Remove about-us
article thumbnail

Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth. Nobody cared about our valuations any more. We had nascent revenues, ridiculous cost structures and unrealistic valuations. Until we weren’t.

Valuation 466
article thumbnail

How to Create a Demand Funnel (for 44X Revenue)

ConversionXL

In that unannounced meeting, Brett Hurt, our CEO and co-founder, laid it out for us. Instead of getting people to sign up for a free account, I now needed to help six to 10 decision makers at big companies learn why they needed us and evaluate our data catalog. It wasn’t quite a flip from B2C to B2B, but it was close. Image source ).

Demand 101
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? Listening to young people talk about social networking as a new phenomenon is a bit like hearing people talk about a remake of a famous song from my youth as though it was the original version. At it’s peak AOL had about 27 million US subscribers.

article thumbnail

Startup Metrics

TechEmpower

Don’t worry about scaling just yet. R : Revenue - Can you monetize any of this behavior? channels (search, social, viral, new media), cost-efficient distribution We often reference Dave’s work when talking to innovators. Please write us at blog@techempower.com ! A : Activation - What % have a "happy" initial experience?

Metrics 260
article thumbnail

Organization That Failed to Innovate – Avoid Their Fate

ReadWriteStart

Don’t get us wrong, Nokia was one of the first innovators in the cellular world, being the first to create a cellular network. Rental subscriptions and late fees were the main drivers of revenue for the organization. Blinded by its advertising revenue , Yahoo let customer experience take a backseat.

article thumbnail

7 Ways To Validate Your Business Idea Before Starting

Startup Professionals Musings

Even if the idea sounds unique to you, it’s worth your time to do a few Internet searches using relevant keywords. These days, you can find existing patents and trademarks through Google and the US Patent Office online site without spending thousands of dollars with your favorite patent attorney.

article thumbnail

Disrupting Google

Start Up Blog

It’s that it demands a review of internet Search as we know it, how we perform searches literally and the resulting business model which underlies it. It may even redirect us away from advertising and the prevailing surveillance capitalism model. The technology and business model just changed for search.

ChatGPT 90