Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

So how did a company that provides storage grow so fast (we’ll exit 2017 with 10’s of millions in recurring revenue), why is it so defensible and is it really a tech startup? If you buy that Amazon is a tech startup then essentially you’ve already answered the question. We’ve been delighted with 8VC as a co-investor.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 24, 2017

2017 was a bad year for some and for some it was a great year. In the last few days of 2017, we took some time to ask a few entrepreneurs and business what their biggest business accomplishments were. #1- I had my 8 months expenses saved by May of 2017 and put it my two weeks notice at that time. 1- Top rankings.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The end of the year is approaching but many businesses have yet to meet their end-of-year revenue goals. If you’re suffering from a sales slump, check out these sales and marketing tips to jump-start your efforts to ensure you hit your 2017 goals and get ready for the new year. by Angela Leavitt, founder of Mojo Marketing.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

At Remagine Ventures we like to say that “we invest in technologies that change how people spend their time and money”. Advancements in technology and changing cultural behaviour are big drivers of this trend and Covid-19 was like pouring gasoline on fire. . Revenue in Q2 2021 was up 127% to $454.1m. . *by Kevin Baxpehler.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. — In June 2017, the board “retired” Jeff Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. Innovation at GE was on a roll.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. Late last year we passed $100M in annual recurring revenue. This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2017

Growth stocks provide the ideal opportunity as they see earnings and revenues rise at above-average speed. Investors, therefore, should be willing to sacrifice current return as long as the revenue keeps on increasing at an above-average rate. The company’s outlook is strong for 2017. Which growth stocks are you eyeing for 2017?

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Up and Running

JULY 25, 2017

This index tracks Venture Capitalist (VC) backed tech startups and compares this week to the same week last year. Not launching a tech startup? 55 percent of their respondents said that their revenue has increased in the past year, and 64 percent say there’s never been a better time to own a small business. Bloomberg U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2023

Leveraging technology, Collectly has achieved impressive results. Collectly’s journey began in 2017 as a digital debt collection startup but pivoted after participating in Y Combinator and raising $1.9 On average, medical group partners using Collectly’s platform experienced a remarkable 75% increase in patient collections.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2017

by Mark Gilbert, founder and CEO of MBS Accounting Technology & Advisory. That downward trend includes the most recent quarter from 2017. Startups don’t demonstrate due diligence. In today’s investment climate, it’s getting even harder to raise money from investors.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Every announcement – whether it was a funding round, exit or layoffs – was analyzed within the context that the tech bubble has definitely burst or that we’re still in the bubble. forward revenue in February 2016 (the low), they appreciated by 6% each month for the following six months. Looking ahead to 2017.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. An example of the systems companies build are pricing & revenue management tools to best help to optimize yield. Seriously, this happens.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Don’t take my word for it – in the roundup of venture capital predictions for 2017 , I found it to be the top recurring theme. Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. Chris Rust, Clear Ventures).

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 29, 2022

According to IBIS World, the revenues generated by the hotels and motels industry in 2022 have reached $258.1 The industry has grown 4% per annum on average between 2017 to 2022. Leveraging Revenue Management Solutions. Revenue management is the practice of managing the flow of revenue in and out of a business.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 13, 2020

SIP, which stands for Session Initiation Protocol, and is one of the more common protocols in voice over internet protocol (VoIP) technologies. SIP trunking is the tech all businesses need to conduct real-time audio and video sessions between multiple parties. In 2017 the SIP market size was $6.88 What Is SIP? Compatibility.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Kiwi inventory forecasting software StockTrim achieved international sales in the UK, Australia and US immediately after launching in 2017. In early 2020, Sutton set up meetings through cold and warm outreach over email, LinkedIn, and networking through angel and tech start-up groups. Some guys just won’t write small cheques.”.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2018

by Amanda Setili, author of “ Fearless Growth: The New Rules to Stay Competitive, Foster Innovation, and Dominate Your Markets “ Activist investors were really busy in 2017. That’s why all C-suite leaders need to heed the lessons of 2017. The two sides spent $60 million combined during the months-long proxy battle.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Google parent company Alphabet booked more than $54 billion in ad revenue in the first half of 2018. In 2017, advertisers lost $6.5 billion due to click farms and bots. PricewaterhouseCooper found that “80% of consumers look at online reviews before making major purchases and have a strong influence on the decisions people make.”

