Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Lately I’ve been having to say things I thought I’d never have to remind people, like, “getting to positive gross margin in several territories is a very low bar to claim success” or “profitable excluding marketing costs” is not actually a real thing. But not doing basic research makes no sense.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

Tech ventures, some of whom were presenters at the earlier Demo Day, joined ventures in green energy and the life sciences. Adjudica.com sells its group-medical-cost monitoring tool as a Web-based service to large health plan operators. The second event was the annual Invest Midwest conference on Thursday.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Now the newly passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) offers many new incentives that may decrease the cost of climate tech by 40% – more room for innovation! And most of these batteries are sitting on shelves or in landfills because recycling costs are too high.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

Users should easily understand which assets are promoted on which channels and the distribution schedule. Here’s an example of how Nightwatch uses Asana to organize distribution: The color-coded initials in the right-hand column correspond to different members of the marketing team, so everyone knows their role.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 23, 2023

Technology can help address these challenges by enabling precision agriculture that will use data and analytics to optimize farming practices and increase yields at the lowest possible environmental cost. Technology can help the health sector balance rising costs and increase service. Thanks to Rafał Młodzki, Passport-Photo Online ! #4-

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If the CEO wants to completely change the product in order to serve a new customer segment, you need someone in the room who can digest the needs of the new (proposed) business, and lay out the costs of each possible approach. In my mind, theyre racking up costs (one month for that part, two months for that other part, uh oh).

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 5, 2022

#5- Go green. I’ve been planning for years to “Go Green,” and, finally, I’m implementing it. We consider purchasing several large solar panels, utilizing our wasted resources and researching green alternatives to our key processes. Photo Crediy: James Green. Photo Credit: Liz Hutz. 25- Offer more support.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2019

For green technology, the barriers — high costs, lack of supporting infrastructure, the weight of tradition — have been especially prohibitive. But the timing is finally right for some green tech to take off. The time in the spotlight is finally here for green innovations like permeable pavement.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 17, 2013

Their shipping costs will eat up any money they save. To make you feel richer, we’ll make them green. Tesla – instead of just building batteries and selling them to Detroit, we are going to build our own cars from scratch plus own the distribution network. Virgin Atlantic – airlines are cool.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Earlier this year, I published a post that was very bullish on an emerging electricity grid powered primarily by distributed energy resources (DERs) like solar, wind, and batteries. And, as an added bonus, accelerating DER deployment would also accelerate their cost decline from a current 2-5 cents / kWh to < 1-2 cents / kWh.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Transcript of How to Turn Marketing Costs Into Profit written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. That’s not really true, but in this episode of The Duct Tape Marketing podcast I do speak with Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose, authors of Killing Marketing: How Innovative Businesses are Turning Marketing Costs into Profit.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 1, 2025

However, with this increase in green choices comes a single question: Are such eco-friendly choices as good as the traditional ones? The brands have definitely improved the design and weight distribution of these discs to ensure that they are as useful to the player as possible, whether they are using them at the park or in a tournament.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

VMware—Diane Greene. (*) While not technically cofounders, Andy Grove and Thomas Watson, Sr. The new, professional CEOs were unwilling to let go of the most basic assumptions driving the cost structure of their businesses. Hastings wasn’t married to the old distribution model precisely because he invented it. Seagate—Al Shugart.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The Rise of Conscious Capitalism: I’ve been involved with social entrepreneurship for years through my involvement with organizations such as Echoing Green and the Unreasonable Institute , and this is the year that I saw massive growth and interest in the sector from the mainstream. What’s Next in 2012….

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

Fossil fuels won’t be able to compete on cost. The Energy Internet Emerges: We will be trading energy with each other through a new type of distributed energy grid. This will be further enabled by automation and manufacturing where the low-cost labour market trading advantage evaporates.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Having so few products means Apple can dedicate enormous resources to each project once it gets the green light. Which comes to the second major principle: halt work that leads to more waste, even if it means abandoning sunk costs. This is a version of the andon cord technique from lean manufacturing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2022

You can’t succeed in business without an operational model that delivers value to customers at a reasonable price, with an underlying cost that allows you to make a profit. The key issues here are time to market and cost. Distribution. How do you distribute your product or service? Cost structure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2011

You can’t succeed in business without an operational model that delivers value to customers at a reasonable price, with an underlying cost that allows you to make a profit. The key issues here are time to market and cost. Distribution. How do you distribute your product or service? Cost structure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2012

