Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2016

We couldn’t begin any recap of 2016 without focusing on the bubble we hear so much about. So, what really happened in 2016? As Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint showed, in February 2016, public SaaS companies had fallen 57% from their highs. 2016 for Version One companies. Collectively, our companies raised over $100M in 2016.

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David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use. ” .

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2016

They don’t realize that strong team engagement leads to even stronger customer engagement, which can more than double your startup revenue and growth, according to experts. Team engagement has to extend well beyond your internal team of employees and executives, to the extended team of partners, vendors, and investors.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Back in 2016, I read a book called Sprint by Jake Knapp, founder of Google Ventures. Because we wanted to document every aspect of the process before partnering with new freelance writers. A safe approach is to partner with contractors and freelancers to fulfill new business. You can apply this philosophy to any service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2016

For growing revenue and market share, it’s a key element of your overall strategy, and one that can make or break you. Treat distribution partners as part of your team. For example, if a new partner wants to offer new terms or prices, disclose and negotiate with existing partners before it becomes a crisis.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 7, 2017

Stat that matters : According to a 2016 Vendasta study about online reputation , 61% of consumers are more likely to contact a local business if they have a mobile optimized site. Stat that matters : From the same 2016 Vendasta study: 92% of consumers now read online reviews vs. 88% in 2014. Keep it clean. Or reviews!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2016

As a result, Google has become a verb, and the company is a tech giant with record growth rates and a revenue of $74.5 Smart entrepreneurs architect a value chain that includes customers, partners and vendors, based on market dynamics. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 02/26/2016. billion in 2015.

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Up and Running

JUNE 8, 2016

If you already own your own hair salon, you’re wondering how to increase revenue and how to take your business to the next level. When it comes to boosting your hair salon’s revenue, selling gift certificates isn’t just a good idea, it’s a no-brainer. alone in 2016, gift card sales are expected to hit $140 billion. In the U.S.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

BCG (June 2018): “Startups founded and cofounded by women actually performed better over time, generating 10% more in cumulative revenue over a five-year period: $730,000 compared with $662,000.”. ” (I discuss this more in Why are Revenue-Share VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders ?)

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Agile VC

JUNE 13, 2019

The company launched in 2011 and then was acquired by PetSmart for over $3 billion in 2017 (PetSmart itself owned by PE firm BC Partners), but Chewy is now preparing for life as a standalone public company. revenue business still growing >50% YoY? I’ll break down Chewy’s business based on their recent S-1 filing here.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

days on average in 2016 which is an increase from 19.3 Instead of visiting colleges, collecting resumes and arranging interviews, the consumer good giant made the jobs known via social media and then partnered with an A.I. This took place in 68 counties in 15 languages with 250,000 applicants from July 2016 to June 2017.

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Up and Running

APRIL 12, 2017

In August of 2016, the New York Times reported that General Electric had high hopes for its new software initiative, Predix. hopes to attract $100 million in orders this year, on its way to $4 billion revenue by 2020. You’re setting unrealistic goals. It reported that G.E. Your goals aren’t based on customer data.

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Up and Running

JULY 19, 2017

The figures are more inspiring today: The 2016 State of Women-Owned Businesses Report says “there are now 11.3 trillion in revenues.” She shifted course and invited a business partner on board for a complete relaunch. million women-owned businesses in the United States, employing nearly 9 million people and generating over $1.6

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View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

Most impressively, there seems to be a thriving startup of every flavor, with many more joining the list of Pillar Startups on the Guide in 2016 compared to 2015. Look out for bootstrapped CarGurus , one of the leading used-car properties, targeting over $150M in revenue this year. More exciting, industry-leading companies.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

The strategy, according to Google, improves ad recall (and, undoubtedly, YouTube revenues). It certainly helps if you partner with a highly regarded video production company, as Slack did in 2014. In 2016, Hootsuite blended entertainment into a product update by parodying Jimmy Kimmel’s popular “Mean Tweets” segment. (So

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

With KOYA, you can easily treat your co-worker to a class at their favorite yoga studio in New York or surprise your partner with a personal message at the park where you first met. In late summer of 2016 I was deep into the biggest crisis of my life. In the fall of 2016 I had an unexpected job loss. Photo Credit: Kevin Gyolai.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2022

And after my surgery in 2016, I dived right into starting my own business and got a job with a photography company based in BC Women’s Hospital where I went on to photograph over 1,000 babies for over two years! Most people want security for their life partners in an emergency. I felt trapped by my condition and I hit rock bottom.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 24, 2017

In addition, we were lucky enough to finally find reliable partners, thus adding a few more services to our portfolio – like Locksmith and Childcare. We finally found a reliable partner and I am very confident that this service will be as successful as the others we deliver. 24- Double-digit revenue and national partnership.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

It was 2016. An interesting aside: revenue continued at old levels, even after slashing work hours by 60%). When I started Idea Grove in 2005, most PR firms had names like law firms – the name of the firm was the name of the owner or partners. So people could know that we have a.co as the official name.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I should have gotten on the partner train. That's hundred grand annual revenue. I started the agency partner program that you passed on and built that up. I started the agency partner program that you passed on and built that up. And that became about, and now is about 40% of HubSpot's revenue.

