Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The New Bubble : (2011 – 2014): Here we go again…. (If VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. With Netscape’s IPO , there was suddenly a public market for companies with limited revenue and no profit.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2013

After peaking at $38 billion revenue more than a decade ago, the industry stabilized last year at $16.5 2014 will be the year in which internet radio leads the music industry’s growth. Digital is now the majority of revenues in markets such as the US, India, Norway and Sweden. Now the focus is on digital music GROWTH.

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North America Norway Sweden Japan 155

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In November of this year, the company announced that it had achieved “substantially” more than $1B in revenue in the third quarter.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For this article, we asked 14 SaaS CEOs a simple question: “How much did you spend on your MVP before you had your first dollar of revenue?”. The MVP took around four months to build, during which time the company earned no revenue. They then spent the first year qualifying the product and testing out their revenue model.

Sweat Equity 50

Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 50

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. mahabis #slippers #packaging #shoes #footwear #design A post shared by mahabis (@mahabis) on Jul 16, 2014 at 3:50am PDT. Image source ). Conclusion.

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Product Campaign Acquisition Social Media 110

ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

The strategy, according to Google, improves ad recall (and, undoubtedly, YouTube revenues). The B2B video examples below were distributed on LinkedIn or other social channels, as well as YouTube. It certainly helps if you partner with a highly regarded video production company, as Slack did in 2014. Image source ).

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Video B2B Technical Review Campaign 129

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Though it may seem obvious, according to the CMO Survey , which collected responses from Fortune 1000, Forbes Top 200, and other high ranking Marketers, found that the state of analytics even now in 2014, is quite dismal. You need to consider the impact of cost, revenue, and margin on your attribution modeling. Conclusion.

Analytics 113

Analytics Software Review Metadata Campaign 113

Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2013

“We hope to have the company up and running by March 2014.” . “With the winning money I decided to invest in creating a patent for my product and start the first steps of creating the first prototype,” Ismael said. ” Meet Michelle Sangalang and Andrew Ekelem, 23, of Chariot Mobility.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? How wide do you want to grow production and distribution, or do you want to focus on selling over your own bar?

Oregon 60

Oregon Jordan SBA Cofounder 60

ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2014

A couple weeks ago, we dug into internal site search & found that in some cases , searches performed by only 10% of the site’s total traffic made up nearly 40% of the companies overall revenue. Then we went into my 3 favorite methods for increasing conversions by improving the search experience. Conclusion.

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Search Design eCommerce Technical Review 107

VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

According to Statista, revenue generated from apps (paid downloads and in-app advertising) will reach $935 billion by 2023, and that doesn’t doesn’t include the many trillions of dollars transacted via apps in the last decade alone (think Amazon, Uber, games, etc). Worldwide mobile app revenues in 2014 to 2023 (in billion U.S.

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Mobile Social Media Distribution PR 190

Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

In 2014, when Satya Nadella succeeded Steve Ballmer and became CEO, Microsoft was worth $330B. While the average forward revenue multiple has declined slightly since its February 2020 peak (19x), it’s still higher today than last year at 17x vs 15.8x This world of giants is dominated by one colossus: Microsoft. in Sept 2020.

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Global Israel Europe Software Review 62

Up and Running

MAY 25, 2016

In this article, I’m going to provide you with a list of strategies that will help you increase your nonprofit’s revenue so that you can not only stay in operation, but thrive! If you have any of your own revenue-generating strategies to share, please leave a comment—I’d love to hear your thoughts! Hold benefit events. Bake sales.

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Revenue Oregon Campaign Social Media 86

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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Customer Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 59

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Amendment 64 will be signed into law in January and take effect in January 2014. Marijuana threatens to cost the university nearly a billion dollars annually in federal revenue, money we can ill afford to lose. Most uncertainty surrounds the conflict between the new state law and federal law, under which marijuana remains illegal.

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Colorado Community Distribution Reputation 164

VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2014

billion in revenue worldwide. billion for 2014. In April 2014 Facebook acquired the maker of Moves app, which is also part of this trend, called by many the ‘Quantified Self’. The Internet made it easy to distribute cognitive games, and mobile devices meant they could be played anywhere. The rise of mobile gaming.

Marketing 162

Marketing Mobile Cofounder Venture Capital 162

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Because of the magical ordering system and the ability to efficiently organize a distributed set of drivers, Uber can operate effectively in markets where it simply didn’t make sense to have a dense supply of taxis. You would end up with dramatically more rides – and that is exactly what is happening. New Use Cases. Use in less urban areas.

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San Francisco San Jose Marketing Technical Review 111

Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

We were a profitable company at that point with nearly $200M annualized revenue, one of the first tech companies to IPO after the dot-com bubble. A few months back I saw a founder/CEO with nearly all of his ~100 person SaaS company hard at work, closing their final deal of 2014 at 11:00pm New Years Eve.

