Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

So how did a company that provides storage grow so fast (we’ll exit 2017 with 10’s of millions in recurring revenue), why is it so defensible and is it really a tech startup? Amazon took a consumer value proposition (buying books, then all retail products) and made the consumer experience significantly better, faster & cheaper.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

All startups, including non-profits, need revenue to thrive, such as such as from subscriptions, retail, online, licensing, or services. They want to see revenue to share in the return. Here I recommend a 5-year projection of revenues, expenses, and funding requirements. Provide specifics on the customer business model.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 11, 2021

Since releasing my newest book The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors I’ve been continually getting the questions “Why Philosophy and Entrepreneurship?” Fast-forward thirty years, when we were in the midst of writing this book, and Dave was reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

You can review all the specifics of this approach in the classic book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2022

One 11-year study of over 200 companies over a decade ago, detailed in the book “ Corporate Culture and Performance ,” found that those working on their culture improved revenue by 516%, and increased net income by 755%. I saw a good summary of these in the classic book, “ Ethical Leadership ,” by Andrew Leigh, an expert in this area.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

I remember the classic book, “ The Three-Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation ,” by Vijay Govindarajan, one of the world’s leading experts on strategy and innovation. Experiments on today’s revenue engine necessarily focus on short-term financial goals. Innovation driven by the next crisis is not leadership.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2019

There are also many other good sources of guidance, including the classic book “ Click Millionaires ” by Scott Fox. Generate revenue around the clock. Focus on recurring revenues. With a stable base of subscribers, this can mean a continuing revenue stream from newsletters, support, or advice on demand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

He shares his journey from struggling home service contractor to helping thousands of contractors increase their revenue. Key Takeaways Providing high-quality service and multiple options can significantly increase revenue for home service contractors. He's also the author of a book we're going to talk about today.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The pandemic hit just as I was finishing up some of the interviews in the book. One client said it helped them because they hadn’t made long-term commitments to advertising buys, and it was easy to cut back spending when their revenues declined. To learn more about Jim Ewel and his new book, visit his website.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2021

I found a good summary of the most common mistakes in a classic book by Kelly Clifford, “ Profit Rocket ,” written primarily to help you on the other side of the equation – skyrocket your profits. A closer analysis often indicates the cause to be a lack of diligence in handling common business finances.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 2, 2024

billion in revenue and offices in over 100 cities around the globe. She is the author of the upcoming book DREAM BIG AND WIN: Translating Passion into Purpose and Creating a Billion-Dollar Business and a contributor at Forbes and SWAAY. Liz is the co-founder and CEO of the award-winning TransPerfect. Relisten and Enjoy!

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

I recently found the classic sales training book “ Bootstrap Selling The Sandler Way ,” by Bill Morrison, who has 20 years in sales leadership roles, and I was amazed at how many of his sales lessons are great lessons for new entrepreneurs as well. With the best solutions, the customer gets value which exceeds your revenue.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2021

In my 15+ years as a startup founder, investor, and advisor — and now in my role as CEO of a bookkeeping and accounting startup — I’ve come across countless businesses whose accounts aren’t accurate or GAAP-compliant because they’re making the same four mistakes: Relying on spreadsheets to track their revenue and expenses.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. At GE the biggest problem in 2017 was major revenue misses in their Power business.)

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

— Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. Typically, this caliber of bankers wouldn’t talk to you unless your company had five profitable quarters of increasing revenue.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 11, 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. Visit DTM world slash scale to book your free advisory call and learn more. Book your call today, DTM World slash scale. (01:03): Within six years.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 15, 2020

You can manage routine tasks, and oversee booking calendars. . Busy hosts can manage multiple accounts from one single dashboard, so there’s no need to try and keep an eye on all of your properties across a variety of booking websites. Let’s see what iGMS has to offer: Handy Channel Manager.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2020

