The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Mitul’s passion to excel and customer focus have been built into the core values and mission of Citius Partners. They provide a hands-on transformation and revenue growth partner for B2B technology companies. How Citius Partners helps their clients. Key Career Highlights. Transformation of Mobile Handset business.

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Founder B2B Private Equity India 126

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

And three, utilize Section 105 of the Internal Revenue Code to establish a formal self-insured medical reimbursement plan to reimburse employees for their substantiated individual health insurance costs on a pretax basis. Partner with a defined contribution software provider. Want to sell more individual health insurance?

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Software Review Employee Retention Government 224

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2015

In fall of 2014, after over ten months of struggling with basic “business ethics” issues, I decided to resign from the company that I had poured not only my money but also 3 years of my life into. We were not any different, we had corporate bylaws, which my partner and I both reviewed and signed.

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CTO Hire Fractional CTO Advisory Board Software Review 100

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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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Once you’ve established your ideal customer, you can better focus your growth hacker marketing efforts to improve revenue and ROI. In the revenue phase, measure these performance metrics: Customer acquisition cost Customer lifetime value Monthly recurring revenue (MRR) Repeat purchases Revenue churn. Image source.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Limited Partners or LPs (the people who invest into VC funds) have taken notice as 2014 is by all accounts the busiest year for LPs since the Great Recession began. Unprecedented revenue growth + companies staying private longer =. But about that “bubble” we always hear about?

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Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 398

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

9, 2014 event was the largest its recent history, raising expectations and questions about how the company was going to deliver on its promises of new products. Most of the new features and capabilities had been rumored or disclosed at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference in June 2014, and most of the improvements were incremental.

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Bandwidth Mobile Social Network Technology 164

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

The functions of an early-stage board are pretty obvious and well understood: Providing introductions to customers, biz dev partners, recruits, the press, other investors, etc. Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions. how much energy to put into channel partners vs. direct sales. Mentorship.

Technical Review 325

Technical Review Early Stage Software Review Los Angeles 325

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 30, 2020

We started our business in 2014, after a successful Kickstarter campaign. Furthermore, we are quintessentially tech experts, coupled with the fact that the best narrative to project would be that of revenue, profit, and user experience, which made me switch from the generic software development path to the eCommerce landscape.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review SEO 143

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Here are 10 things you should be considering as the calendar ticks down and 2014 looms large! Create a new strategy for 2014 which leverages the best of what you did in the past year and plan for testing and implementation in the year to come. Be proud of what you did in 2013 and use it to do even more in 2014!

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Small Business Software Review Startup Lean 92

Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

In 2014 we felt like we’d learned enough about what additional supports college students needed to prep for tech’s idiosyncratic interview processes that we could start piloting some new programming. We partnered with Google for Entrepreneurs in 2015 to begin to bring our work national, with a focus on entrepreneurial ecosystems.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Don Powers, owner of Powers Scanning stated, “I immediately saw an increase in sales after investing in my CRM system, which also allowed me to focus on recurring revenue.”. In 2014, nearly a quarter of small business owners said they had lost track of whether a customer had actually paid them. This couldn’t be farther from the truth.

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Small Business Small Business Administration SBA Non-Compete 100

View from Seed

JULY 19, 2022

On average, an eCommerce retailer spends 15-30% of their revenue on paid marketing channels, but in recent months, new privacy regulations, iOS 14 tracking changes and the phase out of 3rd-party cookies, have increased the cost to acquire a new customer by 155% , a trend that is expected to continue in the coming years. RH: Hello founder!

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eCommerce Greece Early Stage SMS 156

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

You’ve had a few difficult years outside of work – I feel confident 2014 is going to be a great one! He joined when we were a small team with no revenue and shitty offices. I know your 2013 success will lead to more sustained travel in 2014. I feel confident in our 2014 plans.

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The Next Web

MARCH 8, 2014

But at the end of the day, I’ve learned that being a partner at a successful early-stage VC firm is not quite as different from being a founder as you might think. Specifically, it feels eerily similar to how I felt when I was CEO at EchoSign when we were at about $4m in revenue. Until then, there are no profits to the VC partners.

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Partner Burn Rate Early Stage IPO 138

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 7, 2017

Stat that matters : From the same 2016 Vendasta study: 92% of consumers now read online reviews vs. 88% in 2014. You are paying it forward because you are an established brand that partners with established charities within the community. Partner with an old time, established local favorite restaurant. Or reviews!

Small Business 167

Small Business Software Review Social Media Balance Sheet 167

BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

As we look into 2014, we thought it was important to reflect on our activities in 2013 and refocus and refine our thinking and messaging as a firm. Finally, we try to prewire the Series A investment by getting our portfolio companies to meet with the right partners at the right firms early on before they even need money.

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Up and Running

JUNE 15, 2016

In 2014, the global economic contribution to the travel industry was 7.6 To help your travel business stand out and bring in more revenue, here are seven research-driven, data-backed strategies you can implement today—or plan for once you’ve got your business up and running. trillion U.S. Ask for referrals.

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Revenue Social Media Programming Sales 60

Up and Running

DECEMBER 27, 2018

According to Forbes , in 2014, 95 percent of the 2.1 It partners with many companies/inventors and splits the licensing revenue 50-50. Filing for a patent isn’t cheap, so it makes sense that if you went to the trouble of protecting your idea, the next step is to figure out how to profit from it.

