VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. Digital Wallets – Digital wallets could grow select vertical software platforms’ revenues to $27-$50bn in 2030. Generalizable robotics represent a $24 trillion-plus global revenue opportunity.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Leveraging the power of ML or Machine Learning, AI can help channelize your marketing spending in proper directions leading to a higher return on investment (ROI). Marketing is an investment where the money is spent to acquire more customers for your business, leading to higher profits and more revenue. Pitch to investors.

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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. MRP’s offering is a single platform, MRP Prelytics, that serves several marketing channels. Aggregate that data at an account level to know which accounts to target.

Software Review 117

Software Review Software Marketing IP 117

Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

If your accounting tracks sales by channel but not by product type, for example, then try to forecast sales by channel. And if your accounting doesn’t give you information you can summarize and aggregate into meaningful categories, then maybe it’s time to review your chart of accounts. That tells you want to change.

Forecast 119

Forecast Sales Aggregator Software Review 119

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

Email remains an immensely credible and profitable channel, with an immense reach to boot. Your company cross-channel outcomes data. Multi-channel customer purchase behavior, customer lifetime value. Not revenue. Profitability = (revenue generated – campaign cost – cost of goods sold) / # of emails sent.

Metrics 138

Metrics Campaign Email Marketing 138

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD. Unlike other companies, we are a true digital record label, not aggregators. Craze - Company Website.

Israel 133

Israel Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

You’ll be able to see which channels (paid, organic, social, etc.) You’ll be able to see which acquisition channels are best for long-term retention or lifetime value, not simply those that drive initial conversions. We don’t know the impact of each marketing channel.”. Google Analytics excels at revealing your traffic sources.

Analytics 119

Analytics Technical Review Acquisition Retention 119

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Most of these startups spend the lion’s share of their marketing budget in today’s social media channels: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Snap, TikTok and so on because?—?no it was built to arm those spending money in channels in order not to be at a disadvantage. ==> You can join the Trust waitlist here. no surprise?—?that’s

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2016

The people who spend the most money on reaching consumers: consumer products, car companies, food & beverage, entertainment – need to reach mass audiences and smaller channels aren’t as effective for them relative to the time to produce creative and learn how to perform in a channel. Authenticity / Endemic.

Advertising 150

Advertising Iowa Campaign DC 150

ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2020

The first step is to establish communication channels between teams and set expectations about when and how to use them. a top-line conversion or revenue target) and recognize both teams’ contributions—regardless of which channel generated the most conversions in a given period. Focus less on the tools (e.g., Image source ).

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PPC SEO Channel Analytics 69

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

You don’t need to be on every social media channel, but you do need to be on the ones that your customers are on. Every industry has different distribution channels and the best way to create your distribution plan is to interview others in your industry to figure out what their distribution model is. Social Media. Strategic Alliances.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

Yehoshua I've covered this topic in detail in this blog post: Multi-Channel Attribution: Definitions, Models and a Reality Check. I explain three different models (Online to Store, Across Multiple Devices, Across Digital Channels) and for each I've highlighted: 1. What's possible to measure. Focus on doing analysis.

Analytics 125

Analytics Channel Metrics Web 125

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Instead, they were shared in company Slack channels, emailed between VPs and investors, and featured in industry newsletters. Most businesses have a handful of target accounts they dream of closing—big, prestigious companies that could generate a whole lot of revenue in a single deal. It created powerful network effects. Conclusion.

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B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The more well-known your company becomes, the harder it gets to directly impact primary KPI’s at the aggregate level because the majority of customers who buy are going to do so irrespective of if your button color is red or blue. User segmentation can be vital to gaining insights and maximizing revenue. Conclusion.

Chad 112

Chad Mobile Technical Review Aggregator 112

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Here’s the list of industries that will get new business opportunities and increase the revenue with 5G: Enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) services will drive developing of 5G. Retail revenue will grow as well. trillion (£9.3 trillion) worth in various industries as transportation, healthcare, retail, entertainment, energy, etc.

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Technical Review Software Review South Korea Bandwidth 86

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

results) to the correct traffic source to compare the performance of marketing activities across various channels. If we’re not tracking from which websites, which campaigns, or which channels they visit, how could we know how much of that conversion to attribute to each source? How are they arriving at our website? utm_medium.

Analytics 118

Analytics Campaign Email Channel 118

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. A minimum viable product in this category must answer the question: does my media content or channel command the attention of a valuable audience? A successful startup strives for this latter case.

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Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Mass blasts of information are ineffective, because the broadcast channels are suffering from information overload (even in social media). Test-marketing is now easier than ever before, thanks to leveraged distribution channels like AdWords and Facebook. What is the right revenue model? If not, there are plenty of alternatives.

