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). You have to have some of your own content formats and not just be an aggregator of talent.

SEM 150

SEM Los Angeles Silicon Valley Acquisition 150

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

After all, without customers, there is no revenue. … Due to the relatively small potential contract values in restaurants, startups serving these customer segments have to build very efficient sales teams or online customer acquisition tools to aggregate many of them inexpensively.

Small Business 110

Small Business Marketing Startup Silicon Valley 110

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. There was now a public market for companies with no revenue, no profit and big claims.

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

So their revenue figures, pre IPO financing and ownership, and other info is all widely available. If this were a math class, I’d just say the proof is evident but if you want some data on Twitter’s 2013 YTD revenue here you go. Twitter’s IPO has garnered a ton of attention in the tech and popular press.

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IPO Aggregator B2B Internet 194

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. What is the right revenue model?

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2013

Evernote makes a great software product and distributes it through a free to upgrade approach. Products and services can be packaged and distributed through a multitude of channels and delivered in physical form, digital form and as one time purchases or ongoing subscriptions. This is probably the most common approach.

Business Model 77

Business Model Aggregator eCommerce Distribution 77

www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Doubling SaaS Revenue By Changing The Pricing Model. Sidenote: If you run a software business, you absolutely need some form of server monitoring, because the application being down costs you money and trust.

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Revenue Distribution Software Non-Compete 62

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

“I have been very surprised at Austin’s strength in “IT consumerization&# – ideas that combine business software value with consumer internet distribution ideas,&# he said. revenue) and innovation that large entertainment, media and retail clients will buy. Is there real value in that data?

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Curation Austin Cofounder Ruby 118

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Here at Palo Alto Software, our mission statement is this: “We help people succeed in business.” Distribution. For product companies, a distribution plan is an important part of the complete business plan. Distribution is how you will get your product into the hands of your customers. Retail Distribution.

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Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

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. 11) Exit .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

We have fought valiant battles, paid expensive consultants, purchased a crazy amount of software, and achieved an implementation high that is quickly, followed by a " gosh darn it where is my return on investment from all this?" But how do we distribute credit for the conversions across all those channels? " low.

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Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

Yesterday I wrote Part 1 of the series on the changes to the software industry over the past decade that has led to changes in the venture capital industry itself. The Amazon AWS-led revolution of startup innovation has led to a massive increase in the aggregate number of startups. They should start “lean.&#

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

Then there have been entrepreneurs who sort of don't do anything in the realm of biotech but can somehow help with logistics or distribution or whatever that like, "I am going to ask my friends who do run biotech companies or hospitals or whatever, what they need me to do and then all of our plans are out the window.

Silicon Valley 68

Silicon Valley Technical Review Government .Net 68

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2013

For www.ti.com the content clusters might be: Products, Applications, Tools & Software, Support, Community, Sample & Buy etc. More revenue! #2: Extra work for you to download the data and aggregate it, but it is very valuable data so put in the extra effort. Go do one for your own site. I promise it will be reveling.

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Search Analytics PPC Green 135

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

No NDA's to sign, no software to install, no IT resources required. It has been a great way to immediately influence revenue for my ecommerce engagements. The latter is particularly useful as an aggregated view for senior executives. and suddenly your voices/words will have 10x more confidence informed by real-world usage.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics eCommerce PPC 60

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD. We live, think and breathe digital music distribution. Now your SD content can be turned into True HD.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Most large healthcare IT systems are chosen based on one primary objective: revenue management. healthcare system is complex and difficult, and most of these large EHR systems’ number one purpose is to deliver revenue. Billing and collection in the U.S. They contribute to the overall problem.

Customer 59

Customer Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 59

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

You have to build a large online tech company that distributes video.” And it’s not about aggregating traffic better. Online technology company that distributes video. They will partner with every producer of online video software. Most will fail. I repeat the same mantra to every one I see. I hate weightism.

