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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. There was now a public market for companies with no revenue, no profit and big claims.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Venture Financing. Company plans to use money to expand inventory and distribution capabilities, and build more social features. Revenue of ~$160mm in 2008.

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Podcast Strategy: A Roadmap for Businesses

ConversionXL

The first shows were created in late 2003, and the term itself was coined in 2004 by combining “iPod” with “broadcasting.”. Podcast distribution. To support distribution, the show title should be unique, memorable, relevant, and, of course, keyword optimized. Let’s get started. . Podcasting as a marketing channel.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. The second is distribution —the ability to get product into the hands of customers. Plenty of headroom there!

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

Financing, that is.I Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. One truth of start-up financing is that it generally takes twice as long and twice as much money to accomplish your milestones.

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“Customer First” Healthcare

abovethecrowd.com

Most large healthcare IT systems are chosen based on one primary objective: revenue management. healthcare system is complex and difficult, and most of these large EHR systems’ number one purpose is to deliver revenue. From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242.

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10 Rules for Winning (and Making More Money) in 2014

ConversionXL

And you know what – this was mostly in 2012 (+ Moneyball came out in 2004). Always compare data between segments and distributions. Higher revenue / conversions are more important than boss’s wife liking the sliders. These are four cases when data-driven approach kicked traditional thinking in the butt, hard.

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