Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2015

How do you convince investors that your business model will really work, before you have a revenue stream that exceeds your expenses? Even if you are bootstrapping your business, and you are the only investor, you should be asking yourself the same question. Plan for a real revenue model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2015

The right investor will have specific feedback on pricing models, distribution and market positioning to improve scalability. If your startup has a proven revenue model, real customers and is ready to scale, approach the best investors even if it costs you more money. Even today, more than 90 percent of new businesses are bootstrapped.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. Bokér/1.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

  Investors sometimes “present” the terms they’d like and expect the entrepreneurs to react. Now that I’m more often on the other side of the term-sheet, I’ve tried to present term-sheets to entrepreneurs accompanied by a philosophical explanation of what I’m proposing, and why. This is why a bottom up approach is more credible.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

One of the entrepreneurs presented a business idea that sounded like a business-to-consumer concept, but as I peeled the onion, it turned out that the business was really a business-to-business concept. Distribution Channel for Product Companies. why not become a retailer of the same basket of products that he wants to distribute?

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

Besides experience, they will also need to have a combination of leadership , communication, and presentation skills, plus financial and technical knowledge. That’s why having a revenue-minded focus from the early stages helps to secure funding. Know thy customer.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For this article, we asked 14 SaaS CEOs a simple question: “How much did you spend on your MVP before you had your first dollar of revenue?”. Presently, Rejoiner serves about 150 direct-to-consumer brands, including well-known companies like Hydroflask and Titleist. million in revenue a year. . Image source). Qualified.io

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. Then you present to them your lean business plan, which shows strategy, tactics and concrete specifics. What distribution, are we using gems or are we a web?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For this article, we asked 14 SaaS CEOs a simple question: “How much did you spend on your MVP before you had your first dollar of revenue?”. Presently, Rejoiner serves about 150 direct-to-consumer brands, including well-known companies like Hydroflask and Titleist. million in revenue a year. . Image source). Qualified.io

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

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Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

It’s quite simple, which is when you had systems where you had limitations on distribution or transportation of products, it enabled you to operate with a certain cost structure. or an MSN or an AOL in terms of portal distribution. I bootstrapped it on my own. Trying to learn this environment. Let me say this to you.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. At this stage, simply list your primary revenue streams and your key expenses. At this stage, simply list your primary revenue streams and your key expenses.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2010

Artists are using Social Media as a a catalyst to boost popularity, create new revenue streams and promote global goodness. Bootstrapping a community from zero users. RSVP: [link] 3PM Whole Foods Market presents: Afternoon Snack. RSVP: [link] 6PM What Is Your $ocial Music Currency? What works and what doesn't. curated.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

From land use to public taste, where you base your brewery will present you with crucial decisions. Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2016

Shopping Cart Values / Revenue Per Visitor. Revenue per visitor is another common eCommere KPI, and it’s especially important with certain hypotheses. In that case, the revenue per conversion or per visitor is more relevant than conversion rate. In this case, measure the revenue after return or the return rate.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

I took a look back at our original financial model we presented to VCs in 2004. The business model (OEM through broadband and home security companies for mass distribution) if not specific product functionality has remained largely the same. Bootstrapping 101. Survey says VC's invest on Gut Instinct. ► July. (1).

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

endeve – Issue invoices, manage clients and check revenues all in one place. Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. Conferences, Presentations & Meetings Expectnation – A conference program organizing software.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. or just present your crappy, first-run code to investors then pay someone to re-write the entire thing. Twitter is an excellent distribution channel for us. (B) Cant wait for more posts on Techcrunch [link] ?

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. Semiconductors. Telecommunications.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

An era defined and dominated by the few who could afford the factories, the media and the distribution systems. The art of activating idle assets to bring in new revenue is occurring for both the service provider and the service creator. But it’s here to stay and is about to replace the 200 year anomaly of the industrial era.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

They threw a pizza party that first night, they've now raised millions of dollars and have thrown hundreds of thousands more, not just in support of frontline workers, but in support of restaurants who, as everyone knows, are struggling in these times with a dramatic decline in revenue, in customers. So Frontline Foods is a genuine win-win.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. a distributed, democratic model of capitalism. This is where numerous ventures fail.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2019

A lot of investors were interested, but many required some tracks, some results, some revenue before they could invest. But for me at that time, and the way I was thinking about it is how am I going to be able to create traction, how am I going to be able to generate revenue if I don’t have this product. Abdo Riani: Exactly.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

You can argue that the DNA created by Microsoft's over emphasis on distribution (Steve) and development (Bill), has ultimately cost it $50bn or more in lost revenue, market share and market capitalization. Perhaps the nomenclature is off, but a distributor suggests that there is something to distribute.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

A prototype can be a series of hand-drawn sketches or a click-thru presentation using keynote or powerpoint. We are currently thinking about offering a service where we help people to envision their project clearly and then present it in a way that teckies and designers understand. Insightful. Thanks much. How much effort will it cost?

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