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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Industry With The Most Optimist Future

Hearpreneur

Technology has proved to have a great driver of the rise of ‘future industries’ and those that were previously seen to be tech-proof. Digital transactions are now moving beyond B2C transactions & venturing into B2B, P2P, cross-border remittances, & more. 1- Network marketing is one such industry. 10- The gaming industry.

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The Courage to Monetize

Austin Startup

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. A good example is the marketing technology sector. You don’t normally get to dictate the decision as to how your customers want to buy.

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You Shouldn’t Have to Pay to Talk To Your Own Customers

Austin Startup

He is focused on delivering real business value by educating clients about the latest proven technologies, strategies that deliver improved profits and operational efficiencies, and using technology to improve life. Andy Meadows is the founder and CEO of Bearhug , an Austin-based customer engagement platform launching today.

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Startups: It’s not Thelma & Louise

Austin Startup

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. I’m a wild-eyed, competitive founder with totally unique-to-tech expertise in this area.

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Cookies To Humans: Implications Of Identity Systems On Incentives!

Occam's Razor

Most employees work diligently to deliver against set expectations. In this case this was technically a micro-outcome in this case (conversion is offline). 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?

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

Loading… Tech. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. Mossberg Reviews the iPhone 5. » More. » More. Loading… New York. » More.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

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.