Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

A Progress Graph on the right visually shows how far you’ve come (in whatever units of goodness you’re tracking – revenue, units, users, etc.) Good if you have your own money, better if the cash comes from investors, but best if it’s revenues from customers. Get back up and running. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2011

But we did it, it was a blast, and you can listen to it in my podcast ( iTunes , or enclosed in the usual RSS feed , or raw mp3 ). When should a company should focus on growth only, ignoring the business model and revenue? Why listen? Especially if you don’t usually listen to podcasts?

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

For Spotify’s core business, which charges consumer subscriptions for the ability to have unlimited mobile access to an enormous music library, music as the audio source converts high engagement minutes into recurring revenue via subscriptions. 5/ Underlying RSS Technology Not Optimal For 21st Century Media.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

And it was going to mention the two words that SuperMac marketing needed to live and breathe: revenue and profit. If marketing can’t deliver the 40,000 leads what else can we do for sales to still achieve our revenue and profitability?”) They understood the mission intent was our corporate revenue and profit goals.

Silicon Valley 259

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

When a startup finds a repeatable sales process and steadily increasing revenue, its investors wants to harvest the rewards and build a culture of “execution.” 4) You don’t see any revenue gain past three years. 2) They don’t care about your profitibility and ultimately, your staying power. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 30, 2018

? [ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] Jayna Dall started a website that offers teachers downloadable curriculum for teaching children acting classes. At the time of this podcast recording, Jayna’s business had turned over $250,000 in the previous year, a fantastic result for a.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Was the sales revenue model based on actually testing the hypotheses outside the building? Greg Boutin Founder, Growthroute Ventures, [link] Reply TO REVENUE » Talking on Techie-Biz Divide at Communitech Guelph on Sept. All of this is usually a bad idea. No one asks, “Why are we executing like we know what we are doing?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 22, 2012

And since the sales effort isn’t much different between 75 seats or 750, this is a lot more work for the revenue. Or looking at it another way, the total number of employees of mid-sized companies is 26m, whereas large is 60m. So my immediate reaction to anyone “selling to middle” is the same: Yuck.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 16, 2014

Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] * Apologies about the slight distortion during parts of this interview. Although not earning huge amounts of money initially, Natalie started to bring in revenue thanks to advertising and selling small products like ebooks. Coming Soon ?[/spoiler]

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

I have been working on getting a startup to revenue for a while, and while this is my 4th iteration and I have not yet succeeded, I’ve been learning new things every time. Your blog post has provided a lot of useful insights for me which I’ve been implementing. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 30, 2018

? [ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] Jayna Dall started a website that offers teachers downloadable curriculum for teaching children acting classes. At the time of this podcast recording, Jayna’s business had turned over $250,000 in the previous year, a fantastic result for a.

Revenue 42

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

You can be an Independent studio or do “work for hire&# (either a revenue share or buy-out model) - If you’re an independent studio you have a set of choices for distribution channel and marketing models. - We understood none of this. More detail in future posts. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

Silicon Valley 120

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

These two numbers have direct impact on revenue and financial health. Holding founders and engineers feet to the fire will inevitably remove the rough edges from the the product, imporving bounce rates of newcomers and loyalty of established users. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

All teams raised their hands and screamed: we hundreds of angels and dozens of VCs, all of them say they will only fund deals with prototypes, beta customers, first revenue and executive teams all in place, and they say it will be 2 years from now because their coffers are out of cash and LPs in default. Yeah, I said. Now In Print!

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 18, 2016

You want the leads – leads convert into actual business revenue while the other objective ideas build audience numbers. Sign up for their newsletter or RSS feed. Get 5,000 email subscribers within six months. Double your website traffic within a year. Get 500 new Facebook likes a month. Here are a few easy ways to do it: 1.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

It would have been easy to explain the difference by changes in the 2010/2011 revenue growth projections but unfortunately that is not the case. revenues while large caps are trading at 6.4x. Add RSS feed. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

Page views drive his ad revenue, which is probably CPM based. If you’re a startup raising money or just want to see your name online, there’s not a better blog on the web. Reply Chris Neumann , on August 26, 2009 at 9:41 am Said: I think you need to look at the incentive system for TechCrunch. Mike Arrington is a capitalist. Now In Print!

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 27, 2012

Isn’t fame and glory and RSS subscribers enough? translated into amazing sales: in the first 48 hours, I sold the book 1,476 times, for a total of $6,663 in revenue. So when I recently wrote an eBook to show people how to design user interfaces , I knew how important setting the right price would be. Why charge at all ?

