YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Another pro-tip – Keep everything short – small up-front capital requirement, short sales cycles, short payment terms and recurring revenue cycles. Focus on bettering the product and delighting the customer and rest assured your marketing budgets could reduce down. Barters and Associations.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Statistically speaking, you’re probably reading it either through a feedreader or on an aggregator like Hacker News. The rest of y’all are missing out, seriously. Email Helps Get Marginal Revenue Out Of Existing Customers For Almost Nothing. Doubling SaaS Revenue By Changing The Pricing Model.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. What is the right revenue model? But for the rest of us, who create content because we care passionately about having an impact on the world, we need to rethink the process by which we do it.

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Genuine VC

JULY 14, 2008

It’s been amazing to see Google (98% of its video traffic comprised of YouTube) steadily increase its market share for six months straight (see chart below where I aggregated the info from a few months of ComScore press releases). It seemed as though this juggernaut was defying a strong current internet trend – the deportalization of content.

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Genuine VC

JULY 14, 2008

It’s been amazing to see Google (98% of its video traffic comprised of YouTube) steadily increase its market share for six months straight (see chart below where I aggregated the info from a few months of ComScore press releases). It seemed as though this juggernaut was defying a strong current internet trend – the deportalization of content.

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Video .Net Distribution Aggregator 100

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?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

In the rest of this post, I’m going to try to talk you out of building one. Two of the teams focused on the two main sources of revenue, one team on inbound leads, and the last team on site conversion rates. Keeping a growth team in sync with the rest of the company is hard. How I define “growth”. Things…did not go well.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The downside is “free” usually comes with some restrictions like less customization and you’ll likely have to do some manual work to connect your survey results to the rest of your subscription data. It also aggregates all the data from the survey so you can see which cancellation reasons are most common, and which cost you the most revenue.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

General Rules It’s impossible to say unequivocally which traffic is better for every website, but having launched or revamped over 20 revenue-generating websites I’ve noticed a definite pattern in traffic quality based on the source. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. Check out my book Like this post? 3 Dan on 01.12.10

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

revenue) and innovation that large entertainment, media and retail clients will buy. If there’s only two web analytics report you view about your web site, is there value in the rest of the log data? It’s a great situation that gave us a a head start, and funding can now be spent on “go to market&# (i.e.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 8, 2010

All other metrics, those that fall into the nice to know or the highly recommended or the I don't know why I am reporting this but it sounds important camp need to be sent to the farm to live our the rest of their lives! This is the other little secret: no KPI works at an aggregated level to by itself give us insights. Nice right?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

The Data Warehouse market is typically estimated at $30 B in annual revenue and the big data components, where the largest need for performance gains resides, is growing at double digit rates. According to 451 Research , “For vendors with less than $1 B in revenue, we estimate a CAGR of 39%.”

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2020

Working with this dataset can be valuable in terms of understanding the underlying structure of Google Analytics data and experimenting with a number of advanced statistical and data mining techniques that can’t be applied when the data is in aggregate form (which is the norm with standard Google Analytics.). Let’s have a closer look.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 8, 2011

and partly because all they do is present data in the aggregate (a punishable criminal offence if there ever was one!). So often we tend to obsess about acquisition (impressions and clicks and visits and abc), and sometimes we care about outcomes (revenue and conversions and xyz). Here’s the rest of the picture.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Outcomes: Revenue | Ideas Funded Behavior: Path Length | Cart Abandonment Rate Acquisition: Assisted Conversions | Share of Search. Every ecommerce site has to obsess about Revenue. Remember: All data in aggregate is crap, segment or suck. With advertising revenue in a tailspin, it is more important than ever.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

At a high level, user experience is the aggregate and subjective experience of using a product such as a website or app. If you’re ready for more, read the rest of my article on these deeper dives. You might improve user satisfaction metrics with a set of changes, but revenue per visitor goes down. Does it feel seamless and fun?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

I thought there was some chance that it would stay contained or that the rest of the world would follow their example and do really great in the stage where you still can contain it. That would be a pretty obvious connection, but what about the rest of us? Of course, they can work on antibodies. However, surviving it is important.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

MCA-O2S covers the challenge of attributing the offline impact (revenue/brand value/butts in seats/phone calls/etc) driven by online marketing and advertising. We could argue about how much credit the last few should get and how much the rest and how much the first. (Or Or we could not.) Notice above I only have two CPA values.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

As is common in these types of educational companies, aggregators rule the roost. The above image only illustrates three segments and their conversions – search, referrals, and aggregators – purely for the sake for simplicity. The answer is simple: Aggregators. They do everything. Which fire should we add more fuel to?

