YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

They might lack an aligned vision, or encounter resistance, or have the wrong technology. A study by the market research firm Penn, Schoen, & Berland found that 82 percent of millennials can be swayed in their career decisions by a digitally equipped office, while 42 percent would leave a company due to “substandard technology.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 27, 2020

However, only 1 out of 26 customers complain about poor customer service , and the rest just leave without saying anything. Here are five ways to use technology to improve customer satisfaction: 1. Moreover, you can look out for items that are out of stock at the store. times the revenue of a business that doesn’t.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Equity is stock, but private company stock has no market value until the company goes public or is sold or merged with another company. Of course, if you are able to bootstrap your startup, and don’t anticipate the need for outside investors, you can technically ignore the first two points.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 27, 2017

This article originally appeared in the Harvard Business Review. As more and more companies face disruption from globalization, new technology, and startups that have more capital than the incumbents, the continuing cry from Wall Street investors is, “Why can’t companies be as innovative as startups?”. What can a company do?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2014

As a long-time mentor to entrepreneurs, here is my collection of smart risks that investors and I look for in new startups: Focus on a tough customer problem rather than a fun technology. Investors hate technology solutions looking for a problem, due to the high risk of no customers. Customers like leaders, not followers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

As a long-time mentor to entrepreneurs, here is my collection of smart risks that investors and I look for in new startups: Focus on a tough customer problem rather than a fun technology. Investors hate technology solutions looking for a problem, due to the high risk of no customers. Customers like leaders, not followers.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2019

Moreover, a trade war with China, the world’s second largest economy, has created volatility in the stock markets and upheaval for certain corporate sectors. tech industry , companies using steel , and manufacturers of engineered hardwood floors are already feeling the pain. Use sales leaders’ relationships to minimize damage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2016

Equity is stock, but private company stock has no market value until the company goes public or is sold or merged with another company. Of course, if you are able to bootstrap your startup, and don’t anticipate the need for outside investors, you can technically ignore the first two points.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) 3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 2, 2022

2021 may have been a bad year for some people especially due to COVID-19 pandemic while, to others, it was a great year. Having achieved our business goals for the year and now being stocked in Nordstrom Stores have been proud moments. We embraced technology and the human need to stay connected. 16- Hit $1 million revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

As a long-time mentor to entrepreneurs, here is my collection of smart risks that investors and I look for in new startups: Focus on a tough customer problem rather than a fun technology. Investors hate technology solutions looking for a problem, due to the high risk of no customers. Customers like leaders, not followers.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

These days, due to coronavirus outbreak, many businesses have asked their employees to work from home. At the same time, the stock markets collapsed, and most businesses already report skyrocketing losses, unmet revenue targets and insufficient stock due to production slow down in China, India and the rest of the world.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

In the rest of this post, I’m going to try to talk you out of building one. I use a more restrictive definition: A growth team is a product tech team that’s focused on acquisition instead of core product features. I still review it regularly. Keeping a growth team in sync with the rest of the company is hard.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 23, 2022

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. In fact, to retain those clients long term, you need to invest in nurturing that relationship with them even if the task proves difficult due to time constraint. . 12- Boost 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. I love that.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

I don’t feel comfortable sharing exact revenue numbers but it’s now making me more than $1,000 per month. Thanks to Cynthia Brown, Only Top Reviews ! #4- 4- Home technologies. Due to the need of having to market myself, I learned social media and SEO. 13- Selling pet Christmas stockings. Photo Credit: Feuza Reis.

