YoungUpstarts

JULY 7, 2020

When starting a business, you will have many endeavours whether you have a small or large capital. Aluminium joinery business has been one of the most stable business for the past decade. And when you are confident enough of your brand, you can level up by listing your products on different B2B (business-to-business) website.

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Reputation B2B Technical Review Social Media 237

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The other aspect of the people roadmap is org-level team building necessary to unlock or accompany certain stages of the business. Enterprise SaaS/B2B software – account executives (AEs) and sales developement reps (SDRs). With extremely limited resources and time, one wrong step could cost you 6-9 months of runway.

Part-Time VPE 195

Part-Time VPE Seed Stage CTO Hire Forecast 195

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 23, 2013

I know the argument: The pay-back period on sales, marketing, and up-start costs is long, but there’s a profitable result at the end of the tunnel. So no, this upside-down business model isn’t what a SaaS business should construct. So these costs are amortized over the customers you do land.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 15, 2019

They might seem ground-breaking and amazing for everyone associated with the business. This can be the same for business models that have worked for decades. Modify business plans accordingly and do an A/B testing. If the modified version works, thank your gods for sending cost-free advisors. Accept it and move on.

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Small Business Software Review Technical Review Viral 196

ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

Various business models in an on-demand courier delivery app. Business to Consumer (B2C) – It is the most common type of business model. The need for efficient last-mile delivery – has led to the rising need for Courier service apps among businesses and customers.

Technical Review 163

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Demand Social Media 163

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

” How many times have you heard someone agree that “it would be great if someone did X,” but when show them someone did do X, but it costs $39.99, they don’t buy? Your product is designed with natural tripwires to trigger other pricing ( Freemium model ), or not (business model left as an exercise to your future self).

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Bootstrapping Technical Review B2C Sales Cycle 294

VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2024

Big tech firms are integrating GenAI into many existing tools, B2B and consumer facing, so this is something founders should watch out for Who owns the Gen AI platform? (by For example voice interfaces, enabled by the latest model by chatgpt, 4o. Native GenAi companies should leverage that cost advantage.

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Generative AI ChatGPT Vertical B2B 97

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2021

Yet there are big challenges to hyperlocal, at least for consumer-focused hyperlocal startups, according to Sean Barkulis, Founder of UPlanMe, whose initial consumer-focused business model was an early casualty, writing in Street Fight : Every site requires real curated local content to engage users. Getting these users costs money.

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Finder Startup Curation Seattle 361

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Last week, in part one of the B2B versus B2C series, I explained there are several reasons as to why entrepreneurs should venture into “B2B” (“Business to Business”) service based companies as opposed to any form of “B2C” (“Business to Consumer”) company, “B2B” product-oriented company or strictly a web-based B2B firm.

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B2B Business Model B2C Agile 105

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2019

This is the realm of the angel investor, who wants to own a piece of the new business, and probably knows how to run it and wants a seat on the Board.For B2B startups, every investor expects to see a proven business model, with a working prototype, and preferably a real customer or two.

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Non-disclosure Agreement Angel Investor Bootstrapping SEC 299

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Transcript of How to Turn Marketing Costs Into Profit written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. That’s not really true, but in this episode of The Duct Tape Marketing podcast I do speak with Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose, authors of Killing Marketing: How Innovative Businesses are Turning Marketing Costs into Profit.

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Cost Marketing Audience Media 36

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

You could probably make a case for any one of these, but here’s the thing: Although on the surface these companies appear to have completely different business models, they all share one very powerful component: a scalable online platform connecting people and ecosystems. Salesforce does the same thing in the B2B world.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

In this excerpt from The Lean Entrepreneur , by using fishing as an analogy, Brant and Patrick reveal how market segmentation influences your business model and why “For Whom” is as important as “What” to build. Market segments drive your business model. Or perhaps you need to chum (freemium) the waters a bit?

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Entrepreneur Lean Southern California San Diego 167

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

According to Demand Gen Report, 56% of B2B buyers say that a web search is their first resource, and 79% say the winning vendor’s content significantly impacts their buying decision. How you approach ABM depends on your business model and ideal accounts, as well as how you plan to expand campaigns. What makes you different?

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Lead Generation Marketing Sales Cycle Campaign 94

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

What seems to be the best way to create customers and revenue may result in a business model that is out of vogue with the investment world and shortchanges you on enterprise valuation. If you deliver exactly the same results at the same net cost to the customer via a SaaS product, you may get a tech multiple 10X higher.

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Technical Review Software Review Nevada Silicon Valley 48

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Pre-launch customer development data is another way, sometimes in the form of user surveys for consumer companies or interviews with potential beta customers for B2B businesses. One of our portfolio investments, a B2B SaaS company, was a pre-product startup at the time of the seed round.

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Seed Stage B2B Seed Capital Revenue 150

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

For each potential channel, look at: Customer acquisition cost How many customers you can reach Whether the channel reaches the right audience. In the acquisition phase, measure these performance metrics: Customer acquisition cost Conversion rate Website traffic Click-through rate Bounce rate Quality of leads. Activation.

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Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

Hearpreneur

MAY 13, 2018

The brick and mortar industry is constantly faced with challenges of high costs involved in the business which can be a challenge to many entrepreneurs. Being in the retail business myself it was very difficult to find reliable people for deliveries, and it required a lot of attention that I didn’t want to focus on.

