Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The main thrust of the post is that with YouTube taking a 45% of revenue and talent taking 70% of the remaining revenue, YouTube Networks didn’t have sustainable businesses unless they invested heavily in technology as a tool to increase margin and provide defensibility. And production is where Hollywood beats Silicon Valley.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. Special Report: Silicon Valley’s dirty secret – age bias | Reuters – [link]. Real-Time Marketing is Upon Us–Here’s How Advertising Needs To Adapt | Co.Create – [link]. Who says startups are easy | Om Malik – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley and Who Will Win. Distribution costs have, too. This is classic “Innovator’s Dilemma” market conditions. The Future of the Digital Living Room.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

How They Make Money: Majority of Kayak’s revenue actually comes from advertising on their site (55%), not lead generation or referral fees to travel suppliers as you might think (more on this below). Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million. Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008).

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. We have a long way to go baby!

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

SEO, email marketing, Facebook advertising). Once you’ve established your ideal customer, you can better focus your growth hacker marketing efforts to improve revenue and ROI. One of these colleagues happened to be author and Silicon Valley venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki. This helped grow revenue by 637%.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

And it was going to mention the two words that SuperMac marketing needed to live and breathe: revenue and profit. We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.), They understood the mission intent was our corporate revenue and profit goals. If so, which one?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers. It means that the investors can focus on the issues that one faces at that particular stage.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 29, 2013

6 Emerging Trends In Silicon Valley Entrepreneurship | Forbes – [link]. Facebook’s share of digital advertising growing fast, thanks to mobile | GigaOM – [link]. Everyone is talking about mobile ad revenue, but few are talking about efficacy – [link]. Fracking Your Customer Base – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

when to build out our offices in Silicon Valley, New York & Los Angeles. As we’ve ramped up direct sales over the last few years our need to have relationships with the major media & advertising companies has become critical. So our board meetings consisted of discussion about. how to evolve our management team.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Good whitepaper on advertising measurement metrics | by Ben Kunz – crowdspring.co/HsVIMR. Good whitepaper on advertising measurement metrics | by Ben Kunz – crowdspring.co/HsVIMR. Entrepreneur PSA – Advertising Businesses are Hard | Seth’s Blog - crowdspring.co/1aHHgHS. Perfect employees don’t exist.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The best and most consistent funds in Silicon Valley (e.g. But my conversations in the private corridors on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley is that many fund sizes will be smaller going forward. Revenue must come from a primary source (as opposed to advertising or other third party sources).

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The Next Web

AUGUST 22, 2013

Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. First, brainstorm the top ten levers that will drive revenue, users, and/or usage for your business. He is currently CEO of Bubbly, a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Small Business Marketing Tip: Send Email Campaigns At Night To Increase Revenue | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. The accelerating crisis of advertising visual inventory | by Ben Kunz – [link]. 30 Inspiring & Creative Advertisements From Around The World – [link]. The Secret to a Strong Branding Message?

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

A year goes by, you miss your revenue plan, and you’ve burned through your first VP of Sales. As another example, I could see which magazines are on people desks, and that tells me where to advertise. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Your board nods sagely at your target customer list.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

We have companies in Chicago, San Francisco (and elsewhere in Silicon Valley), Omaha, and New York. Wayfair got to $250M revenue (7 yrs) without a very good idea which products were in supplier inventory and which weren’t. However, it’s important to be careful when thinking about brand advertising and/or PR.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

When 3M brought “lead users” into its innovation process, they improved revenues by a factor of eight times over innovations from internal product developers. Some of the most creative technology coming out of Silicon Valley is designed to do exactly that. You have to make it easy for them to do so.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Why Bravo’s ‘Start-Ups: Silicon Valley’ Is Bad for Entrepreneurship - [link]. Just 25 Developers Grabbed 50% Of App Revenues On U.S. Weak … Why Small Agencies Crush Big Agencies | Advertising Age – [link]. Questions to Ask Potential Cofounders: The Master List | Founder Dating - [link]. Have we even noticed?

