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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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? spent by new customers in 2015, that same group (in aggregate) bought $1.65

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 26, 2017

The reality is that many creators have no choice but to ask directly for dollars from their audience because ad revenue alone wouldn’t be enough to support niche content. They can increase the revenue from advertising solutions over time by creating more inventory, more advertiser demand and increased targeted effectiveness.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 6, 2016

A classic Business Stretch Goal is the subject line of this post: Doubling Your Business’ revenue in 12 short months. To demonstrate, let's break that “Double Revenues in 2016” Stretch Goal down into a series of Attainable Goals whereby we improve performance of the below four key business processes by just 20% each : 1. 20% Better.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Typically, Pre-Seed rounds are less than $1M in aggregate capital raised. It’s a legitimate stage of financing in the venture eco-system as of this writing (October 2017). In fact, when I announced K9 Ventures III in August 2017, the term Pre-Seed was part of the headline for that announcement: Announcing K9 Ventures III, L.P. –

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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. Aggregate that data at an account level to know which accounts to target. The aggregation of individual behavior at a company level was the critical innovation.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

The Data Warehouse market is typically estimated at $30 B in annual revenue and the big data components, where the largest need for performance gains resides, is growing at double digit rates. According to 451 Research , “For vendors with less than $1 B in revenue, we estimate a CAGR of 39%.”

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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. Year over year revenue growth rates are measured in multiples not percentages. 2017-2018: Rediscovery of Unit Economics. Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008).

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2020

In 2017, Kaggle was acquired by Google. Try the Google Analytics revenue prediction dataset and analysis Notebooks , or the conversion optimization dataset with ROI analysis for Facebook marketing campaigns. In a Kaggle competition, you can compete for jobs or money (or glory). But the platform has evolved from that initial use case.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Outcomes: Revenue | Ideas Funded Behavior: Path Length | Cart Abandonment Rate Acquisition: Assisted Conversions | Share of Search. Every ecommerce site has to obsess about Revenue. Remember: All data in aggregate is crap, segment or suck. With advertising revenue in a tailspin, it is more important than ever.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Findings were presented at Cloud Europe, an Accel and Salesforce event gathering the top 100 SaaS companies in Europe, in conjunction with SaaStock 2017. Since then, momentum has only accelerated, and we’ve published a fresh edition of the top 100 European SaaS companies in conjunction with SaaStock 2017. in the US, $2.6B

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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. Year over year revenue growth rates are measured in multiples not percentages. 2017-2018: Rediscovery of Unit Economics. Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008).

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Some notable metrics are revenue growth rates, free cashflow, leverage ratios, historical financing amounts, returns on marketing spend, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of customers, customer churn rates, and team social scores. Lighter Capital, a Revenue Based Investing VC, offers a Cost of Capital Calculator.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2017

We don’t really share revenue numbers but we do pretty well. We grow the business out of our own revenue the old-fashion way which has been challenging but wonderful also. Then, taking that information and aggregating it and analyzing and doing something with it is a project that’s dramatically too big to actually take on.

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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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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 you can start to put that in Excel or whatever and aggregate the most popular responses.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. The art of activating idle assets to bring in new revenue is occurring for both the service provider and the service creator. The final question is what happens to our data when we die?

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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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