Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Next, adding payments to a platform is very profitable, since the SaaS company gets a cut of the payment revenue. This year, Shopify’s merchant solutions (which are largely driven by payments revenue) overtook its “core” business (subscription services). Shopify is probably the best example of this trend. and that’s insurance.

Software Review 115

Software Review Vertical Differentiation Revenue 115

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

He is heading straight into an intensely competitive market without adequate differentiation or competitive positioning. Anupam Rajey from Lucknow, India, presented Acelerar Technologies , an outsourced accounting services BPO project from India. Anupam has serious segmentation issues.

Spain 115

Spain Entrepreneur India San Francisco 115

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

You work tirelessly to understand your customer, market, and competition so you can differentiate. To give context, compare market share changes with objective measures such as changes in total industry spending and company revenue, and strategic changes. Bean had been experiencing a long period of zero revenue growth.

Metrics 157

Metrics Marketing Campaign Audience 157

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

But, as he contended, if you can show someone that for every $5 spent you generate $25 in revenue, you have their attention. How many customers and much revenue could this channel bring if successful? For MST Solutions, Bogdanovich has focused on executing well on one vertical per quarter, then expanding to other verticals.

Demand 132

Demand Vertical Campaign Channel 132

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Since 2015, clothing brand ASOS has grown revenue by an average of 22% year over year. Perform a competitive analysis to determine how you’ll differentiate. To stand out, learn what competitors are doing so you can effectively differentiate. Choose value propositions based on differentiation. Brian Balfour , Reforge.

eCommerce 129

eCommerce Marketing Social Media Retention 129

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

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2017

Upsells and cross-sells (are there additional revenue opportunities you too could be leveraging?). To create a value proposition that really differentiates your offer, you have to know how the competitors position themselves. Reviewing a competitor’s online presence helps me understand how to differentiate my client.

SEO 131

SEO Analytics Conversion Search 131

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

No changes were made to the customer journey, and it had nothing to do with revenue lift. It isn’t about finding quick hacks to boost short-term revenue. Growth marketing doesn’t prescribe quick-fix hacks that any company can apply to “10x their revenue.” For example, say you’re trying to improve top-line revenue.

Framework 102

Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102

ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

Things to pay attention to: Steps that don’t make sense from your customer’s perspective; Steps that are combined or eliminated compared to your funnel, as they may be superfluous; Upsells and cross-sells, which are additional revenue opportunities you could exploit. What I’m looking for are common trends within that vertical.

SEO 126

SEO Conversion Analytics Design 126

ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2014

In another study, Granify, a CRO software company, conducted a real time behavior analysis of 20+ million visitors over 5 different verticals and also found that “lower prices” was not as pervasive as we may have believed. Shipping Costs. Now, as I said, these are just averages. Wait a second?! superior customer service.

Software Review 117

Software Review Social Media Vertical Algorithm 117

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?

Retention 115

Retention Customer Developer Programming 115

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?

Retention 112

Retention Developer Customer Programming 112

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?

Retention 105

Retention Customer Developer Programming 105

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. The more websites or web projects to coordinate, the more complex the handling of the data. Critical to identify serious errors.

Technical Review 73

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Aggregator 73

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?

Retention 98

Retention Customer Developer Programming 98

Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Revenue needs to grow 20x, and margins must expand dramatically. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. Global smartphone revenue is about $420B.

Valuation 48

Valuation Technical Review Social Network Forecast 48

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

The strategy of GigaOm and where they differentiate in the market. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season. Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

At that scale, you can reach billions of dollars in revenue. But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others. General news carries the lowest CPCs whereas specific verticals like healthcare and finance command higher CPCs.

Social Media 47

Social Media Vertical Advertising Distribution 47

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2022

TikTok is very much vertical, short form, you know, 50 to 15 to kind of 62nd videos. So those are kind of probably the two biggest differentiators. Then I want to talk to you about adding a new revenue stream to your business that will completely change how you work with clients. So you've got more variety of content.

Marketing 99

Marketing Social Media Video Technical Review 99

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

New domains would include attracting business customers as well as individuals, taking your online business into retail, and diving into verticals. Expand the market to new domains. This strategy opens up new growth opportunities without the dogfight of taking territory away from existing competitors.

Vertical 167

Vertical Differentiation Restful Audience 167

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Compounding is the ability of an asset to generate earnings that are reinvested in order to generate exponential revenue growth. It has never paid out dividends, and clocks around $200 billion in revenue. This differential is often referred to as “Goodwill” and it is an idea plays out a lot in the software market.

Founder 148

Founder Valuation Dividend Startup 148

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

If you are genuinely passionate about it, that will shine through and you will immediately be differentiated from the many sales people that attend these events. They will bring you revenue, delight your clients (the right salespeople care about the ultimate value delivered?—?not so sales deserves the ultimate respect.

