Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

A report projecting a sector will achieve $70 billion in revenue by 2014 will make you look like an amateur. The way your plan is written can give you the edge you need when pitching your dream. ##### Today’s guest blog post is by Mahesh Raj Mohan, a freelance writer and editor based in Portland, Oregon.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 26, 2011

A couple of weeks ago I got to listen to Amy Boggs, under-30 founder of a Portland,OR house cleaning business called Sparkling Palaces, sharing her story. As the business grew, it grew into having room and revenues to have key services performed by third parties. That makes total sense to me. ” Amen. It was a good meeting.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

APRIL 28, 2011

I chatted with them shortly before the pitching started and found out that they are from Portland, Oregon, yay, my home state! You might have 1000 play your game, 50 of them pay, and 1 of them give you half your revenue. Urbanspoon traffic doubled year to year, 7 figure a year revenue, 3 ppl built the company.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 27, 2012

Too many startups create a great product and try to figure out a revenue model later, says Urban Airship 's Scott Kveton. Among Portland, Seattle and Vancouver, the Pacific Northwest corridor is bustling with ideas, investors and fledgling companies well beyond the solipsistic forcefield of technology's startup-glutted beating heart.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

We seed funded a company a few years ago called Parachute Home that has grown 180% CAGR (compounded annually) and is now doing tens of millions of revenue with very little capital raised. I will use some examples from Parachute and some other portfolio companies to give you examples from our experiences of watching successful brands grow.

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Up and Running

JULY 17, 2017

My neighborhood of Alberta in Portland, Oregon, where small local businesses are plentiful. Of those surveyed, only 48 percent expect to see their revenue increase over the next 12 months. When you have your plan, you run out your revenue, you examine what your costs are and make sure that you have enough capital,” he says.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 27, 2012

Too many startups create a great product and try to figure out a revenue model later, says Urban Airship 's Scott Kveton. Among Portland, Seattle and Vancouver, the Pacific Northwest corridor is bustling with ideas, investors and fledgling companies well beyond the solipsistic forcefield of technology's startup-glutted beating heart.

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You should avoid spending your time here and instead focus on finding a way to generate revenue or to attract investors so that you can afford to hire someone. Sweat equity is also applicable for someone who is very interested in the subject that you are working on. Ycombinator © 2010 Social Matchbox, - WordPress Themes by DBT.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 27, 2012

Too many startups create a great product and try to figure out a revenue model later, says Urban Airship ‘s Scott Kveton. In the sage, profanity-laced words of super angel Dave McClure , “You should totally be dancing your f*cking balls off.” Building A Great Product Is Not. Know your business model from the get-go.

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

From the beginning and all along the way, careful planning has guided the business from revenues of $35,000 in 2011, to $400,000 in 2014, and estimates of $700,000 for 2015. Increased revenue has gone hand-in-hand with public acclaim. We have leaned on LivePlan since we were a cart,” Stuart explains. Going big—but beneficially.

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www.businessweek.com

JUNE 18, 2012

Daniel Ives, a managing director at investment bank FBR Capital Markets ( FBRC ) , estimates that Nuance’s revenue from mobile software will double, from about $250 million today to $500 million, over the next three to four years. Kharif is a reporter for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek in Portland, Ore. Google Plus.

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak at the XOXO Festival in Portland Oregon. What that meant is that six companies a year could achieve a hundred million in revenue or a billion in valuation. In 5 months since the program began his revenue is growing, he’s moved out of his basement and has hired his first employees.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Some cities, such as Portland, OR, also have what Patrick calls “beer angels,” private individuals who understand the beer business and invest in select breweries and cideries. Within any model, there are things breweries can focus on to stand out and increase revenue. Merely making good beer isn’t enough anymore. he explains.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2019

Obviously, there are a lot of people out there that would love to have this success in the revenue that’s come with that success directly related to podcasting that you have, but I talk a lot of small business owners and actually tell them that one of the little talked about things that podcasting can bring you is access.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 9, 2019

Like you said, John, you can use speaking to generate revenue in a lot of different ways, whether that’s through selling books, or curriculum, or training, or coaching, or consulting. There’s a lot of ways that you could use speaking to build your business beyond just the “You went, you collected a check, and you went home.”

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Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

I’ve also had the good fortune to operate and sometimes live in several other fledgling tech corridors – Cambridge, NYC, Portland, Boulder, Santa Fe, Austin, Dallas, SLC, Frankfurt, Paris.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

Some cities, such as Portland, Oregon also have what Patrick calls “beer angels”—private angel investors who understand the beer business and invest in select breweries and cideries. Within any model, there are things breweries can focus on to stand out and increase revenue. Managing your own distribution is ideal. he explains.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

So what’s happening, to me, what the subscription market changes is this, the subscription model changes, is that the longer you’re in business with the subscription business, the more of your revenues shift to those recurring revenues from your existing customers. One is that the revenue model changes.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

It often results in cobbling together a variety of revenue streams in order to establish a solid financial platform to get a business going. Maybe you are an artist, and your hobby will help bring in revenue? Sites like Craigslist can be a great way to put your skills to use and piece together revenue. Image via The Boss Stitch.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Specifically, for me, it would have been to rein in spending and keep it balanced properly with revenues. We’ve just recently opened up an office in Portland, Oregon, which we affectionately call the “Developers Den”, where we continue to churn out innovative and useful apps for people. Comfortable and steady!

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conversionxl.com

OCTOBER 31, 2011

When you try to replicate what Valve did to increase their revenue 40x , it might not work for you, but then again, why not give it a try? The company ended up making over $100,000 in revenue in the first month alone. Why does removing dollar signs from prices (24 instead of $24) increase sales? Louis and Detroit.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 14, 2016

Adding all of their products to the homepage hurt revenue by nearly 48%. 10 Portland Brews You Should Drink Right Now: Ten Reasons The Beers In Your Fridge Right Now Just Don’t Cut It” (AskMen). As Tyler Vawser, VP of Content at Sticker Mule told me, the old version won all of their tests and remains their current homepage.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Here in Oregon, we’ve got some in Portland that are really great and then this article talks about some here in Eugene, Oregon which are doing well but fairly new. What are those five levers that if they move up or down they change your revenue or your expenses? Definitely check out your area. What are those things?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 23, 2013

We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved “Bon Voyage!” Gary Vaynerchuk likes to share a story on how one signed Jay Cutler jersey generated tens of thousands of dollars of revenue. We sure did. Jay Cutler jersey. Image credit.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 9, 2017

In his email to Levy, Young described the Austin Transportation Director Robert Spillar as a “transportation fanatic that hates cars and thinks he lives in Portland.” Bus ridership (and revenue) will remain low and city leaders will be hard-pressed to justify expanding the transit system. Most restaurants and bars offer free parking.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. Much revenue waits to be unlocked. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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