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

A year goes by, you miss your revenue plan, and you’ve burned through your first VP of Sales. Your board nods sagely at your target customer list. What happened? To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Your design or ad agencies can impress you with their awards, but if you’re not moving product or creating demand, you’ve missed the point. Worry about the sales results. What did we learn? To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

Setting a value is always difficult especially when you come across so many companies that are pre-revenue and sometimes pre-monetization strategy. A year or so ago the news was that Google and or YouTube was going to help small partners/studios with funding that would be recovered by ADD revenue. RSS Feed 600,140+ Subscribers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

Revenue is the new black | Gigaom – [link]. Revenue Doesn’t Matter – [link]. IAB: US Interactive Ad Revenues Hit $9.3 50 Stunning RSS Symbol Inspired Logo Designs – [link]. SaaS 101: 7 Simple Lessons From Inside HubSpot (by @dharmesh) – [link]. When is it Time to Pivot or Quit? (by

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Also, work with available sales or ecommerce revenue reporting to dig into the time between when a visitor first becomes a lead or enters items into the cart and the time they close as a sale. If you aren’t big on RSS, use a service like IFTTT to push RSS updates directly to your inbox.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 22, 2015

[ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] Mariana Fataccioli is a food, health and wellness blogger who has the impressive claim to fame for having amassed a following of 100,000 people in 6 months on Instagram. She has also pulled off the considerable feat. She has also pull.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Web App Business Models: User Needs and What People Pay For – “If you’re planning a web application that can’t build a business model around one or more of these needs, you may face difficulties generating sustainable revenue.&#

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

You can listen by subscribing to my podcast on iTunes , or it’s enclosed in this blog’s RSS feed , or you can just download the mp3 of the first hour. We would rather chase revenue. It’s frustrating to be constantly confronted by this idea that we have to be chasing funding options instead of chasing revenue.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

But in the real world, when you get to business numbers, sales are not accounts receivable and revenue isn’t income and people who read financial projections need to know that an apple is an apple, and not an orange. . Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them & entrepreneurs that run them. Subscribe by email.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 28, 2005

Since becoming an avid blogger and reader, it is clear to me that embedded ads in RSS feeds will be a key way for content owners to monetize their assets. First, the fact of consuming RSS feeds will typically reduce traffic at many publishers’ websites giving them less opportunity to monetize their assets.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). I’ve written extensively on the topic , but in a nutshell it is: an RSS reader, a chat room, instant messaging, a marketing channel, a customer service department and increasingly a data mine.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. I talk a lot about marketing/sales on this blog because it’s crucial to your success, but in this case there’s a real trade off between growing revenue and keeping your current customers happy. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Don’t waste it.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors. To that end, companies will offer enterprise-ready software that comes with additional features, services and support.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

TokyoYuki Question: What about giving an added incentive to potential developers, in exchange for part of up-front fees, a percentage of the revenue generated from the app/program? View More » Business The 12 Days of Holiday Revenue Maximi. That's my old keyboard (in the post image)! Saitek Executive.

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www.avc.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The first bracket is the senior management team; the CFO, Chief Revenue Officer/VP Sales, Chief Marketing Officer/VP Marketing, Chief Product Officer/VP Product, CTO, VP Eng, Chief People Officer/VP HR, General Counsel, and anyone else on the senior team. RSS Twitter Tumblr. follow via: twitter / rss. design by UX Hero. -->.

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mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Mobile commerce revenues may still pale in comparison to their ecommerce brothers, but we’re already seeing signs of mobile commerce’s potential. While commercial software houses have the luxury of targeting a specific platform for a revenue-generating commercial app, business developers have to satisfy business requirements.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Of the 530 Singapore startups surveyed in 2016, a quarter recorded no revenue at all while 29 percent generate revenues but were spending more money than they earned. RSS feeds can also be very helpful for keeping on top of conversations in the small business community, helping to build mental model of the market.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Include screenshots of your product , a video walk-through and one or two charts that display traction or revenue. RSS Feed 554,507+ Subscribers. How many have been active in the past 30 days? What is your viral coefficient? If you have a good video pitch, include that too. Don’t focus on press. For those taking the first step.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 25, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Companies like Zynga, Groupon, Gilt Groupe, etc etc, some of the most prominent software companies of our time were/are maniacal about cash management and revenue growth, and always have been since day one. 3 Brad on 10.11.10

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