Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2017

Kristin Zhivago, in her classic book “ Roadmap to Revenue ,” makes the point that the selling system is broken, since sellers no longer sell the way customers are buying. Customers will tell you things when being interviewed, such as their need to improve operational workflow , which they will never tell you while you are selling to them.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

billion revenue in 2021 for Epic Games and was played by 83.3 monthly active end-users who are engaging with content created or operated by Unity solutions in 2020. billion revenue in 2021, a 107% increase year-on-year. billion revenue in 2021, the second year in a row it made over $1 billion. Fortnite generated $5.8

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Every business needs to develop a revenue model even before a product. The alternatives range from giving the product away for free (revenue from ads), to pricing based on costs, to charging what the market will bear (premium pricing). Revenue is a percentage of every transaction. Facebook spent $150 million getting started.

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Up and Running

JUNE 1, 2021

It’s even possible for many of them to be revenue-neutral or better. Here’s an explanation of what conditions make an employee benefit revenue-neutral and a look at the five best options for businesses in a post-pandemic hiring environment. What is a revenue-neutral benefit? 401(k) plans and matching contributions.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2017

Operating in an industry where prototyping is common. Start-ups in their first 5 years of existence and with less than $5 million in gross revenue for the taxable year likely qualify to use the R&D credit to offset payroll taxes. This means that marketing or management research activities do not qualify. Manufacturing products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

According to a recent Ernst & Young global report , the first half of 2017 was the most active first half by global number of IPOs since 2007. In addition, huge amounts of executive time are required, as well as hits to key operational, accounting, and communication processes. The M&A alternative looks simple by comparison.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 24, 2018

Just check out the IoT job trend graphic from www.indeed.com, posted on February 2017 below: that is what we call exponential growth. In a 2017 survey 47% of organizations said they lack the skills to make the most from IoT at a delivery level. An entrepreneurial and innovative mindset: coal mine canaries wanted.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

This generated $16 billion in annual revenues in 2015. By 2017, the tech industry in Toronto became one of North Americas fastest growing tech market, per a CBRE 2 018 North American Scoring Tech Talent report. The province has the lowest operating costs for companies working in the digital services industry. billion in revenue.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 13, 2020

In 2017 the SIP market size was $6.88 Customer Service Provides More Revenue. Offering service and support to your customers is simple to do, and what’s more, it provides opportunities for more revenue for you. The lowest price is not always the best deal, so look for providers operating over a Tier-1 network.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2018

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. 3- Triple our revenue and grow our base. We have two key goals for 2018: To grow our user base to more than 1 million and triple our revenue. 1- Efficiency.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

The primary source of your funds should be your paying customers, i.e., your business should generate enough revenues and profits to fund the growth and expansion. Reasons for funding. ? Scale up your operations. Now you may want to scale up your operations or expand your presence. billion dollars in 2017.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Legal cannabis generated $16 billion in total economic output in the United States in 2017, and research indicates it will increase 150 percent by 2021, according to a report from cannabis industry analysts Arcview Market Research , in partnership with BDS Analytics. Your operations plan. Operations. Extraction operations?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2017

Certainly it’s important to optimize current operations, but in this age of rapidly changing demands and competitors, it’s more important change quickly as the market changes. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 03/07/2017. Your team needs to know that it is safe to experiment, and failure is not a toxic result.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2011

He later worked for eight years at the European Union commission helping to develop the cultural industry in Africa (cultural products being the main exports – and revenue – for poor African countries). Koutonin’s ultimate dream, however, is to open a world-class human potential development school in Africa in 2017.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 4, 2017

While we’re ready to look ahead and embrace 2017, here’s a quick recap of the major activity across our portfolio last quarter. The post A recap of Q4: Great momentum for 2017 appeared first on Version One. Welcome back! We hope everyone had a restful holiday! We’re looking forward to continuing this momentum into the new year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Typical incentives give percentages of quarterly revenues and contribution as rewards for success. Creativity and innovation are fragile business elements, and they can be easily starved, smothered, and trampled by the larger daily operational demands and old ways of doing things. Encourage an entrepreneurial culture.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 17, 2017

If you are growing at a rate of less than 50% year over year, you should consider viewing 2017 as the year of flat headcount. As budgets are settling down and getting approved for many of the companies I’m on the board of, I’m seeing a general trend of much less headcount growth in 2017 than in 2016.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 15, 2019

