The Startup Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

The acronym IP stands for Internet Protocol and is a protocol that is responsible for establishing communications between the different networks on the planet. For this reason, each IP is unique for each device to be able to communicate with each other without interference or confusion. What are the IP addresses like?

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Scott Edward Walker

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

For many startups, intellectual property (IP) is their most valuable asset. Below are the three most common IP-related mistakes that startups make — the first of which I discuss in this brief video with Jason Calacanis. electronic files, prototypes, customer lists, etc.). Any IP created or acquired by a founder (e.g.,

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Up and Running

JULY 28, 2022

Small Business Administration , an organization is considered to be a small business if their: Firm revenue ranges from $1 million to $40 million Number of employees is between 100 and 1,500. Intellectual property (IP) is anything created by the human intellect that’s protected by the law from unauthorized use by other people.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

buy out an entire company for its revenue and profits. A business model is all the parts of a strategy necessary to deliver a product to a customer and make money from it. If they acquire later stage companies who already have users/customers and/or a predictable revenue stream, they are acquiring companies which are executing.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2022

The portion of women who play games has increased (+5%), with almost as many women playing games as men – 85% vs 81%, respectively ( source ) Gaming is expanding – companies who didn’t traditionally do gaming (like Netflix ) have understood that it’s a key activity for their customers time spent outside of work.

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Up and Running

APRIL 21, 2021

You made the sale, accounted for the revenue already, only to be forced to give back the money and even pay a fee on top of it all. A chargeback is a term used when a customer disputes a charge on their credit card. When a dispute is made, you (the merchant) reverse the transaction while the customer gets their money back.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. They have have raised $2-3 million, built a product that has some amount of market traction and got to annualized revenues of around $1 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

So if your costs are $500,000 per month and you have $350,000 per month in revenue then your net burn (500-350) is equal to $150,000. But those of us with longer memories remember that the revenue line can move south very quickly when the market overall turns south. Gross burn is the total amount of money you are spending per month.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 2, 2014

Doctors, researchers and Principal Investigators in this class got out of the lab and hospital talked to 2,355 customers, tested 947 hypotheses and invalidated 423 of them. Part 4: This Will Save us Years – Customer Discovery in Medical Devices. Part 5: Value proposition and customer segments in Life Sciences.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2019

Founders need seed capital to get their operations up and running, and to begin generating revenue. For first time entrepreneurs or new entrants in a market, most initial problems start with failing to meet revenue projections — when product roll out is delayed, for example, or when it takes longer than expected to get revenue traction.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Nearly all businesses, whether they are small or large, are comprised of intellectual property (IP) and trade secrets, which can serve as the foundation for commercial success. The World Intellectual Property Organization defines IP as, “creations of the mind,” which, depending on the business, can take many forms. Customer lists.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Make Returns Easy Many chargebacks from the holidays result from customers struggling to return unwanted purchases and gifts. With a chargeback, a customer can claw their money back. If you insist that customers must make returns by say January 7 th , they will be under pressure and will have to make their decision quickly.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2019

From offering a better customer experience to streamlining internal operations, they have never been more crucial to satisfying the mobile-first customer and workforce. For example, did you know 86% buyers are likely to pay more for a first-class customer experience? Your mobile app could be used to gather customer feedback.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Knowbella Tech is an open science collaboration company that uses blockchain to deliver free tools, services, grants, and intellectual properties (IP) to researchers, particularly the underserved in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We will also seek first-mover STEM recruiting customers in order to generate revenues.

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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. Delivery times based on geo/IP/mobile phone location.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 9, 2019

In the worst case, you might end up with a cloud infrastructure that is a step down from your original solution — leading to lost customers and revenue. If your cloud servers go offline because of a disaster, then you might need to repoint your systems to new IP addresses temporarily. Create an in-house committee. .

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Invoca is now doing 10s of millions in recurring revenue and is growing > 75% year-over-year but it took the first 3 years to really build out the technology and acquire our initial enterprise clients. I mentioned that we sold our position in Kyriba for > $1 billion but when we invested it had virtually no revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

In addition to funding, the good news is that all of these provide aspiring entrepreneurs with an opportunity to perfect their marketing pitch, get some valuable target customer feedback and improve visibility to other funding sources. Project your costs as diligently as your revenues. Keep all IP details close to the vest.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

Next thing they know it’s too late: They have joined the 80+ percent of startups that find themselves auctioning off their IP for pennies at best, boarding up their doors and joining the ranks of Munchery, Path, Apprenda, Klout and many, many others. At this stage, the team is seeking market and customer validation metrics.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 2, 2016

Evidence exists that your hosting IP address can affect your SEO and traffic from Google , particularly if your users are concentrated in a specific geo-location/country. Ecommerce features—Online store and selling tools, SSL certification, dedicated IP, and one-click shopping cart software installation (for ecommerce websites).

