Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Even mergers and acquisitions (M&A) came early. Fresh customer base.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 28, 2020

Startups and SMBs do not have the bandwidth to accommodate highly-flexible leave policies. Talent Acquisition. By extending such benefits, a fledgling startup or an SMB can demonstrate its compassion towards the workers. Update Your Leave Policy.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

— Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. Typically, this caliber of bankers wouldn’t talk to you unless your company had five profitable quarters of increasing revenue.

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Venture Chronicles

APRIL 20, 2014

A successful organization that fed impressive growth, reaching growth and revenue records year over year, the marketing organization relied on a proven B2B outbound marketing model that precisely measured lead capture rates. Ping Identity has gone through a top to bottom transformation in marketing over the last year.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

For instance, if a consultant proposes to help you with public relations, pay them a commission equivalent to the greater of a flat fee per story placed or a percentage of revenue generated from the PR coverage. a deal in which you gain valuable, incremental bandwidth while mitigating your cash outflows. link] Chris Puttick.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

OCTOBER 27, 2011

different screen sizes, different OS platforms, less memory, less bandwidth & speed, etc.) Don’t waste your customer acquisition costs. Tap Zoo) for other sources of revenue. However, there are major challenges for developing games for mobile devices. and leveraging mobile user interaction for game play (e.g,

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I use a more restrictive definition: A growth team is a product tech team that’s focused on acquisition instead of core product features. Two of the teams focused on the two main sources of revenue, one team on inbound leads, and the last team on site conversion rates. Suddenly, our revenue from these campaigns dropped by 50%.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 17, 2011

For a company laser-focussed on accelerating the number of active users, it might be actually worth having high cancellation rates if it meant an even higher acquisition rate. “LTV” means “the total revenue you’ll get from a customer over its lifetime.” So total expected revenue is $RN/ p.

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ConversionXL

JULY 22, 2021

By disallowing them, Unbounce is able to save on bandwidth and crawl budget —the number of pages Googlebot crawls and indexes on a website within a given timeframe. This is because AMP pages serve a basic version of your webpage that doesn’t allow you to earn ad revenue or access the same deep level of analytics.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

mobile is ~50% of revenue, shorter form works better. Flip your funnel – only 5% of revenue comes from optimisation but 92% of revenue from retention. Optimize for retention, not just acquisition. To understand acquisition you must understand lifetime value. Result: -45% revenue per visit.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

they can range from customer acquisition, product engagement/stickiness, or business model. growth/revenue target) to get to the next stage/financing round. Approach 2: Allocate [x]% of your engineering bandwidth for such activities and do not go over. Post-PMF: Key milestones the business needs to hit (e.g.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Cloud Gaming wanted to take advantage of cloud computing power and improvements in bandwidth/connectivity to enable gamers to play multi player games on their mobile, PC or Television without the need for physical games copies, or consoles. And what does it mean for the future of Cloud Gaming from here on? The premise of Cloud Gaming.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2016

But in my experience as a startup advisor, too many entrepreneurs get stuck there, and always find excuses for not really exploring mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, and alliance alternatives. Excuses for not thinking outside the box usually include limited personal bandwidth, not enough cash, and fear of the unknown.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

The only thing that seemed to be consistent about my growth was that my revenue was relatively flat while my user base kept growing. This turned out to be a good move since it doubled their revenue that month. He has a great stats page that shows everything from monthly revenue to the breakdown of users by plan type.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 25, 2012

Some of those were clearly the result of acquisitions--whether the founders lost their hunger or whether the acquiring company smothered the baby is up for debate, but Digg, Dailybooth and Turntable stayed on their own. That's not just a matter of throwing server bandwidth at the problem.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

Here in Boston both Microsoft and Google have made significant expansions in recent years in Cambridge, and PayPal/eBay is poised to do the same in downtown Boston through acquisition and organic growth. link] leehower. Thanks Chris, good read and hadn’t seen it before. link] Matthew Tagg. Interesting article!

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

. “Carriers are moving rapidly to IP-based mobile backhaul, and Wintegra’s product offering is uniquely positioned to enable this packet transition and breakthrough the bandwidth bottlenecks faced in mobile networks,&# said Greg Lang, president and chief executive officer of PMC-Sierra. In 2009 it boasted revenue of $4.49

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ConversionXL

APRIL 10, 2018

And let’s face it, for many of us, mobile bandwidth still lags behind fixed broadband.). Which brings us to the story how one company used mobile popups to boost their signups and revenue. He writes : “There are numerous barriers [to conversion]: shipping, payment, and filling out forms are all harder to parse and act on.”.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

But on the acquisition side, it’s far more likely in the modern age that the company chooses to keep the newly acquired company separate from the new owner. Cars becoming mobile rolling lounge rooms where screen time becomes a major revenue source for auto makers. Google becoming an Auto Industry player. Netflix a TV studio.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

But on the acquisition side, it’s far more likely in the modern age that the company chooses to keep the newly acquired company separate from the new owner. Cars becoming mobile rolling lounge rooms where screen time becomes a major revenue source for auto makers. Google becoming an Auto Industry player. Netflix a TV studio.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

This highest quality of the traffic information, never achieved before, together with the perfect applications generate significant revenues for the operator and maintain customers’ loyalty. Improves customer experience during sale, after sale and support interactions while generating revenues and reducing operational costs.

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