Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Route One: High LTV per user The exact definition of a “high” user LTV depends on the specific vertical, so it’s typically better to analyze the ratio between Customer Acquisition Costs (CAC) and the Life Time Value of the customer. In addition, churn tends to rise as a company grows.

Churn Rate 168

Churn Rate Viral Acquisition Cofounder 168

SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Our current focus is Actors and Actresses and we are moving into other verticals. I help internet companies make money. I also serve as CEO of a small media companies that profile “Tomorrow’s Most Exciting People Today”. I usually.just focus on revenue. People understand that. they have an interest in that we can go from there.

Los Angeles 225

Los Angeles Revenue Southern California Social Network 225

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

I was an early and tireless advocate for the growth of the Internet video ecosystem and as virtually every article I wrote made clear I believe the 800-pound-gorilla is YouTube and will remain so for the foreseeable future. The Internet works best on Deflationary Economics. So Why MiTú? Indeed we are already seeing that online.

South America 291

South America Colombia Mexico Vertical 291

thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

These vertical solutions would focus on specific pain pain points in the enterprise, such as logistics or customer relationship management. Client-server has moved to the cloud (dramatically decreasing the cost of software development and deployment), and mobile apps are everywhere.

Advisory Board 70

Advisory Board Cloud Venture Capital Vertical 70

VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

So one way to think about it is no different from how we have thought about maybe the personal computing shift, the internet shift, the mobile shift. Models will get smaller over time, the computation will move from the cloud to on-device, and costs for incorporating generative AI in both new and existing products will keep dropping.

Generative AI 165

Generative AI Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT API 165

Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

During this time, there’s financial leverage used in the transaction to help buffer the firm’s cost of capital (e.g. This was the big consumer behavior story of 2018, behind the rapid rise of digitally-native vertical brands (like the breakout , Hims), and the rise of prosumer-level data applications (like breakout Airtable).

Technical Review 165

Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Entrepreneurs accurately recognize that the connective tissue of the Internet provides an opportunity to link the players in a particular market, reducing friction in both the buying and selling experience. Facilitating work-flow reduces work for the participants, as well as increasing switching costs. High Fragmentation.

Aggregator 101

Aggregator Marketing Software Review North America 101

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creators , Eric Feng. As the first generation born into an established Internet, with a smartphone at hand from a young age, Gen Z’ers place a high value on self expression. ” Eric Feng. ” Eric Feng. The 1% rule is now changing with Gen Z.

Aggregator 207

Aggregator Vertical Audience Seed Stage 207

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

First up today was John Bertoni with Mava Consulting , who is setting up a part-time sales force for companies to use without having to invest the fully loaded cost of a direct sales rep per geography. So, effectively, at the cost of one full-time sales rep, they can access coverage in four different regions.

Vertical 115

Vertical Web San Francisco Entrepreneur 115

VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2022

A few takeaways from the podcast: Meta is launching a new hardware VR headset in October this year (currently called “Project Cambria” but it’s likely to be “Quest Pro”) The new device will cost $800 and will help users experience a feeling of “social presence.” Inworld AI (image credit: Techcrunch ).

IP 187

IP Strategic Investors Vertical Early Stage 187

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2013

Streamline management costs. Don’t forget to measure all of your marketing efforts to see which ones are indeed cost effective. Ask employees what they would do to grow your business, fix business issues, or cut costs. Automation will allow your business to run more efficiently, and will streamline your management overhead.

Entrepreneur 234

Entrepreneur Vertical Reputation Valuation 234

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

With a good article, you are more than likely to break the internet. Vertical Scalability. Vertical scaling websites are acquiring hardware with increased capabilities. Mostly vertical scaling has problems of its own. Bottlenecking usually occurs on vertical scaled configuration when the load increases.

Vertical 124

Vertical Hosting Bandwidth Security 124

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

I genuinely believe that when it comes to internet investments, eCommerce is not only a VC story, but that it is the VC story. Correctly weighing opportunity costs, or staying focused, allows for broader innovation and potential for new models. Here’s why …. The eComm-aissance.

eCommerce 94

eCommerce Open Source SEM Technical Review 94

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. Any discussion of Internet marketplaces begins with the first quintessential marketplace, ebay (*). Exchange of Goods Marketplaces.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2012

Streamline management costs. Don’t forget to measure all of your marketing efforts to see which ones are indeed cost effective. Ask employees what they would do to grow your business, fix business issues, or cut costs. Automation will allow your business to run more efficiently, and will streamline your management overhead.

Startup 236

Startup Vertical Reputation Valuation 236

ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2021

Initially, Uber launched its vertical in the food delivery services with the name UberFresh. In this regard, you can go for the development of UberEats like an app that is a hot topic on the Internet. To find out users, you must prepare a questionnaire and circulate it over the Internet. Business model.

Business Model 168

Business Model Social Media Mobile Revenue 168

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Your customer acquisition cost and lifetime value are the two magical numbers you need to calculate for each one of your campaigns. Cost of Acquisition (CAC): The total cost of acquiring a user through a given channel. This includes ads, team costs (fraction of your weekly work hours invested), and any other effort required.

Revenue 60

Revenue Acquisition Channel Campaign 60

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2011

Streamline management costs. Don’t forget to measure all of your marketing efforts to see which ones are indeed cost effective. Ask employees what they would do to grow your business, fix business issues, or cut costs. Automation will allow your business to run more efficiently, and will streamline your management overhead.

