ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

They want to open new offices, generate more revenue, and ultimately, secure higher profitability. . And the revenue from your existing customers alone may not be enough to cut it. . Are you going to grow vertically or horizontally? You could put together a client referral program. Marketing/advertising channels. Memorability.

Startup 127

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

The entrepreneur who founded and grew the largest startup in the world to $10 billion in revenue and got fired is someone you have probably never heard of. He also believed that to succeed the company needed to be vertically integrated and bought up 29 parts manufacturers and suppliers. The next year, 1910, trouble hit.

Michigan 268

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Longer, costlier cycles drain cash on hand while delaying the onset of crucial revenue streams. Instead, use an existing user manual template that’s appropriate for your process and vertical. During development itself, utilize engineering simulation software to reduce prototyping costs and shorten trial-and-error timelines.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). Ryan was not only a senior engineer at Salesforce.com (he ran mobile and also ran content management) but was also my cofounder at Koral and lead architect at BuildOnline. Distribution costs have, too.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Since 2015, clothing brand ASOS has grown revenue by an average of 22% year over year. When customers use the Google search engine to look for items like clothing and shoes, popular products come up as the top results. Customers can now shop directly from the SERP (search engine results page). Brian Balfour , Reforge.

eCommerce 129

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David Cohen

AUGUST 22, 2012

After the market downturn, I think that investors in general got more picky about “real” revenue models. As an example, one of the areas that I like to invest in is vertical search. With vertical search, it’s all about the crack. I had a meeting today with the vertical search company that I recently funded.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Between January 2015 and January 2016, we grew our platform Slidebean from $1K to $20K in monthly recurring revenue. Getting the first tracks of revenue is one of the toughest processes of building a startup. Customer Lifetime Value (LTV): The potential revenue that you’ll be receiving from a given user. in other countries).

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Search engines are vital for discoverability. Google’s Public Search Liaison Danny Sullivan has openly pushed back against those who want subscription-only content flagged in search results: Our automated systems try to present the best information in relation to a search topic, as people expect us to do as a search engine.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

In How To Defend Your Dream Against All Odds , Alex and I explore the company's journey to $200 Million in revenue, while their VCs wrote them off. Zoho is already over $100 million in revenue and is seeing tremendous traction. In that case, the verticals of choice could be manufacturing, wholesale and retail. Discuss.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Fast forward a couple of years and the company is now beyond 8-figure million of recurring revenue, has dozens of sales reps and growing rapidly and is now gearing up for multiple offices, enterprise integrations and relationships with Salesforce.com, HubSpot, Marketo, Marin Software and many others.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

I asked Harshil to focus his entire product and go-to-market strategy on the college-bound age 18 market and develop his assessment module, vertical search engine for colleges and trust network to address the needs of that market and that market alone. Age 18 is worried about college and that in itself is a sizable market. Discuss.

Spain 115

Spain Entrepreneur India San Francisco 115

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

In the last three posts, we drew the relationship of market risk and invention risk with vertical markets and pointed out verticals where customer development would be useful. would look in each of the verticals. Business and Revenue Model – How do we organize to make money? Product Development – How do you engineer it?

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

However, the mistake Said has made is to go "spray and pray" and build numerous different verticals without really fleshing out the business strategy for any of them. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. PTA Portals. Discuss.

Entrepreneur 116

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

This year we will hit over $15m in gross revenue. This year we will hit over $15m in gross revenue. . In six months, the following was accomplishes: a one year lease was signed, I had made a public commitment to my business, and we were generating zero revenue. Thanks to Rafe Gomez, Vertical Cloud Inc. ! . #4-

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

This year we will hit over $15m in gross revenue. This year we will hit over $15m in gross revenue. In six months, the following was accomplishes: a one year lease was signed, I had made a public commitment to my business, and we were generating zero revenue. Can you find a way to improve on what already is generating revenue?

Entrepreneur 54

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Revenue needs to grow 20x, and margins must expand dramatically. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. Global smartphone revenue is about $420B.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. Through these efforts, we will continue to build trust and credibility in the eyes of all stakeholders – employees, customers, prospects and other vendors in our verticals. .

Entrepreneur 116

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 6, 2020

If you’re in this kind of vertical, it’s a great place to strut your stuff. SEO stands for search engine optimization and it’s essentially a strategy aimed to help your brand rank higher on Google. For many industries like health, science, and technology, conferences are their Superbowl.

