The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

China is the world’s largest country with more than 1.3 The larger your customer base, the more opportunities for monetization, and therefore the more attractive your startup is for investors. Distribution and cashflow pose challenges in China. That’s why the free business model is so popular in China.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. What We Discovered About Blockchain The Afro-Tech approached blockchain and distributed ledger as how it will affect African-Americans in everyday living.

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Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Most brilliant “Internet of Things” ideas are quicksand for capital unless you have the branding, vertical integration and customer lock-in that Apple achieved. However, the rise of the Internet equalized if not flipped the ratio as the web (and mobile) created a new product category and distribution platform.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

But in today’s world, speed-to-scale entrepreneurship is what we need to improve society, transform industries, and create massive value for customers, employees, and investors. Customers value and benefit from the convenience, price, and selection of Amazon, which is why the company is, by a wide margin, America’s largest bookseller.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

It is generally accepted that the novel coronavirus, COVID-19 , was first seen in Wuhan, China, during the last days of 2019. It means relying on your own savings and revenue to operate and expand.”. They are based on a combination of customer feedback and the startup’s core mission and aim. This virus is a zoonotic virus.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 1, 2015

So around 800 AD some clever folks in China developed the world’s first paper currency, which served as a kind of “promise” against a future payment of something else, such as precious metals. The Mobile Phone (1973). In 1973, Motorola launched the first handheld mobile phone. The most amazing thing of all?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

As a startup, you need to use your limited resources to excel at a few core things for your best customers, in order to stand out and get the momentum going. Your customers’ biggest need is not for more things. Your best strategy is to find more customers that fit the things you do best, rather than building more things.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

25 questions that DTC entrepreneurs should ask themselves before scaling customer acquisition So you run a direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand. You just spent a few thousand dollars on advertising and your paid customer acquisition cost (CAC) numbers tested well relative to your best guess for customer lifetime value (LTV).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

The moderator asked each of us panelists the asinine question, “tell us what you’re doing about WAP!&# (you know, as in “tell us what you’re doing about China?&# We evangelized to customer about the problems of on premise software. - Apple wants to take a major share of the revenue. It came to me.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 21, 2016

Convenience tends to be an area where incumbents struggle, especially when convenience is tied to new forms of distribution. Incumbents are where they are because they have scale through the existing large modes of distribution (eg: physical retail). Our consumer portfolio has largely been focused around convenience.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

Custom parts can also sometimes lead you down a rabbit-hole of building your own equipment to build those custom parts (and yes, I’ve had multiple companies that have had to do this!). If you do a launch it’s rare for the launch to take of organically, it must also be accompanied by a level of paid distribution (i.e.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Company UX leaders are happy to stink less by taking the sub-optimal path of responsive design, rather than create a mobile-unique experience (your customers tend to do different things on your desktop site than your mobile site!). They use different technologies of course, and different distribution mechanisms.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Amazon built its growth on top of these 4 pillars: Customer Centricity. The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer” – Jeff Bezos. They may believe “the customer is always right” but how do they act? Aligning customers & business objectives. The power is in how customer data is used.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. By aggressively launching a free to use service, Alibaba’s Taobao quickly became the leading person-to-person trading site in China.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2019

As a startup, you need to use your limited resources to excel at a few core things for your best customers, in order to stand out and get the momentum going. Your customers’ biggest need is not for more things. Your best strategy is to find more customers that fit the things you do best, rather than building more things.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

Then I remember seeing back when they were only maybe like a thousand worldwide cases outside of China, the shape of that graph, and I sort of realized at some point when it just looked like this perfect exponential, that it was beyond what was going to be contained. My customers never go away. ER : That makes a lot of sense.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 18, 2014

