YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2015

As the end of the fiscal year approaches, it is critical for businesses to determine what initiatives where successful, as well as what were financial weights in order to create strategic operational goals that will result in increased revenues and reduced costs in the next year. Here are five things to look at: 1. Review What Worked.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2013

Quantification : the measurement of various benchmarks from number of customers, time of visits, products purchased, to revenue; and. Usually described in terms of money (revenue), business model, customer, and other standards; 3. Management Strategy : System designed to produce a marketing result, covering all aspects of the business.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 2, 2015

With the end of the 2015 fiscal year nearing, businesses may be reviewing their consolidated revenues and thinking of ways they can increase their profit margin as they enter the new fiscal year or second-half of the calendar year. A large portion of a company’s revenues can be wasted on unneeded expenses.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2014

” I bootstrapped my first company and, while we did a lot of work for VCs, I liked taking money from them as “revenue” (where they paid Feld Technologies for our services) rather than as investment. I’d say – very bluntly – “stay away from VCs.” Feld Technologies was acquired in November 1993.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Increase current conversion rate by 25%, quantify how much increased revenue there will be. Aim for quintupling revenue, obviously, but calculating just 25% improvement will give you all the budget you need from your management to insert urgency into the shopping process. Yes, from 1995! Significantly higher revenue awaits.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2019

Together, they brought in total revenues of over $275 billion in 2018. The online classified site’s interface has remained mostly unchanged since it debuted in 1995. No one could call Craigslist a beautifully designed website – even in 1995. Simply showing up online with a business website isn’t enough to guarantee success.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

by William Ammerman, author of “ The Invisible Brand: Marketing in the Age of Automation, Big Data, and Machine Learning “ In the early days of the internet, the news was always free. One way to sidestep the loss of revenue is to aggregate more eyeballs. A lot of eyeballs. It’s simply about more and more traffic.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. Startup lifecycle in an IPO Market. Until 1995 startups going public typically had a track record of revenue and profits. Netscape’s 1995 IPO changed the rules. Here’s why. Free At Last.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

For startup new product development, this is a strategy used for fast and quantitative market testing of a product or product feature, popularized first by Eric Ries for web applications. Osmosis marketing. Osmosis marketing is the hot new term for word-of-mouth advertising. Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Social mobile web.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

” Here’s the summary of his track record (excerpted from the Fast Company article): Forefront — IPO’ed in 1995 by CBT — CBT stock fell 85% in 1998 and prompted class-action lawsuits. OneBox.com — On $60m invested, sold for $850m 18 months after launch to J2 just before market crash — score!

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

Perhaps you are caught in the “Series A crunch” or perhaps you are a consumer company and expected that you would be valued on users rather than revenue like the last time. What about the efficient market hypothesis? Aren’t markets rational? One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0. One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The macroeconomy has been stuck in a tepid recovery in the US, a period of decelerating growth in emerging markets, and a double dip recession in much of Europe. Software revenue trails hardware slightly and ad revenue always takes a couple years to shift, but even here the results are astounding.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 4, 2014

If you take the launch of the first iPod as the date when music downloads started to become a meaningful market then the time from inception to decline is a meagre 13 years. If you take the 1995 Netscape IPO as the start of the internet advertising market then that industry went from inception to decline in 19 years.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 7, 2015

I originally invested in Harmonix as an angel investor in 1995. In states like Colorado where a certain substance is now legal, I expect we’ll have a new marketing tie in. It’s rise was well chronicled in this awesome Inc. Magazine long form story titled Just Play. Rock Band 4 is now out.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Pension funding was above market using aggressive actuarial assumptions. In 1995 there were ~1,350 public hospitals representing ~27% of the industry. Privatizing public infrastructure was a concept popularized in the early 1980’s by Margaret Thatcher’s administration in the UK. municipal bond market.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

Perhaps you are caught in the “Series A crunch” or perhaps you are a consumer company and expected that you would be valued on users rather than revenue like the last time. What about the efficient market hypothesis? Aren’t markets rational? One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0 One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 18, 2021