You can’t succeed in business without an operational model that delivers value to customers at a reasonable price, with an underlying cost that allows you to make a profit. The key issues here are time to market and cost. Distribution. How do you distribute your product or service? Cost structure.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain. Kenya and Nigeria are of a particular interest for the employers in the UK due to the high percentage of English speakers who have received bachelor’s degree or higher.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The CEO cut costs. That latter term is used to describe an initial offer that generates enough revenue to offset the cost of acquiring a customer. Marketing where you don’t have to is called a subsidy cost. It’s one of the biggest hidden costs for any business. That’s a rapid turnaround. Many factors contributed to it.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

To prevent hackers from gaining access to your business's checking account, use low-cost software and dual controls to strengthen your payment processes. Video marketing will also allow small businesses to distribute the same video content across many platforms, allowing them to serve a wide spectrum of clients at the same time.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Yet in expansionary periods, successful leaders spent significantly less on [selling, general, and administrative costs] than did their former peers. A focus on cost cutting—every decision is viewed through a loss-minimization lens. As the authors found, “Firms that cut costs faster and deeper than rivals don’t necessarily flourish.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Green: low-energy consuming phones and products for using the mobile as an energy monitoring device in the house. Our solutions provide peace of mind, improve quality of life and save costs to users and service providers. Cost control & mobile least cost routing implementation.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Common examples include: Average order value; Sales conversion rate; Cart abandonment rate; Customer acquisition cost; Customer lifetime value; Bounce rate; Click-through rates; Pop-up engagement rates; ROI (return on investment; Average inventory sold per day. From here, attach valid marketing metrics to each goal.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

It’s worth noting that LexSet’s team is distributed with additional team members in Seattle and myself in Los Angeles, giving us great range to take sales meetings all across the country. However, we’ve just started to see a decrease in GPU cost due to compute farms buying up graphics cards from failed crypto miners.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

Take the subset of metrics that actively drive action, and change the font color for them to green in the Impact Matrix. For a large European client with a multi-channel existence, here’s what the Impact Matrix looked like after this honest self-reflection: More of the digital metrics are green, because there are more digital metrics period.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2020

Distribute live videos and copy that build cannabis education and the lifestyle. So before you do anything else, you have to get the green light from your contacts to send them email communications. Push cannabis marketing campaigns are relatively cost-effective… and convert into sales. And the best part?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. Another plus: It costs almost nothing to produce. Product launches are one phase in the product lifecycle. Image source ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2012

First you need to be able to manufacture and distribute the product in volume. Can you sell it for five times the cost? R&D is expensive, “overhead” is high, and they have to cover the cost of the nine out of ten products that fail. Even a single-product startup better assume twice the cost if they want any profit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2011

First you need to be able to manufacture and distribute the product in volume. Can you sell it for five times the cost? R&D is expensive, “overhead” is high, and they have to cover the cost of the nine out of ten products that fail. Even a single-product startup better assume twice the cost if they want any profit.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

There are terrific free YouTube channels for entrepreneurs and small business owners and many online schools and sites offer free or low-cost online courses. “Acquire a new set of stories, concepts, and tools to help you digitally create, distribute, promote and price products and services.” ” Udemy.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 3, 2024

By investing in green packaging initiatives, businesses in the cannabis sector can strengthen their market positioning while contributing positively to the environment. Cost-Effectiveness and Accessibility Balancing the cost of packaging production with design quality is another important consideration for cannabis businesses.

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Life Beyond Code

JULY 14, 2013

Cost of Delivery: If you give something really amazing at a throwaway price, you might find a boatload of people standing in the queue to buy that amazing thing. However, you might go bankrupt fulfilling the requests as you will have costs of delivery. You need to factor in the “change costs” that is involved in the pivots.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

The concept of Partners , took some explanation as some teams confused partners with the Distribution Channel.). Answer: The most cost effective wavelength is 800-900nm ~ $20/watt. Final question: Is the improved absorption efficiency worth the extra cost? Veritas , building a low cost wind turbine for cities.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 23, 2024

Investing in hydrogen production, distribution infrastructure, and fuel cell manufacturing can create new jobs and stimulate economic growth. Countries leading in hydrogen technology can position themselves as global leaders in the emerging green economy. Sadly, this only adds to the complexity and costs associated with the process.

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