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 24, 2011

What if you decided to provide something tremendously fantastic for your customers, even though it meant great expense and hardship? The convenience of online shoe shopping is a game-changer — to the tune of billions of dollars of revenue — but how could they make up the costs ? Easy to get free press. ?For

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

You may be able to generate revenue, but VCs want exponential growth. The market for our product was global, and we had unique advantages in terms of our product and how we distributed it to customers. Like you, they’re looking for opportunity. Be ready when it counts. But I also faced some significant hurdles.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Addressing real world problems, they thrive in uncertainty, generating new jobs and new revenue streams in new markets. experiments to build a product, find customers, test business models and hire amazing people. In deep tech companies value creation milestones are more likely to be tagged to validating the technology and IP creation.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 4, 2022

It might be the products or the customers they deal with, or it could even be the fact that they are the ones in charge of it all. I build long-term ties with my customers. When we work with our customers, we become their business partners and assist them expand their companies over time. Thanks to Adam Wood, Revenue Geeks ! #16-

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Sam Cimino, Sales Manager SW of YouTube/Google As YouTube’s Southwest Regional Manager, Sam is responsible for generating revenue across YouTube and the Google Content Network which comprises a media network that reaches nearly 80% of all internet users worldwide. and SVP, Branded Content & Audience Creation at nitetime.net.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

get to revenue, b.) retain those customers. how many customers you’ll acquire and when, how many you’ll retain in year one, how many will churn out (leave you), the average revenue each customer will spend, etc.). Tell them you haven’t spoken with any customers yet because your product is still in development.

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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. Account-based marketing is an approach where marketing and sales work together to nurture target accounts and convert or retain customers. This required more product evangelism and customer wins.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Fraudsters often operate from foreign IP and physical addresses. Doing so will save yourself and your potential customers a headache. IP Logging. When taking online signups, make sure to enable IP Logging. Geo-Targeting. Amateur fraudsters or bots may operate from a dedicated server. Identity Verification.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

When properly used, chargebacks protect customers and their financial well-being. Unfortunately, however, some customers engage in fraudulent activities, using the chargeback process to score free products, money, and other benefits. Yet rising prices could push customers into the arms of your competitors. Let’s take a look.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 29, 2017

A 1992 study from the Harvard Business Review found that the right pricing changes can drive revenue and profit improvements faster than any other growth lever — faster than increasing the volume of sales or decreasing costs. Looking at pricing by itself is divorced from how your buyers, customers, and users actually think about price.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2019

IP & Technology. It’s important that you know the value of your IP and position yourself for a good startup exit. If you have real IP, patents, and trademarks, your startup is going to be worth a lot more. Distribution & Customers. Customization is time-consuming and expensive. Or push regulations.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Along with Greycroft Partners we were the first investors in Maker Studios 3 years ago when the company had no revenue and limited infrastructure. but not that this justifies take a 45% revenue share. Industry averages for talent revenue shares are about 70% with top talent making even more. ” YouTube takes 45%.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Primarily, they’re designed to encourage sales from potential or previous customers. A triggered email, on the other hand, is HTML generated by combining a custom template with user data around a specific event, and then sent directly through an ESP (like Mandrill, Postmark, or SendGrid) to that user.” Image Source.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 5, 2020

For example, you can create a special offer or implement temporary discounts to get your customers excited and, perhaps, entice some of your competitor’s customers to switch to your offers. If yes, will the customers switch to it? What’s the customers’ view of competition ? The answer is, to understand how to act.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Doctors, researchers and Principal Investigators in this class got out of the lab and hospital talked to 2,355 customers, tested 947 hypotheses and invalidated 423 of them. Part 4: This Will Save us Years – Customer Discovery in Medical Devices. Part 5: Value proposition and customer segments in Life Sciences.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Over 10 weeks each team gets out of the building talking to 100 customers to test their hypotheses across all 9 boxes in the business model canvas. We collect the complete narrative of what they discovered talking to customers as well as aggregate interviews, hypotheses to test, invalidated hypotheses and mentor and instructor engagements.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Hurricane Irma had a major negative revenue impact on one whose fall book of business was mostly in Florida. Two of them made some major product directional changes based on the founder’s judgment and the feedback he was getting from partners and customers.

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