There’s no luck, no changing weather, no external market forces. because you found more gold, or reached a revenue target. You have to configure your product and establish a supply chain that can deliver it to the market. But they don’t teach you to be strategic in ways that match the way the world works.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

One could argue that there’s nothing new here, as Internet distibution models started in 1995. Drive for a repeatable and scalable business model (revenue in Dave McClure’s investment thesis, “ network of scale &# in Union Square’s.). But in reality they only became mainstream ~5-7 years ago.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2019

Your brand lives in everyday interactions your company has with its prospects and customers, including the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, your presentations and booths at conferences, and your posts on social networks. Market your signature brand. What You Can Do.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

DECEMBER 13, 2018

However, in actuality, studies show that easy-to-pronounce, memorable names outperform unexciting names on the stock market by 33%. In today’s contemporary market, first impressions matter more than you might think. Your audience is possibly stunned by the number of choices available in today’s market. About the Author.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Uber , Zenefits , Tanium , Lending Club CEOs of companies with billion dollar market caps have been in the news – and not in a good way. — Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

There are times when small and slow is the right strategy for a specific market opportunity. When the market conditions are right, you should blitzscale for the benefit of all stakeholders: customers, employees, investors, and society. Blitzscaling is a response to market dynamics, not the cause.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

So, how exactly are marketers personalizing their sites? Bunting worked with At Home In The Country to add personalized product recommendations to their site, which resulted in a… 13% increase in revenue. The onboarding process brought more people to the core value, thus increasing revenue and improving retention.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

That cap will now specifically apply to a broader group of small companies: those with annual gross revenues of $1 billion or less (adjusted for inflation), within a five-year interval from the sale of its first security. Over 85% of CEOs said that going public was not as attractive of an option as it was in 1995.

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Small Business Force

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Phenomenal growth and market leadership always attracts a lot of attention and provides some great lessons for entrepreneurs. RIM went from less than $5 million in revenue in FY1995 (February 1995) to $20 billion in FY2011, then back down to $3.3 Pay close attention to market innovation (especially competitors).

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

In May 1996, Open Market completed a successful IPO and more than doubled on the first day of trading, ending with a $1.2 billion market capitalization. million in revenue the year before. . The Internet bull market continued to run for four more years after the Open Market IPO, finally ending in the spring of 2000.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

The ingredients used are all human grade, and we strive to use organic and local farmer’s market/CSA ingredients when possible. I started a career in real estate in 2008 (when the market was crashing). I would love logging in to Second Life to sell marketing and advertising to businesses trying to make it in a virtual setting.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JUNE 24, 2011

Advertising revenue has paid for his education at UB, and he has ideas for other software-related startups he would like to launch after he graduates next May. “I The son of economists who emigrated in 1995 from St. This begs the questions — are non-business students more entrepreneurial than business students?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 17, 2019

Your brand lives in everyday interactions your company has with its prospects and customers, including the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, your presentations and booths at conferences, and your posts on social networks. Market your signature brand.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. In 1995 Netscape IPO’d and browsers started to become more prevalent. they can build teams that really focus on building & marketing great products.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 1, 2013

My first time jumping into the start-up world was as a freshly minted Harvard MBA in 1995. If you are a risk-taker and enjoy the challenges and roller-coaster ride, then the jungle phase is for you and you should bias towards seed funded or recently Series A funded companies that are pre-revenue. Ask a handful of insiders.

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aweissman.com

APRIL 14, 2010

All of it made me think back to my youth, the days of AOL, around 1995-1997. This destroyed AOLs original platform, as it could no longer share variable usage revenues with its content partners. The revenue stream for these guys ended. History tells us that markets get flushed, always and often.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 1, 2006

From my perspective, when investors pay such high multiples for these companies, the inevitable correction in market price will happen. That being said, let’s focus on the numbers that really matter, revenue and profits. Google still did deliver $372mm in earnings on $1.92b of revenue up from $204mm in earnings the year before.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

We also like the humorous element of the name, an element that we’ve carried over to the imagery that we use on our website and marketing materials (a cartoon plunger is our mascot!), – If it could be related to our niche (web design and digital marketing). I bought Forevervinyl.com back in 1995 and went online.

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