Startup 188

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage Boston 188

YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2019

Interestingly, the firm has since 2014, been offering the MasterCard services directly all over the United Kingdom. The company is majorly seen to empower those who partner with them to be able to excel in whatever they do, be it marketing, sales, general management or even the distribution of the card payment programs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

In 2008, famed digital trends and internet analyst Mary Meeker predicted that mobile web traffic would overtake desktop traffic by 2014. The company once reported that a 100 millisecond increase in site speed resulted in a 1% increase in revenue. Your site isn’t responsive or mobile-friendly. Just ask Amazon.

Mobile 48

Mobile Design Technical Review RSS 48

Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2014

And yet, in 2014, decades into this shift, the powers that be, sorry the powers that ‘were’, are still avoiding their potential revenue. They’d say the cinema chains would cry foul and stop distributing their films. And here’s why: They love their infrastructure more than they love their customers.

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Distribution Partner Global Media 109

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Create a Video Distribution and Delivery Strategy. Building your business via video outreach is an awesome goal, but without a defined video distribution strategy, your efforts may all be for naught. From Vimeo to VidMe and DailyMotion, today’s video marketer have plenty of distribution options.

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Video Distribution Analytics Audience 100

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. They can’t make a bad product’s revenue move up and to the right.

Retention 48

Retention Metrics Acquisition Conversion 48

View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

We were a profitable company at that point with nearly $200M annualized revenue, one of the first tech companies to IPO after the dot-com bubble. A few months back I saw a founder/CEO with nearly all of his ~100 person SaaS company hard at work, closing their final deal of 2014 at 11:00pm New Years Eve.

Startup 120

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage Boston 120

VC Adventure

APRIL 16, 2020

It also makes $600 million in loans available to “Main Street” businesses — “small and mid-sized businesses that were in good financial standing before the crisis, by offering four-year loans to companies employing up to 10,000 workers, or with revenues of less than $2.5 The result was 117,000 fewer companies in 2014 than there were in 2007.

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Small Business SBA United States America 110

Lightspeed Venture Partners

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Growth rates for these new distributed apps and databases has reached critical mass. Companies are standardizing on NoSQL platforms, providing tailwinds for an estimated 35% CAGR in the NoSQL market from 2014-2020, according to some analysts.

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Database Marketing Distribution Early Stage 60

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 30, 2015

Are Paid Content Distribution Platforms Cost Effective? Buffer, a popular social media sharing tool, leveraged a guest network to generate millions in revenues. Paid Content Platforms: A Distribution Alternative? The following are some of the most popular distribution platforms on the market. CPC: $0.25–$0.30.

Distribution 28

Distribution Cost Social Media Viral 28

Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

We were a profitable company at that point with nearly $200M annualized revenue, one of the first tech companies to IPO after the dot-com bubble. A few months back I saw a founder/CEO with nearly all of his ~100 person SaaS company hard at work, closing their final deal of 2014 at 11:00pm New Years Eve.

Startup 100

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage Boston 100

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. Indeed, the pattern of scaling seems to be changing meaningfully in recent years. billion, compared to just $1.2

Israel 20

Israel Cofounder Technical Review United States 20

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. The second is distribution —the ability to get product into the hands of customers. Plenty of headroom there!

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Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

Beginning as a small red cart in Eugene, Oregon, today Red Wagon Creamery has a downtown storefront, local retail distribution, and online ordering. From the beginning and all along the way, careful planning has guided the business from revenues of $35,000 in 2011, to $400,000 in 2014, and estimates of $700,000 for 2015.

Oregon 60

Oregon Prospectus Southern California California 60

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The introductory stage is rarely profitable : profits are negative or low because of the low sales and high distribution and promotion expenses [.] 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. Create product awareness and trial.

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Product Marketing Differentiation Harvest 124

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 30, 2014

It has graduated nearly 100 companies in Boston alone, generating millions of dollars in funding and local revenue. Data and hardware, productivity and play: The lessons learned from Techstars are an affirmation of the direction the technology industry is taking in 2014. Not all will make it. But all have something to teach us.

Technology 60

Technology Boston Cloud Silicon Valley 60

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Companies horde cash and squeeze the most revenue and margin from the money they use. For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels. Congratulations class of 2014: Embrace change and lead the way. an optimist sees opportunity in every danger. Be an optimist.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 330

Up and Running

JANUARY 16, 2015

One of the things about Andela that stands out is co-founder Jeremy Johnson’s assertion that statistically speaking, there is a comparable genius-level population everywhere in the world, but what’s been missing is an equal distribution of opportunity. As of 2014, the company is valued at more than nine billion.

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Denmark Guatemala Bangladesh Cofounder 60

thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

At the same time, a company called Yield Games has created a metaverse game where players can play to earn – that is, they receive characters to play with (often via scholarships) or that they can buy, which then earn them back revenue in the form of tokens as they play the game.

Global 40

Global Community Africa Marketing 40

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Google has been investing in a broad healthcare portfolio, Amazon has been investing in pharmacy distribution and Apple…? 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.)

China 67

China Technical Review Software Review Algorithm 67