Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Early on in my career I took a “we’re moving too fast to deal with lawyers” attitude to patents and Intellectual Property (IP.) The assets you can protect may include your “core technology&# like source code, hardware designs, architectures, processes, formulas. Type of IP. _. non-public technology. new technology.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Esports revenues as an industry. Despite the massive viewership, Esports as whole is still relatively small when it comes to revenue. In 2020, revenues are expected to reach $1 billion, and grow by 60% in 2023. A few facts about Esports revenue according to Newzoo : Global esports revenues will grow to $1.1

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Competition from other startups and established incumbents, constraints on time and capital, and limited access to talent and technology resources are just a few of the hurdles nearly every first-time founder faces while trying to build a business. You may be able to generate revenue, but VCs want exponential growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. Exec Summary: Most companies (98+%) in the world (even tech startups) should be very profit focused. Simplifying: Revenue -.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Our categorization is not a technical one. Additionally, Flexible VC can accommodate all types of companies, not just asset-lite, tech-enabled companies.”. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. Of the Inc. raised from angels.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

So if your costs are $500,000 per month and you have $350,000 per month in revenue then your net burn (500-350) is equal to $150,000. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. You are reliant upon ad revenue (this is a variable spend which corrects quickly during a market correction).

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

get to revenue, b.) how many customers you’ll acquire and when, how many you’ll retain in year one, how many will churn out (leave you), the average revenue each customer will spend, etc.). Offend your investors by over using acronyms and technical terms. Are you pitching “hockey-stick” financial growth?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Knowbella Tech is an open science collaboration company that uses blockchain to deliver free tools, services, grants, and intellectual properties (IP) to researchers, particularly the underserved in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We already have the scientific collaboration Knowbella Platform at Minimal Viable Product (MVP).

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

The best way to explain the “gap” in the Traction Gap Framework is to review the three phases that every startup must pass through in order to succeed. Go-to-Product. In the go-to-product phase, you can get help from a plethora of incubators, accelerators and angel investors. Go-to-Market. Go-to-Scale.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Experiments run by Dan Smullen , who manages technical SEO for Independent News & Media , demonstrate that Google isn’t biased against paywalled content: Before launching our paywall in February, we implemented a soft wall—a registration wall. was selected due to its ranking for evergreen queries, such as “things to do in Canada.”

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2019

by Sam Furr, founder & Head of Product Strategy of Tappable. From funded start-ups to large corporations, transforming a mobile app from a concept into a genuine product is just as achievable as building a website. Businesses, no matter the shape and size, flourish by spotting new opportunities to solve problems.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

Arlo and AJ had built a stunning new way of doing product discovery for soft goods. So far, almost every shopping website shows products either in an endless list of “Next Page” links (hint hint Amazon — you have so much room for improvement!), or by using keyword search, which doesn’t really cut it.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

This is the case when the requirements of these events don’t actually include building a real business or product. We spend way too much time, particularly in and around the New York area, teaching fundraising versus company or product building. No revenues, no costs. ” It’s true. Step #2: Pitch investors.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 4, 2022

It might be the products or the customers they deal with, or it could even be the fact that they are the ones in charge of it all. 6- Producing products people love. I love the ability to produce a product that resonates with so many people. Thanks to Andrew Dale, Cloud Tech 24 ! #15- Thanks to Krista Mason ! #6-

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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. Let’s look at each figure.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Hurricane Irma had a major negative revenue impact on one whose fall book of business was mostly in Florida. Two of them made some major product directional changes based on the founder’s judgment and the feedback he was getting from partners and customers. But, credit is due to all these CEO’s for perseverance. Do the math.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

There are many ways to measure technical skills and check work histories and achievements, but assessment of team chemistry is a high art form. Make your choices only after you’ve done some due diligence with other companies where they’ve served. You want to see your product or service performing in the hands of real users.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Could you talk a bit about the diligence you did during the acquisition? How long into the discussion before you commenced diligence? Due diligence is the most important part of the process because it dictates whether you should move forward with the acquisition, and at what price. Monthly expenses. Number of free users.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. That’s why I set out to start my own health-tech company, an online pharmacy called Honeybee Health, that used a direct-to-consumer model to give patients access to affordable medications without insurance or middlemen.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Transactional emails are triggered based on someone’s interaction with your site or product. Obviously, that makes them a great place to cross-promote, upsell, encourage sharing / reviews / referrals, etc. The same report states that transactional emails also generate more revenue per email than promotional emails.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

