Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. The response was inevitably “great pipeline.” (Great pipeline means no real sales.). We now understand that’s wrong.

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Transformify

MARCH 20, 2020

Coronavirus outbreak has an extremely negative effect on the global economy and especially in those countries and cities where all businesses have been asked to close. It is highly likely that thousands of small businesses will go bankrupt as few can afford to pay rent and salaries while generating no revenue at all.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Outsourcing is spreading at a frantic pace today with a global footprint and players like oDesk and eLance have made it very easy for companies to connect with outsourcing vendors. In fact, they generated $100k in revenues over the last year, since they first pitched at one of our roundtables.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Increase current conversion rate by 25%, quantify how much increased revenue there will be. Aim for quintupling revenue, obviously, but calculating just 25% improvement will give you all the budget you need from your management to insert urgency into the shopping process. Significantly higher revenue awaits. Do something simple.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2011

BUY2 is Israel’s largest daily deal site based on total Facebook friends and average revenue per deal. Here is some data from August 6, 2011: Israeli deal site Facebook Friends # of Sales Cost Revenue (in NIS) buy2.co.il I have just checked today’s deal, for August 13, 2011, BUY2 made a revenue of ?

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

In the bayarea, TEDx Bay Area Women organized an event hosted at SAP in Palo Alto, California. Some folks whom I met: Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California. Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California - voting machines were pulled bc they weren’t sure if viruses been loaded to a machine.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. San Francisco, California. As The Trial Rages On, Court Filing Sheds New Light On Apple And Samsung Device Sales. Alexia Tsotsis. View Staff Page.

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Transformify

APRIL 12, 2020

There are similarities between IR35 in the UK and AB5 in California , US. IT team members working on the core product, sales and customer support, marketing, etc. Round-tripping is used by the founders of a startup to inflate the revenue and profit and mislead investors and lenders. No revenue at all. Money Laundering.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

It is also an excellent platform to address the questions from prospects and help clarify issues and objections for any sales process, which is one of the primary ways Voluble is seeing some of its major early customers using it. The entire discussion was streaming automatically into Twitter and gave us great visibility. MapWide.com.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

In the bayarea, TEDx Bay Area Women organized an event hosted at SAP in Palo Alto, California. Some folks whom I met: Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California. Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California – voting machines were pulled bc they weren’t sure if viruses been loaded to a machine.

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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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

Carl was also worldwide head of stores at Home Depot when Hurricane Katrina hit, running sales out of the backs of trucks and accepting IOUs for payment. And half our clubs were in the state of California in 2008, so was a very interesting time to be a CEO and learned a lot. So, how are you investing in being even better?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2009

I run a monthly meeting called the VCA that represents the majority of Southern California venture capital firms. Sales of avatars in social games nearly 50% of total revenue eclipsing revenue from affiliate transaction, ads or paid games (slide 97). Mobile game content revenue > PC game revenue (slide 98).

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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. Globaloney: Globalization Challenged. Businesses For Sale |. California. Businesses For Sale |.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

There are things you can get for sales force if you use salesforce.com. First of all, the enterprise level processes and the one like you described, where there is one or two people just trying to do basic sales with Highrise, extremely different context that they operate in, and different price points, by the way. A: All right.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 2, 2015

But suffice to say I spent almost every penny in my business account to buy a SaaS app that looked like this: And was able to turn it into this: And 10x the revenue in 15 months, via steps I outlined in a MicroConf talk a few years ago. Here’s the official announcement about the HitTail sale. So What Did I Learn?

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 2, 2015

But suffice to say I spent almost every penny in my business account to buy a SaaS app that looked like this: And was able to turn it into this: And 10x the revenue in 15 months, via steps I outlined in a MicroConf talk a few years ago. Here’s the official announcement about the HitTail sale. So What Did I Learn?

Software Review 27

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 2, 2015

But suffice to say I spent almost every penny in my business account to buy a SaaS app that looked like this: And was able to turn it into this: And 10x the revenue in 15 months, via steps I went into detail at a MicroConf talk a few years ago. Here’s the official announcement about the HitTail sale. So What Did I Learn?

