ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 27, 2012

Too many startups create a great product and try to figure out a revenue model later, says Urban Airship 's Scott Kveton. Among Portland, Seattle and Vancouver, the Pacific Northwest corridor is bustling with ideas, investors and fledgling companies well beyond the solipsistic forcefield of technology's startup-glutted beating heart.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

And then I show you four baby subscription services afterwards for which I get, you know, 30% of the first year revenue, if you sign up for them. They're not normally the task with generating revenue, but we're like, Hey, if you put this in and you make money, you could take that money and then increase your budget for your own acquisition.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. John already has a couple of customers, and needs about 50 customers to get to $1M in annual revenue.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 27, 2012

Too many startups create a great product and try to figure out a revenue model later, says Urban Airship ‘s Scott Kveton. In the sage, profanity-laced words of super angel Dave McClure , “You should totally be dancing your f*cking balls off.” Building A Great Product Is Not. Know your business model from the get-go.

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Silicon Valley Portland Startup Seattle 60

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

7:52] Was there competition that you had to buy up, and/or what type of acquisitions did you feel like you had to make? [9:19] But when I switched from that to online ordering the revenue and the business tripled with the same customer base and, and I realized just how much friction there was in the ordering process.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. Ask Microsoft, Autodesk or Salesforce.com – the evidence was there from Seattle to Sand Hill Road.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

There are of course other outposts like Austin and Seattle. We will invest pre-revenue and even pre-product if we have discovered the right team in the right kind of market. The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

And if you look elsewhere at places like Seattle you see the same pattern; Microsoft may have been built in Redmond, but Amazon and many of the more recent startups like Zillow, Redfin, Zulily, etc are all in Seattle’s downtown core. So why are software & internet startups more urban today than 5-10 years ago? link] leehower.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I managed to visit Seattle as part of the Australian national Magic The Gathering team in 1998, so that was the highlight of my career as a professional Magic player. Adding Ad Revenue. If you decide to follow a blog acquisition strategy, you’re not going to write the blog yourself, not very likely.

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Technical Review Software Review Prospectus Audience 76

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

In 2011, “I was speaking at Mozcon in Seattle,” remembers Conversion.com ’s Stephen Pavlovich. Out of that result, we created a client with more than €5 million in revenue.” But with them, we’ve scaled revenue by several millions per year and set the stage to scale farther.” The formula has worked for others.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

In 2011, “I was speaking at Mozcon in Seattle,” remembers Conversion.com ’s Stephen Pavlovich. Out of that result, we created a client with more than €5 million in revenue.” But with them, we’ve scaled revenue by several millions per year and set the stage to scale farther.” The formula has worked for others.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. Its thesame with acquisitions. 3 ]If "near you" doesnt mean the Bay Area, Boston, or Seattle,consider moving. Then you can gradually transformyourself from a consulting company into a product company, and haveyour clients pay your development expenses.

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

Snapvine was my first experience being in the driver’s seat of the fund-raising process, and in the 3 years prior to our acquisition we raised over $10mm in venture capital. He tries to write things that havent already been written 9000 times. Or is it? I know this sounds crazy, but it’s not.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

While finishing his final two years of his PhD, helping take reddit to acquisition in late 2006 and moving to San Francisco to start a family, Chris had realised that academia was not the road for him. “I I flew out from Seattle, where I lived, to Boston to Paul’s lecture on the back of his essay,” Phil tells me.

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