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26 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2017

Hearpreneur

2017 was a bad year for some and for some it was a great year. In the last few days of 2017, we took some time to ask a few entrepreneurs and business what their biggest business accomplishments were. #1- I had my 8 months expenses saved by May of 2017 and put it my two weeks notice at that time. 1- Top rankings.

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4 Reasons A Diverse Sales Team Will Boost Revenue

YoungUpstarts

Fast forward to 2017 and a lack of diversity in the workplace remains an issue. In working with them, we have identified the top 4 reasons a diverse sales team will boost revenue this quarter: 1. The same study cites a cloud-based software company would have had $2 million more in revenue if they met their hiring goals for sales reps.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

So you’re interested in raising capital from a Revenue-Based Investor VC. A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors (“RBI”) are emerging. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Rational burn profile, up to 50% of revenue at close, scaling down. Alternative Capital. “

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5 Effective Financial Management Practices Used in the Hospitality Industry

The Startup Magazine

According to IBIS World, the revenues generated by the hotels and motels industry in 2022 have reached $258.1 The industry has grown 4% per annum on average between 2017 to 2022. Leveraging Revenue Management Solutions. Revenue management is the practice of managing the flow of revenue in and out of a business.

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How MakeSpace Recently Closed $30 million in New Funding

Both Sides of the Table

So how did a company that provides storage grow so fast (we’ll exit 2017 with 10’s of millions in recurring revenue), why is it so defensible and is it really a tech startup? years of software development. We have built route management software so that drivers have productive routes and can cluster pick-ups and drop-offs.

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Get Investors Onboard With Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

That downward trend includes the most recent quarter from 2017. Startups don’t demonstrate due diligence. Investors want to see in-depth financial reports that reinforce the startup has an organized business model with potential for revenue growth. Founders overlook how their salary looks to investors. >Investors

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup.