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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

You can read various articles out there which will give you the cursory facts about Airbnb like their overall revenue or profitability or how their business has faired here in 2020 in the COVID environment. But ops & customer support is another 17-20% of revenue and arguably you couldn’t run the business if you took that away.

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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

In both North America and Europe, many venture studios in non-major cities are funded by government agencies to stimulate local growth, at times with matching donations from companies. The most successful venture studios are founded by entrepreneurs that have previously built companies with $10+M in revenue and had 100+ employees.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

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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How One Startup Combines Boston’s B2B Sense with the Valley’s Social Media Style

View from Seed

Incepted in 2012, Alignable’s platform hit the market in 2014, and since then, we’ve seen hundreds of thousands of business owners in North America join. A few stats to consider on the market opportunity in North America alone: 28 million SMBs in North America, with roughly 60 million employees.

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Advice For Innovative Companies Entering Emerging Markets

YoungUpstarts

Bob Stojanovic (Head of EV Charging Infrastructure North America at ABB ) knows this very well. . ABB is a global company that has been selected by Electrify America to provide high-power electric vehicle charging stations across the country. Extend your Customer Reach with Partnerships.

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Recapping Q4 2019

Version One Ventures

Congratulations to Manny Medina and everyone at Outreach , which was named the Fourth Fastest Growing Company in North America on Deloitte’s 2019 Technology Fast 500™.

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The Adam Gant Interview: Idea-Powered Solutions to the North American Housing Crisis

The Startup Magazine

During these years of study and reflection, he imagined a solution to the housing affordability crisis that has limited access and driven costs upward for millions of families in North America who seek home ownership. Q: Why are Canadian and U.S. markets often inflexible in responding to the housing needs of prospective homebuyers?