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Video Curation Distribution Silicon Valley 150

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

By way of crude example, if your building innovative trading software for Wall Street, be where you customers are and where you can best network. spent $20 million to get back to the same revenue that I had when I was CEO. spent $20 million to get back to the same revenue that I had when I was CEO. During this year they.

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. So from day one, my knowledge about how to do a startup was zero. Back to the top.

Founder 80

Founder Conversion Distribution Silicon Valley 80

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

endeve – Issue invoices, manage clients and check revenues all in one place. Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. Invoice Place – Online billing software that lets you track invoices, quotes, receipts and more.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

it’s really a software business, not liquidity driven) and that B2C marketplaces could not be built under the giant momentum of eBay’s “ network effect. Start with aggregating scarce and in-demand inventory. By the end, 99 percent of the B2B marketplaces had cratered and only B2C eBay was left standing and thriving.

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B2C B2B Demand Vertical 136

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 17, 2010

Transportation scheduling and booking, distribution of presentations, speaker and event ratings, etc. could all be little applications that built on top of the audience, offered by the organizer, that Eventbrite aggregates right at the start of the event participation process.

API 94

API Cloud Venture Capital Widget 94

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Download Software. Conversion Rate could be through the roof and yet revenue could be down, your first clues for this will be in understand AOV. Also for this metric more than any other it is important to look at distribution and not averages (they lie!). Form submissions (leads). Trial signups. Content consumption. But get it.

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Metrics Web Non-Compete Analytics 123

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. This is the blog post I needed to read.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Content, including articles, guides, and case studies, can still generate prospects and customers consistently—you just need to approach distribution from a different angle. Most businesses have a handful of target accounts they dream of closing—big, prestigious companies that could generate a whole lot of revenue in a single deal.

B2B 133

B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’ Looking at the conference agenda , it’s not hard to spot the trends for 2010: Mobile Clouds – additional storage and new revenue streams to operators.

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like. Distribution and data is where the power lies, it’s no longer in making things. Australia might possibly be one of the worst offenders.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Artificial Inteligence 48

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like. Distribution and data is where the power lies, it’s no longer in making things. Australia might possibly be one of the worst offenders.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Artificial Inteligence 48

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Spacecom is offering a wide range of Pan African satellite services, including: Cellular backhaul, Rural telephony, Broadband VSAT networks, e-government, e-learning, e- health, Direct To Home (DTH) Multi-channel platforms, DSNG, Video Distribution & Contribution. Ceedo Technologies. Craze Productions. GoNet Systems.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

For this discussion, we were joined by CEOs Jared Hecht of Fundera, Joshua Reeves of ZenPayroll, Matt Rissell of TSheets, and our own Sabrina Parsons of LivePlan and Palo Alto Software. Then now into TSheets which is a subscription based software with a much different model so again thank you for having us, having me on the panel.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Teams know how many tickets were distributed; however, they do not know in “real time” how many people are in the venue or stadium during the event. the number of purchases or revenue that will occur in the future. That’s true whether you plan to license software or hire an outside organization. Predictive analytics software.

Analytics 131

Analytics Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Campaign 131

ConversionXL

MAY 25, 2017

If you only survey your best customers, it’s easy to find that most of them prefer your software to others. Salary tends to be a metric that doesn’t fall on a normal distribution – rather, a few people make a ton of money and that skews the mean. Image Source. Averages can also mute your insights at times.

Conversion 103

Conversion Metrics Salary Jordan 103

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In this case, a simple distribution of overall search traffic and the amount that is coming via paid search. It shows Traffic Share and distribution of the share. If you are looking for short-term revenue or quick wins, you are better off skipping it (do something boring, but profitable, like Email or Affiliate marketing).

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Non-Compete Search 60

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

But the angels who’ve staked their funds on spreading bits of money all over the Valley are increasingly anxious that only 20 percent of their deals — in aggregate — will get the chance to keep going. iOS App Store revenue still dwarfs Google Play’s, but the challenger is catching up fast. November 29, 2012.

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93