Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2020

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. 15- Optimise for voice search. 65% of Arrington Coaching revenue is driven from online courses by December 2020. 1- Rededicate myself to my practices. Thanks to Elna Cain. #15-

Entrepreneur 95

Entrepreneur Technical Review San Diego Software Review 95

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)

San Francisco 167

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire 167

Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Most founders don’t know where to begin the search, who to look for – not to mention how to bring a data scientist on board so he or she can make valuable contributions to the company. They are currently in the SF Bay Area, NYC and Boston, and have started an online program for those outside these geographies.

Hiring 60

Hiring SQL Artificial Inteligence Engineer 60

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

This slinging of whatever against the wall to see what sticks does not a market make, is to me a sign of too much capital in the wrong hands, and it's already the most over invested area in recent years- in both human and financial capital- particularly relative to revenue. Take a look and let me know what you think. Amazon PostRank

Lean 168

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

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.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

The Enterprise: Business Model Execution We know that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Somewhere in the dim past of the company, it too was a startup searching for a business model. The question is – why? Strategy Maps. What Does this Mean?

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IRR Startup Business Model Agile 335

Rob Go

JUNE 16, 2014

A few notable excerpts: Kyle Alspach’s commentary on seed and series A at BetaBoston; Brad Feld’s tweet a few weeks ago that “$100k MRR [monthly recurring revenue] used to be interesting. On top of that, there are fewer series A investors now than there have been in the past (at least in Boston).

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Early Stage Boston Portfolio Venture Capital 67

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

We were even more embarrassed by the pathetically small number of customers we had, and the pathetically low amount of revenue we had earned so far. We’d always cringe as we admitted that, no, we really only had a few thousand customers and a few thousand dollars in monthly revenue. Retention cohort analysis. I am chugging along.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Tampa Continuous Deployment Lean 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Usually, they are delivering only a fraction of the revenue they promised. Usually, they are delivering only a fraction of the revenue they promised. Lets return to our team thats failing to hit their targets. They are on-schedule and on-budget, but their gross metrics are way off. Take a look and let me know what you think.

Hockey Stick 105

Hockey Stick San Francisco Entrepreneur Lean 105

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Bunting worked with At Home In The Country to add personalized product recommendations to their site, which resulted in a… 13% increase in revenue. The onboarding process brought more people to the core value, thus increasing revenue and improving retention. Focus them on the product categories they were searching in previously.

Web 48

Web Software Review Jordan Technical Review 48

Lightspeed Venture Partners

JULY 15, 2013

At that time I was working at Bain Capital Ventures, having just moved from Boston to spearhead the launch of their West Coast Office. This will help the nearly 100 large retailers that they work with today and many, many more drive a highly relevant experience for their customers and a meaningful increase in conversion and revenue.

Mobile 141

Mobile SEO Cofounder Boston 141

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. Of all of the insights Ive contributed to the companies Ive worked at over the years, the one I am most proud of is the importance of working in small batches. February 25, 2009 8:12 PM Anonymoussaid.

San Francisco 161

San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment Development Team Review 161

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 23, 2009

They were accustomed to measuring their progress primarily by gross revenue compared to their targets. They were accustomed to measuring their progress primarily by gross revenue compared to their targets. Naturally, they had just raised money, and their new investors were understandably pissed. Amazon PostRank

Metrics 167

Metrics San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

And so the spreadsheet is built with conservative assumptions, including a final revenue target. No matter how low we make the revenue projections for this new product, it’s extremely unlikely that they are achievable. In a startup context, numbers like gross revenue are actually vanity metrics, not actionable metrics.

San Francisco 102

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

LinkedIn’s product had only been live for a couple months, we only had tens of thousands of registered users, and wouldn’t start generating revenue for more than a year after this point. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. quite encouraging. Read More ». Previous Entries.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

If youre making revenue, you should be finding ways to grow it predictably month-over-month; if youre focused on customer engagement, your product should be getting more sticky, and so on. And if you neglect maintenance, you may not have a business left at all. Take a look and let me know what you think. Amazon PostRank

San Francisco 88

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 88

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

TokyoYuki Question: What about giving an added incentive to potential developers, in exchange for part of up-front fees, a percentage of the revenue generated from the app/program? View More » Business The 12 Days of Holiday Revenue Maximi. Boston Globe" Pilots Site Checkins a. Saitek Executive.

Software Developers 79

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 79

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

I called the recruiter running the search and told him I was going to step down and hire a CEO. Rob,” he said, “no offense, but you aren’t going to get a world class, been-there-done-that CEO into a company with less than $1 million in revenue. His response changed the way I thought about the CEO role for the next five years.

Founder 120

Founder Startup Cofounder Business Model 120

Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I wound up seeing Joel, but I never caught Paul when I lived in New Haven or Boston. He spoke about risk (development, market, financial and execution), social media, how you must create content (most likely through a blog) to win in today’s “search&# economy. An excellent presentation from a brilliant guy.

Software Review 47

Software Review Software San Francisco RSS 47

Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

Costolo clearly wants to position Twitter as a complementary part of the media ecosystem (which it is by and large) rather than a competitor, and there remains a chance that Twitter will have other forms of revenue besides ads. Here’s why: Virtually all of Twitter’s revenue comes from advertising.

