View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The world is experiencing a global economic crisis of a proportion most living people have never witnessed. Year over year revenue growth rates are measured in multiples not percentages. Startup pitch decks now have an obligatory unit economics page, not just an up and to the right revenue graph. 2009-2011: Retrenchment.

IPO 202

IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 202

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The world is experiencing a global economic crisis of a proportion most living people have never witnessed. Year over year revenue growth rates are measured in multiples not percentages. Startup pitch decks now have an obligatory unit economics page, not just an up and to the right revenue graph. 2009-2011: Retrenchment.

IPO 100

IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 100

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Revenue Per Human. But, you want people to obsess about Revenue and not Cost. If 10xing your revenue requires that you quadruple your costs, what's the problem? Remember, we still have PPH to ensure that the revenue we are driving is driving a positive influence on the bottom-line of the company. Subtle change.

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Acquisition Naming 60

Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

You might notice what’s not on that list above: revenue, investors. No revenue isn’t always a problem for venture-style businesses; no investors + no revenue = challenges for most founders without tremendous self-funding. However, we also discovered key challenges we could not overcome with the capital and window of our team.

Silicon Valley 54

Silicon Valley Startup B2C Sweat Equity 54

Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

It is apparent that the United States has the highest performing entrepreneurship, but what is truly amazing is how women contribute the biggest growth in revenue, employment and financial efficiency. She is the founder and CEO of the brand amplification company called Thulium that specializes in B2B social media account-based marketing.

Entrepreneur 76

Entrepreneur Social Media B2B Cofounder 76

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Farming is also often overlooked, but can help grow customer accounts and revenues from 30% upwards (if successful). Great list! Philippe Botteri.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghoshs research. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law.

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Let's go back to our table, and global oil consumption. This example is about the very sad reality of the Ebola epidemic and the sadder still inaction by governments (like ours). I'm sure that information like this played a key role in getting our government, and likely others, to jump and take action when they did.

Analytics 143

Analytics Sierra Leone Channel Conversion 143

Agile VC

MAY 7, 2014

But there’s a ton of interesting bits on everything from growth rates to corporate governance, so I will still do a deep analysis though will serialize this into a couple posts. I’ll first start with a brief background on the genesis of Alibaba and a top level sizing of the company and its underlying businesses. ==.

China 187

China B2B Flash IPO 187

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2016

In the end, it was the sections governing emotion that lit up like a Christmas tree. When you boil it all down, ultimately corporate buyers are people and that is probably the most significant driver of this bleeding of personal emotion into the B2B purchase. Where was this fake news coming from? billion every year.

Denver 48

Denver B2B Design New York 48

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

3GVision is the global leader in mobile barcode services that use the camera phone to scan barcodes. Established location-based services to enable the CSP offer B2B and B2C services based on mobile positioning, tracking & locating, turn-by-turn navigation and mobile local search. Amos Spacecom. Craze Productions. GoNet Systems.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103