ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

Click fraud occurs when a pay-per-click advertisement is clicked on by a user with malicious or disingenuous intent. Some networks are highly sophisticated, and organisers disguise their IP addresses. If you conduct some intricate research (detailed below), you may be able to identify the IP address of competing businesses.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

In SaaS the main benchmarks being measured are revenue growth, sales efficiency (unit economics), churn and burn rate. Example of Baremetrics revenue per user benchmarks. power user curve showing a smile — with a big concentration of engaged users (you grow out from this strong core) viral factor >0.5

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Their objective is to get users, orders, customers, etc. ——————– Class 3 Jan 18 th Testing Customers/users. Deliverable for Jan 25 th : What were your hypotheses about who your users and customers were? Ask your users to take action, such as signing up for a newsletter.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

For angel groups, the distinction between groups and VCs on this issue is dwindling, especially as angel groups do bigger rounds of financing.   Note that this applies only to earl stage Series A-type equity financings and assumes no cash dividends are paid to investors. . This is why a bottom up approach is more credible.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Messy cap tables can come back to haunt you when you do a financing or sell the company. You want to see your product or service performing in the hands of real users. I am very surprised when that cool thing actually meets a customer need or drives revenue. Your investors are pressing you for traction.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

PerBlue develops and markets its own game, and today, is at about a $35,000-$40,000 per-month run rate from 200,000 users. Vinod wants to raise a significant amount of money to buy out an IP vendor that sells semiconductor interconnect IP, and offer value added services around them. D-Logic Inc.

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

From choosing a legal entity or jurisdiction to properly documenting IP assignments and stock issuances to complying with securities laws and avoiding potentially enormous tax penalties in the future, there is plenty here to warrant consulting a professional. Sales contracts accounting for significant revenue.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Of course, most of the Mac user base was not on new PowerMacs, they were on 'regular' Macs -- hardware upgrade cycles were much slower then. Moreover, users choose their devices and platforms because they value what's different , not the same. PowerMacs were just hitting the market, which had significantly faster chips and more memory.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

His quote on the subject, "no amount of finance will cure mismanagement". If youre in a market like pharmaceuticals, where all user testing can be done in a lab, execution in a bubble makes sense, but if your startup is a web product it sounds like hubris. Ran if for two years before we shut it down with almost no revenue achieved.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Or the founders have taken on a small amount of seed financing, just enough to get them into the market. Also think pointedly about how you are going to get the word out to your potential users, where they are online and how you’ll approach them. Either way, bootstrapping is a viable model. Test that your idea makes sense.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

Have you tried testing user-generated content? These strategies can be useful in increasing initial conversions from your ads and website traffic, but offering large discounts too early in the life of the company will lower your gross margins and CAC, both of which will affect your unit economics and future financing conversations.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Voyager’s cognitive-computing, deep-insights platform assesses billions of publicly available, unstructured data points to provide insights for its clients in finance, retail and consulting. YouAppi (2011)- YouAppi creates adtech to streamline mobile user acquisition. Amnon Shashua and Ziv Aviram (great interview with them here ).

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The site had been live and we had hundreds of users at that point, so we posted a story on the site asking for name suggestions. We started with a platform that could help create snackable content modules and users would go through these modules by playing small games, finishing challenges and levelling up. Photo Credit: Sydney Liu.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Ask your existing users this question via a survey. I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. If you believe in it – then finance whatever you can yourself.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

The movie business of today is all "pre-sold" IP. revenues from internet video services spanning user-generated content to television shows and movies will exceed $7 billion this year. Toy Story 3? Karate Kid 3? Iron Man 2? Sex and The City 2? The A-Team? Where are all of the NEW Ideas in Entertainment? How about Internet Video?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

All you’ve proven is that you can make $200 a month in revenue off of some basic websites. If you did that, now you’ve got something like one or $2,000 a month of revenue, proving that this is interesting. Jason: In revenue. Jared: That takes revenue that I don’t have yet. Let’s say they all do it.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

But without sales there is no revenue, and without revenue there is no company. All the strategic thinking in the world won’t make up for a missed revenue plan. If sales revenue and profits are high enough, we could take the company public or sell it, and the stock would be worth more than the paper it was printed on.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

He was our IP attorney. And then I, of course, need revenue for this." And what a user experience is for somebody coming to the website is hopefully it's communicating to you that this is a resource to help you find the things that you need on your way back to work, in addition to getting back to work. All of that is voluntary.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 12, 2017

No, the first 2% is more valuable in terms of revenue. Make a list of things the user is finding frustrating. Traditionally, we think about end users. How do those nouns relate to each other and how might users perceive them? Jaime Levy: Conducting Methodical Guerrilla User Research. 10K / 1M = 1%. book a hotel).

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

I’ve chosen to outsource my bug tracking to FogBugz , and it runs me $25/user per month. My original post discussed marketing and selling a software product, where achieving $2500/month in revenue is quite a task. #16 This one’s your call. You are correct, as a freelancer it’s not difficult to make $2500/month.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

“Carriers are moving rapidly to IP-based mobile backhaul, and Wintegra’s product offering is uniquely positioned to enable this packet transition and breakthrough the bandwidth bottlenecks faced in mobile networks,&# said Greg Lang, president and chief executive officer of PMC-Sierra. In 2009 it boasted revenue of $4.49

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, where setting goals presents a fresh opportunity to achieve different objectives. Essentially, our aim is to remind users who subscribed to Better Proposals why the product is great and how it benefits them. Thanks to Adam Hempenstall, Better Proposals ! #5-

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