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The initial marketing channel was sustainable for a while , but got wiped away due to external forces. The company landed one big customer representing 80% of total revenue, but that customer canceled. When a company has revenue but is susceptible to the fatal afflictions above, I call it “brittle.”

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” 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.”. All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Smart entrepreneurs are just now starting to look at this option again, due to its unpredictability and the challenges of running a public company. According to a recent Ernst & Young global report , the first half of 2017 was the most active first half by global number of IPOs since 2007.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 30, 2020

I realized that this was an opportunity to solve a huge problem for an entire generation of parents and their kids using technology. Hence the Elixir2Go bottle was born back in 2017. Thanks to Jen Ohlson, Interactive Health Technologies ! #5- Due to business, I am free to spend my time and money as I see fit.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2017

The research activities must be technological in nature; in other words, they must rely on the sciences such as engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, etc. The R&D credit rewards businesses for making evolutionary steps in any particular technology. Who qualifies for the R&D credit?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2017

Reports suggest that 90% of today’s shoppers skip marketing pitches, to research online before they buy, and over 50% check user reviews before making a decision. Kristin Zhivago, in her classic book “ Roadmap to Revenue ,” makes the point that the selling system is broken, since sellers no longer sell the way customers are buying.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 11, 2018

Case in point: Forrester’s first marketing automation forecast predicts that spend on automation technology will grow from $11.4 You’ve probably received hundreds of these — messages like “get 20% off by buying now,” “you left something in your cart,” or “review our service and share it with your friends.”. billion USD to $25.1

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2021

Today, people use healthcare apps to schedule/cancel appointments, review prescriptions, access medical records, connect with doctors via video calls, track fitness goals, etc. Read on for some helpful tips on how to create a mobile healthcare app, what technologies to use, and how to make money with your new health app.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Those that didn’t provide mobile-friendly options in 2017 were hit with SEO penalties in their Google rankings, so it certainly pays to go responsive – that’s before you consider that a third of all online orders are placed via smartphones ! When it comes to e-commerce, we’re very much in a review and research age.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JULY 2, 2019

Female entrepreneurship has been on a steady rise in the United States, with the number of women-owned businesses nearly doubling between 1997 and 2017. What’s more, startups founded by women are 20 percent more likely to be revenue-generating and bring 35 percent higher returns to investors than all startups combined.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Today, the move to digital technology is driving marketplace change at a seemingly ever-increasing rate. Due to the efficiencies of digital, it is now commonplace to have companies with billions of dollars of revenue and valuation, with few employees, and without years of building infrastructure. How tired are you feeling today?

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Legal cannabis generated $16 billion in total economic output in the United States in 2017, and research indicates it will increase 150 percent by 2021, according to a report from cannabis industry analysts Arcview Market Research , in partnership with BDS Analytics. The global market for CBD oils is expanding due to their medical efficacy.

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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?”. Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “I million in revenue a year. . Qualified.io

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2020

In 2017, Kaggle was acquired by Google. Below, I discuss five fresh and relevant features for marketers, regardless of technical ability: Kaggle datasets; Kaggle community analyses; Kaggle Notebooks; Kaggle cloud integrations; Machine learning with Kaggle. If you don’t code however, no worries—this isn’t a technical post.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

What neither group seems to fully comprehend is that retail needs to fundamentally change to succeed, far beyond the addition of an online component, to meet the experience expectations of today’s generation, an oversupplied global marketplace, and technology for instant pricing and distribution. Look outside for benchmarks.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2017

According to ServiceNow’s 2017 State of Work study , nine out of ten skilled employees spend too much time on administrative duties. In a world of technology and innovation, something’s gotta give — and soon. Do you struggle to complete projects on time due to limited resources? Odds are, that includes you.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

It occurred to me that although we mentioned our new thematic approach when we raised our last fund in 2017, we haven’t really shared a broader manifesto about how we are approaching the early stage market. When we started the firm, we were also more narrowly focused geographically due to our smaller team and network.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Let’s take a look at the top ten things you can do to make SEO an effective part of your 2017 marketing strategy: 1. For most businesses, success translates to more revenue (and profits). In 2017, SEO will continue to evolve and topics, not just keywords, will become important. Set Specific Goals. Ignore The Noise.

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