Software Review 48

Software Review Sales Cofounder Analytics 48

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2011

Kelly's business has already done about $150,000 in revenue in 2010, which tells me that she has successfully validated at least some of her assumptions. He has run some experiments within the entrepreneurship training vertical, and has seen success when he has brought on known thought leaders.

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Vertical Massachusetts 114

ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

I suggested LinkedIn, oDesk, and eLance with the caveat that the field is extremely competitive and crowded and differentiation would be tough to achieve. Today, he has over a thousand, and he has chosen to focus on the realtor vertical. She has, thus far, not done any other formal customer acquisition initiative. Happy Grasshopper.

San Francisco 125

San Francisco Entrepreneur Silicon Valley India 125

Mucker Lab

MAY 1, 2013

From the outside, they are vertically integrated challengers to decades if not hundred-years old incumbents. Instead of aiming for hundreds of millions of dollars in software licensing revenue – they want to conquer existing industries and aim for tens of billions of dollars in widget revenues. Software is eating industries.

Software 107

Software Silicon Valley Los Angeles Columbus 107

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Once the business is established, running relatively smoothly, and gaining clients and revenue, hiring people and giving someone a job is very important. Customers will order from a specific vertical only so often, so we started thinking like our audience to address their expanding needs and keep them engaged and doing business with us.

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Asia LLC Community 54

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

billion in revenues (growing 39% year-on-year) and $25B of market cap. Compared to Salesforce, the industry leader, the stats were not too dissimilar over the same period: its market cap grew by $19B and its revenue increased by $3.3B. From a revenue standpoint, 58 companies have already crossed the $5M per year mark and 29 are $15M+.

Europe 83

Europe Cloud API Israel 83

Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Most brilliant “Internet of Things” ideas are quicksand for capital unless you have the branding, vertical integration and customer lock-in that Apple achieved. Second, Apple vertically integrated the user experience, business model and distribution model. The iPod model will separate IoT platforms from fads.

Vertical 60

Vertical Widget Distribution China 60

Hunter Walker

MAY 20, 2018

The idea was to build a publishing-focused brand with events as a revenue base while we figured out our own differentiation in a crowded market — and then added business lines around advertising, custom content and now subscriptions. You need diversity in revenue streams. So I find Cheddar interesting.).

PR 64

PR Media Differentiation Audience 64

YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2014

Innovation is a function of sticking with and executing on ideas— whether new or old — that don’t conform to the status quo, which results in turning an idea into something tangible, useful, and differentiated. Since then, it’s been almost vertical. We need to listen non-critically to ideas. As a result of his care, they felt safe.

Leadership 169

Leadership Employee Community Non-Compete 169

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Global SaaS revenues are expected to grow by $19 billion in 2016, an increase of 22% from 2015, while traditional software revenues are shrinking by $10B. Two dollars in SaaS revenues are created for every $1 of software revenues eaten – an impressive stat, but where does Europe stand on the global SaaS map?

Europe 48

Europe Artificial Inteligence Israel Vertical 48

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2023

ChatGPT's data is two years old and when actual tech humans can't really differentiate easily between pre-seed and seed, who's a lead and who isn't, and whether or not someone is a real fund or just a broker, I wouldn't expect a bot to. I have revenue. and get an autogenerated list. And yes, I tried ChatGPT. Am I still pre-seed?

ChatGPT 78

ChatGPT Database Salary Naming 78

Austin Startup

JULY 5, 2017

Rather, Tesla will be a full stack, vertically integrated clean energy company. For a sense of scale, consider that Tesla generated $7B of revenue in 2016. Of that, Tesla does not even break out non-automotive revenue, meaning that their battery/solar business today is small fraction of total sales. This is pretty astonishing.

Nevada 66

Nevada Global eCommerce Engineer 66

Hippoland

JULY 24, 2016

Your startup’s valuation is not based on a proforma of your revenue. This is really key to understand, because so many founders wonder, “Why was that company over there who has 0 revenue able to raise their round at a $10m cap convertible note? It will be REALLY important for you to put a LOT of work into your differentiation story.

Seed Stage 48

Seed Stage Valuation Vertical Demand 48

ConversionXL

JUNE 3, 2019

Because a Manta report found that 61% of small businesses surveyed indicated that more than half of their revenue came from repeat customers. Case study: How Terminix used customer feedback to recover $20 million in lost revenue. Furthermore, the study found that repeat customers spend 67% more than new customers. The result?

Retention 82

Retention Developer Customer Programming 82

VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

VC Cafe: What would you say are your killer differentiators? How are you planning ramp up the revenue? Also, the nice thing about these revenue streams is that they actually help the Libox user. We have indirect competitors in each of those verticals. It took me 10 years to build Walla. I’m not here to make a quick buck.

Media 84

Media Management API HTML 84

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

But if you want to accelerate growth and improve your revenues and profits, you need to up your game. Your brand positioning explains how your company differentiates in the marketplace and how you are different from your competitors. Are you interested in comparing revenues? Horizontal vs vertical vs diagonal lines.

Marketing 162

Marketing Charlotte Naming Design 162