Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Social networks. They became popular for socializing, but now are prime sources of business networking, customer service, and client leads. Rates per click are very low, so don’t try to live on ad revenues until visit rates are very high. You are now reading one of 50 million out there already. Viral marketing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2018

If you want to supercharge your marketing and accelerate growth and revenue, you’ll love this guide. A chatbot (or bot) is a piece of automated software that engages in a conversation with people. Messaging has eclipsed social networks in popularity. Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Messenger Basics.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Sebastian Soler recently launched Knowledge.vc , which uses software and machine learning to enhance deal sourcing and diligence for VC firms. 5) Due diligence. 4) Manage deal flow.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 12, 2010

That may be OK for Twitter — today — but what about the 100 other social-networking-slash-link-sharing networks that didn't survive? Identifying specific pain points and explaining how your software addresses those is easier than trying to tap into a general malaise and promising a better world.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 28, 2012

Understanding how to harness social media and being up to speed with the newest trending platforms allows us to be everywhere. There’s a big difference between not knowing intense coding and not knowing anything at all about the space. When I started my social network, I didn’t have any tech skills.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Consumer spending is 70% of the economy and will continue to be stretched – We can look all we want at tech innovation, VC funding cycles and hot M&A deals, but ultimately growth and therefore investment must be underpinned by revenue. It is also a result of pent-up demand. The IMF just raised its global growth forecast from 2.5%

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

They have completely changed the social network space, managing to innovate new ways to monetize creativity while competing against popular social media platforms. He has also been an outspoken advocate for the power of collaboration and open-source software. Thanks to Tiffany Payne, Replace Your Docs ! #9- 9- Discord.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). First and foremost, we believed there would be a “professional” social network.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

. - Customer content and engagement built rapid growth in the success of Intel ’s social media and Web-based marketing efforts, increasing “customer contacts” by a factor of tenfold and overall page views by 100x. In the process, everyone understands that SAS Canada software was an important contributor.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Cohort analysis can be done for revenue, churn, viral word of mouth, support costs, or any other metric you care about. The exact coupon code that converted people speaks volumes about the kind of promotions that influence their decision to buy. A retention analysis of coupon codes reveals a lot about your customers.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? venture capitalists are now asking tougher questions about start-ups' revenue and profits.". Perhaps I need to rethink that. But second, how do you back this up?

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Revenue needs to grow 20x, and margins must expand dramatically. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. Global smartphone revenue is about $420B.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). Many people have speculated a variety of revenue sources such as charging 3rd parties for their data, charging power users for their accounts, charging “verified users&# for their certified accounts, etc.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 28, 2012

Understanding how to harness social media and being up to speed with the newest trending platforms allows us to be everywhere. You Need Basics, Hire For The Rest There’s a big difference between not knowing intense coding and not knowing anything at all about the space. When I started my social network, I didn’t have any tech skills.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

A VC: MBA Mondays: Revenue Models – Subscriptions – [link]. Don’t Hire the Perfect Candidate | Lance Haun-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Scaling Your UX Strategy | Robert Fabricant-Harvard Business Review - [link]. The Dunbar Number, From the Guru of Social Networks | Businessweek - [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

People buy companies for 3 primary reasons: 1) they want the management team / talent 2) they want the technology or 3) they want the market traction (revenue, customer base, profits, etc). We told the horror story of the company that originally owned the URL groupon.com and lost it due to not having a trademark. Tough, but true.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. How do you use LinkedIn?

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

We run into this kind of software services every day—Google, Youtube, Instagram, and so on. By offering a free trial you are basically telling your customers that there are no strings attached and they are not obliged to pay unless they like the software. Solving the equation of value and revenue for your SaaS product is not easy.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 30, 2013

According to a report by Nielsen on social media Americans spend three times more time on social media than reading their e-mail. of online time is spent reading e-mail and 23% on social. The juicy bit of the study is that more than 70% of social networks users shop online. Black Friday data.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The site is run by Mercy Corps , which intends to help “small businesses grow faster, generate more revenue, and employ more people.&# Entrepreneur Connect Entrepreneur Media, the parent company of Entrepreneur Magazine , hosts this online network of entrepreneurs. More than 1,000 matches have been made to date.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 25, 2012