Software Review 27

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

She is an award winning journalist and author of two critically acclaimed books, "Once Youre Lucky, Twice Youre Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0" (Gotham Books, May 2008) and "Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos" (Wiley, February 2011). Open Sesame! (A November 29, 2012.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Eloqua is bringing this revolution to the B2B marketers by providing on-demand applications and best-practice expertise for B2B marketers to execute, automate and measure effective marketing programs that drive revenue. California Avenue, Suite 110 Sunnyvale, CA 94086 T: 408-215-4627 ext. sales and marketing. (10). Watch this!

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Do it yourself, Design it yourself, Distribute it yourself, 3D it yourself – in fact we can nearly make anything in home or certainly procure it via global production hubs like alibaba.com We can make anything because all the tools of production have been democratized for ever. It’s the next phase of D.I.Y:

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Today, The Bean has approximately 350 company-owned stores, with locations in Southern California, Las Vegas, Honolulu, New York City and Southeast Asia. The mom-and-pop business became an instant success and its annual sales continued to skyrocket each year. The following year, Coca-Cola bought out Energy Brands for $4.1

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online.wsj.com

MARCH 4, 2013

App stores generally take a 30% cut of the sale. What countrys GDP is the size of the global app economy? Ndemics revenue totals in the "high millions," he added, declining to be specific. Opinion: The Reverse-Joads of California. Apps Rocket Toward $25 Billion in Sales. That compares with an average $3.06

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

If “Smucker’s” can be slapped on food and annually generate billions of sales, chances are that your company name, no matter how mediocre, will not preclude you from achieving significant success. However, if this is true, “Aardvark” would have been a more clever choice and equally as relevant to online book sales.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

Then Taariq Lewis from San Francisco, California, presented Stanzr, a lightweight online events platform specifically focused on moving qualified leads generated through webinars towards a close. The next two customer acquisition strategies we will be expanding on are more aggressive guerrilla p.r. Taariq is also a 1M/1M premium member.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2012

The company managed to increase sales by an astonishing 24,000% with its ingenious events that feature an intoxicating and unequaled blend of races, mud, music, pig roasts and beer. The company supports organizations including Translators Without Borders, the Philadelphia Global Water Initiative and the American Red Cross.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 7, 2020

We made the same argument as almost every ambitious entrepreneur , “Should we attain merely 1percent of global market share…” Global market size was $246B, growing at 1.9 Just imagine what we assumed our first year’s revenue would be. The fourth step is to develop and execute a series of sales objectives. . Conclusion.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

automotive industry grew to become one of the drivers of the global economy. 2) Provide corporate management with near real-time divisional sales reports and budgets that indicated when they deviated from plan. billion in sales in today’s dollars.) If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

Forty years later when the Internet has made knowledge global, we’ve run into the second barrier – just knowing about things is not the great equalizer we expected. Technologists were running companies, as no serious MBAs would go near these places, and investors were company builders, teaching founders how to grow revenue and profit.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

Forty years later when the Internet has made knowledge global, we’ve run into the second barrier – just knowing about things is not the great equalizer we expected. Technologists were running companies, as no serious MBAs would go near these places, and investors were company builders, teaching founders how to grow revenue and profit.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

While the global financial crash of 2008 and the resulting Great Recession initially slowed job growth in Silicon Valley, the meteoric rise of smart phones and social media helped the tech industry as a whole to power ahead despite the near collapse of the global economy. percent over the past year, three times the national average.

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marketingland.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Virtually everyone involved in metrics, analytics, and testing-driven improvement online does, in fact, have a wished-for outcome: “get higher conversion,” “increase revenue,” “decrease cart abandonment.” Example: “Our sales were up in December!” and then look for such-and-such. #3:

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Easy question to answer, and free with Compete (remember, this is US visits only) or SimilarWeb (global traffic). If you are looking for short-term revenue or quick wins, you are better off skipping it (do something boring, but profitable, like Email or Affiliate marketing). So let's start there. Tablets are driving purchases.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Economic Value (EcV) is the value of short and long-term revenue and cost savings. The causal impact does not have to be on Revenue. An example of the implication: Don't expect short term sales/revenue from any social participation. Deloitte, global account or US, mostly simply looks at itself and what it cares for.

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