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Post-Crisis Digital Trends That Will Reshape Your Business in 2020

Up and Running

Simply put, IoT is a combination of sensor and data analytics systems, helping businesses aggregate metrics to make more accurate decisions. To meet customers changing post-crisis expectations business owners have had to start creating new offerings or pursuing new revenue streams outside of their core business.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

How many social networks, picture sharing sites, new aggregators or blogs can we really spend time on? Revenue Metrics. Revenue metrics are one of the first things I ask for from the startups in which I invest. I like to think of revenue drivers. Sure, but will they still be using it in a year? In 6 months?

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Six Nudges: Creating A Sense Of Urgency For Higher Conversion Rates!

Occam's Razor

Increase current conversion rate by 25%, quantify how much increased revenue there will be. Aim for quintupling revenue, obviously, but calculating just 25% improvement will give you all the budget you need from your management to insert urgency into the shopping process. Significantly higher revenue awaits. Do something simple.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

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. Let’s look at each figure.

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

Agora’s selling points are its ability to reduce users’ IT infrastructure cost and enhance revenue for service providers. JointBuy allows buyers to start a new deal on any available product and share the idea with others through existing social networking sites.

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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

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 Do It: Build email list of consumers interested in local deals (mainly via paid search & social network ads), sell coupon programs to merchants via telesales.

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YourBuzz Helps Small Businesses Manage Online Buzz

YoungUpstarts

View an aggregation of customer reviews and online mentions. Respond, re-tweet, take actions or create a new conversation on major social sites. And here’s yet another: American Express OPEN launches YourBuzz , a free tool to help small businesses manage their online presence. View existing business listings. The good news?