That I’ve had a few “exits” and instead of hunkering down and writing code for 6 months I opted to talk to a few of my buddies at the yacht club and purchase a primed and growing social network for somewhere in the mid-seven figures. No inquiry as to why they never installed the code. My Background.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Bplans and Palo Alto Software are strong supporters of entrepreneurs and small business owners. There are metrics to review. Social networks come and go, but people always have an inbox—and they want to be connected with people who bring them value. Building a list and setting up email templates and campaigns takes time.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 6, 2012

Everyone knows that you need to incorporate social media into your startup’s marketing strategy. Social media builds brand awareness and increases revenues. Measuring the Impact of Social Media In fact, it’s not easy to actually measure the return on investment (ROI) of these activities. It’s a no-brainer, right?

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Brandanew

AUGUST 22, 2016

Meera : In fact, a lot of our customers asked us about this integration, right after we released Zoho social. And, now that the integration is already live, we believe this can help our customers generate leads in many new ways and they can also track revenue from their SMM efforts. They can even automate their lead generation process.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 31, 2014

Surely, what’s “appeals” to a 54 year old mother of 5 who goes online to check Facebook and Metafilter will be vastly different from a Google Glass wearing, 27 year old power-user of social networks you haven’t even heard of yet. Message Match] Project Management Software. Notable Examples of Social Proof: Muckrack.com.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

As I was looking at traffic stats I noticed a huge increase in mid-November due to a number of write-ups on startup and web-2.0 I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. 11 Why Free Plans Don’t Work | Software by Rob on 08.18.10 at 6:32 am [.]

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Some of the finalists were generating revenues already and/or have very promising strategic partnerships lined up. My one feedback would be to have networking earlier in the agenda or sprinkled throughout the 6 hour agenda. I don’t make it out to SF much, but for special occasions I will. Read about the finalists (from Women 2.0

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BeyondVC

APRIL 11, 2007

While much of today’s online and social networking growth is being driven by teens and college students, very rarely do I get the opportunity to learn about interesting companies through the eyes of my young children. It started about 6 months ago, when my son came home from school talking about a build-your-own penguin site.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Some of the finalists were generating revenues already and/or have very promising strategic partnerships lined up. My one feedback would be to have networking earlier in the agenda or sprinkled throughout the 6 hour agenda. I don’t make it out to SF much, but for special occasions I will. Read about the finalists (from Women 2.0

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2020

To make the most of Kaggle, having some ability to work with code is helpful. If you don’t code however, no worries—this isn’t a technical post. Scan the results, review the dataset quality scores, interestingness scores, and short descriptions. Kaggle community analyses: Jump start your analysis by reviewing others’ work.

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adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

A Large Number of Ex-Employees With social networks like LinkedIn, its easy to get a rough idea of how many people work at a given company. I actually once had a very non-technical recruiter try to give me a technical interview (including coding) over the phone. Thats a REALLY bad sign. Unfortunately this usually backfires.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2016

To do so, they reached out to Mercenta (a retargeting software company) to help get more website visitors into their local Mazda dealerships by way of some smart PPC ads. Here are some stats: With their regular ad spend being quite high, their retargeting added an additional 15% in revenue. Wanna know how they did it? Image Source.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

While big ticket products might carry longer and more complex sales cycles, high-end buyers are just as lazy as the rest of us, so they use the same methods: Google, social media, and yes, their inboxes. All things being equal, you may prioritize big data software companies over printing companies, for example. Who is most receptive?

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

You often end up with lots of half-done experiments lying around, an infrastructure that isn’t built to scale, and a mishmash of code that needs to be refactored. For example, a design approach just turns out to be error-prone or a junior programmer just writes bad code. Of course, we are mostly interested in the second type.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

It appears that LTV should be about 3 x CAC for a viable SaaS or other form of recurring revenue model. Examples of free products include Open Source software, services like HubSpot’s Website Grader , free versions of a SaaS service that have limited, but still valuable, feature sets, etc. have multiples that are more like 5 x CAC.)

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