YoungUpstarts

JULY 14, 2020

If your business can pivot effectively, there are actually quite a few opportunities to both improve your business’s short-term revenue and long-term value through COVID-19. Still, there’s a silver lining here if you’re clever enough. I’m going to go over a few of the most significant. Branch into “Small Luxury”.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

This thought was in my mind as I was reading Lean Analytics a new book by my friend Alistair Croll and his collaborator Benjamin Yoskovitz. In this post, we’ll look at each of the four steps in the Lean Analytics Cycle in more detail. In the Lean Startup world, this is called customer development. But it is not routine.

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Up and Running

MAY 3, 2012

Eric Ries , author of The Lean Start-up , puts it best: ‘ The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. For technology entrepreneurs, we need to encourage them to understand the lean startup methodology, as a means to help them validate their assumptions. Most products are not successful. Collectively, we need to do better.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

There is demand to apply the problem-solving methodology to a range of public sector organizations where success is measured by impact and mission achievement versus revenue and profit. The program will scale to 13+ universities in 2017. Filed under: Hacking For Defense , Hacking for Diplomacy , Science and Industrial Policy.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The subscription box industry is growing rapidly thanks to a steady revenue model and tapping into people’s love for surprises. Lots of new box companies have trouble ironing out the kinks in their process: their customer can’t easily unsubscribe, their boxes just aren’t exciting or well-curated, and more. Your problem and solution.

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Life Beyond Code

APRIL 26, 2015

Key Observations About the Revenue Engine for Google. it is no secret that the revenue engine for google is advertising. The Gorilla of the revenue sources continues to be Ad revenues from Google Websites growing at 20.48% from year 2013. The slowest growth rate (6.51%) is the revenue from Network sites.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

There is demand to apply the problem-solving methodology to a range of public sector organizations where success is measured by impact and mission achievement versus revenue and profit. The program will scale to 13+ universities in 2017. Filed under: Hacking For Defense , Hacking for Diplomacy , Science and Industrial Policy.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Later on, as the number of your satisfied subscribers grows, the creation of a long-term business with predictable revenue becomes possible. I am a huge advocate for the lean way of starting and running a business. Product curation and searching for products. Added value is a must.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how to define your ABM strategy so you can target the right accounts and increase your revenue. Think of it as a filter that helps you find the highest chance of return on investment, revenue potential, and profitability. Cloud-based data warehouse Snowflake had an ambitious goal to triple its revenue.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2022

I selected curate because it represents that I am the director of my museum which is my life and my business. Interesting to note that curate is based in the Latin word cura which means care. Curate served me in 2021 as a year that was full of unknown, anxiety, and stress. Thanks to Shokouh Hatch, everlur ! #3-

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

All of us worked together as part of the leadership team at Return Path, a leading email technology company that we scaled from 0 to $100mm in revenue and 500 employees in 12 locations around the world while winning numerous Employer of Choice awards. to leaning in to our board (hit or miss, inefficient).

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 6, 2013

For viewers, it provides a one-stop curated list of what’s available to watch right now – along with which service its available on and how much it costs, if it’s an on-demand movie, for example. In order to further tempt potential investors, Rice ended her presentation by saying that the company is on target for annual revenue of $2.5m

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

All of us worked together as part of the leadership team at Return Path, a leading email technology company that we scaled from 0 to $100mm in revenue and 500 employees in 12 locations around the world while winning numerous Employer of Choice awards. to leaning in to our board (hit or miss, inefficient).

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

Small businesses that commit to these practices will often see great results over time with the returns measured in traffic, revenue, customers, and word-of-mouth. Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups. Better still conduct multiple polls with smaller slices of your customer base.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2017

This article is part of our “Business Planning Guide” —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! If you don’t have a specific immediate need to show a formal business plan to a banker or investor, then you are probably better off doing just a lean business plan , for your internal use only.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The steadily climbing revenue and membership numbers also subtly leverage psychological priming , creating the unconscious connection that Memberstack means more members and more revenue. Here’s the view for service teams: And for sales teams: The next section leans a little more on social proof.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 10, 2011

My weekly newsletter on NYC events, with over 3300 subscribers, covers over a dozen events each week--and that's curated! Did you not understand your customer's pain point well enough in your lean startup process? If those companies work on revenues, they may actually work themselves out. Why isn't it growing its own yet?