Despite the momentum with India, Israel-China (including Hong Kong) trade is on-track to hit $10 billion this year, representing 13% of total Israeli exports (Bank of Israel). 25-30 million 3G customers. Mobile Data usage is approximately 200 MB per data customer. Mobile Data as a percentage of total revenue is about 7.5%.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero. At that scale, you can reach billions of dollars in revenue. We can perhaps look to China, where social platforms are much more fragmented and organized around interests and demographics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2017

As a startup, you need to use your limited resources to excel at a few core things for your best customers, in order to stand out and get the momentum going. Your customers’ biggest need is not for more things. Your best strategy is to find more customers that fit the things you do best, rather than building more things.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2017

Not since the ‘lean revolution’ of the 1970s, often dubbed the ‘third industrial revolution’, have such radical changes been made to the way production is designed, monitored and executed, and the repercussions of this sea-change are being felt all the way down the value chain right into the hands of the end-customer. Embracing innovation.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2014

” “PassPort removes perceived barriers by revealing cultural gift-giving traditions and taboos and helps to ease the complexity of shipping and customs,” explains Kolaja. Then there’s also Golden Week in Japan, as well as Click Frenzy in Australia. In the News Resources online resource Paypal PayPal Passport'

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

That world is called China. Even in China. Over time brands will realize that marketing into a closed system isn’t good for their long-term customer relationships. Lock users into proprietary rights management, distribution or consumption models? But round one clearly has gone to Apple and to “apps.&#.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

BigBand Networks, which has more than 200 customers in North America, Asia and Europe, provides broadband service providers with digital video networking solutions designed to make it easier to distribute, manage and monetize video. Communications-equipment maker Arris Group Inc. for about $158.1 million in cash.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

of the world’s population — has more companies listed on the NASDAQ than any country in the world save the United States and China. To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. That’s the good news.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Mobile gaming company Oberon Media raised a fifth round of $16 million – some of the funds raised are from previous investors Goldman Sachs, Infinity I-China Fund and Oak Investment Partners. Going App 2010 – Learn the basics of creating and distributing mobile apps for iPhone, Android, Nokia, and other smartphones.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2017

Quite simply, mobile payments are is a form of payment using mobile phones in lieu of cash, check, or credit card allowing a customer can use a mobile phone to transfer money or to pay for goods and services. The reality is that the unbanked community is the most natural place for banks to look for their next 100 million customers.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

I first met Evangelos Simoudis when he ran IBM’s Business Intelligence Solutions Division and then as CEO of his first startup Customer Analytics. and the emergence of new industries, markets and customers. and concentrated on a single part of the supply chain – importing, distribution, wholesale, retail.

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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.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

based in emerging markets: Russia, China, India. There is an opportunity in ‘related services’ Distribution is a real problem for newly launched sites. By latching on to traffic hubs like Facebook, Apple, Google and Twitter and so on, it is possible for a new site to reduce the distribution risk.

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Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The financial benefits of the web are very unevenly distributed. A simple example is this: Revenue per employee of the Ford Motor company is $682,000 while Facebook has revenue of $2.3 Many small businesses couldn’t connect with their customers. Europe : the internet has become a battle around Data and Privacy.

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online.wsj.com

MARCH 4, 2013

中文-简体 (China). 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. Ndemics revenue totals in the "high millions," he added, declining to be specific. Deutschland.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Or if prototype is good enough to sell, sell it to customers. In such a case youll have the right to use it, but not to decompile or distribute it and probably youll pay a license amount for it. Dont aim for the lowest bid.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2012

from box-office revenue. But the total movie industry revenue was $87 billion. 1940’s – movie studios had to divest their distribution channel – they owned over 50% of the movie theaters in the U.S. After the VCR was introduced, studio revenues took off like a rocket. Where did the other $57 billion come from?

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

As a result, Pandora is nowhere near profitable at more than $103 million in quarterly revenue, paying more than half of this sum to labels for content licenses. iOS App Store revenue still dwarfs Google Play’s, but the challenger is catching up fast. Surprisingly, the leading market for Google Play revenue is Japan, not the US.

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