Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. Cost of entry for a startup is at an all-time low. With the key social media platforms today, an entrepreneur can tune a product, build a brand, and grow the business with very low cost and a high interactivity never before possible.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

When you have limited distribution, the costs of distributing media are so prohibitive that only the largest of media producers (and distributors) are relevant. That couldn’t happen without the advent of lower cost production & distribution. Production costs have plummeted. Why is that? Even a hundred.

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View from Seed

JUNE 13, 2019

Chewy helpfully provides some cohort data on both aggregate $ revenue, active customer spend, and LTV/CAC basis. spent by new customers in 2015, that same group (in aggregate) bought $1.65 They also include customer service costs in this Fulfillment bucket within SG&A, as well as some fixed (e.g. in 2016, to 17.5%

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Agora’s selling points are its ability to reduce users’ IT infrastructure cost and enhance revenue for service providers. Veritas is making a low cost, residential wind turbine. BlinkTraffic will empower mobile users in developing markets (Jakarta, Sao Paolo, Delhi, etc.)

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2019

It’s important to have a report that allows for a comparison of the quoted or budgeted cost with the actual cost, as well as letting the executive team compare financial performance using custom criteria.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

Virtual channels include Dedicated e-commerce, Two-step e-distribution and Aggregators. Veritas , the team building a low cost residential wind turbine. In talking to customers, the team found that cities are actively trying to reduce street lighting costs (retrofitting with LEDs, turning off lights, and charging streetlight fees.)

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The beauty of the new landscape is that niches that were previously underserved can be targeted and aggregated effectively, and enthusiasm and notoriety of a brand can be built in a fraction of the time. The rapid growth of companies like Allbirds or MM.LaFleur is indicative of this. Owning High Shares of Customer’s Wallet.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Starting a tutoring business has minimal start-up costs, which is great for people who want to start a business but don’t possess the capital to invest. This should not cost you much and is fairly simple in terms of overall effort and time. . Bottom Line.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 23, 2014

But until recently, if you wanted a business software package – which might cost a thousand times more than a gruyere-smothered Angus patty – it was much harder to find aggregated […] The post TrustRadius Aims to be the Yelp of Business Software appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin Convio Trust Radius Vinay Bhagat'

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Aggregating suppliers is a necessary, but insufficient step on its own. You must also organically aggregate demand. Great marketplaces do not simply aggregate a market; they enhance it. Facilitating work-flow reduces work for the participants, as well as increasing switching costs. High Fragmentation.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2011

You may choose some where your customers aggregate, others where you hope to find biz dev partners & still others where you want to meet investors. That way you’re all extending your networks and splitting the costs. Be very targeted in which events you attend. Plan out your most important events to attend.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Compute ROI: (cost of Facebook campaigns + salary of people running campaigns + agency creative costs) vs. profit from incremental product sales. An additional prove value scope can also be: Cost savings. The reduction in customer service costs – no more phone calls! But not, ever, in aggregate.]. Too strong?

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The labor shortage has an “undermined project management and execution, adversely affecting cost, timelines, and quality.”. Ultimately, time is money — and the lack of available, skilled workers and professionals are one of the biggest drivers of rising construction costs.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2024

It excels in aggregating, sorting, and filtering data efficiently, crucial for applications in data analysis, business intelligence, and backend systems of many web services. Wood added, “There was a huge opportunity cost associated with losing out on the highest-value work that we could be doing just to keep the system going.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 16, 2020

The DemandStar network is a win for both sides: local businesses can win contracts for projects that they never knew existed, and governments gain access to more competition for cost savings and better value. .

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2018

Today it takes us now mere hours and costs less than $1,000. And solar energy reached parity in its price/performance ratio to conventional sources of energy like coal – turning a scarce natural resource into something which will be abundantly available at little to no cost in the near-term future.

