David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

I’ve primarily seen quantitative analytic techniques used in origination , filtering , and in portfolio company recruiting , but technology can be used throughout the nine steps of the private company investing process: The 9 Steps of the Private Company Investing Process. 8) Accelerate portfolio company value. 9% (1 / 12).

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Across our portfolio and in my own entrepreneurial experience, I have seen three main sales models work successfully in scaling B2B sales: 1) Enterprise; 2) Telephone; and 3) Developer-driven. To achieve friction-free revenue (and who doesn''t want friction-free revenue?), to, finally, $2M in annual quota.

Sales 50

Sales Technical Review Software Review B2B 50

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

And yet, revenue went up by 45% YoY. It helps them audit existing content portfolios (blog posts, landing pages, etc.) When you think about revenue intelligence platforms, you absolutely expect their content to be full of ignorable charts, graphs, and stats delivered in corporate pseudo-speak that makes your eyes glaze over.

Marketing 109

Marketing Social Media Non-Compete Audience 109

Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

You might end up with a picture that looks like this one … an approximate amalgamation of the best practices across the portfolio of companies I work with… Or it might look a little different. You are B2C or B2Q or Non-profit or an Adult-oriented business. That's fine. Different is fine. " You know why that works?

Framework 164

Framework Marketing Metrics Audience 164

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Farming is also often overlooked, but can help grow customer accounts and revenues from 30% upwards (if successful). Great list! Philippe Botteri.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

I've used Sunbursts to do the same with keyword portfolios. The core performance of the current website look like this… While we are applying it to a B2B case, it could just as easily be applied to a B2C / Ecommerce scenarios. Or at least think a lot harder about not investing the little amount of money to take big action.

Analytics 145

Analytics Sierra Leone Channel Conversion 145

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghoshs research. Consumer Services (B2C).

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Year over year revenue growth rates are measured in multiples not percentages. On paper, VC portfolios perform well. Roughly 18-24 months ago, people started to revisit the question of unit economics… what is the underlying profitability of a B2C transaction or a B2B SaaS contract once all the appropriate costs are factored in.

IPO 202

IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 202

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

At NextView we invest across the spectrum of seed stage companies so roughly 1/3rd of the companies we invest in are pre-product, roughly 1/3rd are post-product but pre-revenue, and perhaps 1/3rd have some very early revenue. You’re obviously not showing charts of user growth, number of customers, or revenue.

Seed Stage 149

Seed Stage B2B Seed Capital Revenue 149

VC Cafe

APRIL 28, 2021

And elsewhere creator monetisation tools and revenue streams continue to expand: Ads and bran deals – Youtube reported $6 billion in revenue for Q1 2021 , a 50% growth rate from the equivalent period last year. The sum is equivalent to the combined annual revenue of Snap and Twitter for 2020. (@hunterwalk) April 27, 2021.

Audio 167

Audio Valuation Stealth B2C 167

VC Cafe

JUNE 24, 2024

A recent report by Forerunner ventures comparing outcomes in consumer (B2C and B2B2C) startups vs. enterprise startups now shed some interesting light on the differences in performance between the two. It analysed 12,000 venture backed companies that raised a series B since 2010 and categorised 7,800 of them as B2C or B2B.

B2C 103

B2C Generative AI Startup Silicon Valley 103

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A look at the overall exits for both enterprise (B2B) and consumer (B2C) companies from 1995-2022 shows that both categories can produce power law returns, but they vary substantially: The top five enterprise companies with the largest exits account for $188B in value creation, or 12% of the $1,609B generated in the enterprise category since 1995.

B2C 103

B2C Israel IPO B2B 103

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Revenue Per Human. But, you want people to obsess about Revenue and not Cost. If 10xing your revenue requires that you quadruple your costs, what's the problem? Remember, we still have PPH to ensure that the revenue we are driving is driving a positive influence on the bottom-line of the company. Subtle change.

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Acquisition Naming 60

Feld Thoughts

MAY 30, 2018

Human to Human Connections – how and why companies need to throw away the traditional B2B and B2C playbooks and focus on building authentic H2H relationships. Beverley Jackson, VP Social Portfolio Strategy, MGM Resorts International. Carley Brantz, VP Revenue Marketing, SendGrid. Sarah Bird, CEO, Moz.

Denver 16

Denver Artificial Inteligence B2C Vertical 16

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Year over year revenue growth rates are measured in multiples not percentages. On paper, VC portfolios perform well. Roughly 18-24 months ago, people started to revisit the question of unit economics… what is the underlying profitability of a B2C transaction or a B2B SaaS contract once all the appropriate costs are factored in.

IPO 100

IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 100

Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

Digital advertising and marketing is a key part of ZQI's multi-channel acquisition portfolio. If they enroll in the course but don't start the course, we don't make much money (maybe some cancellation fees, but come on, that is a pathetic revenue source). They do everything.

Analytics 140

Analytics Aggregator Channel B2B 140

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 1, 2013

Are you more of a B2C type or a B2B type? If you are a risk-taker and enjoy the challenges and roller-coaster ride, then the jungle phase is for you and you should bias towards seed funded or recently Series A funded companies that are pre-revenue. full disclosure: tracx, 10gen and Savingstar are Flybridge portfolio companies).

Boston 52

Boston B2C Salary Cofounder 52

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Established location-based services to enable the CSP offer B2B and B2C services based on mobile positioning, tracking & locating, turn-by-turn navigation and mobile local search. Improves customer experience during sale, after sale and support interactions while generating revenues and reducing operational costs. GoNet Systems.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

We are in 62 startups and 19 VC funds now ( our portfolio ), and I have some good data at this point on how profitable our endeavors have been, so I feel pretty qualified to share these lessons with you. It doesn’t mean you won’t be able to help other companies, and we are in many B2C startups, for example.

Angel Investor 48

Angel Investor Advisory Board Equity B2C 48

Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

When we consider investing in SaaS startups at Hurt Family Investments (34 SaaS startups and counting in our portfolio ), we always look for natural network effects. In investing in B2C, we also look for network effects but usually those are created rather than natural. and they are both natural, like Facebook’s or LinkedIn’s.

Networking 48

Networking Fractional CTO CTO Hire B2C 48

David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

Investment theses are just hypotheses; the portfolio shows how accurate the hypothesis was. Thirty-four VC firms in OpenVC call themselves “early-stage” Yet, 30% of those don’t actually invest in pre-revenue startups. B2B vs B2C) within the business model preference. . The phrase is quite ambiguous.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital B2B 78