Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2021

These days, you have to foster a community of support for your business. They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. A startup needs to find a voice relevant to its ecosystem.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

This focus has helped me recruit the best and the brightest in the field, build a world-class operation, and most of all, with all the knowledge in a specific vertical, help build a leading agency for food & beverage manufacturers that are looking to build a direct to consumer channel. Photo Credit: Matt Daigle.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

The entrepreneur who founded and grew the largest startup in the world to $10 billion in revenue and got fired is someone you have probably never heard of. He also believed that to succeed the company needed to be vertically integrated and bought up 29 parts manufacturers and suppliers. The next year, 1910, trouble hit.

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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. People wanna get on the speaking circuits for whatever, you know, industry or vertical they're in. Thanks, John.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

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. Through these efforts, we will continue to build trust and credibility in the eyes of all stakeholders – employees, customers, prospects and other vendors in our verticals. .

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Since 2015, clothing brand ASOS has grown revenue by an average of 22% year over year. Peazer has a large following in the health and fitness community, precisely where Naked Juice UK plays. A successful ecommerce marketing strategy, designed and executed correctly, can catalyze huge revenue growth. Brian Balfour , Reforge.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

I’ll also continue to work within the NYC tech community—now thriving at a level I could hardly have imagined when I first got the pitch deck for USV’s first fund as a Limited Partner at the GM pension fund. In other words, there’s still lots of work left to do here and the lights will stay on until the last investment wraps up.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

This year we will hit over $15m in gross revenue. This year we will hit over $15m in gross revenue. . In six months, the following was accomplishes: a one year lease was signed, I had made a public commitment to my business, and we were generating zero revenue. Thanks to Rafe Gomez, Vertical Cloud Inc. ! . #4-

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

This year we will hit over $15m in gross revenue. This year we will hit over $15m in gross revenue. In six months, the following was accomplishes: a one year lease was signed, I had made a public commitment to my business, and we were generating zero revenue. Can you find a way to improve on what already is generating revenue?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2019

These days, you have to foster a community of support for your business. They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. A startup needs to find a voice relevant to its ecosystem.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 14, 2018

2- Revenue growth. My company has been growing and expanding significantly the past few years and we’re projected to reach $1M in revenue in 2019. I am really looking forward to diversifying my marketing agency into new verticals. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Thanks to Talia Kovacs, LitLife ! #2-

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Transformify

APRIL 21, 2017

Our emphasis is on community, not commodity, and it’s about quality, not quantity. And we’ll be expanding into more business verticals soon. We really wanted to build a network of top tier talent, similar to the caliber of talent that’s working in-house at top Silicon Valley tech companies.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

John already has a couple of customers, and needs about 50 customers to get to $1M in annual revenue. I offered to help him market his services through 1M/1M, since his target customer base overlaps rather nicely with the 1M/1M community. I like the idea, and recognize the problem.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

ShareVolution As for the pitches today, first, Daniel McPherson from Australia pitched ShareVolution , an app store for the Microsoft SharePoint community. Please note, curriculum modules are only accessible to 1M/1M premium members. Daniel expects SharePoint's cloud based solution provider eco-system to develop over the next few years.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creators , Eric Feng. New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creator s, Eric Feng. ” Eric Feng. ” Eric Feng. Creator Economy vs. the Gig Economy. Take Twitch for example.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Compounding is the ability of an asset to generate earnings that are reinvested in order to generate exponential revenue growth. It has never paid out dividends, and clocks around $200 billion in revenue. million in revenue at the time. To some extent you can manage the revenue for a quarter or 2.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

ATI has served the entrepreneur community for over twenty years and focuses on the IT, Wireless, Clean Energy and Bioscience verticals. Here are two awesome-sounding jobs that will remain posted till Wednesday, so please check them out promptly. The Austin Technology Incubator is hiring for these positions, so make sure to apply now.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2014

In another study, Granify, a CRO software company, conducted a real time behavior analysis of 20+ million visitors over 5 different verticals and also found that “lower prices” was not as pervasive as we may have believed. Shipping Costs. Now, as I said, these are just averages. image source.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. Customer turnover was reduced by one third which translated into approximately $20 million recovered in annual revenue. The result?

Retention 115

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. Customer turnover was reduced by one third which translated into approximately $20 million recovered in annual revenue. The result?

Retention 112

Retention Developer Customer Programming 112

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2013

These days, you have to foster a community of support for your business. They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. A startup needs to find a voice relevant to its ecosystem.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

Things to pay attention to: Steps that don’t make sense from your customer’s perspective; Steps that are combined or eliminated compared to your funnel, as they may be superfluous; Upsells and cross-sells, which are additional revenue opportunities you could exploit. What I’m looking for are common trends within that vertical.

SEO 126

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. Customer turnover was reduced by one third which translated into approximately $20 million recovered in annual revenue. The result?

Retention 105

Retention Customer Developer Programming 105

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 27, 2019

Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of classes in design, business, tech, you name it. So they’re in-person, but it still kind of had that community feel that we still have online today. So it is an increasingly global community. This is John Jantsch, and my guest today is Matt Cooper.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. Customer turnover was reduced by one third which translated into approximately $20 million recovered in annual revenue. The result?

Retention 98

Retention Customer Developer Programming 98

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2012

These days, you have to foster a community of support for your business. They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. A startup needs to find a voice relevant to its ecosystem.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

One company in Watertown, Massachusetts has been executing on this vision for over a decade with a winning approach for one vertical slice of the small business market: physicians. I have found it pretty amazing that so few people in the tech community know their story or understand the scale and scope of what they have achieved.

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Fractional CTO Cofounder Cleveland Vertical 43

ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2017

Upsells and cross-sells (are there additional revenue opportunities you too could be leveraging?). Jaime Levy , UX Strategist and Author, suggests also looking at content types, personalization features, and community features on competitors’ websites. What I am looking for is common trends within that vertical.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2016

These days, you have to foster a community of support for your business. They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. A startup needs to find a voice relevant to its ecosystem.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Its automated platform collects and allocates revenues in real-time, from tickets sold to filmmakers’ pockets. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. What has the startup experience taught you about life?

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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. They made Walkman owners, with their foam earphones and bulky booklets of CDs, feel left out of this invented community. The iPod model will separate IoT platforms from fads.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

He’s been programming since he was a kid running some of the first online communities and networked games. Bob invented Ethernet, founded 3Com (revenues of $5.7B), was the Editor of InfoWorld magazine, and was a venture capitalist at Polaris in Boston.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. to motivate their angel community to support their startups. are using AngelMob.co

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 11, 2013

From brand licensing opportunities to renting digital space, there are some creative revenue opportunities out there if you just know where to look. As startups build their digital brand, reach and influence, they can extend their brands into new verticals and create new revenue-generating opportunities through brand licensing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Which of your client verticals are your champions? In which verticals do you experience smooth, seamless sales processes, instead of arduous uphill battles? Step 2: Determine your targets’ revenue floor and ceiling. How can you estimate total yearly revenues if they’re not public? Who is most receptive?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Yarina spoke about the meaning of Sisu in Finnish, the importance of building community, and what she loves about being in Baltimore. Our dual 2020 goals are continued geographic scale of Hemafuse to achieve a $1M revenue run rate and a pilot of our second portfolio product. What is your top goal for Sisu Global for 2020?

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