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Business Model B2B Demand Naming 79

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

If you can harness the knowledge, natural enthusiasm, and peer influence of your very best customers — I call them “Rock Star” customers — they’ll market, sell, and help develop breakthrough products for your firm better than your internal resources can do, and often at a fraction of the cost. But it does require some new thinking.

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Customer Fractional CTO Canada Technical Review 154

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

They applied a community-powered business model to the mobile sector, similar to that of Wikipedia, hence the name “giffgaff,” which means “mutual giving.”. It combined bundles of data, calls, and messages–which you’d usually get only with a long-term contract–with the flexibility of a contractless PAYG model. Image source ).

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Customer Community Revenue Software Review 85

View from Seed

JANUARY 5, 2021

At some level nearly all tech entrepreneurs are evangelizing something… a new technology, a new business model, a new brand. The script was largely the same for SpaceX, though the mission was to empower lower cost space travel and human settlement beyond Earth and it required displacing a stodgy aerospace industry.

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Detroit SEC Founder Affiliate 368

Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

When developing a business model, every software and app start-up eventually faces the same core question: Should we focus on monetizing customers or driving usage? As Fred Wilson put it : “When scale matters, when network effects matter, when your users are creating the content and the value, free is the business model of choice.”.

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Viral B2B B2C Business Model 154

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The Three Tidal Waves Coming for Your SaaS Business. Three out of every four B2B buyers would rather self-educate than learn about a product from a sales representative, according to Forrester. Just take a look at these three channels: Facebook : 171% Increase in Cost per Thousand Impressions, or CPM ( 2017 ). Tidal Waves.

Marketing 289

Marketing Sales Cycle Acquisition Sales 289

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. Repaid 12-36 months with ability to prepay at reduced cost. ARR of $500K+. Capital need of up to $1.5M over next 12 months.

Revenue 60

Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

Austin Startup

JULY 2, 2021

Chargify, the leading billing platform for B2B SaaS, announced today the massive productivity improvements and decrease in operating costs that CareerPlug has achieved using its new Chargify Business Intelligence product. Visit www.chargify.com to learn more about Chargify Business Intelligence. and Canada.

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San Antonio B2B Texas Ireland 67

Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

Any place with a fixed cost that relies on foot traffic will come under pressure. Cut costs to stay alive for 24 months. Payroll costs/other variable costs. Remember, a year from now no one wants to be the CEO of a company out of business whose lament is, “I did what the board told me to do.”. External Assessment.

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South Korea Salary Business Model China 334

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 24, 2020

You basically take the overall revenue from your business (i.e. gross revenue) and then subtract your business’s operating expenses and cost of goods sold from that number. What you’re left with is your business’s SDE. Key Indicators That Can Increase Your Business’s Value.

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eCommerce Valuation B2C Revenue 93

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I think the net of it is it went from HubSpot teaching a business model to follow to more of a partner program where you're reselling technology. And I don't think a company with a hundred or however many customers they have, I think is way over a hundred thousand, can continue to be a business.

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Metrics Analytics Forecast Software Review 72

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 9, 2017

Here’s a checklist that will help you get started: Estimate Start-Up Costs. Depending on the type of business, this includes everything from legal, machinery, equipment, inventory, overhead, and domain name, to web services. Penalties for failing to register a business can be very costly. Define Your Business Model.

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Burn Rate B2C Finance Later Stage 100

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Across our portfolio and in my own entrepreneurial experience, I have seen three main sales models work successfully in scaling B2B sales: 1) Enterprise; 2) Telephone; and 3) Developer-driven. The typical quota for a sales rep varies by type of business model (SaaS vs. perpetual), product gross margin (e.g.,

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Sales Technical Review Software Review B2B 50

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Did you, as an eCommerce store owner, know that for online retailers, the average cost to fulfill an order is about 70% of the average order value ? Especially when you’re busy managing several large and small functionalities that form just a part of the entire selling process. What models of eCommerce fulfillment are available?

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eCommerce Customer Retention Reputation 110

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 4, 2017

Even outside the gifting industry, businesses have been able to benefit off the personalization strategy. In the B2B segment, a number of software products targeted at agencies offer ‘white labeled’ solutions that these agencies can customize while reselling to their own end customers.

Marketing 113

Marketing PPC B2B Software 113

View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Webinars have a whole other cost in terms of time, effort, headaches, etc. It’s so important to line up the type of marketer and leadership that fits the business model, the product, or even the founder’s philosophy or early attempts at marketing. NVV: So that’s the stuff that actually worked when you tried it.

Marketing 120

Marketing Sales Cycle Startup CTO Hire 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Local businesses won’t use a site until it has a critical mass of users. Local businesses won’t use a site until it has a critical mass of users. Without users, business owners aren’t going to waste time promoting and marketing their content to your users. Getting these users costs money. This is not just a fad.

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Finder Curation Seattle Community 210

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 27, 2020 A B2B tech company, Flugauto is developing a world-class UAV platform for aerial delivery of industrial cargo for the energy industry. B2B customers simply book on their platform and sit back until the goods are delivered. What the Flugauto system looks like.

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San Francisco Cofounder Georgia B2B 65

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

So to me, a fractional CMO offer is somebody that comes in and understands the full scope of business, the full life cycle from marketing to sales into onboarding. I only work with B2B clients as well into service delivery. What do you see as the challenges to that business model for most people that attempt to do it?

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Channel Acquisition Framework B2B 63