David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 28, 2016

According to Experiment Engine’s data, anywhere from 50% to 80% of test results are inconclusive, depending on the vertical and stage of the testing program. I’d only implement at a segment by segment basis if the segment is driving significant revenue or leads (depending on my goal).”. A surprising amount of tests end up inconclusive.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

With that implicit assumption, startups hire a VP of Sales with a great rolodex and call on established mainstream companies while marketing creates a brand and buzz to create demand and drive it into the sales channel (web, direct salesforce, etc.) After twelve months Handspring’s revenue was $170 million. End result?

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

With each hand, a small percentage of the pot is scraped off by the dealer, which in essence becomes the “revenue” for the casino. While casinos use the term “rake,” a plethora of interesting word choices exist which all describe the same thing – keeping a little bit of the revenue for the company that is running the service.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

It might cater to new customers, it might solve a different need, or it might involve a different revenue model. This pivot fundamentally changes your required organizational competencies, from Sales and Marketing to Engineering, Operations, and Support. Our bounty system became a key part of their revenue model.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 29, 2019

While it may come as a surprise to locals and visitors alike, the short-term-rental (STR) unicorn considers Austin to be one of its 24 global “super cities” : destinations that routinely generate the company’s largest revenues, and are viewed as having the strongest prospects for future growth. including Expedia, Travelocity and Hotels.com?—?now

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

Some engineers were insulted that we were going to slow down their board and sales was convinced that within days of the board hitting the street we would have a black market in chips to speed up the $699 boards and turn them into $3,999 ones. Marketings job is to take engineering products and use them to maximize revenue and profit.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

What’s less intuitive, however, is that the biggest winners of the past six months, in terms of new accounts opened, have been megabanks like Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo. Then COVID-19 hit, hurting sales for many SMBs. Effectively, the merchant is selling their future card sales at a discount.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

Just consider this for a moment: 29 of America’s 100 top-paid CEOs collected more in compensation than their corporations paid in income taxes. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. Cars becoming mobile rolling lounge rooms where screen time becomes a major revenue source for auto makers.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

Just consider this for a moment: 29 of America’s 100 top-paid CEOs collected more in compensation than their corporations paid in income taxes. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. Cars becoming mobile rolling lounge rooms where screen time becomes a major revenue source for auto makers.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Respondents deemed between 12%-16% of companies generating revenues to be essentially “worthless” and deemed 20%-26% of their pre-revenue investments to be “worthless.” Spend the time raising money yourself, using oblique sources of revenue such as contract work or any one of a hundred others. Add to this that 72.7% Translation?

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Central America. 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). Christmas was even better for Mobile (traffic, sales, store visits, everything). Sadly, the same for perhaps the entire African continent.

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