YoungUpstarts
JUNE 11, 2019
With acquisition entrepreneurship, you focus on establishing revenue and earnings first, and then you provide a platform for a lifestyle business or major innovation from there. I believe fewer entrepreneurs would start businesses if they thought they would max out at $650,000 in revenue. Buying Is Better. You skip to the good parts.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners. Or the founder, or the product, or the market – no metrics can measure those intangibles.
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ConversionXL
NOVEMBER 29, 2012
136 CMOs were recently asked “What do you see as your biggest opportunity for revenue generation in early 2013?” It’s about the Oakland A’s and their General Manager Billy Beane. I don’t know about you, but I’d sure would like to increase my revenue by 10% (and more – which is why I keep testing).
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 25, 2015
It is the true story of Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics baseball team and how he had to change his philosophy in order to make this small market team competitive. Through his creativity he was able to make the franchise successful again not only on the field but in terms of revenue earning too.
ReadWriteStart
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
During this week's roundtable, once again, we had an international group of entrepreneurs presenting from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Warsaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Sherbrooke, Canada; Oakland, California; and Austin, Texas. Last up, Ashesh Patel from Oakland, California, pitched StyleShop247.com StyleShop247.com.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 12, 2010
BookRenter – plus a discussion about Chegg … what is going on in the university book market? We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market. Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues].
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 26, 2020
In addition, those humans, collectively, are the majority of America and they reside disproportionately in non-primary markets. We're a technology company headquartered in Fresno, California, and together with the Kapor Center in Oakland have partnered to deliver Onward US, which is an initiative to put thousands of Americans back to work.
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