YoungUpstarts

MARCH 16, 2014

Apps are increasingly becoming a vital part of how businesses deliver services and goods to consumers, in fact Gartner predicts that by 2017 apps will generate more than $77 billion in revenue and be downloaded more than 268 billion times. When you check your web analytics are you seeing more visitors from Android or iOS devices?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

4:32] Is that was that the initial vision was to just make it easier to get those shows syndicated? [5:48] Is that, was that the initial vision was to just make it easier to get those shows syndicated. [2:54] What does the podcast media company look like today, and what was your idea for starting it? [4:32] Now there's Patreon.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 22, 2019

Search engines like Google are the biggest conduit for discovery on the web; if you can get higher rankings for queries relevant to your target audience, you’ll get more traffic, and therefore generate more revenue. Let’s start with the basic premise of SEO.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 18, 2012

With resources like virtual assistants and crowd sourcing there is no reason to “go it alone” Determine your top 3 revenue producing activities and YOU focus on them; delegate the rest. Thanks to Kenny Jahng of Big Click Syndicate LLC. Do you track your revenue? Thanks to Monica Shah of Revenue Breakthrough.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

It pays only if a customer clicks through AND takes a further action (conversion), such as buying a product or filling out a web form. For credibility with investors, stick to the organic SEO model and other revenue streams until you have the high traffic to survive on PPC revenue. Keyword research and budget forecasting.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. It’ll be nearly two years before the concept of “Web 2.0″ ″ is popularized by Tim O’Reilly (the first Web 2.0 is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

Establishing a presence on the web was probably one of the first things you set up, after your logo and branding strategy. In 2008, famed digital trends and internet analyst Mary Meeker predicted that mobile web traffic would overtake desktop traffic by 2014. Google created a tool for web developers to test the speed of their pages.

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Mobile Design Technical Review RSS 48

Pascal's View

JULY 9, 2017

In contrast, there is limited benefit for being the 2 nd investor or the 10 th investor joining the syndicate of a priced round, so it is common for investors to wait to see “who else is involved”. The CEO/founder often has leeway to influence or negotiate the cap value (especially when the headline cap is softened by a discount).

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

Their business model was to provide retailers with a new interface for shopping for soft goods — something that hasn’t changed a whole lot since Web 1.0. I helped introduce the company to various angels and lead the effort to form a syndicate for their fund-raising round. Modista had built Shopping 2.0.

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Software Review Technical Review IP Finance 134

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

It pays only if a customer clicks through AND takes a further action (conversion), such as buying a product or filling out a web form. Another alternative was added a couple of years ago to mitigate the problem of people clicking just to get paid (click fraud). The display side is called pay per action (PPA) or pay per lead (PPL).

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Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

Costolo clearly wants to position Twitter as a complementary part of the media ecosystem (which it is by and large) rather than a competitor, and there remains a chance that Twitter will have other forms of revenue besides ads. Here’s why: Virtually all of Twitter’s revenue comes from advertising.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 27, 2012

As a result of a convergence of many factors (lean startup methodology, broadband & smartphone penetration, social web, cloud computing, etc), breakout startups are clearly getting scale faster than they used to. Multi-billion dollar valuations for late stage startups like Dropbox, et al. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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Hockey Stick Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate 113

VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, podcast industry ad revenue will reach $220 million in 2017, up 85 percent from 2016’s $119 million ( source ). The show starts with the history of Podcasts and ends with where they may be headed. Interestingly, Podcasts are starting to become a big business too. The third wave of podcasting.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I’ll focus for now on the business itself, there’s plenty of other info on the web if you care to understand the equity ownership or financing history of Facebook and frankly this has been fairly well known for awhile. ==. Financial Snapshot : 2011 Revenue: $3.71 2011 YoY Revenue Growth: 88%. Facebook, Inc.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Several years ago, writer Chris Anderson coined the phrase “the long tail&# during the growth of the new era of collaborative applications, popularly called web 2.0. With the company likely to smash its revenue goals for the year , reaching $2 billion, this means that it averages $4 of revenue per user – for the year!

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Mobile Syndicate Syndication Austin 74

Rob Go

JANUARY 8, 2014

We don’t invest in “syndicates A rounds” as our first point of entry into a company. 1/3 are post product but pre-revenue. 1/3 are post revenue (but very small scale). Syndicates: We have a bias to lead rounds. We also have a pretty broad range of syndicates that we are a part of.

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Syndicate Syndication Portfolio Advertising 45

Growthink Blog

JULY 10, 2012

On this site, web searches will find your article, and many will click on the links in your bio box that link back to your website. Also, many website owners and bloggers syndicate articles from EzineArticles; in doing so, they re-publish the article on their website but must keep the bio box and links to your website. read more.

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Small Business Media Syndicate Syndication 82

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

A group of seasoned Austin technology entrepreneurs and executives are announcing the formation of their new company, Mass Relevance , to help consumer brand use real-time social content to drive engagement on television, the web, and in the mobile world. revenue) and innovation that large entertainment, media and retail clients will buy.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Some can supply more when syndicating with other such groups. The European Business Angel Network (EBAN), and similar organizations in other countries including Canada, all have web sites with directories of angel groups that are local to you. How many angel groups are there?

