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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

Airbnb’s availability as a marketplace and its aggregation of substantial consumer demand has actually meant certain forms of lodging have been newly built or converted into rooms for the primary purpose of listing on Airbnb. Fun Tidbit 1: Europe and North America are of similar importance in terms of revenue (40% EMEA / 41% N.

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All Markets Are Not Created Equal: 10 Factors To Consider When Evaluating Digital Marketplaces

abovethecrowd.com

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. But in the early stages, this friction slows your roll-out and increases the costs associated with supplier aggregation.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Stay local - Prove your business in North America first. Simply put, North America is a massive market with a rising tide around SaaS. SaaS companies have this debate all the time, and yet the recent data is pretty clear: most SaaS companies can get by with a single datacenter in North America until well past their IPO.

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Angel Investors Do Make Money, Data Shows 2.5x Returns Overall

Gust

It is based on more than 1,200 exited investments made by angel investors over a 15-year timeframe, collected separately across both North America and England. and UK samples is virtually identical — a useful robustness check on the initial North American data. . $100,000 invested, would return $250,000).

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How to Decide, Convey vs. Convince, & More

Ben's Blog

Annie is interviewed by a16z managing partner, Jeff Jordan, who was previously CEO and then executive chairman of OpenTable, former GM of eBay North America, and much more. I was cleaning up offices a couple years ago, and I found sheets in different places, and aggregated my career decisions. Jeff: Yeah. That resonates a lot.

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Audience Segmentation: Where Do You Start?

ConversionXL

Like data segmentation , audience segmentation makes it easier to uncover optimization opportunities that you might not see when looking at aggregate data. Or people in North America versus people in Asia. Segmentation has many benefits. Strategically expanding your total addressable market (TAM).

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Angel Investors Do Make Money, Data Shows 2.5x Returns Overall

techcrunch.com

It is based on more than 1,200 exited investments made by angel investors over a 15-year timeframe, collected separately across both North America and England. and UK samples is virtually identical — a useful robustness check on the initial North American data. . $100,000 invested, would return $250,000).