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Due Diligence Cofounder 93

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

The latest funding round led by Active Venture Partners , a European venture capital company with a presence in Spain, Germany and Scandinavia, is expected to help the online ticket trading platform drive its international growth. In the News Active Venture Partners events Ticketbis' million, making it a total of $12.7

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2019

In addition to that, it is a major partner with the MasterCard International and have been doing this ever since 2009. Interestingly, the firm has since 2014, been offering the MasterCard services directly all over the United Kingdom. This was different from the previous year’s 15% increase in revenue and a Gross Profit of 43%.

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United Kingdom Community SMS Global 113

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Snapchat may be a company with no revenue and an unrealistic valuation, but it is changing the way people think of messaging. This year, the company partnered with HP and plans on embedding the motion-control technology on future HP devices. Or it could be the next Facebook. Time will tell. IFTTT=If This Then That. Correction, Jan.

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Startup Cofounder San Francisco Software Review 60

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2014

In the far future, when someone sits down and writes the definitive history of payments (riveting), 2014 is going to be a big year. But as big as 2014 was, 2015 has the potential to be even bigger. WePay protects its partners from risk and regulatory exposure, while supporting a seamless experience for their end-users.

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IPO API Silicon Valley Mobile 236

Up and Running

JUNE 1, 2016

Between 2008 and 2014, industry revenue increased at an annual rate of 12.4 Partner with other local businesses. To implement this idea into your food truck growth plan, consider approaching nearby businesses and dropping off menus, or partnering with offices and offering lunchtime specials (potentially with delivery).

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Revenue Portland Oregon Social Media 60

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Companies horde cash and squeeze the most revenue and margin from the money they use. They can partner with suppliers, co-create with consumers, open-source key technologies, open their application programming interfaces, or run open incubators for customer ideas. Congratulations class of 2014: Embrace change and lead the way.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

David Teten

APRIL 6, 2015

There are multiple reasons for that, but a major one is that both VC and research funding is concentrated in areas where there appears to be short-term revenues, as opposed to areas that will save more lives and quite likely generate both long-term revenues and savings for society. Source: NIH, CB Insights.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Non-Compete Philadelphia 60

ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2021

Also, the revenue from this platform will be $79,608 million in the year 2021.” . UberEats is the subsidiary of Uber that was launched in the year 2014. As per Business Of Apps, UberEats fetched a revenue of $4.8 The choice lies with you and your restaurant partner. Revenue channels of food delivery business.

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Business Model Social Media Mobile Revenue 168

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue).

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Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 232

ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

The strategy, according to Google, improves ad recall (and, undoubtedly, YouTube revenues). It certainly helps if you partner with a highly regarded video production company, as Slack did in 2014. 15- and 30- versions to grow reach and impact. A return to 6-second ads to reinforce the past message. Image source ).

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Video B2B Technical Review Campaign 129

BeyondVC

MARCH 21, 2017

As we move to a cloud-only world with instant-on capabilities and low friction in onboarding customers, why does professional services revenue keep increasing year over year for these enterprise cloud businesses. Professional services drives subscription revenue. However, since 2014 the percentage increased from 4.1%

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IPO Cloud Azure Revenue 88

Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2018

How we got into Y Combinator (OwnLocal W10) OwnLocal received seed funding from Y Combinator in 2010 and has grown to work with 279k+ businesses through 3,500 local newspapers This is a repost from my self-hosted blog that mysteriously disappeared in 2014. We were already making real newspapers real revenue?—?hard We will never know.

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Cofounder Texas Video Software Review 48

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Over the years, despite massive losses, Netflix was able to bounce back and improve its revenue by 47%. This included health insurance and making them domestic partners. WhatsApp became one of the most popular apps for social media by 2014. Thanks to Jen Wan, Soteri Skin ! Thanks to Matt Gillman, SMB Compass. #10- 10- Elon Musk.

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Entrepreneur Bankruptcy Southern California South Africa 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2014

They come at the early stage while a startup has no revenue or valuation, so professional investors are hard to find. Network with potential cofounders and strategic partners. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 6/13/2014. Low-cost design and fabrication tools are extremely valuable. Have you tried it yet?

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Entrepreneur Detroit California Cofounder 246

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

Most of those industries are fee-based and are competing on revenue growth. Scott pointed to B-round SaaS valuations in excess of $100 million in $15m+ financing rounds with companies with very limited proof of customer traction or revenue. I don’t totally agree with that view. Either way it turned into a heated debate.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Later Stage Non-Compete 309

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2014

The other alternative is to find a strategic partner who knows the space well and will benefit from your solution. Professional investors always look for a proven business model and an existing revenue stream to minimize the risk. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 5/22/2014.

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Elevator Pitch Salary Angel Investor Viral 285

YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2013

They form the backbone of the economy as they contribute significantly to productivity, export and revenues,” says Vincent Wong, Director of Small, Medium Business & Partner Group, Microsoft Singapore. “SMEs make up over 99% of organizations and employ seven out of every 10 workers in Singapore.

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Singapore Small Business Asia Security 145

Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2013

“We hope to have the company up and running by March 2014.” ” Michelle and her business partner Andrew Ekelem are the founders of Chariot Mobility, a company dedicated to updating the manual wheelchair to a low-profile, efficient and ergonomic chair that better serves the needs of its users.

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