Self-Publish a Book on Amazon. Publishing a book is so troublesome because of all those edits, formats, marketing, etc. But if you publish a book on Amazon, then you have a higher chance of gaining profit. By validating your idea before you write the book, you’ll improve the odds of people willing to buy your book.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Throughout the first year we made many fixes and saw our revenue base in these markets accelerate so we felt we were ready to attack Los Angeles, amongst the most important storage markets in the country. An example of the systems companies build are pricing & revenue management tools to best help to optimize yield.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 19, 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. Visit DTM.world/scale to book your free advisory call and learn more. Book your call today, DTM world/ scale. (01:05): It's time to transform your approach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

Thus I was pleased to see this subject, and related strategy decisions, covered well in a recent book, “ Brand Vision ,” by Jim Everhart. In addition, research shows that companies that fail to align their marketing and sales departments have less ROI, and lose 10% or more of their revenues per year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2019

You can review all the specifics of this approach in the classic book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2019

I was pleased to see these questions addressed in a new book, “ Small Town Big Money ,” by Colby Williams, focused on entrepreneurship and opportunity in today’s small towns. Sizing the market, projecting revenue, and calculating break-even points are critical, even for a coffee shop. Don’t get too comfortable – take comfort in fear.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

In the short term you need customers to find you at any price, and in the longer term you need revenue, profit, and return loyalty. Based on my own experience in both large and small companies, I agree it can be done, with the essential principles outlined in a new book, “ Winning Now, Winning Later ,” by David M.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

The entrepreneur can earn plenty of revenue – from subscription plans and publishing targeted advertisements, commission from courier delivery personnel, booking cancellation charges, and transaction processing fees from an Uber for courier app solution. Why would courier service apps always be in high demand?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2019

Yet, in my daily role as an advisor to entrepreneurs and small business owners, struggling to boost revenues, profits, and earnings, I still see too many managers falling back on command-and-control, a focus on weaknesses, and not enough time for people. Change is hard. But these days it’s required and inevitable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2020

Business plans the size of a small book are a big turnoff to investors, and will only serve to make your business seem more complex and more risky. Real contracts, testimonials, and even statements of intent are much more effective, if not real revenue and growth statistics.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

He is the founder of Tundra Land Home Improvements and author of the upcoming book we're going to talk about today Beyond the Hammer, a Fresh Approach to Leadership, culture and Building High Performance Team. We had 600 employees and doing about 150 million in revenue when I finally sold all the businesses a couple of years ago.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 21, 2021

You can turn one book into 7 or more figures in revenue for your business. The post How To Turn One Book Into 7+ Figures Of Revenue For Your Company appeared first on Young Upstarts. Michael Shreeve, founder of Peaceful Profits, shares how you can.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

Matt Blumberg has a new book out titled Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. The book is 132 chapters broken into 11 sections. I’ve been working with Matt since 2000.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2022

If you want all the specifics, you must follow the new wave of marketing experts, like Daina Middleton, and her classic book “ Marketing in the Participation Age.” So if you are a startup, or even a mature business, you need to nurture these intrinsic desires and develop more meaningful customer relationships that yield greater revenues.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In his new book Never Play It Safe , Jarvis dives deep into the power of safety and focused attention as key drivers of success. 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. So Chase, welcome back to the show.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 7, 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. Visit DTM world slash scale to book your free advisory call and learn more. Book your call today, DTM world slash scale. (01:05): Pleasure to be here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2022

I saw some good insights on the most common mistakes that crush creativity, in the classic book, “ Lateral Thinking Skills ,” by Paul Sloane. Typical incentives give percentages of quarterly revenues and contribution as rewards for success. Encourage an entrepreneurial culture. Provide bonuses for volumes, not milestones.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Book a free discovery call and we can figure out what makes the most sense for you. If you’re interested in learning more about the Fractional CMO Agency Model and how it could help your business, check out my post on Leveraging a Fractional CMO for Growth for more insights. Still unsure? Let’s talk!

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