View from Seed

MARCH 5, 2019

There are a variety of quick write-ups on the Lyft S-1 for basic figures like annual revenue, rider growth, or who the largest shareholders are. Lyft helpfully provides the number of active riders, total number of rides, and average revenue per rider on a quarterly basis. Here’s one from Pitchbook and one from TechCrunch.

Aggregator 120

Aggregator IPO .Net Revenue 120

Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Revenue needs to grow 20x, and margins must expand dramatically. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. Global smartphone revenue is about $420B.

Valuation 48

Valuation Technical Review Forecast Social Network 48

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

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.

North America 401

North America IPO Prospectus Europe 401

The Startup Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

As we have said, the trouble with focusing on broad markets, aggregate revenue and gross margins, is that this approach does not show us what the bottom line is for every transaction. Gross margins, for instance, do not reflect the overhead, operating and supply chain costs or sales and marketing costs.

Business Model 167

Business Model Aggregator Revenue Analytics 167

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Years earlier, he had founded Bikky after being inspired by his mother-in-law and the New York City restaurant she’s owned and operated for over 20 years. This helps restaurants operate more profitably through higher customer retention, frequency, and lifetime value. The secret to her success? can be made efficiently.

New York City 60

New York City Customer Aggregator Retention 60

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

They’ve grown from nothing to >$2B in revenue in 30 months time, making the company among the fastest growing businesses in the histroy of the world. How They Make Money: Groupon keeps a share of the coupon value (typically 40-50%) as its net revenue (1). Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $713M. to the merchant.

North America 100

North America Chicago Boston Silicon Valley 100

Agile VC

MARCH 5, 2019

There are a variety of quick write-ups on the Lyft S-1 for basic figures like annual revenue, rider growth, or who the largest shareholders are. Lyft helpfully provides the number of active riders, total number of rides, and average revenue per rider on a quarterly basis. Here’s one from Pitchbook and one from TechCrunch.

Aggregator 100

Aggregator .Net Revenue IPO 100

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

So Westlaw created Peer Monitor, which aggregates anonymized data on firms’ financial and operational performance, collected from participating clients with their permission — and this turned into a lucrative new business. Believably promote your product. Connect with your prospects (a.k.a., their peers).

Customer 168

Customer Social Media Retention Canada 168

View from Seed

JUNE 13, 2019

revenue business still growing >50% YoY? Chewy now has over 10 million customers, repeat purchases by existing customers account for approximately 90% of their revenue today. This is analogous to SaaS companies like Slack or Dropbox, which have strong revenue growth just as their existing users consumer more of their service.

Leadership 214

Leadership .Net Revenue Acquisition 214

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Certain experts have described the situation as a Keynesian supply shock, a negative event that triggers aggregate supply shortages with bigger impacts than the prior reduction in labor supply. One area of supply chain operations that have undergone only a little change is deal management. Yet, they get more complicated.

B2B 153

B2B Cost Management Forecast 153

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

We collect the complete narrative of what they discovered talking to customers as well as aggregate interviews, hypotheses to test, invalidated hypotheses and mentor and instructor engagements. We track each team’s progress as they test their business model hypotheses.

Incubator 315

Incubator Intellectual Property Startup Lean 315

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 230

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 230

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Along with Greycroft Partners we were the first investors in Maker Studios 3 years ago when the company had no revenue and limited infrastructure. but not that this justifies take a 45% revenue share. Industry averages for talent revenue shares are about 70% with top talent making even more. ” YouTube takes 45%.

Networking 366

Networking Media Distribution Video 366

The Startup Magazine

JULY 16, 2021

As we have said, the trouble with focusing on broad markets, aggregate revenue and gross margins, is that this approach does not show us what the bottom line is for every transaction. Gross margins, for instance, do not reflect the overhead, operating and supply chain costs or sales and marketing costs.

Business Model 78

Business Model Aggregator Revenue Analytics 78

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.

Customer 167

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. There’s different flavors or derivations of these… e-tailers and marketplaces are both e-commerce businesses but differ in operational model, growth patterns, and profit margins. Instagram hadn’t built a true business (e.g.

IPO 194

IPO Aggregator B2B Internet 194

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

When nonsubscribers arrive at the site, an algorithm instantly “scores” the visitors on more than 60 different factors, such as their frequency of visits and the kind of device or operating system they’re using. One way to sidestep the loss of revenue is to aggregate more eyeballs. A lot of eyeballs.

Media 180

Media Artificial Inteligence Los Angeles Algorithm 180

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). .” Notably I said: You have to have owned & operated websites (O&O) to drive traffic to.

SEM 150

SEM Los Angeles Silicon Valley Acquisition 150

ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

Marketers should also be looking at acquisition (visits, unique visitors, pageviews), behavior (pages per visit, time on site, bounce rate), and revenue (if you’re eCommerce). These behaviors can be useful in investigating how different behaviors impact retention and churn, funnel conversion rates, and revenue. Aggregate Audience Data.

Mobile 48

Mobile Technical Review Software Review Metrics 48

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 13, 2017

Those dreams can fuel any business as it secures loyal customers and achieves a consistent revenue stream, but that may not be enough to take it to the next level: its transformation into a larger company. by Stephen Sheinbaum, founder of Bizfi. Every entrepreneur starts out with dreams of success. Streamline your day-to-day tasks.

