Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

Groupon’s become a juggernaut in the immense local marketing space. How They Make Money: Groupon keeps a share of the coupon value (typically 40-50%) as its net revenue (1). in net revenue and passes $0.58 2010 Net Income: -$389M (net loss) (2). Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $713M. to the merchant.

North America 100

North America Chicago Boston Silicon Valley 100

Agile VC

MARCH 5, 2019

When Uber started off as a more expensive “black car” service, people questioned whether it would eventually become a more mass market phenomenon or not. So it’s not really the case that Lyft’s riders (in aggregate) are using the service more often, but rather Lyft is getting much better at netting more revenue per active rider.

Aggregator 100

Aggregator .Net Revenue IPO 100

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The more well-known your company becomes, the harder it gets to directly impact primary KPI’s at the aggregate level because the majority of customers who buy are going to do so irrespective of if your button color is red or blue. This is especially true of big businesses: Chad Sanderson, Subway. So, it’s declared a winner.

Chad 112

Chad Mobile Technical Review Aggregator 112

YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2013

According to the results of a new study examining the effect of net employment creation by startup businesses on state gross product, each net job created by startup firms is estimated to increase state gross product by that amount in a given year. Almost US$1.2 million, that’s how much.

Product 145

Product .Net Startup Aggregator 145

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

5 Ways to Improve Local Search Results for Business This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. Below are five local search engine optimization and search engine marketing plays that you can do today to improve your chances of coming up big in the local search game. “This article originally appeared on the OPEN App Center.

Search 69

Search Software Review Technical Review Engineer 69

View from Seed

JUNE 13, 2019

Chewy helpfully provides some cohort data on both aggregate $ revenue, active customer spend, and LTV/CAC basis. The first is most salient, as it tells us how much revenue Chewy generates from a particular cohort as it ages… it basically nets out effects of some customers dropping out with those that stick around buying more stuff.

Leadership 214

Leadership .Net Revenue Acquisition 214

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Last week ZipCar began trading and has a market cap of about $1 billion. How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. 2010 Net Income: $8 million. Quinstreet priced at $15.00/sh

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

The proposed equity crowdfunding rules allow your business to fundraise up to $1 million per 12 month period in its aggregate equity crowdfunding campaigns. People with both an annual income and net worth less than $100,000 may invest the greater of $2,000 or 5% of annual income or net worth per 12 month period (or no more than $5,000).

Equity 125

Equity SEC Technical Review Security 125

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Airbnb’s availability as a marketplace and its aggregation of substantial consumer demand has actually meant certain forms of lodging have been newly built or converted into rooms for the primary purpose of listing on Airbnb. Airbnb therefore generates substantially higher free cash flow (FCF) than accounting profit.

North America 401

North America IPO Prospectus Europe 401

Hunter Walker

APRIL 25, 2017

faced a backlash despite having the right to aggregate and sell anonymized data in exchange for giving you a free product: Surprised Users! At first it was to serve you targeted ads in their notification emails to you, but then it became about aggregating and anonymizing data to sell to third parties (this is what Uber purchased).

Conversion 79

Conversion Aggregator Metadata .Net 79

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 26, 2022

If you raised the same sized seed round as everyone else, you can only hire so many salespeople, put so much into marketing, and those resources can only grab so many customers in an efficient market for people’s time. Well, at 125 words per minute, 48 minutes of podcasting will net you a chapter.

Founder 103

Founder .Net Term Sheet Aggregator 103

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 30, 2019

Transcript of Why Reviews Matter to Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: Hello and welcome to another episode of The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. John Jantsch: Okay, so on Google’s five point or five star scale, is there a perfect aggregate score that you should be aiming for?

Software Review 67

Software Review Reputation Small Business Aggregator 67

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Of course it’s a competitive market so MCNs competing for top talent not only compete on rev share to talent but also to services that they provide talent. If you’re thinking about building an online video network today you need to think about: Producing your own content (not just aggregating).

