Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

New domains would include attracting business customers as well as individuals, taking your online business into retail, and diving into verticals. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 02/01/2017. Expand the market to new domains. It also forces you into new innovative thinking. Plan to disrupt your own business regularly.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2017

If a company is doing this, it is typically doubling in revenue every year for three to five years, and sometimes longer. Supergrowers” – companies whose growth was greater than 60 percent when they reached $100 million in revenues – were eight times more likely to reach $1 billion in revenues than those growing less than 20 percent. (5)

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Compounding is the ability of an asset to generate earnings that are reinvested in order to generate exponential revenue growth. It has never paid out dividends, and clocks around $200 billion in revenue. In 2017, Atlassian paid $425 million to acquire Trello, even though Trello only made about $3.5 Alpha generation.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

billion, and by 2017, nearly half of global mobile users are likely to own a smartphone. Marketers should also be looking at acquisition (visits, unique visitors, pageviews), behavior (pages per visit, time on site, bounce rate), and revenue (if you’re eCommerce). According to Dazeinfo research , there were about 1.13 in 2013 to 1.43

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

This post details our process, the results, and the takeaways for businesses in this and similar verticals. When your revenue stream depends on your website, you need to be able to answer two questions: Is your UX putting you behind your competition? Credit Card#: 1111 2222 3333 4444 CVV: 111 Expiration Date: 06/01/2017.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

The art of activating idle assets to bring in new revenue is occurring for both the service provider and the service creator. A local example was the Greenhouse pop up restaurant in Melbourne by Joost Baker – Which included vertical gardens and large amounts of material re-purposing. Cities are now becoming vertical again.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Some notable metrics are revenue growth rates, free cashflow, leverage ratios, historical financing amounts, returns on marketing spend, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of customers, customer churn rates, and team social scores. Lighter Capital, a Revenue Based Investing VC, offers a Cost of Capital Calculator.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

Banks often charge more than 20 percent interest rates on credit cards, and the fees associated with late or overdraft fees is a huge market (worth more than $34 billion in 2017). The cost of originating and servicing small loans is comparable to larger loans, but the interest and fee revenue is far less.

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Hippoland

JANUARY 23, 2018

In the late summer / early fall of 2017, we were investing in companies that were quite early. Towards the end of 2017, we noticed that downstream investors were slowing their investment pace, and we felt that it would be incredibly difficult to get our companies to the next point if we were investing only $25k at such an early stage.

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Hippoland

JANUARY 23, 2018

In the late summer / early fall of 2017, we were investing in companies that were quite early. Towards the end of 2017, we noticed that downstream investors were slowing their investment pace, and we felt that it would be incredibly difficult to get our companies to the next point if we were investing only $25k at such an early stage.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

As of the beginning of 2017, ffVC spun out Totem into a separate business. The VC Software Stack — the Untouched Vertical. ffVC Partners kept going into meetings and showing other VCs the app on their phone, and hearing, “I could really use that—that’s like having an Analyst in your pocket.” A (Micro) VC’s Tech Stack. *

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ConversionXL

MAY 3, 2017

A customer survey conducted by BigCommerce revealed that 51% of SMBs expect social advertising channels (specifically Facebook Ads) will play a major role in accelerating revenue throughout 2017 and beyond. In April of 2017, Facebook announced that there were more than 5 million active advertisers using their ad platform.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. In 2017, the company reported sales of over $500 million. Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017).

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Austin Startup

APRIL 29, 2019

While it may come as a surprise to locals and visitors alike, the short-term-rental (STR) unicorn considers Austin to be one of its 24 global “super cities” : destinations that routinely generate the company’s largest revenues, and are viewed as having the strongest prospects for future growth. It also generated an impressive $2.6

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 31, 2017

For example, taking out a mortgage to pay for a home that you’d rent out for monthly recurring revenue. One of my all-time favorite entrepreneurs, and a man who has had such a profound impact on our world, Elon Musk is a billionaire entrepreneur who has created fortunes in a variety of industries and verticals. billion dollars.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million). That is why I invited the Founder & CEO, Jonah Peretti , to come talk at the 2017 Upfront Summit and make the case himself. The 30-minute interview of Jonah Peretti is here but my summary in the notes below.

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