Media 113

Media Advertising Silicon Valley Revenue 113

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 17, 2024

Jeff is a data-driven search engine marketing executive with 20+ years of experience in the search industry. He is focused on helping content marketers, search engine marketers, agencies, and e-commerce managers build topical authority, improve content quality and turn semantic research into actionable insights.

Artificial Inteligence 71

Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Differentiation Technical Review 71

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Watch enough soccer on Telemundo or Univision and you’ll occasionally hear the commentators shout it at the top of their lungs, or just search on YouTube and you’ll get some examples. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 4 days ago Search.

South Korea 124

South Korea Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate 124

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading. Take a look and let me know what you think. Amazon PostRank

Customer Development 168

Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer 168

Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

My advice: search for heat, but don’t follow - evaluate. For later-stage, it’s a high-priced financing round, tipping scales on widespread adoption, rapid hiring, or credible information on successive revenue-growth quarters. The right approach is to think broadly but network and search to ask specifically.

Startup 148

Startup Portfolio Later Stage Hiring 148

Agile VC

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Objective Logistics has created a game layer on top of very sophisticated scheduling algorithms which increase revenue, save time, and improve customer and staff satisfaction. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. Author howerl.

Silicon Valley 100

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 100

Agile VC

JANUARY 27, 2012

Revenue ramp of Groupon and Zynga –> Kleiner famously said Zynga was the fastest growing company they’d ever invested in , no mean feat for the original backers of Google, Amazon, Netscape, etc, and Groupon might be the fastest ever startup to reach $1B in revenue. Read More ». Previous Entries.

Hockey Stick 113

Hockey Stick Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate 113

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2018

Boston, USA Oct 1st – 3rd, 2018. Boston, USA. Organized by SEO giant Moz , Mozcon is all about search. If you’re searching for a way to get more out of your SEO efforts, look no further than Mozcon. If you’re searching for a way to get more out of your SEO efforts, look no further than Mozcon. Boston, USA.

Las Vegas 124

Las Vegas Software Review Affiliate Cofounder 124

Agile VC

AUGUST 22, 2011

Even Amazon isn’t a platform… yes they have AWS but it accounts for <3% of their revenue and isn’t terribly profitable given the capex & opex currently going into growing it. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Not Groupon. Not Dropbox. Author howerl. Read More ».

Silicon Valley 113

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Startup Syndicate 113

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 19, 2011

And – as I’ve continued to manage the enormous flow of email I get in Gmail, I’ve been searching for more efficient (and effective) ways to deal with it, besides just ignoring it which, while efficient, wouldn’t be very effective. To address this, we’ve invested in a new company called Yesware.

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Email Boston Channel Finance 130

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

There are a whole range of valid reasons why non-developers would want to dictate the production release schedule (Seasonal/timing issues, marketing, fulfillment concerns, documentation/training, revenue controls, legal/regulatory. " Actually this process works really well in a financial company. Amazon PostRank

Continuous Deployment 167

Continuous Deployment Software Review San Francisco Lean 167

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

What is the right revenue model? Aside from the dramatically shorter development cycle that browser games enjoy, the split testing of features (which is intuitive to web application makers) is something that propelled Zynga's games and revenues to the top of the social games vertical. August 24, 2009 2:17 PM Norbert Mocsnik said.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

How They Make Money : Facebook’s primary revenue stream is of course selling advertising on Facebook.com, which in total accounts for 85% of revenue. The next chunk comes from Facebook’s platform, in essence “taxing” the revenues of app developers like Zynga, which represents 15% of revenue.

IPO 100

IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100

View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

Even if you’re in the pre-revenue, pre-seed or seed stage, there are still ways to get on a reporter’s radar. And don’t pitch a Boston newspaper on your San Francisco startup. A publication whose readers are in Boston will want to know you’re based here in Cambridge. This one is tricker in the pre-revenue stage.

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage San Francisco Startup CTO Hire 120

Agile VC

MAY 23, 2012

E-commerce accounts for the vast majority of LL Bean’s revenue today ( it crossed 50% in 2010 though was as low as 15% in 2000 ), but because LL Bean is over a hundred years old and started as catalog & physical store retailer we typically don’t refer to it as an internet company. . link] leehower. Your welcome. .

Internet 182

Internet Silicon Valley IPO Seed Stage 182

ConversionXL

JULY 5, 2013

This is outpaced only by Organic Search with 15.8% The study tracked customer click sources (Email, social, search, etc.) Theoretically, because your widget customers are: Entering the funnel through Search, CPC and are being referred by a friend. Use Case 3 – Email Retargeting to Improve Organic Search Listings.

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Email Networking Widget Acquisition 123

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

For SaaS or other recurring revenue businesses these figures might be on a bookings basis rather than GAAP revenue, but conceptually they’re similar. Bill Gurley’s post last year does a great job analyzing why some businesses are valued at 10x+ revenue and most aren’t. Zynga – 8x+ trailing revenue.

IPO 100

IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

Agile VC

JANUARY 12, 2012

When a startup doesn’t match the stage where a particular investor focuses, founders may get a response along the lines of “This is interesting to us, but come back once you get from X phase to Y phase” That could be from seed stage to a larger Series A financing need, or to progress from pre-product to post-revenue.

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Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate Syndication 100