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

” At least at Reforge, a lot of our revenue comes from company education budgets. You typically have to have the more directive leadership style, versus curating things from the bottom up, in order to move quickly. We’re not going to book any revenue for the next 12 months. Are we right or wrong about these things?”

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

Research from Optimove shows that young, fast companies derive 30% of revenues from existing customers. As those companies become more established, that increases to around 90% of revenues. Ensure every recommended product helps the customer solve a problem or drive more revenue. Focus on value. So, what does this tell us?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Lean Planning is a concept that we introduced back in 2012 as an evolution in business planning. We proposed Lean Planning as the next step in business planning. But, where did Lean Planning come from? Here’s a quick history of how we developed Lean Planning. See Also: Lean Planning: A Curated List of Our Best Content.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 22, 2015

Lean Doesn’t Always Create the Best Products [link] crowdspring.co/1FcPnhs A Much Better Revenue Model for Podcasting [link] crowdspring.co/1KnzO7N 2015 AIGA Medalists: MoMA Design Curator Paola Antonelli [link] crowdspring.co/1GS7NlL 10 Truths We Forget Too Easily [link] crowdspring.co/1JkEVrr The Highest-Paid Female C.E.O.s

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Up and Running

JANUARY 17, 2014

The phrase “lean startup” comes up a lot in conversations about entrepreneurship. I’ve been to several panel discussions on the topic, had it taught to me in a business school classroom, and read a book dedicated to lean startup methodology. In lean startup speak, this was called a minimum viable product, or MVP.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 27, 2020

For the last 3 years, we have been hosting client and prospect dinners where we curate the participants and invite them to an intimate night of deep conversations. We have to lean in on what makes an organization and value proposition unique, and then share this widely. Third, do the same but for a 3-year plan.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

We’ve curated a list of 7 exceptional small business coaches sharing some of their best advice. Every business has profit-driving processes in place that generate revenue. Good business coaching provides tried, actionable strategies that will deliver increased profits. 1) Brad Sugars. Image courtesy of ActionCoach.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

We’ve curated a list of 7 exceptional small business coaches sharing some of their best advice. Every business has profit-driving processes in place that generate revenue. Good business coaching provides tried, actionable strategies that will deliver increased profits. 1) Brad Sugars. Image courtesy of ActionCoach.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

His groups whole-heartedly adopted and adapted Lean. His innovators and stakeholders curated and prioritized their problems/idea/technology before handing them off. 14 different innovation teams were going through a 3-month I-Corps/Lean LaunchPad program to validate product/market fit. Recognizing the Roadblocks.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Dan: Jason, we’re certainly leaning more towards what you said. If you see someone going, hey, I’ve sort of built it for, maybe you could call it profitability, but showing traction revenue, and now I’m ready to scale it big, and I don’t know if I should still charge. Does that make sense?

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Once you’ve done that – then. do something else.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

I know one friend who ran QuickBooks for 3 years and is now in the process of having to restate his financials for the past 3 years culling through millions of records to normalize his revenues. 43:15 John demonstrates how users can curate their own Klout feed. Put offer proper accounting at your peril. What did you see in them?

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Occam's Razor

JULY 13, 2017

I’ve curated sixteen extremely diverse visualization examples to do that. For example… Let’s say they end up looking at Visitors, Conversion Rates, and Revenue. Why not build in a model where the decision maker can change Conversion Rates, to see the impact on Revenue? Show impact on Revenue and Profit.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Usually, the process boils down to something like the “Build → Measure → Learn” framework popularized by The Lean Startup …. Think of the time you’d have to spend with development, content curation, and promotion… However, the impact is also quite high (or let’s assume it is). Image Source. Here’s one from Ryan Gum: Image Source.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

market in terms of revenue dollars (there is no question that digital tools will successfully impact specific acute diseases/disorders, but it’s our intuition these are best left to 100% focused HC investors). They all struggle with how do you lean against the American healthcare system?

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