K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In fact, at the time (1996-1997) we offered both a downloadable product, that our customers could install on their own servers, and a “hosted-offering”, which came to be known as “On-Demand”, then the “ASP” (Application Service Provider) model, and today we call it “SaaS” (Software as a Service). This time we’d gotten it right.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

A bout 50,000 visitors from 200 countries are expected to attend the 2010 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, starting tomorrow February 15th. VC Cafe's own little 'cloud' for MWC 2010, taken from the Israeli IMA brochure. The IMA expects the companies to have more than 4,000 meetings during the conference.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

And it was going to mention the two words that SuperMac marketing needed to live and breathe: revenue and profit. To do that we will create end-user demand and drive it into the sales channel, educate the channel and customers about why our products are superior, and help Engineering understand customer needs and desires.

Silicon Valley 268

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Instead of a Sales team and organized to sell with a consistent and successful sales roadmap generating revenue, it is a disorganized and unhappy organization burning lots of cash. Because the company based its headcount and expenses on the expectation that the Sales organization will bring in revenue according to plan.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

A Progress Graph on the right visually shows how far you’ve come (in whatever units of goodness you’re tracking – revenue, units, users, etc.) Good if you have your own money, better if the cash comes from investors, but best if it’s revenues from customers. Did the VC’s like your team ? Get back up and running.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

As a result the young company is now saddled with an expensive, scaled-up sales organization frustrated trying to execute a losing sales strategy and a marketing organization desperately trying to create demand without a true understanding of customers’ needs. All of this is usually a bad idea. 3 , on August 31, 2009 at 12:48 pm Said: [.]

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

An early example occurred in 2010 when UBS Analyst Neil Currie accessed satellite imagery to monitor activity in Walmart parking lots, running the data thru a mathematical regression to translate it into customer activity for better earnings forecasts. But how much of the story can be traced to overall business conditions?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 16, 2016

But entrepreneurs face other concerns that compete with this growth focus, including hiring, maintaining current revenue sources and distinguishing themselves from the competition. As your business thrives, the providers who support you with banking, marketing and other services should change as your demands change.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 27, 2013

Many companies have cyclical business demands that require them to increase capacity at certain times while reducing it at others. Instead of endless cycles of hiring, training, layoffs, and re-hiring companies can benefit through a flexible workforce that can be expanded or contracted as demand requires. Internal Revenue Service .

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 23, 2019

A fixed pricing structure not only reduces potential revenue—and, therefore, the money available to invest back into the product—but also impacts perception: Increasingly, customers will see your product as the “cheap” option. Over time, the potential gain (or loss) in revenue can have an exponential impact. You need the revenue.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Consider ThedaCare , a healthcare system in Wisconsin, which eliminated its budgeting process in 2010. Andreas Rothe, CFO, Fragomen , observed, “One of the reasons for a budget is to align the various resources of the firm to projected revenues from clients and company objectives. Best Practices in Spreadsheet Design.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

We ruled out jumping insects like grasshoppers (not friendly enough) and mammals that already represented other on-demand businesses (rabbits for example). If patients as a whole started to demand transparency and ethical pricing, then we’d truly be able to improve the healthcare industry. No one honeybee can make honey.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

When we launched in 2010, I saw a white space: a burgeoning NY tech ecosystem, but only one angel group regularly writing checks. In light of COVID-19, demand for their safe, contactless technology has boomed. Firm revenues. I quickly recruited a board of experienced hands. Starship was launched by the co-founders of Skype.

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Transformify

APRIL 21, 2017

The demand for top talent is monumental, and the process of finding and hiring the best workers can be excruciating. Toptal , founded in 2010, aims to relieve the difficulties of hiring freelancers. There are many marketplaces on the web where one can go to find talent, but how do you know that their work is quality?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Customers went into the store either looking for the SuperMac product by name (if our demand creation activities had been effective) or went in unsure of which brand of board to buy. Your design or ad agencies can impress you with their awards, but if you’re not moving product or creating demand, you’ve missed the point.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 16, 2014

However eventually working with such demanding clients starts to feel like a job, and due to the nature of the service being dependent on the one artist, there was little room for growth. Although not earning huge amounts of money initially, Natalie started to bring in revenue thanks to advertising and selling small products like ebooks.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The recovering economy has really boosted brand ad budgets in 2010, with online ad spend back to setting records again. The online video networks are doing terrific business, and even Yahoo is benefiting from increased brand spend, seeing revenue growth for the first time in a while. Finding money and saving money online. gross margin.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2012

Often managers who operated effectively at one revenue level of the business were unable to manage effectively at a much higher revenue level. His book “ Smart Growth: Building an Enduring Business by Managing the Risks of Growth ” was named a 2010 Top 25 Business Book for Business Owners by Inc. magazine.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support. In fact, they generated $100k in revenues over the last year, since they first pitched at one of our roundtables.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Each of these three concepts demands extensive consideration in the specific context of the project and the organization as a whole. Cost The most talented technical candidates do demand higher hourly rates, but as indicated already, their expertise reduces risk and the number of required project hours.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

These companies get the prevention-promotion balance right by evaluating every aspect of their business model—making near-term changes that reduce costs now and after demand returns (unlike layoffs). But there were others, too: In 2010, Okta had only ten customers on board. Even less does it mean high transaction volume or revenue.

