 direct-to-consumer brands, including well-known companies like Hydroflask and Titleist. million in revenue a year. . Image source). Qualified.io

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Create a “ viral ” landing page, with LaunchRock or KickoffLabs. For Class: Use the Lean LaunchLab to produce a 7-minute weekly progress presentation. JustinMind , Balsamiq ). 99 Designs is great to get “good enough” graphic design and web design work for very cheap using a contest format. Lessons Learned.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 23, 2020

down 97%: Austin Business Journal Restaurant revenue is down 73%?—?despite despite the ability to offer takeout: Austin Restaurant Revenues Dropped by 73 Percent Austin’s unemployment rate went from 2.6% If enough of the virus is present in the sample, it’s going to show up in the results at the end of the PCR test?—?and

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

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. The opportunity to transact at the point of purchase increases the sheer number of revenue opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2023

These days, even viral marketing requires real money, for events and promotions. Professional investors always look for a proven business model and an existing revenue stream to minimize the risk. Taking your cut before earnings exist implies that you are not willing to take the same risk of no return, as you are asking of investors.

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View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

Even if you’re in the pre-revenue, pre-seed or seed stage, there are still ways to get on a reporter’s radar. A business publication may care less about the technical nuances, but you can bet they’ll want to hear about your numbers and your strategy for raising revenue. This one is tricker in the pre-revenue stage.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

Next, look at the average revenue per user numbers (courtesy of Piktochart ) are listed below, and while this information is from 2015, it’s interesting to note the trends (Instagram projected to rise to $9 by 2020 according to Forbes ). In addition, look at Facebook’s revenue per user growth globally over the past few quarters.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

mobile is ~50% of revenue, shorter form works better. Flip your funnel – only 5% of revenue comes from optimisation but 92% of revenue from retention. Virality: # of users that refer your product for you: exponential growth if your K factor is greater than 1. Dropbox: first achieved growth through virality.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

There are two reasons to raise money: You have a killer idea that is only partially validated, that you think can get to $50M+ of revenue in 5 years with 80%+ gross margins (if margins are lower, you need a lot more revenue)and you need money to get to product-market fit, or. Not all startups need outside investment to grow.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2020

These days, even viral marketing requires real money, for events and promotions. Professional investors always look for a proven business model and an existing revenue stream to minimize the risk. Taking your cut before earnings exist implies that you are not willing to take the same risk of no return, as you are asking of investors.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

The response to the video I shared of my presentation – How I Made $180,000 Profit Buying And Selling Websites Part Time – was awesome, and as I promised, here is the text transcript for you. It made this site very sticky and it grew organically through viral word-of-mouth as a result of doing that. Adding Ad Revenue.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For this article, we asked 14 SaaS CEOs a simple question: “How much did you spend on your MVP before you had your first dollar of revenue?”. Presently, Rejoiner serves about 150 direct-to-consumer brands, including well-known companies like Hydroflask and Titleist. million in revenue a year. . Image source). Qualified.io

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. Let’s look at a viral growth company, like Facebook. If you are building a large, viral, ad-support consumer internet property, you just want to go big! They’re off to cross the chasm. As soon as possible!&#

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Your revenues are declining or you don’t have any revenue at all! Revenues don’t appear overnight; even the greatest success stories had to work hard to start getting traction and growth. Yet if revenues start to decline, or after a few months customers are still leaving you for other solutions, then you may have an issue.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

As I look at more and more start-ups predicated on viral growth, and at the use of social marketing, its becoming simultaneously easier to understand some aspects of viral growth and still a gap in understanding whats going to be that "hook" that will grab people at the end of the day.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Here's a summary of the case study presented: 1. From the data presented, there is no way to tell if the Facebook campaign worked or not. Attending this presentation inspired me to write this blog post. The case study presented raised tough questions. And present these to your Senior Leaders to judge success.

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ConversionXL

MAY 29, 2019

Some solutions are simple—you need a consistent visual presentation on your channel page and across videos. billion in annual revenue that trades on the NASDAQ—had published only four videos in nearly 12 years. To reel in the relevant subset of those YouTube viewers, you need a consistent visual presentation and a well-defined brand.

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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. SaaS companies earn their revenue over time. time to earn back the revenue to cover all your customer acquisition expenses) 75% annual retention.