You can subscribe to Smart Bear Live on iTunes (please review the podcast as well!) … and if you’d like to appear on a future episode of Smart Bear Live, send an email to Patrick.Foley@microsoft.com to schedule a recording with Jason. And please tweet your thanks to Software Promotions for sponsoring Smart Bear Live! Jason: Right.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Still a lot of marketers don’t believe it – or they’re at least skeptical about some of the technical aspects of testing and SEO. On a HackerNews thread a few years ago he said , “You can do A/B testing via either server-side or client-side technology. It’s not hurting your revenue.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Article: Behind Every Great Product. I titled the paper, “Behind Every Great Product” and it was inspired by the classic Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz. The paper proved popular and helped many teams to get a better understanding of just what product was all about.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! The MarTech Podcast share stories from world-class marketers who use technology to generate growth and achieve business and career success. Any, even a one degree change technically is a turn cuz you're headed in a different direction. Like this show?

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

However you get to a good product is how you need to get to a good product. 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. Idea (A) is just a broad concept of a new product.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

When you start with an honest and diligent effort to determine the truth of your situation, the right decisions often become self-evident.” — Jim Collins , author of Good to Great. In this post I’ll focus on benchmarking resources for seed and series A in the following three categories: SaaS B2C / Consumer apps Deep tech.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2021

While reading a book called “ No Forms, No Cold Calls & No Spam ” by Latané Conant, I came to the realization that many vendors try to position ABM as a $40,000 technology stack problem. Technology has both enabled us and added needless complexity to the process. Dave says it best (who ran ABM at Marketo & Bizible).

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Their product recommendation engine is often applauded. It’s not just popups, call-outs and “product recommendations like Amazon” What Tools Can You Use? Product Recommendation Case Studies from Bunting. increase in product views. increase in product views. increase in product views.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

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. Loads of PPC platforms ( Google Ads included) allow you to blacklist IP addresses. . Competing businesses.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

For instance, if a consultant proposes to help you with public relations, pay them a commission equivalent to the greater of a flat fee per story placed or a percentage of revenue generated from the PR coverage. Performance-based deals can effectively mitigate your monetary risk of entering into a non-productive consulting relationship.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

While it doesn’t publish prices publicly, an interview with the Demandbase CEO in 2017 claimed that the average revenue per customer per month was $20,000. Like other ABM tools, Jabmo relies, in part, on IP addresses to determine the source of traffic. Show ads based on IP address. G2 Crowd confirms that it’s a high-cost option.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Common denominators underlying strong patent portfolios include: A skilled patent attorney to draft the patent claims Broad patent protection for key products Patent protection for strategic market segments and geographies Monitoring patenting activities of competitors In-house management of the patent program. What is a patent strategy?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how to define your ABM strategy so you can target the right accounts and increase your revenue. Think of it as a filter that helps you find the highest chance of return on investment, revenue potential, and profitability. Cloud-based data warehouse Snowflake had an ambitious goal to triple its revenue.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Since that date the S&P 500 is up 2.45% while Accenture stock is up 206% with revenue of $23 billion and a market cap of $32 billion. Investment in training, adherence to process, global knowledge sharing systems, quality control / partner reviews and campus recruitment programs that attracted the right talent.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

You goal is to get people to buy your Discover data warehouse product. Direct traffic is a fantastic segment to analyze because it contains desirable Visitors and yet because it is often polluted (due to our own inability to implement web analytics tools correctly). You are using Google Analytics to track all you display campaigns.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

That's why the Corona Initiative is a Public Benefit Corporation--a for-profit company dedicated to the public good that aims to fund its research with its revenues. I invented the nutrition beverage product known as Soylent, which a company continues to grow and flourish today. You really want to see the whole system.

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