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

She has a separate team, with its own culture and office, and a mandate straight from top management to innovate without regard to the company’s historic products, channels, or supply chain. And so the spreadsheet is built with conservative assumptions, including a final revenue target. So far, so good.

San Francisco 102

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The online video networks are doing terrific business, and even Yahoo is benefiting from increased brand spend, seeing revenue growth for the first time in a while. While the revenue numbers may not be huge in 2010, there is certainly promise to the business models that are developing on these platforms. How can you improve LTV ?

Internet 114

Internet eCommerce Advertising Flash 114

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

For much of 2013 I watched the press write articles about how the YouTube “MCNs” (multi-channel networks) were doomed and tried to square that with the data I was watching at the one I invested in, Maker Studios, who has had one hell of a year. but not that this justifies take a 45% revenue share.

Networking 366

Networking Media Distribution Video 366

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

After all, without customers, there is no revenue. … Due to the relatively small potential contract values in restaurants, startups serving these customer segments have to build very efficient sales teams or online customer acquisition tools to aggregate many of them inexpensively.

Small Business 110

Small Business Marketing Startup Silicon Valley 110

ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

This equates to a loss of revenue, which requires more and more signups from new customers just to replace what you are organically losing every month. I have seen this happen at a few startups I’ve worked with by expanding revenue from the current product, plus up-sell and cross-sell opportunities , but that will be a future post.

Retention 106

Retention Churn Rate Metrics Software Review 106

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

We collect the complete narrative of what they discovered talking to customers as well as aggregate interviews, hypotheses to test, invalidated hypotheses and mentor and instructor engagements. We track each team’s progress as they test their business model hypotheses. You can see the entire presentation here.

Incubator 318

Incubator Intellectual Property Startup Lean 318

Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 30, 2020

Generally, companies use artificial intelligence to cut costs or increase revenue. Because financial institutions are not able to invest that money, fraud also indirectly results in lost revenue. AI-powered tools can gauge the effectiveness of employee collaboration by monitoring workplace social channels and social enterprise tools.

Artificial Inteligence 59

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Retention Aggregator 59

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

In addition to the FTTH market, PMC-Sierra also provides semiconductor solutions for Enterprise and Channel Storage, Wide Area Network Infrastructure, and Laser Printer/Enterprise market segments. Shamir Optical reported revenues of $142 million in 2009, generated mainly in Europe and the United States, and has about 1,400 employees.

Israel 79

Israel Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners. Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering.

Oakland 330

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 330

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Twitter is always a highly recommended social media channel to promote your brand online. Check aggregator sites that feature tweets. With those strategies as a foundation for profile growth, you can start to think about ways to do something more than gain revenue-free attention on Twitter. But there are other options.

Conversion 68

Conversion Social Media Search Campaign 68

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

For example, Mr. Green’s total user revenue is $100 + $62 + $25 = $187. This very simple setup can help answer the age-old question of, ‘does my blog content help drive more sales and revenue?'” Using horizontal funnels, you can analyze based on channel, A/B test variation , browser type, new vs. returning users, etc.

Analytics 70

Analytics eCommerce Software Review Technical Review 70

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2016

Multi-Channel-Network. 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. What does that even mean?

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Aggregator Silicon Valley Distribution Video 150

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 12, 2024

You could choose our system to move from vendor to trusted advisor, attract only ideal clients, and confidently present your strategies to build monthly recurring revenue. And now different channels are emerging. Visit DTM world slash scale to book your free advisory call and learn more. It's time to transform your approach.

Marketing 90

Marketing B2B Distribution Audience 90

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Average Revenue Per Customer. So by segmenting your data, you can learn things you couldn’t from the aggregate data. How does retention differ among different acquisition channels? Total Customers. You can’t learn much from the above table. How did that effect their average order value?

Conversion 48

Conversion Retention Acquisition Metrics 48

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

The company has just missed its quarterly revenue forecast. Lets take an example, and look at how they might do this: They will be able to tell you that revenue is composed of deals. To compute revenue, you multiply average deal size by number of deals. Bookings is the pre-cursor to Revenue. Obvious, isn’t it?

Metrics 55

Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Revenue needs to grow 20x, and margins must expand dramatically. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. Let’s look at each figure.

Valuation 48

Valuation Technical Review Social Network Forecast 48

The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

To measure the return on investment – or ROI – of your SEO campaigns, utilize the information aggregated from Positionly and Google Analytics to pull through the data and analyze patterns in traffic, increases in links, sustainable traffic and above all, increases in revenue. Most importantly – revenue.

SEO 159

SEO Analytics Social Media Metrics 159

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2012

The group consensus was quite clear — media companies would need to embrace a mix of distribution channels and business models to remain relevant, a testament to customer choice driving all models in parallel. Spotify, Rhapsody. Netflix, HBO Go. Live events. Movie Theaters.

Business Model 159

Business Model Distribution Aggregator Channel 159