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Stuart Wall, CEO of Signpost , a local advertising platform funded by Spark Capital and Google Ventures. In January, Denver will become one of the few American cities that allows its residents to purchase and recreationally consume marijuana, a move that is expected to create jobs and generate tax revenue.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Over time the idea that winners in new markets are the ones who have been the first (not just early) entrants into their categories became unchallenged conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley. Google is a $25 billion dollar company with most of its revenue from AdWords. The only problem is that it’s simply not true. billion.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

revenues from internet video services spanning user-generated content to television shows and movies will exceed $7 billion this year. In 1999, Lee joined the Silicon Valley new media content contingent as an Internet-company CEO, and has since founded two innovative Los Angeles media companies. How about Internet Video?

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

AUGUST 17, 2011

I guess you can call it a pivot (aka Silicon Valley buzz word du jour) for my app. price point – anything over $0 is challenging but I opted out of advertising revenues. I did some customer validation and soon realized that what I thought was funny, may not be funny to someone else.

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Scalable Startup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

[contact-form] Can any other region “catch up” to Silicon Valley, or be the next Silicon Valley? These towns are setting their expectations way too high while the real Silicon Valley giggles at the sight. Silicon – Uh, yeah, that word? It’s what started all this.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

YouTube takes too high of a revenue split (45% vs. 30% that Apple and many other distribution companies take – FWIW, YouTube argues this is because their costs are much higher since they host and stream the video). Your tech needs to add value to content producers, the audience and advertisers. I’ve written about that, too.

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Diego Basch

MARCH 14, 2013

I avoid the entertainment industry, and anything where the revenue stream is based on advertising. I’ve been around Silicon Valley for a while so I’m connected to many engineers and investors whom I deeply respect. Notice that this is a very subjective statement. Some lawyers, even.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 29, 2012

There is a highly under-known fact in the software engineering world – many of the best developers and architects are not in Silicon Valley, but in the New York metro area. 4) Respect for BUSINESS – Sales, Marketing, Advertising, Strategy were all practically invented in NYC. (5) tomnora.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

But as sweet as that success has been (we invested pre-revenue in a small team) today my even more important news was the further expansion of our partner ranks. It was a software platform for allowing advertisers to purchase brand integration (product placements) as a standardized unit through a marketplace.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Super-angel investors are a new category of investors (like Mike Maples Jr. ), closer to venture capitalists, who are perceived to be more sophisticated, insightful, or well-connected in the startup community, particularly with respect to technology companies in Silicon Valley and other technology centers (also called micro-VCs).

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

After all, without customers, there is no revenue. If you don’t know which segment of the market you will target, how will you advertise? But I’m always surprised when that entrepreneur or small business owner has a tough time describing the potential customers for their new business’s products and services.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. It’s how things are done across the country outside of Silicon Valley. This post originally appeared on TechCrunch. It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Once the product begins to ship, startup sales execs use orders and revenue as its marker of progress in understanding customers. Well, because the revenue plan we promised the investors shows us generating customer revenue from the day of first customer ship.” Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 16, 2018

There, I learned a lot about the nuts and bolts of the large scale eCommerce business – specifically paid advertising and improving efficacy. HW: DNVBs – can they be started from anywhere or do you think we’ll see the majority out of Silicon Valley, or NYC and LA?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Yet we used the product development model not only to manage product development, but as a road map for finding customers and to time our marketing launch and sales revenue plan. The company has a large press event, and Marketing launches a series of programs to create end-user demand (trade shows, seminars, advertising, email, and so on).

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

While no comprehensive data about the movement exist, some prominent start-ups say their growth in the past year — in users, if not necessarily profit — affirms that the sharing movement is finding an audience beyond the technology hubs of Silicon Valley and Manhattans trendy SoHo district. Advertisement. Most Popular.

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Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

Costolo clearly wants to position Twitter as a complementary part of the media ecosystem (which it is by and large) rather than a competitor, and there remains a chance that Twitter will have other forms of revenue besides ads. Here’s why: Virtually all of Twitter’s revenue comes from advertising.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 11, 2018

In April 2017, I spoke at a tech conference in Silicon Valley and very few audience members had heard of “initial coin offerings” — I was asked to explain what they were. Last week, when I spoke at another conference all anyone wanted to talk about was blockchain and cryptocurrencies…. And what are we getting in return?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Most startups following the Product Development Model never achieve their revenue plan and burn through a ton of cash not knowing what hit them. After twelve months Handspring’s revenue was $170 million. Prodigy spent $50 million on advertising and in-store displays. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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