Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

How about young or pre-revenue companies? Although young companies rarely measure profitability this repeatedly, more mature companies usually can bring from five to ten percent of revenues to the bottom line in the form of net profit. And we were able to secure that investment along with a partner from that firm joining our board.

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Up and Running

JUNE 8, 2016

If you already own your own hair salon, you’re wondering how to increase revenue and how to take your business to the next level. When it comes to boosting your hair salon’s revenue, selling gift certificates isn’t just a good idea, it’s a no-brainer. Give client booking software a try. Should you use only organic products?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “ As we continue our exploration of the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step approach that startup teams can use to go from ideation to preparing to scale – I will walk you through the principles.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

Growing Your Audience (And Your Revenue) With A Book written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Matt Briel In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Matt Briel. 5:12] Why would someone want to self-publish a book? [7:30] 11:42] What does it take to produce a book? [18:49]

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 13, 2021

She’s also the author of a book called Tell Her She Can’t: Inspiring Stories of Unstoppable Women. In Kelly’s recent book, Tell Her She Can’t, she shares the true stories of 35 inspirational women who overcame the naysayers to achieve “impossible” dreams. 16:48] Has the travel bug hit you again yet? [17:22]

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “ As we continue our exploration of the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step approach that startup teams can use to go from ideation to preparing to scale – I will walk you through the principles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

In the short term you need customers to find you at any price, and in the longer term you need revenue, profit, and return loyalty. Based on my own experience in both large and small companies, I agree it can be done, with the essential principles outlined in a new book, “ Winning Now, Winning Later ,” by David M.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

It is about focusing your marketing efforts on a few select companies that could represent huge revenue streams. As Des Traynor , co-founder of Intercom put it in the Intercom on Jobs-to-be-Done book : Des Traynor: Some products are better defined by the job they do than the customers they serve. Second-party historical data.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 23, 2022

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. <#1- Read 12 books. I enjoy reading so much, whether it's fiction, poetry or personal development books. Thanks to Adam Wood, Revenue Geeks ! #10-

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In fact, when Brian and Dharmesh were actually creating it and wrote the book Inbound Marketing, that's when Duct Tape Marketing was really around and I had a lot of conversations with them early on. I should have gotten on the partner train. That's hundred grand annual revenue. You were an early HubSpot person.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

To do this we partnered with the RevGenius community to get a better understanding the challenges mature companies faced. One of the respondents said they called it a “Desperate marketing attempt—everybody just tries to book a meeting, try to generate sales qualified opportunities and they don’t have results.”

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Toya is a female-led studio partnering with the biggest platforms in the gaming industry to develop and promote games that reflect equal opportunities, diverse characters, and more dynamic storylines across the gender spectrum. It takes a LOT of courage to say no to potential revenue, especially in the very early stages of a startup.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5%

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 30, 2019

Transcript of How Reducing Friction Increases Revenue written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. This transcript is sponsored by our transcript partner – Rev – Get $10 off your first order. Check it out at semrush.com/partner/ducttapemarketing , and we’ll have that in the show notes. Transcript.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 22, 2021

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I’m doing a solo show covering some ideas that are from my upcoming book, The Ultimate Marketing Engine. This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Wix Partners & Fiverr Business. Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch. Like this show? Like this show?

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

Renting venues for business conferences helps curb cost and saves time, effort, and all the planning it’d take for booking a hotel lounge. These contacts can come in handy when you need them to get through tough times or partner up with them, provided it is advantageous for them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2022

Now I see in a classic book, “ Business Models for Teams ,” by Tim Clark and Bruce Hazen, an extension of this process to down inside the venture, for teams and individuals. Every business needs revenue to provide investor returns and offset costs. Free” is not an attractive revenue model to investors. Key partners.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 7, 2021

More About David Wood: The book he mentions: Name That Mouse – Because the Elephant Isn’t the Only Animal in the Room! This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Wix Partners. More About David Wood: * The book he mentions: Name That Mouse – Because the Elephant Isn’t the Only Animal in the Room! *

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “. These are the consultants and books that offer founders the tools and insights needed to “cross the chasm” ( as Geoffrey Moore put it ) and begin to scale. Minimum Viable Traction (MVT).