Marketing 121

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

A year goes by, you miss your revenue plan, and you’ve burned through your first VP of Sales. Demand creation for subsequent iPods can be about the features not about the new idea of iTunes+sync+iPod. Your board nods sagely at your target customer list. What happened? Fast forward to today. Users understand the ecosystem.

Silicon Valley 140

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

October 3rd, 2010 the Chubby Team 48 Comments. spent $20 million to get back to the same revenue that I had when I was CEO. created a vastly higher cost structure; I had 80 people mostly on base salaries under $100,000 and was bringing in revenue at the rate of $20 million annually. .”). Quora says: October 4, 2010 at.

Software Review 79

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2020

Kaggle launched in 2010. Visually, Kaggle Notebooks look like Jupyter Notebooks , containing computation, code, and narrative—but they come with some nice extras: They’re equipped with processing hardware, CPUs and GPUs, for computationally demanding analyses. What is Kaggle? The best way to get started? Happy Kaggling.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 30, 2012

There was Google’s Andy Rubin in April 2010, announcing that Android would have full Flash support in Froyo , the next version of the operating system to be released. Frankly, Flash had never been a huge business for Adobe, even when development for interactive websites using the plugin were in high demand.

Flash 110

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Driven by strong customer demand for its award-winning identity governance solution, SailPoint achieved record growth in 2010, with revenue up 200% over 2009. The fourth quarter of 2010 was the company’s eighth consecutive growth quarter, highlighted by a record number of new customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. I know in 2010 this doesn’t seem obvious to everybody but it’s my judgment. They looked unstoppable.

Social Network 318

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Long before others, they saw that these applications could have hundreds of millions of users with “off the chart&# revenue and profits. It sent a signal that there is an irrational demand for tech IPOs. In December 2010, Youku—the YouTube of China —went public, with a valuation of $4.4 million in 2010 sales).

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

The 1M/1M premium program offers entrepreneurs access to on-demand educational, business development and incubation resources and strategy discussions with me for $1,000 per year. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. As an entrepreneur CEO, she ran three companies: DAIS, Intarka, and Uuma.

India 126

India Technical Review Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 126

Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

From 2010 through 2015, the industry saw a moderate but steady four percent growth. With a low barrier to entry and a growing demand, it is an appealing business for eager entrepreneurs. In 2013, North America accounted for just over 40 percent of the global home health care revenue. population. percent in 2000 to 19.6

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Venture Chronicles

AUGUST 7, 2013

I really loved telling the story of GS for this reason alone, it is about what is possible by empowering people, customers and employees, rather than saving a few dollars here or picking up some extra revenue there. and the role went unfilled for the better part of a year.

Marketing 54

Marketing Startup Differentiation Lead Generation 54

Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

A simple example is this: Revenue per employee of the Ford Motor company is $682,000 while Facebook has revenue of $2.3 Up until 2010 Google had a 30 per cent market share of search in China before they abruptly left that market amid a cloud of hacking, censorship and PRC policy conflicts. The Splinternet.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The next legal frontier: courts can demand access to your social content, even if marked private – [link]. The next legal frontier: courts can demand access to your social content, even if marked private – [link]. Altimeter Report: Social Commerce, How Brands Are Generating Revenue in Social Media - [link].

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Social Media Costa Rica Small Business Design 92

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

Assuming your startup takes off, you will probably find that the fun is gone by the time you reach 50 employees, or a few million in revenue. For bigger companies, it’s a more efficient and quicker way to grow their revenue than creating new products organically. Shareholders are demanding, and liability concerns are high.

Exit Strategy 241

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Once the product begins to ship, startup sales execs use orders and revenue as its marker of progress in understanding customers. Well, because the revenue plan we promised the investors shows us generating customer revenue from the day of first customer ship.” Freemium models have their own scorekeeping.)

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

If the answer to the question centers around “We will achieve revenue soon so our net will improve and give us more runway,” it means the company is in trouble because no product ever ships on time nor achieves the company’s “conservative forecast.” These days revenue is the best source of capital. Who is on your board of directors?

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