ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This partnership would leverage both audiences and the rapidly growing awareness of the vertical. Given that consideration and actual sales data are highly correlated in this vertical, it follows that if BMW can influence brand consideration, they can forecast a lift in future sales and possibly market share: Image Source.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 18, 2022

Do you understand your cost structure and can you manage to a forecastable growth rate. But one of the benefits of ‘software eating the world’ is that there are a ton of amazing companies selling into huge traditional industries: agriculture, health care, government services, hospitality, and so on. Top line growth and margin.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone. To be clear, I can’t forecast the details of how an augmented reality OS should work. I think AR is that big, it’s huge. Global smartphone revenue is about $420B.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Makes me wish we’d just adopt version numbers , a la software releases – Round 1, Round 2, Round 2.5 Asking founders to prematurely perfectly forecast the amount of capital they need to get to a Series A is an unnecessary constraint. Now we’re raising an A-2 to scale. ” What?!? So, what to say? A few reasons.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

I first met Steve when he was VP of Engineering at Centerline software, a software development tools startup, and I was a junior in college. He was a fellow Harvard computer science graduate and I was looking for a summer job in software development and found him through an alumni directory.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Sebastian Soler recently launched Knowledge.vc , which uses software and machine learning to enhance deal sourcing and diligence for VC firms. Private Equity Software and Services Directory. The VC Software Stack — the Untouched Vertical. 4) Manage deal flow. Advise Technologies focuses on regulatory reporting.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you want to learn about how to do simple forecasting and trend analysis, please see the official forecast function in Excel post on the Microsoft website, and this handy tutorial on trend lines and forecasting in excel. For this blog, Benchmarking classifies me into Internet & Telecom vertical.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Just for reference, Slidebean is a SaaS presentation software where users can add content, and a finished presentation is designed automatically. See Also: A Complete Guide to Forecasting Sales for Your Monthly Subscription (SaaS) Business. If you’re interested in figuring out how you can growth hack your way to success, keep reading!

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

UiPath broke that milestone this summer, in just nine months, establishing Europe as a major global center for software innovation. There are now eight software companies north of a $100 billion market cap, representing $2.7 trillion of market value. Europe has also joined the race with its first Cloud giants.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

In the past you have focused on revenue because (a) getting real orders at any price over 0 proves whether people value the offering at all, and (b) setting a real price via real orders is much more realistic than market research forecasts. The revenue-delayed models seem to go against that risk-reduction rule.

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VC Cafe

JULY 25, 2017

This post is just my own learning process about this subject and doesn’t cover the rapidly growing bot ecosystem or the vertical messaging apps (startups like Crew ). Source: Messaging App Usage Worldwide: eMarketer’s Updated Forecast, Leaderboard and Behavioral Analysis. Today you message your friends and family mainly.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

If it’s a new division inside a larger company, forecasts talk about return on investment. Reply alan commike , on August 28, 2009 at 12:44 am Said: Steve – How would customer development apply to non-software companies? It may have been true that years ago software was different.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

to gather panel data, a company may recruit participants to be in a panel, and each panel member installs a piece of monitoring software. The software collects all the panel’s browsing behavior and reports it to the company running the panel. Panel data is another well-established method of collecting data.

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