David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. A new category of VCs have emerged offering a hybrid between VC and RBI, which we call “Flexible VC”. . Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. Flexible VC: Revenue -based. Gross Revenues (generally 2-8%). Of the Inc.

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

At the same time, the stock markets collapsed, and most businesses already report skyrocketing losses, unmet revenue targets and insufficient stock due to production slow down in China, India and the rest of the world. Over the last decade, a new trend emerged as tech talent was scarce where it was needed the most.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it. And there’s this other thing called “gross margin,” which shows the quality of your revenue. How much ad revenue does TripAdvisor make?

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

As opposed to other dividends that are distributed on a quarterly or semi-annual basis, monthly dividends are paid out to shareholders each month. Main Street Capital is a publicly traded private equity firm that offers equity and debt financing to lower middle-market companies with a revenue between $10 million and $150 million.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Winter Break week for my kid more time with her, and when she’s with her friends, more time with New Yorker magazines. What Happens When TikTok Is Your Marketing Department [David Segal/New York Times] – Was it organic? Here are a few essays, articles, blog posts, etc that I’ve enjoyed recently. Was it both?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2014

An excellent example of a social enterprise is The Empowerment Plan —an organization that hires people currently living in homeless shelters to create a combination winter coat, sleeping bag, and over-the-shoulder bag, which is then distributed to the homeless of Detroit free of charge. According to the Harvard Business Review, in most U.S.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 11, 2017

These tools let entrepreneurs experiment, test, and, well, model different ways that they could structure their costs and revenue streams. Everything it takes to sell that thing: marketing, distribution, delivering a service, and processing the sale. Examples: CBS, The New York Times, YouTube. Marketplace.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

We also wanted to avoid any potential brand confusion with words such as New York City, Metro, Gotham, etc. Additionally, not limiting ourselves to a New York-linked name allowed us the eventual freedom to produce in other cities without having to qualify ourselves. And I was right. 12- Considered a few factors.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

I love working with people from around the world and truly believe that distributed teams provide huge benefits for small businesses and startups. Even worse, some companies, like Yahoo, have rolled back their distributed teams. Business owners report that their biggest concern with distributed teams is lower levels of productivity.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

The most common example of an API strategy is around companies who aspire to build a developer community as a new revenue source or as the foundation of their business. They should not be trying to generate new revenue streams or reach new audiences through such programs. The reality: “API as a tactic”.

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www.clickz.com

JANUARY 7, 2013

To get your 2013 marketing plans on track to increase revenues, here are seven social media tactics based on solid research that you need now. Then distribute this content on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter in addition to social sharing. Improve your Online Marketing Skills at SES New York ! SES New York.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

From California, to Illinois, and New York many of the largest U.S. Felix Rohaytn, widely credited with saving New York City in the 1970’s, recently published “ Bold Endeavors. ” [1] In it he warns: “The nation is falling apart – literally. municipalities are also the most fiscally troubled. Ironically, given the U.S.’s

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. What is the right revenue model?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. What We Discovered About Blockchain The Afro-Tech approached blockchain and distributed ledger as how it will affect African-Americans in everyday living.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 24, 2017

We’re very new to the industry, and while we’re passionate about the product, there have been obstacles every step of the way – production, shipping, distribution, etc. 24- Double-digit revenue and national partnership. This has to be the hardest job we’ve ever done. Thanks to Matthew W.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2010

We'll bring together Social Media Editors from some of the largest and most well-respected media outlets, as well as those in more traditional Editorial roles to discuss this new specialty role. Artists are using Social Media as a a catalyst to boost popularity, create new revenue streams and promote global goodness.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

YouTube takes too high of a revenue split (45% vs. 30% that Apple and many other distribution companies take – FWIW, YouTube argues this is because their costs are much higher since they host and stream the video). YouTube is a distribution and marketing channel like any other. You can’t build a brand on YouTube.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

This slinging of whatever against the wall to see what sticks does not a market make, is to me a sign of too much capital in the wrong hands, and it's already the most over invested area in recent years- in both human and financial capital- particularly relative to revenue. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

