VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

More than investment, entertainment is one of the largest industries in the world in revenue terms, projected to reach $2.5 Since 2010, just three groups ( WarnerMedia , Netflix and The Walt Disney Company ) ploughed $250 billion into programming. And last year alone Audible generated $1 billion in revenue for Amazon. .

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

In it, I got asked a question I often hear: “What if we have a web-based business that doesn’t have revenue or paying customers? And without revenue how do we know if we achieved product/market fit to exit Customer Validation?” They’re putting money into web services/business – most without early revenue. End of theory.&#

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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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Valuation Technical Review Forecast Social Network 48

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

I have been saying privately for years now that I believe online video will evolve into fragmented distribution (my next online video post) and vertical production. It turns out that when you develop strong vertical content you often find you have great collaboration opportunities and don’t have to consider everybody a competitor.

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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.

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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

ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2014

Back in October 2013 Simon-Kucher & Partners , a global marketing & sales consultancy, published a survey that found 33% of shoppers did not name prices as the primary driver for online shopping. Shipping Costs. They found that the most important things – on average – for online shoppers were: image source.

Software Review 117

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

1,983% boost in annual revenue, 1,000% user base growth within six months with no upfront costs. These are actual results a startup Ringadoc got from their partner program. So we started building out the partner program.”. increased revenue. presence in new markets and verticals. Can this be true? Sales Training.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

1,983% boost in annual revenue, 1,000% user base growth within six months with no upfront costs. These are actual results a startup Ringadoc got from their partner program. So we started building out the partner program.”. increased revenue. presence in new markets and verticals. Can this be true? Sales Training.

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Channel Partner Programming B2B 77

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Because of a global donor blood shortage, particularly in emerging markets, clinicians and patients don’t have enough access to donor blood. Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health. What is your top goal for Sisu Global for 2020? We are proud to be a Baltimore-based company with global reach.

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Baltimore Africa South Africa Michigan 62

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Bob is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency. He's the founder and chairman of the board of global partner marketing agency, acceleration partners. So you know that you can't come into a partner program and just outspend someone in a day. I'll promote.

Marketing 90

Marketing Affiliate Channel Software Review 90

ReadWriteStart

MAY 6, 2011

First up, Sumit Jha from New Delhi, India, presented EduMark , a real estate education program for the nascent Indian market that Sumit is already selling successfully, and wondering how to take to the next level of scale. And you can sign up for the 1M/1M premium program here. Anirudh wants to bridge this gap.

India 115

India Vertical Entrepreneur Connecticut 115

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Alex has helped bring more than $160 million in funding to Texas startups through SBIR, STTR and other government funding programs for companies like Essentium, ICON 3D, and LIFT Aircraft. He’s been programming since he was a kid running some of the first online communities and networked games. STOIKY is his callsign.

Austin 110

Austin Texas Cofounder Los Angeles 110

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 27, 2019

So it is an increasingly global community. So it has become increasingly global over the years. Matt Cooper: We have focused in on creative as our real sort of core vertical and core area of expertise over the last 12, 18 months, in particular. John Jantsch: Yeah, I guess that was my next question.

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Community South Africa Software Global 61

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2011

Kelly's business has already done about $150,000 in revenue in 2010, which tells me that she has successfully validated at least some of her assumptions. He has run some experiments within the entrepreneurship training vertical, and has seen success when he has brought on known thought leaders.

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Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Vertical Massachusetts 114

ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

Today, he has over a thousand, and he has chosen to focus on the realtor vertical. and a systematic affiliate marketing program. And you can sign up for the 1M/1M premium program here. Dan is a 1M/1M premium member and has, over the last few weeks, worked systematically, following our methodology. He is seeing excellent results.

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San Francisco Entrepreneur Silicon Valley India 125

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 10, 2011

I advised Nimesh to focus on getting a couple of large corporations in Mumbai and a dozen restaurants in the beta program, and get the business going. Edward Varghese from New Delhi, India, pitched i-Globify , an outsourcing service catering to the niche travel vertical, focusing on building Web 3.0

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Some vertical ad networks have gone after this opportunity, Glam Media being one of the most successful of the lot. In 2012, finally, we will see the first major crop of Indian entrepreneurs playing on the global stage. If you want a deeper relationship with me, you are very welcome to join the 1M/1M premium program.

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Greece Entrepreneur India Silicon Valley 116

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

ViVu is also a startup (funded by DFJ, and seed funds Inventus Capital, Quest Venture Partners, and Amidzad), and true to our philosophy, we're using the 1M/1M program to give them visibility. Over the upcoming months, the program will become much, much richer. Advanced Dental Technologies.

