Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2019

This is not just sales traction, but a proper balance between resources, product, and customers. Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. Too many early-stage companies are so desperate for customers that they operate in a frantic and random sales mode.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2022

digital collectibles) are only valuable if there’s an active market of supply < demand. But as trading volume (demand) goes down, so does the price and people will only buy them if they believe they will increase in value again. Consolidated brands NFT sales (source: Dune ). And perhaps, rightfully so.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Dig into your sales data too. Marketing Week adds a bit more context: “Put simply, brands or agencies use a demand-side platform (DSP) to decide which impressions to buy and how much to pay for them, while publishers use a supply-side platform (SSP) to sell ad space to brands. Where do visitors spend the most time?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2013

This is not just sales traction, but a proper balance between resources, product, and customers. Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. Too many early-stage companies are so desperate for customers that they operate in a frantic and random sales mode.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

He has served as a teacher for the Stanford ME310 Global New Product Design Innovation Program and has also been recognized as one of the top 30 Designers Under 30 in 2015 by Forbes magazine. AI consumer productization places higher demands on human-computer interaction, which can also empower artificial intelligence products.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

We have struggled to keep up with UbiGro film demand, and so we are planning to significantly expand our production capacity this year. I truly believe this is the year where quantum dots make a name for themselves in agriculture, and so its about marketing, sales, manufacturing, and generally about traction in the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2012

This is not just sales traction, but a proper balance between resources, product, and customers. Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. Too many early-stage companies are so desperate for customers that they operate in a frantic and random sales mode.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

According to a recent interview with Founding Partner Andrew Oved, Reformation invests in SaaS (vertical and application software) and consumer product businesses that have achieved $1M-$5M in annualized revenue, while operating capital efficiently. Region: Global with focus on Europe and US . 20% initial ownership.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. 3) Raise capital. She is a model for us all!

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2016

This is not just sales traction, but a proper balance between resources, product, and customers. Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. Too many early-stage companies are so desperate for customers that they operate in a frantic and random sales mode.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Your patrons have shared their data all last year through clicks, subscriptions, customer service requests, sales inquiries and more — and now expect your business to be able to turn those interactions and touch points into a more targeted, holistic experience. With CRM revenues at 39.5 Time to Act With Analytics.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Vince Molinaro: Well, it’s really came about from working with a lot of my clients globally who had been investing a lot in leadership development, but not see it translate into stronger leadership within their organizations. Best sales person, best analyst, best accountant, best engineer, whatever. They had the most tenure.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

These designers help small to mid-sized brands design/develop quality product by exposing them to big company best practices and a global network of factories, trim suppliers, fabric sources, etc. Our lean, limited asset business provides us the opportunity to focus our efforts on sales, marketing and most importantly our customers.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

trillion and 319 million jobs to the global economy , there is one glaring disadvantage to being a tourism-based retailer: Your customers are usually only in town for a few days. . Here’s how souvenir shop businesses can knock their sales goals out of the park to become a must-visit destination for tourists and locals alike. .

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. is an AI bot which helps companies refine their sales pitch to VCs. Numerous VC funds rely on more general CRM and sales funnel solutions like Pipedrive and Streak. Pitchbot.vc 3) Originate investments. 5) Due diligence.

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A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 2, 2018

I think the same people that say “no more good marketplaces” would have passed on Airbnb because VRBO had already won the market and passed on WeWork because Regus was already global. 3) Niche Managed Marketplaces – Within many verticals, there are opportunities to significantly improve customer experience.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

Khosrowshahi, who previously served as CEO of Expedia before taking the reins at Uber in 2017, sat down with Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman to discuss the past, present and future of the mobility and delivery business that now operates in 71 countries around the world and employs around 20,000 people globally. Iconversations [guest].

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Surfers alway want to know the waves conditions in real-time and they want to stay connected with their local and global community. After more than a year of growing the goFlow global surf community, we realized that this need to know the conditions in real time doesn’t only apply for surfers. It just didn’t make sense.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Fifteen CFOs participated - about half of them from Bessemer portfolio SaaS companies (Cornerstone On Demand, Intacct. 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

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Bob is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency. Look, if you work in sales, wanna learn how to sell, and frankly who doesn't check out the sales podcast, where host will Barron helps sales professionals learn how to buyers and win big business ineffective and ethical ways.

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Austin Startup

JULY 5, 2017

Rather, Tesla will be a full stack, vertically integrated clean energy company. Of that, Tesla does not even break out non-automotive revenue, meaning that their battery/solar business today is small fraction of total sales. The diagram below shows how energy is produced and consumed globally.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 13, 2010

The financing round, led by PerformanceEdge Partners and existing lead investor S3 Ventures, provides the company with the funds needed to extend its marketing and sales initiatives and grow new partnerships. Most recently he served as vice president within the global strategic partner and channel sales organizations for Symantec.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

His marketing and sales instincts and skills seemed magical and he built the company into a $400 million OEM supplier, ultimately selling the company to Unisys. We need our team members to have sustainable work / life balance or risk losing them to another less demanding industry all together. Thank you, global meltdown!

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. In its most recent quarter, the company processed the exchange of $923 million of sales, which equates to a $3.6B In 2017, the company reported sales of over $500 million.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

automotive industry grew to become one of the drivers of the global economy. 2) Provide corporate management with near real-time divisional sales reports and budgets that indicated when they deviated from plan. billion in sales in today’s dollars.) If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan. car market.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

The percentage rake is the amount that the marketplace charges as a percentage of GMS (gross merchandise sales), which typically represents net revenues for the marketplace. eBay recently launched an aggressive campaign attacking Amazon’s rate table on a vertical-by-vertical basis ( those percentages can be found here ).

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

For a reasonable return on investment, target higher-value accounts than you would with more conventional demand generation plays. LiveRamp couldn’t have seen the success they did without total alignment between sales and marketing teams. Account-based marketing doesn’t just bridge the gap between sales and marketing teams.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Account-based marketing (ABM) accounted for 79% of all sales opportunities in 2020. How iRidium used audience targeting, networking, and activation to land 34 new sales opportunities. Qualitative-first: Aligning sales and marketing for a comprehensive audience profile. Results of iRidium’s ABM efforts.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Its power is in the what : how many sales, how much traffic, how often actions are taken, etc. Do these customers interact with the same sales rep? If you want to show differences in proportions between groups, a horizontal or vertical bar chart is the easiest way to do it. Data is a critical contributor to growth. Line charts.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

It’s like arguing against vertical software. It was just the command shell that demanded backward slashes. You use marketing and sales language, when attempting to make technical points. March 26, 2011 at 9:02 am. The reasoning behind this post is questionable. It’s also missing the point of engineering anything.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 27, 2015

I've suffered enough bruises on the front-lines from trying to re-imagine the current and revolutionize the future across multiple industry verticals, countries, opportunity sizes. Today's primary use of the word programmatic refers to the use of ad exchanges, real-time bidding (RTB), Demand-side Platforms (DSPs) etc.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

They took a host of seemingly fragmented industry changes—customers demanding more from their vendors, customer relationships lasting years instead of days, competing businesses appearing virtually every day—and found the common thread that tied them together: more companies and customers were switching to subscriptions.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Easy question to answer, and free with Compete (remember, this is US visits only) or SimilarWeb (global traffic). Christmas was even better for Mobile (traffic, sales, store visits, everything). The GA team pulls together analysis from your industry vertical, country and like-sized websites. So let's start there.

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