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

How to Scale Unicorns With Partner David Zhang, TVC. Joining us for this episode is our partner David Zhang, Partner at TCV (( Technology Crossover Ventures ). I’m a partner at TCV, which we founded in 1996. So, think of the typical two founders with a pitch book in a garage. Jonathan Siddharth . David Zhang.

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VC Cafe

MAY 26, 2022

Patrick Lencioni’s first book, The Five Temptations of a CEO , is a book that Peter Fenton, a partner at Benchmark, recommends to all of his portfolio CEOs. She decides that the company’s top priority is not revenue or market share, but to start working as a team. The 5 dysfunctions of a team model.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 21, 2021

He’s also the author of a book we’re going to talk about: ROAR into the Second Half of Your Life – Before It’s Too Late. In this episode, Michael Clinton and I discuss concepts from his book upcoming new book ROAR into the Second Hald of Your Life – Before It’s Too Late. More About Michael Clinton.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2017

With this, the rest of this post outlines five of the key strategies that will allow you to increase your revenue. Look at your books and identify where your money is going. You can meet not only new customers, but also potential businesses partners. This is one of the trickiest things that you can do to increase your revenues.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2019

In my book “ Customer-Driven Disruption ” I discussed the very different ways in which millennials and Generation Z approach the world and the marketplace – influenced by peer reviews, driven by the desire for personalized products and service, and unwilling to delay gratification. Here’s a look: 1.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 of the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Great marketing is required to generate revenue and grow every business, especially new businesses which have no brand recognition nor loyal customer base. Usually these are described as revenue growth drivers, as outlined in a new book, “ The Revenue Accelerator: The 21 Boosters to Launch Your Startup ,” by Dr. Allan Colman.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It partners with sales to close more revenue, informs product teams to deliver better products, and in some cases, co-owns demand generation activities with marketing teams. Founder Nathan Barry launched in 2013 to help creators sell their books and courses but failed to meet revenue goals and eventually stalled.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2012

Yet a creative collaboration with your biggest competitor may be the best opportunity for revenue and survival. Your goal is “ coopetition ” - to find a way to partner with your competitor in such a way that both parties can substantially benefit from the other's resources - without stealing customers or damaging anyone's credibility.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 13, 2020

It doesn’t matter what industry, what product, what revenue model, what stage of development. You’re spending much of your time selling: the vision to employees, the opportunity to investors, the story to the press, the offering to the customers, the relationship to partners. His book, Delivering Happiness , is wonderful.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2022

Investment bank Drake Star Partners published a report on the gaming investment and M&A activity in the first half of 2022. NPD reported on Friday that consumers spent 10% less in the first six months of 2022 than they did during the same time period last year, with game industry revenue down to $26.3 Over 3 billion.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It could be more revenue, hiring clients, or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. Thanks to Sean Kelly, Book Retreats.com ! #9- A lot of couples, unfortunately, saw the violent side of their dominant partner. 1- Expanding skillset.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2019

Whether it is about an app for health and fitness that helps out to achieve fitness goals or an on-demand taxi booking app like Uber, there’s an application for everything to get things easier for daily lives. Before moving ahead, it is worth to watch important stats on the global app revenue.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Today, Sferra leads Hillcrest Merchant Partners, a Toronto-based merchant bank and venture capital firm focused on early stage and mid-market growth companies, which he co-founded with fellow managing partner, Mark Attanasio. Hillcrest Merchant Partners is already involved with some of the top companies in the cannabis space.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

When shelter-in-place hit last March, forcing their doors to close, their revenue dropped to nothing overnight. million of inventory online and recovered all their lost POS revenue with online sales. With no way to serve it in their restaurant, their revenue flattened. And the benefits go way beyond pure revenue.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The book has been shepherded and edited by a great Japanese VC at Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital, Takashi Tsutsumi, with help from Masato Iino. Amazon did not carry it yet, and I was nervous spending money at a website known mostly for cups and t-shirts, completely irrelevant to business books. The Crater in my rookie days.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 2, 2022

We have won vacations with the other companies we partner with. 16- Hit $1 million revenue. I'm proud of our business finally hitting the $1 million revenue. We didn't have much in the way of a revenue target when we started the year. 24- Published my first book. We have launched a Facebook Page successfully.

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