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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. Small fine-tuned models as an alternative to giant generic ones – when finely tuned with appropriate data, smaller, specialised LLMs can yield comparable results at a fraction of the cost.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

Since sales are intimate with costs and expenses, the forecast helps you budget and manage. 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. And you can use the same logic for direct costs too.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 29, 2020

All customers have to do is make a click, and the business will be there to serve them at their doorsteps in the most time and cost-effective fashion. The primary reason that Uber excelled is that it made the overall experience of commuting – convenient and cost-effective. The on-demand business is flourishing and how.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations. Legacy architecture in financial services, by contrast, is comprised of unique centralized databases, requiring the need and added cost of intermediaries to verify transactions between them (e.g.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

A business is an aggregate of multiple repetitive tasks and processes. When a company goes through the process of buying a new system, there’ll be a time or monetary cost for the search, selection and installation. Teleconferencing is a powerful tool for cutting the cost of meetings. Process Automation. Teleconferencing.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

The consequences of being late or making critical mistakes tally up into the millions, yet McKinsey estimates that 90% of projects suffer cost overruns – and two thirds are at least 40% late. Construction is a trillion-dollar market, but planning remains complicated and inaccurate.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

G2 Crowd confirms that it’s a high-cost option. Demandbase’s costs place it in the 96th percentile for “Marketing Account Management” software. 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. Image source ).

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

On Wednesday, a group of 13 companies presented to 50 investors, looking to raise an aggregate of $16 million in capital. Adjudica.com sells its group-medical-cost monitoring tool as a Web-based service to large health plan operators. Two events this week in St. Louis show how vibrant the startup ecosystem has become there.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

When AI can aggregate data and offer projections, patients and professionals can act with the future in mind. For example, healthcare services company Vizient is applying AI to help its members deliver cost-effective healthcare. Improve communication. One of the healthcare industry’s most prominent problems lies in communication.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Online stores can serve more customers globally with lower costs, less effort, and fewer employees 24/7. By opening fewer stores you decrease costs in renting real estate, distributing products to your stores, and hiring employees for every location in every area you’re operating in.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

Here’s a selection of the 20-odd startups at Maker Faire: SeeedStudio, an “open hardware company develops and brings to market innovative and cost-effective prototyping solutions for hobbyists and aspiring inventors.”. 3D printing is reducing the cost of prototyping. RedBearLab, which makes a wearable BlueTooth 4.0

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

The company aggregates a tremendous amount of medical news and research and personalizes it into a user friendly experience. Remedy Systems ( www.remedysystems.com ) designs and builds practical mobile product platforms that lower the costs and improve the quality of healthcare. Docphin ( [link] ) is the Bloomberg for doctors.

Technical Review 128

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Up and Running

AUGUST 24, 2020

Cutting costs , revisiting forecasts , and stabilizing your business. Simply put, IoT is a combination of sensor and data analytics systems, helping businesses aggregate metrics to make more accurate decisions. But there are plenty of cost-saving, productivity and even hiring benefits that make remote work an attractive option.

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? The only exceptions that come to mind are if the IP seems likely to provoke costly litigation, costs too much to develop, or taints the startup with some kind of ties to other ventures or people that give it a checkered past.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 2, 2017

Then, consider the added costs of adding e-commerce, from the cost of setting up your online sales site to the marketing and shipping expenses that you might incur. Start by brainstorming what you will sell online and do some simple projections about what even a small increase in sales—say five percent—could mean for your top line.

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Agile VC

JUNE 13, 2019

Chewy helpfully provides some cohort data on both aggregate $ revenue, active customer spend, and LTV/CAC basis. spent by new customers in 2015, that same group (in aggregate) bought $1.65 They also include customer service costs in this Fulfillment bucket within SG&A, as well as some fixed (e.g. in 2016, to 17.5%

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

” The Cost of Financing. Startups bear the costs of their financing, from the first seed investment to the sale of Series A stock. These costs make it preferable to use a convertible security for a raise of this size and to structure as equity financing if you are raising closer to $2 million. Convertible Securities. .

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Transformify

JUNE 20, 2022

How is it possible to automate the end-to-end process to cut on costs and eliminate the likelihood of human errors? Taras, recently TFY saw unprecedented demand for vendor management software as lots of businesses seek efficiencies and cost optimization. How do they manage billing, payments and compliance?

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

plus it's faster and costs half as much ), it ranks first in the world for number of blogs per Internet user, and has a formidable market of Internet consumers who spent €5.5 They're going strong , and constantly adapting their platform to users' changing needs for information and social media aggregation.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

As Mixpanel ’s Aaron Krivitzky explained: [Cost per Acquisition] and [Cost per Click] are important, but they tell you nothing about user retention, they tell you nothing about lifetime value, and they tell you nothing about the actual end-user sentiment, behaviors, or experience.

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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. But ultimately whether this is worth it depends on the cost to do this.

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