Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2018

trillion in 2014. B2B ecommerce sales , (businesses selling directly to other businesses) generate three times as much revenue as B2C, at $7.7 Unique product descriptions help differentiate you from the competition and make your way up the search results page (SERPs). trillion in 2021, up from $1.3

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. In a down market IP can become a huge differentiator.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

It was published in October 2014 and is available for purchase online and in paperback. . Before 2007, when a handful of companies may have gone after the same piece of business, now scores of them are, meaning we all have to work longer and harder, and in some instances we do so for the same, or even a lesser, amount of revenue.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Eighty-four percent of publishers believe there is a value add for consumers through native advertisements, according to Hexagram’s ‘The State of Native Advertising 2014.”. Steps are being taken to help differentiate between the good, bad, and ugly native ads. BuzzFeed ’s popular listicles are often sponsored content.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2022

And that's where we started in 2014. I mean, you said you were a, a cpa, uh, that's not necessarily an industry that jumped into podcasting early on, so, so what was kind of were, was that a real differentiator for you as a cpa or was podcasting just a side gig? So, so what's been your history? So it's pretty exciting.

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Austin Startup

JULY 5, 2017

For a sense of scale, consider that Tesla generated $7B of revenue in 2016. Of that, Tesla does not even break out non-automotive revenue, meaning that their battery/solar business today is small fraction of total sales. Rather than using that to differentiate its product, Tesla is selling that technology to its competitors !

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

In the public markets public SaaS valuations (EV/Revenue) are down 33% since January and 66% since their high in January 2014. As the public markets have fallen, so have the private markets. No surprise here, but the drop has been rapid and it’s been dramatic.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Of course we have to believe that there is a viable market, a differentiated product offering and a chance to build something defensible but if you do those basics right you still get crushed without an amazingly talented founder. Having recurring revenue allows you to keep the original purchase price down, which in turn increases sales.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 5, 2016

In fact, according to Boyle, the primary differentiator between the non-elite and the elite athletes boils down to commitment. “I See Also: How to Use Growth Hacking to Increase Revenue 20x in Just 12 Months. Martyn Rooney at the Commonwealth Games in 2014. I think we all want to be fit. Image via The Telegraph.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 30, 2015

Buffer, a popular social media sharing tool, leveraged a guest network to generate millions in revenues. Outbrain boasts a global reach of over 560 million (as of September 2014, comScore), with 80% of the world’s leading brands already working with them. This approach does take time, but it works. Cost-per-Click (CPC) $0.25–$0.35.

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Distribution Cost Social Media Viral 28

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Here’s an attempt that might give you an idea of what your report might look like: Tim is speaking on this subject at Superweek on Wednesday, January 22nd 2014. . I have two total Report tabs that differentiate at the dimension level. Any report that gets you revenue information is going to be very valuable.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

To be specific, AdWords is currently 16 years old, and last year alone it generated well over $50B in revenue. This solution clearly differentiated for the sales team, and also ensured quality search results, whether paid or organic. This contributed to what was in 2014, before the move to streaming, a roughly $20 billion business.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In November of this year, the company announced that it had achieved “substantially” more than $1B in revenue in the third quarter. Assuming a marketplace rake of something like 11%, this would imply gross room revenue of over $9B for the quarter — which would be $36B annualized. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

VC-backed companies that focus on user adoption—at the expense of profitability or even revenue—may never plan for phases beyond Introduction and Growth. The company focused on driving user adoption, and Facebook bought the company in 2014 without knowing how to monetize users. Questions marketing needs to answer. Research needs.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 27, 2019

In a nutshell, a value proposition is a clear statement that: Explains how your product solves customers’ problems or improves their situation (relevance); Delivers specific benefits (value); Tells the ideal customer why they should buy from you and not the competition (differentiation). It’s a thermostat! But it’s not.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Most large healthcare IT systems are chosen based on one primary objective: revenue management. healthcare system is complex and difficult, and most of these large EHR systems’ number one purpose is to deliver revenue. From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

2014, Believing in me, I took a leap starting my own company. Many online jewellery stores are bricks-and-mortar stores supplementing revenues that don’t aligning to the tech-savvy consumer who want responsive technologies. Karibu Markets began after a trip I took to Kenya in early 2014. 35) Fairer, More Equal World.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 1, 2022

So four years later, when the, the old and unapproved version came out, it was at a point in time where 2014, where people were starting to take content marketing pretty seriously. Then I want to talk to you about adding a new revenue stream to your business that will completely change how you work with clients.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

It may be the first one built into the watch, but it’s not the first Apple Watch ECG app cleared by the FDA – AliveCor , got over-the-counter-clearance in 2014 and Cardiac Designs in 2013.) This by itself is a key differentiator for the Watch as a healthcare device. to the iPhone.) Today consumers pay directly for the Watch.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

June 2014 – Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown write Startup Growth Engines: Case Studies of How Today’s Most Successful Startups Unlock Extraordinary Growth , which defines growth strategies as growth engines. The key differentiator being the product-level focus vs. the channel-level focus of traditional marketing effort.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

billion in revenues (growing 39% year-on-year) and $25B of market cap. Compared to Salesforce, the industry leader, the stats were not too dissimilar over the same period: its market cap grew by $19B and its revenue increased by $3.3B. From a revenue standpoint, 58 companies have already crossed the $5M per year mark and 29 are $15M+.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The new generation of public SaaS companies is also growing faster, reaching a $100 million revenue run rate in five to seven years today versus 10 to 15 years a decade ago. more capital into new European SaaS companies in the past five years than we did from 2010 to 2014, and our 28 newest investments have raised 5.3x

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

” This is my favorite business quote because it illustrates the primary factor that differentiates successful entrepreneurs from the rest of the pack. I believe success comes in the relationships you form while doing the work you love, and revenue will follow as a result. December 15, 2014. 34 – Dare to Be Great.

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Austin Startup

MAY 31, 2017

service fee) The price differentials between the foursome are only marginally different— in stark contrast to what many observers predicted, myself included. (As service fee) RideAustin: 99 cents/mi & 25 cents/min (w/$4.oo service fee) Fasten: $1.10/mi mi & 20 cents/min (w/$6.00

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 5, 2017

So you don’t really tweet your way to a million dollar deal or blog your way to a million dollar deal necessarily which puts a different set of constraints on how we try and align marketing to actually driving revenue here. And when you dive into that it’s usually tied back to revenue or profitability or understanding the numbers.

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ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2019

Further, you’ll never develop a brand that differentiates your products—your site will be just one more faceless ecommerce seller. At their height of popularity, around 2014, they were seen as easy ways to earn links—engaging visuals that sites could embed to make a point and add interest. Infographics. Infographics aren’t dead.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Global SaaS revenues are expected to grow by $19 billion in 2016, an increase of 22% from 2015, while traditional software revenues are shrinking by $10B. Two dollars in SaaS revenues are created for every $1 of software revenues eaten – an impressive stat, but where does Europe stand on the global SaaS map?

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 1, 2017

Susan Lyne founded BBG Ventures in 2014, just a year after we started Homebrew. Hunter Walk: After a successful career on the operating side, what prompted starting BBG Ventures in 2014? Why is your differentiation also a competitive advantage? ” when facing a weird one-off situation.

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