Networking 366

Networking Media Distribution Video 366

Venture Chronicles

APRIL 20, 2014

Ping Identity has gone through a top to bottom transformation in marketing over the last year. A successful organization that fed impressive growth, reaching growth and revenue records year over year, the marketing organization relied on a proven B2B outbound marketing model that precisely measured lead capture rates.

B2B 45

B2B Marketing SEM Bandwidth 45

Agile VC

JUNE 13, 2019

Chewy helpfully provides some cohort data on both aggregate $ revenue, active customer spend, and LTV/CAC basis. The first is most salient, as it tells us how much revenue Chewy generates from a particular cohort as it ages… it basically nets out effects of some customers dropping out with those that stick around buying more stuff.

Leadership 100

Leadership .Net Revenue Acquisition 100

Venture Chronicles

MAY 26, 2010

I’d be willing to bet that more investors lose a great amount of aggregate capital here than at any other stage. As markets develop they go through a natural expansion stage followed by consolidation. Capital becomes a strategic weapon for companies to deploy when markets are crowded and on the precipice of consolidation.

Lean 40

Lean Early Stage Valuation Startup 40

YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Learn a little something about innovation when developing and marketing video games from the co-founder of Fine & Dandy Games, whose Goop proved successful on the iPad and iPhone amongst hefty competition. Jane Chen at Social Capital Markets , Dec. Patrick Chukwura at Young Entrepreneurs , Sept. Beh Weng Wei at Tech65.org

Entrepreneur 231

Entrepreneur Cofounder Washington Bangladesh 231

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

With staged releases, time provides a (somewhat illusory) safety net. The user activation flow is the most critical path towards achieving initial user gratification or product/market fit. Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries.

Continuous Deployment 151

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Lean Wiki 151

Genuine VC

JULY 14, 2008

Over the past year, I’ve kept my eye on ComScore’s monthly press releases of the Video Metrix service which outlines the market share of online videos. According to ComScore, YouTube’s market share of total videos viewed has decreased notably. I am surprised that yesterday’s ComScore press release didn’t make mention of it.

Video 100

Video .Net Distribution Aggregator 100

Genuine VC

JULY 14, 2008

Over the past year, I’ve kept my eye on ComScore’s monthly press releases of the Video Metrix service which outlines the market share of online videos. According to ComScore, YouTube’s market share of total videos viewed has decreased notably. I am surprised that yesterday’s ComScore press release didn’t make mention of it.

Video 100

Video .Net Distribution Aggregator 100

Transformify

AUGUST 5, 2019

A diverse workforce and an inclusive corporate culture are critical to attracting and retaining top talent, unlocking innovation and capturing market share. There is an aging workforce in the insurance industry; we have a need to hire both insurance specialists and those in non-insurance roles like IT, Marketing, Finance and HR.

Hiring 40

Hiring Portland Non-Compete Seattle 40

Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In financial markets, the window between Labor Day and Thanksgiving is often referred to as "Capital-Raising Season," as it is a very active time for companies and investors to connect, to diligence each other, and to do deals. I run through the math here , with the net result of revenue increasing by 2.4X Hard to pull off?

Aggregator 48

Aggregator Global Business Plan Demand 48

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 4, 2022

It is published 50x/year, and shares bleeding-edge thinking about Marketing, Analytics, and Leadership. Additionally, by aggregating products/services into lumpy groups, it can give a misleading sense of success. You can do this using an aggregate % number that you can lop off for CoGS. You can sign up here. Media Costs).

Conversion 127

Conversion Analytics .Net Metrics 127

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

These 6 KRIs are The CHICAGO MetricsR and are the result of an aggregation algorithm based on any number of tactical metrics. Financial cushion” is a common expression used to describe a safety net of cash, there to help you out if you need it. Thanks to EdwardMarchewka, CHICAGO MetricsR ! #3- 3- Name description. Can I play a song?

Naming 152

Naming India Chicago Entrepreneur 152

SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Interesting term used in a ZD Net article - Platform as a Service (PaaS) Unfortunately, Peter sells the promise and ignores the reality. Stamps.com - two back-ends - mainline service vs. marketing site. Some other points - LAMP,Net, Java - doesn't make much difference. Server and client in Java. I would tend to agree.