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Mike Michalowicz

APRIL 20, 2016

Kathryn’s farm was struggling to survive and hit rock bottom; when Kathryn found Profit First she implemented it immediately, and now her farm has quadrupled in revenue and slashed costs in the process. Her second book, The Pastured Pig Handbook , is due out late in 2016. Corporate Partners. Our Guest . Show Links.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Congrats Lior Div and team Cybereason on the merger with Trustwave , LINKS FOR YOUR BROWSER ISRAEL Sequoia Capital partner Shaun Maguire on why the venture capital fund has resumed operations in Israel since the start of the war, after closing its office here in 2016.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In 2016 Pete Newell, Alexander Osterwalder and I developed the Mission Model Canvas for our Hacking for Defense Class. For example, in the Dept of Defense you don’t measure progress by measuring revenue. Therefore, the business model canvas box labeled Revenue Streams doesn’t make sense.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

And all this must be tied together with ongoing communications with staff, business partners, vendors, and other key people affecting your business. Within any model, there are things breweries can focus on to stand out and increase revenue. It helps you plan, helps you get a return, and ultimately helps you generate revenue.”.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 27, 2018

It partners with many companies/inventors and splits the licensing revenue 50-50. Between 2011 and 2016, leading banks like JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America made 947,907 transactions for patent loans. They work with patent-holders to help them unlock the financial potential of their patent. It has another benefit.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2019

This transcript is sponsored by our transcript partner – Rev – Get $10 off your first order. Check it out at semrush.com/partner/ducttapemarketing. It would fail in 2016 because (1) I was not a good podcaster when I launched. That’s what’s new in 2016. Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

This year, in 2016, we will have about 60 Fellows – and we run three other programs for students, entrepreneurs, and tech companies, as well, reaching about 1,000 people a year across all programs. We partnered with Google for Entrepreneurs in 2015 to begin to bring our work national, with a focus on entrepreneurial ecosystems.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 18, 2016

Four Ways Your Business Can Give Back in 2016 written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Perhaps we have a certain amount of revenue we’d like to earn in 2016, a product or service we’d like to begin offering, or some content we’d like to get published. photo credit: Dollar Photo Club. Donate money.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 24, 2021

Given how complex some of these cloud application implementations and configurations are, the revenue pool is vast. To provide more color, the global Salesforce Services market alone is estimated at $14.5bn today, with Salesforce itself earning approximately $1bn in service revenues in the last year. Enter Salto.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 7, 2018

And it is up to us, as well as our partners and resellers, to help them understand the power of AI, and ways it can be implemented into their organisation. The sooner we understand AI better, the sooner we can all benefit from its undeniable ability to transform businesses.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. List key partners and resources you will need, and then list your core team as well as their roles. Subscription Business Trends and Predictions for 2016.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2017

There are quite a few differences between big and small businesses, like legal structure, the number of employees, and revenue. They also enjoy the benefits of joining the chamber of commerce in their community by connecting and sometimes partnering on marketing campaigns with other local businesses.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

This idea of snackable content format pivoted to a video product in June 2016. And like the LITERATI, professionals we work with are educated on how to market their business in order to increase revenue opportunities. The name was supposed to signify aspiration and positivity using the image of space. 4- From a mud run event.

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Up and Running

JUNE 4, 2018

The proportion of US workers earning a living on a “freelance” basis was 34 percent in 2016, and the gig economy is expected to grow enough to cause that number to rise to 43 percent by 2020. A side effect of this evolution is that it’s far less likely that you’ll leave university and walk into a “traditional” job.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

In 2016, I celebrated 10 years of business by launching the PR firm in Atlanta, where I now live. And now, I’ve partnered with a former competitor (a friend and colleague) to add recruiting back into my business too which is a perfect add on. I then branched into social media, blogging, and media relations.

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Transformify

MARCH 4, 2020

Similar allegations have been posed back in 2016 by a mysterious research & investigations agency called Zatarra. On its turn, Orbit Corporate & Leisure Travels purchased services from Hermes iTickets which had already been part of Wirecard, thus contributing to group’s revenue and profit. Roundtripping.

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