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Startup India Silicon Valley Incubator 113

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

This means that more and more entrepreneurs are designing solutions to global problems, creating innovative products and services that meet real needs, and driving social change. With the global pool of talent open to them, entrepreneurs can build super-efficient teams. Thanks to Ryan Stewart, WEBRIS ! #5-

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Entrepreneur Global 108

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 November of this year, the company announced that it had achieved “substantially” more than $1B in revenue in the third quarter. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0

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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

To give context, compare market share changes with objective measures such as changes in total industry spending and company revenue, and strategic changes. This partnership would leverage both audiences and the rapidly growing awareness of the vertical. The second is to swing the other way and build a custom brand tracking program.

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Metrics Marketing Campaign Audience 157

Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Sometimes it’s because the business grows market-by-market, like Favor, or sometimes it’s that the business needs to grow its sales or programming teams in multiple cities. More connections means more business, more investors, more revenue, and more growth. Many businesses expand geographically city by city. Department of Defense.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 31, 2010

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Edward Cruz from GuruStorms , which was a finalist in the SXSW Accelerator program. If you have a difficult question or problem that requires deep vertical knowledge, you can post it as a brainstorm on the site, along with a reward ranging from $1000 to $5000. Q: How did the company get started?

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Elevator Pitch Curation Vertical Bootstrapping 63

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

automotive industry grew to become one of the drivers of the global economy. Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan. There’s the Alfred P.

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Silicon Valley United States RSS Customer Development 161

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Snowflake decides which channels to use according to industry verticals and where their buyers are likely to be. How uniting reporting increased revenue from target accounts by 21% for Schneider Electric. Increase in revenue from 21% of target accounts; Faster sales cycle; Accelerated pipeline velocity.

Marketing 105

Marketing Campaign Artificial Inteligence Sales Cycle 105

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

How LiveRamp drove over $50M in annual revenue from 15 target accounts. LiveRamp identified the attributes that their high-value accounts have in common: 5000+ employees for enterprise companies; $50M+ in annual revenue; Located in retail, CPG, insurance, and automotive industries. via 6sense ].

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Marketing Campaign Email Sales 100

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Their mission is to end the global addiction to petroleum-based virgin plastics by providing affordable high-grade recycled alternatives. He handles day-to-day operations with the rest of the leadership, while being focused on both investment and revenue generation. He also tries to write at least four paragraphs per day on Medium.

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Cofounder Austin Vertical Texas 70

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. Our philosophy is simple.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Australia Technical Review Community 48

ConversionXL

APRIL 22, 2015

The success of your testing program is a sum of these two: number of tests run (volume) and percentage of tests that provide a win. Following global marketing trends, copying your competitors and implementing best case practices don’t work for this reason: websites are highly contextual. This is not where the difficulty lies.

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Analytics Technical Review Conversion Framework 48

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

We spent considerable time exploring ways to verticalize the app and creating an ad-supported business model instead, which would also broaden his exit options considerably. The challenges of bootstrapping a venture that is dependent on ad-revenue is, however, also quite significant. could be your companion. About Sramana Mitra.

Silicon Valley 105

Silicon Valley Columbus Ohio Incubator 105

Austin Startup

APRIL 29, 2019

While it may come as a surprise to locals and visitors alike, the short-term-rental (STR) unicorn considers Austin to be one of its 24 global “super cities” : destinations that routinely generate the company’s largest revenues, and are viewed as having the strongest prospects for future growth. It also generated an impressive $2.6

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Austin San Francisco Texas Phoenix 50

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

Among the most interesting is Stash’s “stock back” program, which is essentially an alternative form of rewards. Finally, Stash’s program gives consumers who might not otherwise be investors an opportunity to participate in the market and learn about its opportunities (and risks!), However, credit cards are not without pitfalls.

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IPO Stock Software Review API 36

mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

Setting a value is always difficult especially when you come across so many companies that are pre-revenue and sometimes pre-monetization strategy. A year or so ago the news was that Google and or YouTube was going to help small partners/studios with funding that would be recovered by ADD revenue. Programming and Web Development Lists.

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San Francisco Acquisition Social Media Mobile 104

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Only a plea to obsessively obsess about measuring outcomes and compute economic value, not just revenue. I know of no other way to achieve one's global maxima on the web. No serious web analytics program in any company is complete without robust and persistent testing. So no specific tools recommendation here.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 31, 2017

A study by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor found that 73 percent of entrepreneurs fund their ventures through their own savings, an average of $15,000. He’s the author of five international best-selling books and has empowered over 50 million people globally through his training programs. Not all debt is bad.

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Entrepreneur Affiliate Finance United States 121

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. Phlatbed is unique in-that it is a peer to peer moving services platform that enables people turn idle capital into revenue sources.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Harvest Portfolio 92