Startup 230

Startup Vertical Reputation Valuation 230

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2017

Relish being the expert within a limited vertical domain. In a startup, you can’t afford to spend the time or the money for out-house training, so self-learning from the Internet and unpaid advisors is the norm. Thus big-company executives tend to under-estimate learning costs in a startup.

Salary 147

Salary Burn Rate Vertical Equity 147

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.

Vertical 60

Vertical Widget Distribution China 60

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

The satellite TV guys (DirecTV, Dish Network) have good pay TV businesses and nationwide coverage but lack a true broadband internet offering so they wouldn’t be a fit. No matter how awesome an Apple TV might be, it’s difficult to envision a similar scenario where cable companies subsidized the cost.

Hungary 168

Hungary Dividend Vertical Preferred Stock 168

Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Yammer sreenshot “Going viral” is often the holy grail for Internet startups, who hope to quickly scale to hundreds of thousands of users (then hundreds of millions) with relatively low user acquisition costs. In the construction industry, dozens of companies often collaborate on a project and exchange information on a daily basis.

Viral 149

Viral Product Vertical Acquisition 149

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2013

Such marginal increases add up even more with Rockefeller’s other favorite tactic… Vertically Integrate. Vertical integration allowed further cost reductions by taking charge of different manufacturing inputs and distribution.

Vertical 174

Vertical Green Restful America 174

Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

Internet investor Dave McClure coined the acronym &# AARRR ,&# to remember the parts of Customer Relationships on the web.). Veritas , the team building a low cost, residential wind turbine. But the big project for the week was testing and analyzing Customer Acquisition Costs. Worse yet, each of these clicks cost about a $1.00.

Customer 261

Customer Cloud EC2 Channel 261

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. Figure, back in 2011 the Speciality Coffee Association of America found that the average 16 oz cup of coffee costs around $1.17

Retention 115

Retention Customer Developer Programming 115

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. Figure, back in 2011 the Speciality Coffee Association of America found that the average 16 oz cup of coffee costs around $1.17

Retention 112

Retention Developer Customer Programming 112

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

Over the last 3 decades, IT has evolved from providing infrastructure and hardware to a more strategic role that is intimately woven with business verticals as shown below: - 1980s to 1990s: Servers, Storage, and Communications Infrastructure. Macro Trend 3: IT “Tuned” for Industry.

Technology 174

Technology Singapore Malaysia Indonesia 174

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. Figure, back in 2011 the Speciality Coffee Association of America found that the average 16 oz cup of coffee costs around $1.17

Retention 105

Retention Customer Developer Programming 105

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

For industries with thin profit margins, offering an incentive like 2% off isn’t very enticing, and in many verticals, and in some cases might require a significant lift in sales in order to break even. Figure, back in 2011 the Speciality Coffee Association of America found that the average 16 oz cup of coffee costs around $1.17

Retention 98

Retention Customer Developer Programming 98

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

This privacy-as-a-service API platform provides peace of mind to companies and the customers they serve in the world of AI and smart devices by building a new privacy infrastructure for the internet. If you are an entrepreneur, check out the SXSW 2020 Startups Track , which runs March 13–17.

San Jose 75

San Jose Cofounder API Silicon Valley 75

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. It is time to fix your key SaaS metrics: P&L: MRR = MRE: you control your destiny when your monthly revenue equals your monthly expenses Sales & Marketing: Your cost of capital doubled, so if a CAC ratio > 0.5

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Valuation Portfolio 48

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 13, 2015

and 5%” or “cost to acquire a customer between $50 and $500″ or “average monthly revenue per customer between $20 and $200.” All that is quite difficult, however, and despite the Common Knowledge of the Internet, that’s not usually how a company succeeds.

Business Model 120

Business Model Affiliate Startup Bootstrapping 120

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This can also be done remotely (over the Internet). The last link in a horizontal navigation menu (or the bottom one in a vertical menu) should be “Contact.” Over-the-shoulder usability tests. Get people to use the site, have them perform a set of tasks, and ask them to comment their thought process out loud.

Design 116

Design Web Search Chicago 116

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

As the costs of production fall, it’s getting easier and easier to send in a proposal or even a complete work. user-generated content) can increase liquidity and decrease distribution costs (notably talent search and evaluation), there are certain individuals whose opinions will count for more than the simple votes of the masses.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The primary challenge (ignoring disruption) is to find ways to better service their customers at lower and lower cost. The focus of the management team is largely internal – how do we cut cost without impacting the offering? Reducing time to market and lowering product development cost will extend this runway. Conclusion.

Product Development 153

Product Development Lean Developer Product 153

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Hence, over time, though the costs were reasonable, I've become shy about these resources as a source of value/quality. With that, let's look at the first rich source of benchmarking data in CI tools, the industry and sub-vertical reports. For this blog, Benchmarking classifies me into Internet & Telecom vertical.

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

The Next Web

JULY 13, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest column by Sangeet Paul Choudary, who analyzes business models for internet startups at his blog Platform Thinking. And for all those who entered the fray a couple of years back, most have done little more than serve consumers at below-cost prices in an effort to bite off some of the pie.

India 126

India Marketing Non-Compete Vertical 126