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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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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Expedia grew to account for roughly one third of the company’s revenues.

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The 4 Phases For Developing A Customer Retention Strategy

ConversionXL

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. million in 2004 to $6.5 And yet…Forrester found that 70% of CMOs did not list retention as a top priority. The result? image source.

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How To Develop Your Customer Retention Strategy

ConversionXL

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. million in 2004 to $6.5 And yet…Forrester found that 70% of CMOs did not list retention as a top priority. The result? image source.

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The 4 Phases For Developing A Customer Retention Strategy

ConversionXL

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. million in 2004 to $6.5 And yet…Forrester found that 70% of CMOs did not list retention as a top priority. The result? image source.

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The 4 Phases For Developing A Customer Retention Strategy

ConversionXL

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. million in 2004 to $6.5 And yet…Forrester found that 70% of CMOs did not list retention as a top priority. The result? image source.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

Both Sides of the Table

billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million). But I knew I had to look for investments in “software meets X (often known as Vertical Software solutions)” rather than necessarily horizontal enterprise software applications. Back then there were “email forwards.”

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