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Gust

OCTOBER 16, 2012

This summer I conducted our third annual survey of the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue companies recently funded by angel groups in North America. For the first time, we asked for data from specific business sectors, as follows: All pre-revenue deals. Pre-revenue life Science, biotech and medical device deals. Number: 30.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

In two cases, these businesses were doing significant early revenue ($500K/month+), so could be considered “post-seed”, although both of these companies had not raised significant institutional capital before we led their rounds. Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, 8 have been pre-product or pre-seed style rounds.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Now, consider rephrasing the question above into a hypothesis: “ Our best clickthrough rate is on Fridays in New York City.” For example, you might want to look at the age of your users, the price of listings on your marketplace, or the revenue generated by each customer. Plot a histogram to visualize the distribution.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

But I’m always surprised when that entrepreneur or small business owner has a tough time describing the potential customers for their new business’s products and services. After all, without customers, there is no revenue. When you choose a market, you should consider five main factors: 1.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

I saw Bitcoin as a new paradigm in computing, creating digital scarcity where something digital couldn't be copied and you could only transfer its value or symbolic value. I looked for places to meet other people who thought Bitcoin was cool and found the first ever conference in New York. How did Kraken come about? ?

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The Financial Times is firmly in the HTML5 camp (and I use their app every day), and the New York Times just announced a new HTML5 service. open access and distribution model – can be installed without going through an app store. publisher keeps all revenues (no app store cut).

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 2, 2013

What about in Florida vs. New York? What you now see is the distribution of which link is making you how much money. Sure they can sprout the number of tweets or top search keywords, but rarely do they have a robust understanding of the geographical distribution of their audience. What is Search really good at selling?

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 3, 2013

Look back to the reasons why there was a Cambrian explosion of seed funding in the first place – a dramatic reduction in the initial capital requirements to launch a new company because of cloud hosting infrastructure, social graph distribution platforms, open source and low-cost development tools/methods, etc.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

We were a profitable company at that point with nearly $200M annualized revenue, one of the first tech companies to IPO after the dot-com bubble. But the first real time we had a big celebration and folks felt like we’d “made it” was the party we held in the parking lot on February 14, 2002 when PayPal went public.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Today, The Bean has approximately 350 company-owned stores, with locations in Southern California, Las Vegas, Honolulu, New York City and Southeast Asia. Darius Bikoff, who distributed his enhanced drinks to health food stores, independent retailers and mom-and-pop stores in the New York area. Wrigley Company.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

New Use Cases. Because of the magical ordering system and the ability to efficiently organize a distributed set of drivers, Uber can operate effectively in markets where it simply didn’t make sense to have a dense supply of taxis. You would end up with dramatically more rides – and that is exactly what is happening. Transporting kids.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Our publisher distribution network reaches in the tens of millions of unique users and is comprised of “head end&# stars as well as many “mid tier&# and “long tail&# publishers. They already had a completed product and a distribution deal with the largest affiliate network company, Commission Junction.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 9, 2015

Would New York Sunday work? HW: You took an interesting approach to initial distribution, getting bundled alongside the Sunday newspaper in several cities. Newspapers offered an efficient, existing distribution channel. DMcG: We thought it was important for a media company today to have multiple sources of revenue.

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View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

We were a profitable company at that point with nearly $200M annualized revenue, one of the first tech companies to IPO after the dot-com bubble. And to be clear I split my time between Boston, New York, and SF and I’ve seen this across a broad swath of startups and individuals… both outside NextView’s portfolio and occasionally within it.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 21, 2010

When I reflect on all of this, it seems painfully obvious to me (and maybe to you also) that the best way to popularize “data as a service&# is to start with an API (which creates the revenue model dynamic) and build a bunch of open source examples on top of it.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. The second is distribution —the ability to get product into the hands of customers. Plenty of headroom there!

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

It aims to fuel your sales pipeline , shorten the sales cycle, and generate revenue. In other words, it boosts revenue by delivering the right information to the right people at the right time so that they can make confident decisions. ROI on marketing-sourced revenue. Deciding between LBM and ABM. With content marketing.

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