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Equity Finance Liquidity Event Angel Groups 62

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 29, 2010

I’m sure at some point, the best of these deals will be syndicated to Homerun , Groupon, Buywithme, etc., These plays still have the “last mile” problem of getting new venues onto the platform when the average retailer barely knows how to use the web and generally sucks at online marketing. Community is one solution I had in mind.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The parts of digital marketing we can track— email marketing , paid social, content syndication—are the tip of the iceberg. These are the channels where your buyers are, and every other company isn’t doing well there, which creates a massive opportunity for you.” – Chris Walker, CEO of Refine Labs [via Revenue Champions ].

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B2B Social Media Channel Audience 103

VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, podcast industry ad revenue will reach $220 million in 2017, up 85 percent from 2016’s $119 million ( source ). The show starts with the history of Podcasts and ends with where they may be headed. Interestingly, Podcasts are starting to become a big business too. The third wave of podcasting.

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Audio Curation Silicon Valley Media 60

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

It aims to fuel your sales pipeline , shorten the sales cycle, and generate revenue. In other words, it boosts revenue by delivering the right information to the right people at the right time so that they can make confident decisions. ROI on marketing-sourced revenue. Deciding between LBM and ABM.

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Demand Lead Generation PPC Leadership 91

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

We believe instead of setting up your marketing organization for interruption, like it’s basically been set up for the last 50 years, what if we set it up around groups of audiences that we get really close to, we build loyal and trusted relationships with, and we don’t just create one revenue stream. We create four, five.

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Cost Marketing Audience Media 37

Venture Chronicles

APRIL 28, 2011

If you have revenue flowing apps – transactional – running over Amazon and didn’t have redundancy built in you were in serious trouble and still are. The web is shifting from pages to streams and these streams are incredibly expansive as each iteration adds more content and even more metadata.

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Cloud Architecture Database Metadata 45

ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

While it doesn’t publish prices publicly, an interview with the Demandbase CEO in 2017 claimed that the average revenue per customer per month was $20,000. While it offers content syndication, reviewers noted that where that content ends up is not fully disclosed. G2 Crowd confirms that it’s a high-cost option.

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Software Review Software Marketing IP 117

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

So, lots of content combined with an engaged audience (contributing and participating in consumption), driving great branding and real world revenue. Some use the display advertising options on YouTube, but are not sure what value those ads deliver (and how to think of them in context of web display ads or even TV). Because of YouTube.

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Analytics Marketing Audience Channel 149

Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

More connections means more business, more investors, more revenue, and more growth. If you’re interested in plugging into the Texas startup ecosystem, find us at an upcoming event in your local tech hub, on the web , or on Twitter @CapitalFactory. We truly are an accelerator of the Austin startup ecosystem.

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Agile VC

MARCH 30, 2012

Several years ago I wrote a post about the three business models of the consumer web : commerce, advertising, and user-paid premium services. The consumer web landscape has changed meaningfully since I wrote that in 2006. We’re witnessing a new wave in “big data” that extends far beyond just the consumer web.

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Business Model Silicon Valley Advertising B2B 113

Occam's Razor

JUNE 15, 2010

I believe that actions taken based on web analytics data dramatically increase when we shift from our obsession with the known knows to the known unknowns. All you have to do is use the built in Custom Alerts feature in your web analytics tool (and every single tool worth its salt now has one, so you have no excuse not to use it!).

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Analytics Customer Framework Web 105

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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France Marketing Social Media Startup 77

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Include screenshots of your product , a video walk-through and one or two charts that display traction or revenue. Web Video Roundup. Programming and Web Development Lists. Web Design. Global Syndication Partners. How many have been active in the past 30 days? What is your viral coefficient? Top Stories.

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Social Media Startup Angel Investor RSS 80

mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Sourcebits offers design and development services for iOS, Android, Mobile and Web platforms. Mobile commerce revenues may still pale in comparison to their ecommerce brothers, but we’re already seeing signs of mobile commerce’s potential. Follow Sourcebits on Twitter for recent news and updates.

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Mobile Web Social Media Software Review 90

Berkonomics

APRIL 3, 2014

The European Business Angel Network (EBAN), and similar organizations in other countries including Canada, all have web sites with directories of angel groups that are local to you. They look for businesses that are in large markets, that can grow fast, and that can achieve revenues in excess of $40 million within five years of founding.

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Equity Finance Liquidity Event Angel Groups 92

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

This investor usually don’t get included in highly competitive syndicates, so when someone smart like you comes along, they’re already excited about the possibility of getting in. They’re not seeing what other investors are seeing in the market—nor do they have a good sense of what makes success in this industry.

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Marketing Syndicate Syndication Angel Investor 115

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. Some angel investors join together in syndicates. If you get a call from a VCfirm, go to their web site and check whether the person you talkedto is a partner. Odds are it will be a junior person; they scourthe web looking for startups their bosses could invest in.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2011

The ratings agency noted that the improvement in public finances reflects both revenue growth as a result of buoyant output, as well as expenditure control, resulting from the adoption of new fiscal rules. Given that, the central government deficit fell to 3.8% of GDP in 2010 from 5.2% in 2009 and debt moderated to 76.6% of GDP from 79.3%

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