The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Facetune was originally released in 2013, and Facetune 2 was released in 2016. At the time of funding, their revenue for the year to date had already exceeded $200 million. Link in Bio allows users to create beautiful microsites to aggregate their content and send their audience to their most important links.

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Venture Capital Bootstrapping Valuation Social Media 183

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. 2012-2016: The Era of Blitzscaling. Year over year revenue growth rates are measured in multiples not percentages. Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008).

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IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 202

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2016

The reason is that most people equate MCN with “YouTube aggregators” meaning people who sign up video creators, roll them up into a single content management system and then collect advertising revenue from YouTube. YouTube aggregation isn’t a business. But if you’re not on FB in 2016 you’re crazy.

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Aggregator Silicon Valley Distribution Video 150

View from Seed

MARCH 5, 2019

There are a variety of quick write-ups on the Lyft S-1 for basic figures like annual revenue, rider growth, or who the largest shareholders are. Lyft helpfully provides the number of active riders, total number of rides, and average revenue per rider on a quarterly basis. Here’s one from Pitchbook and one from TechCrunch.

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Aggregator IPO .Net Revenue 120

Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2015

What is revenue going to look like? A persona is an aggregate of all the traits that your customers have, so that it becomes your most common customer. I want to have enough revenue to hire a manager. We’ve got our ‘Forecast’ tab, and within the ‘Forecast’ tab, we’ve got our Revenue Forecast.

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Forecast Video Business Plan United States 60

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 18, 2018

In January of 2015, Uber partnered with Alan Krueger , a professor at Princeton University, to conduct the first comprehensive analysis of Uber’s driver-partners, based on both survey data and anonymized, aggregated administrative data. 73 percent chose the latter.

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Partner Demand Matching Detroit 61

Agile VC

MARCH 5, 2019

There are a variety of quick write-ups on the Lyft S-1 for basic figures like annual revenue, rider growth, or who the largest shareholders are. Lyft helpfully provides the number of active riders, total number of rides, and average revenue per rider on a quarterly basis. Here’s one from Pitchbook and one from TechCrunch.

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Aggregator .Net Revenue IPO 100

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

By January of 2016, that number had ballooned to 229. Many have noted that the aggregate shareholder value created by all of the Unicorns will vastly overshadow the losses from the inevitable failed unicorns. By the first quarter of 2016, the late-stage financing market had changed materially.

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IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Growthink Blog

JANUARY 6, 2016

This first week of 2016 is the best time to set big growth and success goals for the New Year. A classic Business Stretch Goal is the subject line of this post: Doubling Your Business’ revenue in 12 short months. response x 24% sales conversion x $6,000 x an average repurchase rate of 2.4x / year = Annual Revenues of $4,147,200.

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Sales Aggregator Campaign Revenue 48

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. 2012-2016: The Era of Blitzscaling. Year over year revenue growth rates are measured in multiples not percentages. Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008).

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IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 100

Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Be sure you understand how to make every aspect of the business repeatable and scalable: aggregation, ingredient purchasing, production, fulfillment, customer experience and customer retention. Bringing in revenue is the hardest part of any business. I think more important to focus on revenue than simply cutting costs.

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Balance Sheet Incubator Cofounder Salary 60

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. The global energy industry is on the order of trillions of dollars of revenue. The short version: 1.

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Nevada Global eCommerce Engineer 66

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

A complete collapse of revenue that simultaneously affects your employees and your customers, your partners, your investors, everyone all at once and all the news is bad. I started thinking about this in 2016, 2017. But I am, in aggregate, really proud, not just of the decisions we made, but of how everyone acted. So then what?

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Silicon Valley Hosting Cofounder Employee 60

ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

Elite Camp 2016 had an enviable line-up of heavy hitters and rock stars. “Umbrella terms” are when you aggregate multiple features and benefits under one vague term, like “powerful” or “easy-to-use.” Three tactics to maximize revenue from a CRO program: Free test software. Come next year!

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PPC Analytics Video Non-Compete 48

Occam's Razor

JULY 13, 2017

For example… Let’s say they end up looking at Visitors, Conversion Rates, and Revenue. Why not build in a model where the decision maker can change Conversion Rates, to see the impact on Revenue? Show impact on Revenue and Profit. I’ve said that all data in aggregate is crap. Move it from 1% to 1.5%

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Analytics United States Audience Cyprus 125

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. He is one of Silicon Valley’s legendary venture capitalists.

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Singapore Government Silicon Valley Software Review 43