Social Media 141

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

John already has a couple of customers, and needs about 50 customers to get to $1M in annual revenue. In fact, in the discussion on JuJu brands is yet another validation of the verticalization and niche-ization of the Internet. 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

Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

And it was going to mention the two words that SuperMac marketing needed to live and breathe: revenue and profit. To do that we will create end-user demand and drive it into the sales channel, educate the channel and customers about why our products are superior, and help Engineering understand customer needs and desires.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

5000 list , which lists private American companies based on three-year revenue growth between 2016 and 2019. We’re aiming to bring that boost in productivity and cost-efficiency both to CPA firms and other professional services firms in other verticals (i.e. Last year, Taxfyle ranked No. Magazine’ Inc.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

If you pick one vertical and do it well, other folks will find you. What’s more it also required a large team of smart engineers that had experience in programming cross-platform software. Figure out what your milestones are – customers, pageviews, revenue, etc. – Find your niche. Finding funding and capital.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Yet startup companies have traditionally used this model to manage and pace not only engineering but also non-engineering activities. The flaw in this thinking is that “first customer ship&# is simply the date when engineering thinks they “finished” the 1.0 release of the product. All of this is usually a bad idea.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The same issues arose time and again: big company management styles versus entrepreneurs wanting to shoot from the hip, founders versus professional managers, engineering versus marketing, marketing versus sales, missed schedule issues, sales missing the plan, running out of money, raising new money. Would you mind sharing them?

Silicon Valley 125

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

These investments include Kaggle, a startup that compels engineers to compete against each other in order to solve “hard problems,” and Continuuity, Parse, Pushd and Citus Data. The top layer of applications and services that use the innovations of the first two layers to transform vertical markets (e.g,

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ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

Things to pay attention to: Steps that don’t make sense from your customer’s perspective; Steps that are combined or eliminated compared to your funnel, as they may be superfluous; Upsells and cross-sells, which are additional revenue opportunities you could exploit. What I’m looking for are common trends within that vertical.

SEO 126

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2020

For reliable insights on the economy, an outstanding resource is ITR Economics , an economic research organization that issues monthly economic trend reports by industry verticals and market segments. These insights will help business leaders view information relevant to their specific marketplace. Doing something about it is the other half.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2023

I have revenue. 3) Reverse engineering Crunchbase. Grab a free trial and start sourcing names by doing searches of similarly staged companies in the same basic verticals that have recently raised. When you're applying to pre-schools, programs give clear cutoff dates. VC doesn't have those clear cutoffs. Am I still pre-seed?

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 23, 2013

Looking back, there were several factors limiting our ability to grow, including: Geographical markets: We had internationalized to five non-English speaking countries in Europe, but felt that conquering Asia was too risky an endeavor for a relatively small company (our platform revenues were in the hundreds of millions of dollars).

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ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2017

Upsells and cross-sells (are there additional revenue opportunities you too could be leveraging?). What I am looking for is common trends within that vertical. Things to pay attention to: Steps that don’t make sense (from your customer’s perspective). “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

SEO 131

SEO Analytics Conversion Search 131

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. The VC Software Stack — the Untouched Vertical. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce.

Private Equity 60

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

Unfortunately most startups learn this by going through the “Fire the first Sales VP&# drill: You start your company with a list of potential customers reading like a “who’s who&# of whatever vertical market you’re in (or the Fortune 1000 list.) Your board nods sagely at your target customer list. What happened?

Silicon Valley 131

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Whenever there’s a complete disruption of the business model, it means that the underlying rules for that vertical have dramatically changed. Yet, at the same time, they most likely also have declining revenue and profits. A company that’s being disrupted certainly feels the pain that their business model is under attack.

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View from Seed

JUNE 23, 2022

Long-term: Influencers across the world with 10K+ followers and across all major verticals (e.g. So in college, I studied aerospace engineering, joined Air Force ROTC, and eventually was accepted by the Air Force to go to flight school upon graduation. My goal was to become an astronaut.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 6, 2011

An incubatee with Indian Angel Network, Anirudh Motwani from New Delhi, India, discussed IndiaCollegeSearch , a vertical search engine to address the problem of finding detailed information about various colleges and institutions in India. IndiaCollegeSearch. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Discuss.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 28, 2016

According to Experiment Engine’s data, anywhere from 50% to 80% of test results are inconclusive, depending on the vertical and stage of the testing program. I’d only implement at a segment by segment basis if the segment is driving significant revenue or leads (depending on my goal).”. Sometimes you’ve got to get bold.

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