Small Business 100

Small Business Small Business Administration Social Media Aggregator 100

Agile VC

JUNE 13, 2019

revenue business still growing >50% YoY? Chewy now has over 10 million customers, repeat purchases by existing customers account for approximately 90% of their revenue today. This is analogous to SaaS companies like Slack or Dropbox, which have strong revenue growth just as their existing users consumer more of their service.

Leadership 100

Leadership .Net Revenue Acquisition 100

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Bootstrap was term coined from the computer lingo ‘booting’ which means starting a computer or starting a chain of processes which eventually starts up the operating system. Another pro-tip – Keep everything short – small up-front capital requirement, short sales cycles, short payment terms and recurring revenue cycles.

Bootstrapping 100

Bootstrapping Cofounder Startup Sales Cycle 100

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2016

We intend to focus on the ride-sharing, transportation market in South Asia, as it is the most eventful zone in this regard: along with also being a sector that’s making leaps and strides in its scope and revenue. In countries where it operates, Grab has tie-ups with brands that are doing well regionally, boosting brand awareness.

Demand 100

Demand Singapore Malaysia Asia 100

Up and Running

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Credit and debit cards are easy and convenient, and accepting them has been proven to increase revenue by as much as 30 percent. The Payment Card Industry (PCI) security standards are technical and operational requirements set by the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) to protect cardholder data. What is PCI Compliance? .

IP 67

IP Aggregator Security Operations 67

Growthink Blog

JANUARY 6, 2016

A classic Business Stretch Goal is the subject line of this post: Doubling Your Business’ revenue in 12 short months. To demonstrate, let's break that “Double Revenues in 2016” Stretch Goal down into a series of Attainable Goals whereby we improve performance of the below four key business processes by just 20% each : 1. 20% Better.

Sales 48

Sales Aggregator Campaign Revenue 48

Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Be sure you understand how to make every aspect of the business repeatable and scalable: aggregation, ingredient purchasing, production, fulfillment, customer experience and customer retention. Bringing in revenue is the hardest part of any business. I think more important to focus on revenue than simply cutting costs.

Balance Sheet 60

Balance Sheet Incubator Cofounder Salary 60

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

It means relying on your own savings and revenue to operate and expand.”. It is also important to realize that, statistically speaking, most startups become operational without any venture capital or external funding sources. It is worth noting that while this is challenging to achieve, it is incredibly rewarding to do so.

Bootstrapping 85

Bootstrapping Global Startup Hungary 85

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 30, 2019

In other words, you go to a website and they’ve got all these glowing reviews on their website, but then there’s Google who is aggregating these theoretically in a sort of impartial way. John Jantsch: Okay, so on Google’s five point or five star scale, is there a perfect aggregate score that you should be aiming for?

Software Review 65

Software Review Reputation Small Business Aggregator 65

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

For SaaS or other recurring revenue businesses these figures might be on a bookings basis rather than GAAP revenue, but conceptually they’re similar. Most companies in the IT sector are profitable at least on an operating or cashflow basis, though often not on a GAAP basis when non-cash expenses are taken into account.

IPO 100

IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

Austin Startup

JULY 5, 2017

For a sense of scale, consider that Tesla generated $7B of revenue in 2016. Of that, Tesla does not even break out non-automotive revenue, meaning that their battery/solar business today is small fraction of total sales. The global energy industry is on the order of trillions of dollars of revenue.

Nevada 66

Nevada Global eCommerce Engineer 66

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

The company has just missed its quarterly revenue forecast. Lets take an example, and look at how they might do this: They will be able to tell you that revenue is composed of deals. To compute revenue, you multiply average deal size by number of deals. Bookings is the pre-cursor to Revenue. Obvious, isn’t it?

Metrics 55

Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Typically, Pre-Seed rounds are less than $1M in aggregate capital raised. Seed is the new Series A. (~$2M used get for building product, establishing product-market fit and early revenue). 6M-$15M used to scale customer acquisition and revenue). It used to be that a company could go public when it hit $20M in revenue.

Seed Stage 82

Seed Stage Finance Later Stage Equity 82

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Marketing is an investment where the money is spent to acquire more customers for your business, leading to higher profits and more revenue. Much like your sales and operational expenses, having a preliminary budget can help you forecast and set goals for the coming month, quarter, and year. Plan for the future. Pitch to investors.

Artificial Inteligence 142

Artificial Inteligence Marketing Channel Campaign 142

Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 30, 2020

Generally, companies use artificial intelligence to cut costs or increase revenue. Because financial institutions are not able to invest that money, fraud also indirectly results in lost revenue. To combat these issues, more and more companies are using AI for their hiring processes and operations.

Artificial Inteligence 59

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Retention Aggregator 59

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.

B2B 45

B2B Marketing SEM Bandwidth 45

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The very best analysts are comfortable operating with ambiguity and incompleteness, while all others chase perfection in implementation / processing / reports. Outcomes: Revenue | Ideas Funded Behavior: Path Length | Cart Abandonment Rate Acquisition: Assisted Conversions | Share of Search. We have to really get good at this.

Metrics 141

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141