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

At that scale, you can reach billions of dollars in revenue. ” Users tend to aggregate around platforms and content they identify with (organized around demographics, topics like movies or restaurants, shopping, etc.) The rest is just semantics. But they do $50B in revenue. There is no “Facebook of China.”

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

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. What you cannot do with this data is tie it to the rest of the data in GA for these visitors. Try it when you are in the Store demo account. Take a break.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

As a result, AdWords boasts over one million customers and over $30B in annual revenue. Unfortunately, conversion improvements typically are the aggregate gain of 100 tiny improvements, not one silver bullet. Darwin will take care of the rest. The most obvious form of this, and by far the easiest to implement, is Google AdWords.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

The rest of this article will provide the specifics of what you should include in your business plan, what you should skip, the critical components of the all-important financial projections, and links to additional resources that can help jump-start your plan. Again, keep this section short–no more than a few paragraphs at most.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2015

What is revenue going to look like? A persona is an aggregate of all the traits that your customers have, so that it becomes your most common customer. I want to have enough revenue to hire a manager. We’ve got our ‘Forecast’ tab, and within the ‘Forecast’ tab, we’ve got our Revenue Forecast.

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ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

Would you rather move forward with your multi-million-dollar campaign strategy with the foundation for success resting on nothing but a hope and a prayer? Revenue, downloads, and sign-ups are all examples of lagging indicators. Common examples are Revenue and Conversions. Experimentation is essentially risk management.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 16, 2016

NPS is a valuable customer experience tool, and companies everywhere are using it to improve their experience and boost revenue. But that’s just aggregate information, not totally useful because it’s not your specific industry. See, when people lean on NPS like it’s a magic number, it doesn’t do much good. Find and Fix Issues.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

In order to help you make the leap in the rest of this post I want to share the most common outcomes I have heard associated with branding campaigns, and my recommendations as to what they should measure for their brand campaigns online. You can measure this at an aggregate level, or you can measure it just for your campaign traffic.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2017

We don’t really share revenue numbers but we do pretty well. We grow the business out of our own revenue the old-fashion way which has been challenging but wonderful also. Then, taking that information and aggregating it and analyzing and doing something with it is a project that’s dramatically too big to actually take on.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

All the rest is noise. From the start we said that we would never make a decision as to what features to build or what products to sell based on revenue alone, rather we would focus on things that make our customers smile and by doing so lots and lots of revenue will fall out over time. It’s all about the product. Fire fast.?.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

by creating a great experience, reassuring me with clear pricing, and they won't even have to pay a bounty to their aggregators! Nice CMTB "Act now and rest easy tonight!" Don't you love happy customers and big revenues? Now they can acquire me (I'm pre-convinced!) They want you to call them.

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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. Unlike other companies, we are a true digital record label, not aggregators. FanGager is a US company, based in New York.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

This way GA will show you both keywords while the aggregate for visits will not be skewed – as technically it is just one session. ]. What's the best way to aggregate to understand clearly how to improve? This will cover 2% of the traffic, but of course it is all your revenue. My advice would be this: 1.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

The problem is that it does not provide any incentive to the marketing team to ensure the rest of the experience for the user is great. Conversion Rate is money, sometimes directly as revenue and other times indirectly via Leads collected. The purists amongst you might notice that I'm really using Revenue as the BFF.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Only eBay was founded by a single individual – the rest were team efforts. 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 $$. Hopefully your idea of business model isn’t “ad revenue based”.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Select that and the rest of the Real-Time reports will be segmented to just show traffic from your city. For example, Mr. Green’s total user revenue is $100 + $62 + $25 = $187. This very simple setup can help answer the age-old question of, ‘does my blog content help drive more sales and revenue?'”

Analytics 70

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

A complete collapse of revenue that simultaneously affects your employees and your customers, your partners, your investors, everyone all at once and all the news is bad. They're going to remember that for the rest of your corporate life. If you're in the travel business, a global pandemic is an existential threat. So then what?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 26, 2014

If traffic from one particular source or device behaves significantly different than the rest, it’s enough to screw up your test data completely – and thus also what you’re taking away from the test; in terms of insight as well as revenue. What was the browser version?

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