Berkonomics

JANUARY 3, 2013

Most every business can take advantage of continuing, recurring revenues from its customer base. Sometimes, products are designed to make all of their profit upon the recurring revenues from supplies or support. Usually that amount exceeds 50% of total revenues, and is often much more.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

Regarding extended reality, gaming is a key sector for popular jobs that do not demand advanced degrees but do require a desire for online gaming. As a result, securing and properly storing our data has become an in-demand specialization in our economy. Thanks to Max Whiteside, Breaking Muscle ! #3-

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

It’s that time of year when Startup CEOs are building their 2022 Revenue Plan. If they fall behind on their sales recruiting numbers, they understand how that will impact revenue targets two quarters out. 3) It’s likely your outbound sales and/or demand gen efforts have been focused on the highest converting new customer segments.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2024

Not so long ago, we were all posting AI profile pictures on social media, but very quickly we’re now seeing an emergence of generative AI tools and LLM applications to assist almost every role in the organisation, across industries and verticals. Likewise, venture dollars will still funnel into startups in the space.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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View from Seed

JUNE 23, 2022

Long-term: Influencers across the world with 10K+ followers and across all major verticals (e.g. Influencers today are leveraging social commerce to sell various print-on-demand products like apparel, mugs, and small accessories. DC: Short-term: Do-it-yourself (DIY) social media influencers in the United States with 100K+ followers.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It partners with sales to close more revenue, informs product teams to deliver better products, and in some cases, co-owns demand generation activities with marketing teams. Post-launch, product marketers focus on improving sales enablement and work to drive demand and adoption of the product. Strong brands win across the board.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

You must also organically aggregate demand. Aggregating demand is much harder and more critical. Another repeated mistake is attacking verticals where a satisfactory supplier “match” end’s the customer’s need to re-enter the market in search of an alternative. Size of the Market Opportunity.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

According to the Covid-19 impact report by research firm Beauhurst: 5,070 UK companies are at a ‘severe’ or ‘critical’ risk 615K startup and scaleup jobs are at risk Later stage startups are at the most risk Across the board, tech sectors and verticals are the most likely to experience a positive or low impact.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Instead of investing in massive amounts of computers needed for training companies can use the enormous on-demand, off-premises hardware in the cloud (e.g. AI is exploding not only in research and infrastructure (which go wide) but also in the application of AI to vertical problems (which go deep and depend more than ever on expertise).

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. In November of this year, the company announced that it had achieved “substantially” more than $1B in revenue in the third quarter. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The goal was simple: validate demand or move on. For example, after looking at the broader market, we saw that a service that helps marketers scale their video content was in demand. Choose to expand vertically or horizontally. For ambitious agencies, taking an MVP approach can unlock incredibly lucrative revenue streams.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

Unfortunately most startups learn this by going through the “Fire the first Sales VP&# drill: You start your company with a list of potential customers reading like a “who’s who&# of whatever vertical market you’re in (or the Fortune 1000 list.) Your board nods sagely at your target customer list. What happened?

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

14- Demand for new products Photo Credit: Beth Rivera With technology, almost everyone has access to an abundance of information and options. Entrepreneurs will concentrate their efforts on going small, in which businesses have the adaptability to generate revenue while holding true to their core values.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2021

Larger TAM & Small ACV < $10,000 : This range relies on primary inbound and Demand generation GTM because the market is big enough & there’s likely existing solutions & demand that you can use to deploy SEO, social, and content. ABM Technologies Landscape.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. A startup must form partnerships and alliances within its ecosystem.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. What is the right revenue model? Gatekeepers are overloaded. In other words, what is the minimum viable product ?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. Customer turnover was reduced by one third which translated into approximately $20 million recovered in annual revenue. The result?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

In the last three posts, we drew the relationship of market risk and invention risk with vertical markets and pointed out verticals where customer development would be useful. would look in each of the verticals. Marketing – How do you create end user demand? Business and Revenue Model – How do we organize to make money?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. Customer turnover was reduced by one third which translated into approximately $20 million recovered in annual revenue. The result?

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

But, historically, they’ve undermined monetization—requiring crawler access that savvy users exploit and demanding free clicks for searchers. News is an especially challenging vertical since no site owns a newsworthy event. News sites have long been at the forefront, but plenty of speciality sites (e.g., But it’s not easy.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. Customer turnover was reduced by one third which translated into approximately $20 million recovered in annual revenue. The result?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2013

Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. A startup must form partnerships and alliances within its ecosystem.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. Customer turnover was reduced by one third which translated into approximately $20 million recovered in annual revenue. The result?

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2019

A data-driven approach can help you make accurate and timely business decisions to meet market demands and improve cost-efficiency. Revenue growth rate: measures the month-over-month percentage increase in revenue and is the most common and important metric for startups. “What gets measured gets done.” . Sales KPIs.

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Transformify

APRIL 21, 2017

The demand for top talent is monumental, and the process of finding and hiring the best workers can be excruciating. Our most recent addition is Toptal Finance, which connects companies with seasoned finance, investment banking, and fundraising experts on-demand. And we’ll be expanding into more business verticals soon.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 21, 2020

What about corporation-wide reporting for different brands, verticals, portals, or even companies within a multinational concern, all of which operate in different countries? Revenue drop/increase. A manual process doesn’t survive these demands. Managing several websites is demanding. For data security. Conclusion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2012

Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. A startup must form partnerships and alliances within its ecosystem.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

They took a host of seemingly fragmented industry changes—customers demanding more from their vendors, customer relationships lasting years instead of days, competing businesses appearing virtually every day—and found the common thread that tied them together: more companies and customers were switching to subscriptions.

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Where to Play

AUGUST 18, 2020

Most of their business growth was vertical by focusing on food, tentage, and decoration for marrying couples and their families. Recently, the epicenter of marriage organization in Pakistani culture is shifting towards marriage halls and marquee and the demand for traditional catering and tentage business has been falling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2012

Maintenance contracts are another great way to create a brand-new revenue stream. Instead of selling your services to everyone, expand your services “vertically” by targeting industries where you’ve already been successful. One of the best ways to achieve a stable cash flow is to offer prepaid retainers or ongoing payment plans.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2013

Maintenance contracts are another great way to create a brand-new revenue stream. Instead of selling your services to everyone, expand your services “vertically” by targeting industries where you’ve already been successful. One of the best ways to achieve a stable cash flow is to offer prepaid retainers or ongoing payment plans.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2019

Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. They sell into multiple verticals, or pursue multiple revenue streams, such that they can’t develop a repeatable, scalable sales process, and don’t do anything well. A startup must form partnerships and alliances within its ecosystem.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

While the average forward revenue multiple has declined slightly since its February 2020 peak (19x), it’s still higher today than last year at 17x vs 15.8x We’ll also see the emergence of more low code / no code platforms that address specific vertical needs. The Index added another $0.9T in Sept 2020.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2011

Maintenance contracts are another great way to create a brand-new revenue stream. Instead of selling your services to everyone, expand your services “vertically” by targeting industries where you’ve already been successful. One of the best ways to achieve a stable cash flow is to offer prepaid retainers or ongoing payment plans.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

There's a lot more demand than supply right now. And then I show you four baby subscription services afterwards for which I get, you know, 30% of the first year revenue, if you sign up for them. Like that happens in this channel every day. Cause there isn't a barometer of talent. There isn't a Google certification.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Vertical-specific agents (e.g., In addition to cybersecurity , defence tech will see huge surge in demand. It’s no secret that short form vertical video is the fastest growing form of content on the web, but until now it’s also been more cumbersome to produce quality content. real estate, finance, healthcare).

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