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Up and Running

MARCH 21, 2018

Even more so than pricing, reviews and location proximity. Using his own personal website for content marketing and blogging, he has set himself up as an influencer in the marketing industry: By leveraging his personal brand, he has taken multiple SaaS tool companies to generate millions in revenue. Custom development. WordPress DIY.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2012

I’ve been writing up reviews of this season’s Shark Tank pitches from a silicon valley VCs perspective. Week three’s breakdown covered topics like how hard momentum is to turn around, and how participating preferred stock works. They won a design award at a trade show, but have no revenue and no orders.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Don't just rest on what comes easiest. If you had zero revenue from now on, on what date would you run out of money? Second, you know the length of your fuse even in event of disaster (if you have revenue) or if you never manage to land a customer (if you're just starting out). Cartoon by Andertoons. It could be an intern.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

9:33) Scaling Up Excellence , process debt, technical debt, and human capital debt, plus rapid prototyping during the pandemic. (13:58) 28:12) The pandemic as a moment to invest in people and technology, have a plan and execute. Highlights from the show: Carl details his background and experience. (4:22)

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

He only touches on them briefly in this article, but rest assured I will ask him to break down the details of each success he has had so we can learn from his case studies in future articles. Stock Market In my Junior year in college, I started day trading and grew a $2,000 pot to over $40,000 thanks to a big one-hit wonder.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

from Black Friday through to Christmas) rolls around, online revenue for retailers spikes. In fact, they pull in 50-100% more revenue compared to shopping days throughout the rest of the year, according to RJMetrics. Even in the holiday-insensitive industries, online revenue spikes around Black Friday. We don’t know.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

I’ve had the opportunity to work with many impressive teams and product managers from a broad range of leading tech companies, and this has helped me to get a better sense of the what is essential to the role, and to success. Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model.

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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. Does the rest of your team measure progress the way you are?

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. LinkedIn’s product had only been live for a couple months, we only had tens of thousands of registered users, and wouldn’t start generating revenue for more than a year after this point.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

All I have access to is just a cursory review of their digital existence. Outcomes: Revenue | Ideas Funded Behavior: Path Length | Cart Abandonment Rate Acquisition: Assisted Conversions | Share of Search. Every ecommerce site has to obsess about Revenue. With advertising revenue in a tailspin, it is more important than ever.

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ConversionXL

MAY 30, 2017

While the initial setup of your conversion funnel is undoubtedly important, we won’t go into technical details today (you can read more about designing your checkout flow here ). Regardless of how many funnel entry points there are, the rest of the journey through the funnel should be a single-line railroad. Technical Errors.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. They’ve grown from nothing to >$2B in revenue in 30 months time, making the company among the fastest growing businesses in the histroy of the world. How They Make Money: Groupon keeps a share of the coupon value (typically 40-50%) as its net revenue (1). June 5, 2011.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 12, 2016

A flowing sales funnel is crucial in any business, but even more so with SaaS businesses… Unlike other business models, revenue is generated over an extended period of time. There are a ton KPIs you can track, but below are the most important for reviewing the health of your SaaS. Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR).

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ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2021

Anyone with an interest can invest in thousands of stocks with as little as $1 from their smartphone with no prior knowledge of the markets. Yet, they’re a SaaS brand that generates over $2 million in monthly recurring revenue every month. Tech you actually need. Robinhood is an example of letting the product guide a USP.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

“The tech industry creates roughly 10 awesome companies per year,” he says. “Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. The rest said companies are mostly still hanging on. She has been covering technology news for over 15 years, most recently as a senior editor for TechCrunch.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Most of them only have technical details. Don’t get me wrong, the technical details of a product are important, but they should supplement a real product description). To create such a feeling make sure to: Avoid stock photos. don’t fake you only have 2 items in stock when you have a full warehouse). Use fewer colors.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

The rest of this post series deals with the reasons why VC froze up in the first place, why investments have heated up recently and why the future of VC funding at the current pace is not certain. Huge downturns have a real impact on the revenue line of start-ups and therefore the pressure on valuations.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2015

By using social proof in the form of testimonials, reviews and trust icons you’re helping customers make a decision, feel confident about their choice, and a part of something bigger. Neil Patel , founder of QuickSprout , uses a short-form case study from Ben Huh , a widely recognized name in tech, to encourage conversions.

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paulgraham.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Nor is it necessary for a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding, or have some sort of "exit." Its a particularly good combination both to be good at technology and to face problems that can be solved by it, because technology changes so rapidly that formerly bad ideas often become good without anyone noticing.

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