This is because it operates in a completely different way that reduces risk, fees, delays, and much more. To better understand this, consider how traditional banks operate. Doing so would effectively reduce everyone’s revenues. Blockchain is poised to be to banks what Amazon has become to retail.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Editor’s note: This article was updated in November of 2017. Operating without a website is increasingly rare, and ignoring this weakness for too long could have disastrous consequences. One of the best ways to prepare to conduct a SWOT analysis is to use examples for help and inspiration. SWOT analysis for Sedibeng Breweries.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Hence the Elixir2Go bottle was born back in 2017. The most expensive cost right off the bat is the time commitment when compared to the minimum capital and operational cost. Today, my company operates in New York, Orlando, London, Paris, Lisbon and Porto, while always looking for other cities to invest. 20- Various ways.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2020

While eventual restaurant reopenings will bring more customers back to the booths and tables, heightened customer familiarity with online ordering promises to make delivery a consistent revenue generator for the long term. Otherwise, they’ll end up jeopardizing their profits as their delivery costs spiral out of control.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

It occurred to me that although we mentioned our new thematic approach when we raised our last fund in 2017, we haven’t really shared a broader manifesto about how we are approaching the early stage market. It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2016

forward revenue in February 2016 (the low), they appreciated by 6% each month for the following six months. Looking ahead to 2017. We expect that the financing scene in 2017 will look very similar to 2016. If you’re enthusiastic about these themes as an entrepreneur, investor, or operator, please reach out!

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

As a company, we participated in 2017 in the Startup areas and we were also a part of the Team Quebec’s exhibit. we can offer them clear new ways to generate new revenue streams with our interactive, immersive AR film. Among these were AWE 2017 and AWE Europe 2017. We’re ready to tell the world about everything we are.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2019

With your business growing, revenue flowing in, and your team beginning to expand, it makes sense to start looking to the horizon and sending your representatives out to spread the word about your small business. by Tahnee Perry, Vice President of Marketing at Deem. trillion annually.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

To do that, we built a demand funnel that took us from nothing to 44X revenue growth in a single year. That difference cascades down the funnel, allowing you to track the ROI of your lead sources between inbound and outbound campaigns—all the way through to revenue. Honorable mention: SiriusDecisions Demand Unit Waterfall (2017).

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Hurricane Irma had a major negative revenue impact on one whose fall book of business was mostly in Florida. None of us can un-ring the bell for whatever happened in 2017, but we can decide now to improve in 2018. We all need some disturbance to keep us operating at our potential. Think about that. Do the math.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 13, 2019

This is where it all started just two years ago, when ETH and BTC prices began their meteoric rise in 2017, soon to be followed by the ICO boom and bust. This fund was established in July 2018 as an emergency insurance fund for “extreme cases” and is set up from a % of trading revenues the exchange generates.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 19, 2017

Instead, I, like many of my colleagues (investors, board members, founders, and CEOs), operated in a state of blissful denial until everything blew up. Some version of this was on my mind when I wrote the post titled The Rule of 40% For a Healthy SaaS Company in 2015 and the post titled Is 2017 The Year Of Flat Headcount?

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Revenue needs to grow 20x, and margins must expand dramatically. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. Global smartphone revenue is about $420B.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

These are individuals who are truly steering the pack with their excellence in operations, experience, and revolutionary ideas. The commitment to their nurses and clients has contributed to a 30% annual growth rate allowing them to gross revenue of $56,543,000 in 2017.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 29, 2016

As we head into 2017, I have a steady stream of operating plans hitting my inbox. For the SaaS and recurring revenue companies, if they missed by more than 5% in 1H16 and didn’t reforecas t, they’ve had a particularly grueling uphill climb for the past six months.

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View from Seed

JUNE 13, 2019

The company launched in 2011 and then was acquired by PetSmart for over $3 billion in 2017 (PetSmart itself owned by PE firm BC Partners), but Chewy is now preparing for life as a standalone public company. revenue business still growing >50% YoY? I’ll break down Chewy’s business based on their recent S-1 filing here.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 15, 2022

When I last interviewed Casey, back in 2017 , he recognized there’s a “natural, & healthy, tension between myself & the people I write about.” The biggest personal change since our 2017 discussion is your founding of the tech newsletter Platformer (which everyone should subscribe to). Hunter Walk: Hi Casey and welcome back.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2017

Every business needs revenue to provide investor returns and offset costs. Free” is not an attractive revenue model to investors. Popular revenue models today include recurring subscription charges, licensing, as well the traditional sale or lease model. Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 07/08/2017.

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