Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job. He tripled Microsoft’s sales to $78 billion and profits more than doubled from $9 billion to $22 billion. After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. Instead there is everything to gain.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 2, 2012

It’s doubtful that information such as sales volume will be readily available so in this case, you’ll want to rely on your ability to roughly estimate how big or small they are based on pieces of information you’ve picked up during your time in the industry. How large is their sales team. • Do they have a dedicated sales force.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

  Note that this applies only to earl stage Series A-type equity financings and assumes no cash dividends are paid to investors. It also assumes the entire value of the investment is captured for investors at a sale of the company in the time specified in the term-sheet.   First , dividends. Let’s start at the end.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

Dividend preference. Almost all startup companies don’t declare dividends, so deletion of a dividend preference is irrelevant to an investor. The liquidation preference would not apply in this situation, and any distribution to stockholders would trigger the dividend preference. Co-sale rights.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Buyer journeys have become so convoluted that the linear sales funnel mapping the path from awareness to consideration to purchase is no longer sufficient to give you realistic insights into the buying process. Qualitative research can also be gathered during sales calls. The dark funnel is everything happening below the surface.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 7, 2023

We've been using ActiveCampaign for years here at Duct Tape Marketing to power our subscription forms, email newsletters and sales funnel drip campaigns. If we manage to of what we call have a fair distribution of the digital dividend. And they make it easy to switch.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

It is very positive that the founder had generated some sales and interest from retailers. At some point the fad passes and sales will crash. Enterprise value comes from a projection of future continue sales growth, or at least stability, and that is unlikely for this product. ” BUGGY BEDS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Every smart startup starts with a focus on a unique advantage, such as owning a distribution channel. There's an opportunity for follow-on sales to existing customers. Every business brings a set of existing customers who are great candidates for additional sales from a partner-competitor.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 6, 2019

Klaviyo is a platform that helps growth-focused eCommerce brands drive more sales with super-targeted, highly relevant email, Facebook and Instagram marketing. What’s happening is that the incomes are being stretched out at the top of the distribution and they’re being compressed at the bottom. Transcript.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2014

This is small demonstration of how the power of networking online pays substantial dividends. The Sales Hourglass: The new way to approach selling. The Sales Hourglass is about taking customers and prospects on a journey they weren’t aware they were going to travel. I’m talking about a dramatic shift in the sales process.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 20, 2019

Stage two was about getting those five channels to a level where they can start to pay dividends, and then adding on three additional channels. How can you use content to ignite sales? Establish Processes Around Sales Enablement. What gives you the greatest shot at making the sale? How can you use content to ignite sales?

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Up and Running

JULY 8, 2015

Once my sales and profits skyrocketed, my cash flow dropped. It starts with sales at the top, then shows direct costs (also called unit costs, and costs of goods sold, or COGS) below that. It subtracts the direct costs from the sales to show gross margin. So it pays for it, often enough, in advance of selling it.

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Budgets and delegating and distributing authority (with clear limits and rules) is how this is better managed. This one stands out – it can be hard to spend money internally when there’s so much [product/sales/marketing/etc] to do at your company. Matrix, don’t hub and spoke. Communicate. Invest in systems.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 11, 2019

Following the GFC, worldwide protests brought the world’s increasingly skewed distribution of wealth into focus for a new generation and the disparity is only speeding up. NZ Sales Manager. Australian Sales Leader. And who can blame us “rational consumers”? We all want to get the best value for our money. NZ Entrepreneur.

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Startup Company Lawyer

APRIL 23, 2009

The Class F common stock and the Class A common stock otherwise participate equally with respect to dividends and distributions and other economic rights. Holders of Class F common stock are allowed to elect one director. The Class F director has 2 votes per director, as opposed other directors, who have one vote.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Examples of dirty terms include guaranteed IPO returns, ratchets, PIK Dividends, series-based M&A vetoes, and superior preferences or liquidity rights. Cash distributions are what matter at the end of the day, bug big paper gains still make for good fundraising pitches.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Thats when this approach can pay huge dividends. If you are trying to find a product that sells, than each test would require a different product to be created (or at least a different sales page).in This adds to the complexity of decision making since you dont know its the ad, sales page, product, keywords and so on.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 31, 2011

The little bit of additional effort you put up- front today can yield heavy dividends down the road. While they do this, take the opportunity to put together a digital product for sale and distribution through your website or blog. Distributing digital products is also very easy.

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Up and Running

APRIL 29, 2014

This is important because it means you should be tracking your sales and profitability all year long, and determining that your business has extra cash to spend as early in the year as possible, so you can plan for how to spend it in the most tax-efficient way possible. . It’s only taxed once at the individual level.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

In the era of Skype, web conferencing tools and collaboration software conventional wisdom says that distributed startup teams can be just as effective as those that are in person. Or more precisely the people espousing the benefits of distributed startups teams are often distributed and therefore self rationalizing it.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

Not so much because of the chump change we made (my distribution partner and I), but more so because of the invaluable lessons learned in the process. Not to mention the quarter million dollar sale of the business as our exit. I consider this business endeavor as an overall success however. Why did we decide to sell the business?

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