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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. revenues while large caps are trading at 6.4x. Very good Diagrammatic Presentation. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Wednesday, February 23, 2011. What happened?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 28, 2024

They ran one of the most successful viral video agencies in the world for nearly a decade before solely focusing on speaking at events for companies like Walmart, Pepsi, Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, Cirque du Soleil and Saks Fifth Avenue when they need help navigating their way through the landscape of business disruption.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 3, 2017

If your answers starts with, “We have multiple revenue streams…” that’s a bad thing. What I really hear is, “ We have no idea what the most significant revenue driver will be. “ The best meetings are just conversations, not presentations. Is this a big enough market to support a venture funded business?

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Up and Running

JANUARY 14, 2022

Our major challenge was how do we compete with companies that have billion-dollar valuations, millions in investor funding, and millions in revenue? All things being equal, search engines will present the pages that best satisfy the intent of a searcher. It’s against this backdrop that we launched our company – UsefulPDF. .

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

At the eight minute mark, YouTube allows for creators to put extra ads in the content so they’ve got an incentive to show those longer videos and generate more ad revenue. For viral growth, you want most of your traffic coming from “Browse features,” which consist of YouTube’s home screen, subscriptions, and other browsing features.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The pop-up sector now generates almost $10 billion in revenue. Create a hashtag and have friendly competitions that help make it viral. With each purchase, you can give away free presents, such as a sticker, personalized pens and pencils , a brand souvenir, or discount vouchers. Source: Flickr with permission.

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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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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

As a VC, I have sat through many presentations like this, and in most cases the service is actually interesting and compelling. However in the majority of these presentations there is little or no focus on how much it will cost to acquire customers. For more on the topic of Viral Growth, refer to my blog post on that topic here.)

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2013

They want the perfect feature set, the PR company lined up to do the perfect press release, they want maximum coverage, rave reviews, viral adoption and they want to sit back and then wait for the signups to come roaring in. You can see it in the founders’ eyes. Life doesn’t work like that.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

In my first company, people liked our product but were embarrassed to share it because the design and presentation was so poor. Assuming Virality. "A I have news for you: Theyre not coming and youre not going to go viral. Services dont spontaneously go viral. A lot of new founders think, If I build it, they will come.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

I have discussed at length why revenue sharing channel deals may serve as perfectly fine alternatives to raising equity (or even complements) because of their non-dilutive nature. The game has started getting some traction already, and has a good virality index. million in revenue. SOCO Games. Brainscape.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Secondly, each student team will present “lessons learned” from their team’s experience getting out of the building learning, testing, iterating and/or pivoting their business model. At the course’s end, each team will present their entire business model and highlight what they learned, their most important pivots and conclusions.

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VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

According to Statista, revenue generated from apps (paid downloads and in-app advertising) will reach $935 billion by 2023, and that doesn’t doesn’t include the many trillions of dollars transacted via apps in the last decade alone (think Amazon, Uber, games, etc). Worldwide mobile app revenues in 2014 to 2023 (in billion U.S.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

Their innovation lay not just in their product, but their viral video marketing campaign involving slamming raw eggs on their mattress to show that they wouldn’t break due to their mattresses’ high-tech cushioning. While lightbulbs were already present before his time, they were extremely expensive and not for public consumption.

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gigaom.com

JUNE 18, 2012

But, as publishers turn to social insights to optimize content and fuel site revenue, they run into a big problem. Social shares comprise a new data source that presents technical complexity specific to this market, and I have watched my company’s customers struggle with poor data leading to the wrong decisions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2014

These days, even viral marketing requires real money, for events and promotions. Professional investors always look for a proven business model and an existing revenue stream to minimize the risk. Taking your cut before earnings exist implies that you are not willing to take the same risk of no return, as you are asking of investors.

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Elevator Pitch Salary Angel Investor Viral 285

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2018

These days, even viral marketing requires real money, for events and promotions. Professional investors always look for a proven business model and an existing revenue stream to minimize the risk. Taking your cut before earnings exist implies that you are not willing to take the same risk of no return, as you are asking of investors.

Elevator Pitch 139

Elevator Pitch Salary Angel Investor Viral 139

Hearpreneur

JULY 3, 2019

The only blog post I had ever written went viral in 2014. I wanted to be present with my family and for my dreams. Another plus is that being an entrepreneur forces you to live fully in the present moment because you don’t really have a choice. It did mean, however, that I wasn’t the right fit for Apple. Eventually, I left.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I use Google Drive to host my conference presentations , which are all embedded at teten.com. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. Lighter Capital, a Revenue Based Investing VC, offers a Cost of Capital Calculator. See their blog post on multiples.).

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