Internet 150

Internet EC2 Java API 150

ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

How did Outreach grow in just a few years to 50,000 monthly active users , $10 million in new bookings, and net revenue retention (NRR) of more than 140%? Marketing will need to focus on lead generation (new MQLs), and customer success will need to drive retention and feature adoption. Take Outreach’s NSM, monthly active users.

Metrics 120

Metrics Acquisition Revenue .Net 120

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2015

How to Be or Not Be In a Digital World written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. How do we become our own content marketing, SEO, and copywriting team? The good old days of carefree frolicking on the net have made way to a new and very different kind of web presence.

Social Media 28

Social Media Social Network Web Aggregator 28

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

See step four in the process for creating your Digital Marketing and Measurement Model.]. Any big changes in your marketing/customer acquisition strategy over the last time period (more money doing Search, less money in Email, elimination Facebook as it does not work, etc., and the target for Organic Traffic might be be too low!

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

VC Adventure

APRIL 11, 2011

The ability of Adhesive companies to insert themselves into the data stream, which existing marketplace players will enable and encourage this, and exactly who the ultimate beneficiaries are (not to mention who is being disintermediated) are key components to a company’s ability to gain rapid market share and scale. Margin Dynamics.

Disintermediation 82

Disintermediation Advertising Portfolio Aggregator 82

ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

BUT – most marketing experiments are done wrong. While it’s always necessary to keep track of lagging indicators to evaluate ongoing performance, as marketers we want to understand what causes those metrics to move either up or down. A/B Testing is the most well-known type of hypothesis testing in the mainstream marketing world.

Marketing 133

Marketing Metrics Programming Design 133

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

These days, we all have to rely on a few trusted sources to digest and filter information, net out the relevant messages, and steer us with links to accurate details. Dharmesh is the founder and CTO of HubSpot, as well as a blogger and speaker on the topic of startups and Internet marketing.

Curation 230

Curation Technical Review Entrepreneur Cofounder 230

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

What are you actually selling and how are you solving a problem (or “need”) for your market? Target Market. If there are multiple market segments for your business, this is where you flesh out the details. Marketing and Sales Plan. How are you going to reach your target market? Target market. Read more ».

Business Plan 163

Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

ConversionXL

MARCH 16, 2016

What’s So Special About The Net Promoter Score? Net Promoter Score is a customer loyalty metric developed by (and a trademark of) Fred Reichheld, Bain & Company, and Satmetrix. You calculate your Net Promoter Score by subtracting the percentage of Detractors from the percentage of Promoters. Image Source. Image Source.

.Net 48

.Net Metrics Retention Aggregator 48

VC Adventure

APRIL 11, 2011

The ability of Adhesive companies to insert themselves into the data stream, which existing marketplace players will enable and encourage this, and exactly who the ultimate beneficiaries are (not to mention who is being disintermediated) are key components to a company’s ability to gain rapid market share and scale. Margin Dynamics.

Disintermediation 48

Disintermediation Advertising Portfolio Aggregator 48

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

To assist with that process everything's organized into these sections: ~ Digital Marketing: "What is amazing out there? Digital Marketing: "What is amazing out there? " 11 Digital Marketing “Crimes Against Humanity”. Mobile Marketing and Analytics: Click-to-Call Mobile Ad Campaigns. Be data driven?"

Analytics 124

Analytics Metrics SEM Web 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2022

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. These may be aggregated by an angel group up to about $1M for an angel round. These requirements for equity investing have been relaxed only a bit, with caveats, with relevant crowdfunding changes.

Liquidity Event 300

Liquidity Event Angel Investor SEC Accredited Investor 300

David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. Flow is a function of reputation and share of mind in target market. Signature and messaging will vary by market and audience, but must be internally consistent. Benchmark yourself to overall market activity. Intermediaries.

Private Equity 122

Private Equity Deal Flow Equity Developer 122