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.)

Channel 234

Channel Artificial Inteligence San Francisco Business Model 234

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.)

Lean 307

Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 307

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.

Artificial Inteligence 176

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Doubling SaaS Revenue By Changing The Pricing Model. Sidenote: If you run a software business, you absolutely need some form of server monitoring, because the application being down costs you money and trust. Let me try to explain the pricing in words so that you can understand why: It costs $11 per server plus $2 per website.

Revenue 62

Revenue Distribution Software Non-Compete 62

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. A good business analyst will measure how many clicks came through from Facebook, and she/he will also measure the conversion rate, revenue, etc., But not, ever, in aggregate.].

Metrics 165

Metrics Advertising Marketing Social Media 165

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.

Technical Review 154

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review IPO 154

VC Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2011

BUY2 is Israel’s largest daily deal site based on total Facebook friends and average revenue per deal. According to daily deal aggregator site Tavo.co.il , BUY2 has a 17% Israeli coupon market share, and Deal Hayom has 7%. I have just checked today’s deal, for August 13, 2011, BUY2 made a revenue of ? and BUY2 is succeeding.

Israel 102

Israel Aggregator Marketing Germany 102

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.

SQL 156

SQL CTO Database Cloud 156

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.

Aggregator 101

Aggregator Marketing Software Review North America 101

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.

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

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million. Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008).

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Agile VC

JUNE 13, 2019

revenue business still growing >50% YoY? Chewy now has over 10 million customers, repeat purchases by existing customers account for approximately 90% of their revenue today. This is analogous to SaaS companies like Slack or Dropbox, which have strong revenue growth just as their existing users consumer more of their service.

Leadership 100

Leadership .Net Revenue Aggregator 100

Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

Measure retention rate over time in aggregate – or for optimal health, segment retention rate – and measure it for the various objectives you have set for your email marketing program. Not revenue. Profitability = (revenue generated – campaign cost – cost of goods sold) / # of emails sent.

Metrics 138

Metrics Campaign Email Marketing 138

ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

How did Outreach grow in just a few years to 50,000 monthly active users , $10 million in new bookings, and net revenue retention (NRR) of more than 140%? Apply these lessons to align your teams and drive revenue growth. NSM must: Lead to revenue; Reflect customer value; Measure progress. North star metrics must lead to revenue.

Metrics 120

Metrics Acquisition Revenue .Net 120

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.

Technical Review 131

Technical Review Analytics Forecast Artificial Inteligence 131

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

So Westlaw created Peer Monitor, which aggregates anonymized data on firms’ financial and operational performance, collected from participating clients with their permission — and this turned into a lucrative new business. Westlaw, which provides legal research services for law firms, is another example. Connect with your prospects (a.k.a.,

Customer 168

Customer Social Media Retention Canada 168

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

Software Review 117

Software Review Software Marketing IP 117

Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Increase current conversion rate by 25%, quantify how much increased revenue there will be. Aim for quintupling revenue, obviously, but calculating just 25% improvement will give you all the budget you need from your management to insert urgency into the shopping process. Significantly higher revenue awaits. Do something simple.

Conversion 125

Conversion eCommerce Artificial Inteligence Aggregator 125

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Two of the teams focused on the two main sources of revenue, one team on inbound leads, and the last team on site conversion rates. We were optimizing revenue from these campaigns by testing different versions. Suddenly, our revenue from these campaigns dropped by 50%. Growth teams have limited revenue potential.

Conversion 133

Conversion Technical Review Channel Engineer 133

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

and each book costs $375 retail. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. Well, she doesn't.

Costa Rica 114

Costa Rica America Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 114

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. Conclusion.

Chad 112

Chad Mobile Technical Review Aggregator 112

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. Conclusion.

Analytics 119

Analytics Technical Review Acquisition Retention 119

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

They’ve grown from nothing to >$2B in revenue in 30 months time, making the company among the fastest growing businesses in the histroy of the world. How They Make Money: Groupon keeps a share of the coupon value (typically 40-50%) as its net revenue (1). Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $713M. to the merchant.

North America 100

North America Chicago Boston Silicon Valley 100

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. Cell Buddy has developed the only seamless, carrier grade solution, for low cost Voice calls, SMS and Internet, while abroad.

Israel 133

Israel Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Actually spending money on advertising or other marketing costs can feel daunting and fruitless, especially when first starting out. Marketing is an investment where the money is spent to acquire more customers for your business, leading to higher profits and more revenue. Adjusting your marketing costs intelligently.

Artificial Inteligence 142

Artificial Inteligence Marketing Channel Campaign 142

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’ Looking at the conference agenda , it’s not hard to spot the trends for 2010: Mobile Clouds – additional storage and new revenue streams to operators.

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Deciding on your price can feel more like an art than a science, but there are some basic rules that you should follow: Your pricing should cover your costs. There are certainly exceptions to this, but for the most part you should be charging your customers more than it costs you to deliver your product or service. Retail Distribution.

Business Plan 163

Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2016

And they also are great for sports events (I watch the Eagles pregame videos from fans aggregated in one place, for example). It also makes purchasing more cost effective. Platforms need to strike a balance between ad-supported businesses and user-generated revenue. Authenticity / Endemic. All of this is smart.

Advertising 150

Advertising Iowa Campaign DC 150

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

As a result, AdWords boasts over one million customers and over $30B in annual revenue. I rarely meet a company that hasn’t experimented with AdWords in some way, and most of those that do understand the basic math around the cost of customer acquisition. Additionally, the ROI on the conversion costs range from 650% to 4000%!

Metrics 93

Metrics Conversion Internet Acquisition 93

David Teten

AUGUST 21, 2014

Each individual giver feels happy and bonded to the child, but the aggregate effect is fat kids. Serving kids sugar and corn derivatives now is cheap, but creates very significant long-term costs in treating obesity and diabetes. I’ve written elsewhere on low-cost ways to create a healthy office, school , or meeting.

Aggregator 114

Aggregator Hosting Venture Capital Community 114

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

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. It’s expected to cut costs for healthcare services. Retail revenue will grow as well. trillion (£9.3 Sum Up 5G Profit for Business to Get.

Technical Review 88

Technical Review Software Review South Korea Bandwidth 88

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

And so the spreadsheet is built with conservative assumptions, including a final revenue target. No matter how low we make the revenue projections for this new product, it’s extremely unlikely that they are achievable. In a startup context, numbers like gross revenue are actually vanity metrics, not actionable metrics.

San Francisco 102

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

ConversionXL

JUNE 26, 2019

I’ve seen companies apply this same framework and go from $500,000 in annual recurring revenue (ARR) to $1 million ARR in less than 12 months. In a product-led business, these are the macro outputs you need to track: Number of signups; Number of upgrades; Average Revenue Per User (ARPU); Customer Churn; ARR; Monthly recurring revenue (MRR).

Framework 121

Framework Churn Rate Metrics Revenue 121

Up and Running

OCTOBER 14, 2022

By doing so, you’ll have more consistent control over budgets and expenses while also devoting more time to your company’s more mission-critical, revenue-generating tasks. So, rather than handling these things separately, it is often more valuable to leverage a tool that can aggregate and automatically generate financial reports.

Management 81

Management Balance Sheet Forecast Software Review 81

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

A hold-out group can deliver the answer, but, like everything, it comes at a cost. In doing so, the holdout attempts to quantify “lift”—the increase in revenue compared to doing nothing. But site development costs aren’t the only costs to consider. What are hold-out groups? Image source ). When holdouts work. To the site.

Artificial Inteligence 101

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Audience Campaign 101