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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

You can read various articles out there which will give you the cursory facts about Airbnb like their overall revenue or profitability or how their business has faired here in 2020 in the COVID environment. But ops & customer support is another 17-20% of revenue and arguably you couldn’t run the business if you took that away.

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A Bigger Truth About Restaurant Food Delivery

Both Sides of the Table

It was only about 10–15% of their actual total revenue per month so for many it wasn’t a battle worth fighting?—?they The problem for the restaurants is that the more successful the “aggregators” of customer demand become over time, the less power the restaurants themselves have individually.

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5 Secrets To Generating Revenue During COVID-19

YoungUpstarts

b y Jack Siney, GovSpend Chief Revenue Officer. Each video is available online, on-demand in the GovSales University portal. One of the most useful sets of data is the government purchase order data aggregated in an online database by GovSpend. . The global pandemic, COVID-19, has changed our world as we know it.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. Digital Wallets – Digital wallets could grow select vertical software platforms’ revenues to $27-$50bn in 2030. Generalizable robotics represent a $24 trillion-plus global revenue opportunity.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

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. As have BigFrame and Machinima.

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Introducing Trust, and the Importance of Product-Founder Fit

Both Sides of the Table

Digital advertising spend is projected to grow 25% this year to $191 billion, and Google (69%), Facebook (59%), Snapchat (116%) and Twitter (87%) all just reported rapid growth in their year over year advertising revenues. eCommerce for example grew 39% just last year - so there’s simply more demand. founders, marketers, investors?—?and

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CXL Live 2022 Recap: Main Takeaways From 6 World-Class Marketers

ConversionXL

Salesforce, for example, increased its revenue market share to 18.4% Modern B2B” Gaetano delivered his insights on which indicators you should use for your demand gen program. On the other hand, demand generation , on the other hand, uses a long term, education-focused strategy. Then, there’s demand capturing.

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