Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company. If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. Here’s why.

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paulgraham.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Writing software is a great way to solve (b), but you can still end up constrained in (a). If you write software to teach Tibetan to Hungarian speakers, youll be able to reach most of the people who want it, but there wont be many of them. If you make software to teach English to Chinese speakers, however, youre in startup territory.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Then they increased their revenue from $2M to $6M in six months. In this article, you’ll learn how to build a demand generation funnel that fuels the pipeline, shortens the sale cycle, and generates revenue. But when executed right, it pays dividends. Your number one metric for any marketing initiative should be revenue.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I’d like to take a few minutes to dispel the top five myths of software startups. I could point to countless examples of mediocre software being unleashed upon the general population, after which people like you and me have to help replace it with something decent. In fact, not having one can be more helpful than anything else.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 11, 2021

Thanks to Ben Reynolds, Sure Dividend ! #3- With a simple 30 second video posted on social media, business owners have the opportunity to build major traffic and revenue from their sites. Kids in middle school and high school can now learn things like coding and e-commerce. 3- So influenced by what is happening on social media.

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ConversionXL

JULY 16, 2021

Gumroad , a software that allows content creators to easily sell digital products, gets straight to the point with their unique selling proposition (USP) : They state exactly who their target audience is: creators. Naturally, somebody will copy Dollar Shave Club in due time. In due time, the community paid them back in dividends.

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Up and Running

JULY 18, 2014

At Tax Alli, we pair you with real life accountants and use cloud software to make small business accounting awesome. BUT – there’s no Social Security or self-employment tax due on the dividend pass-through. The tax return is due on the 15 th of March. To kick things off I actually want to post our first poll question.

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 22, 2019

As mentioned in our previous article, Boston Restaurant Group Founder, Charlie Perkins, tells us that total Occupancy costs should not exceed 8% of gross revenue. Finally, yet equally important, is to evaluate all the costs involved with your location.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 6, 2010

My goal was to create one report where I can review the efficiency and performance across all streams of traffic to the site. If you click on Medium you'll drill down to Campaign Name (certain size, duration, destination, promo code, whatever you have coded). Hence the Revenue column. One report. Love them a lot.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

And this rapid prototyping thing when your back's against the wall and your revenue model's gone from 100% to 10%, if you're a small business, restaurant owner or you're running a small curbside, even a consignment store, I'm trying to help a leader understand how he can serve. So, how are you investing in being even better?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 1, 2022

These are the channels where your buyers are, and every other company isn’t doing well there, which creates a massive opportunity for you.” – Chris Walker, CEO of Refine Labs [via Revenue Champions ]. While software plays less of a role in giving credit, you can establish where you’re having success with qualitative research.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 12, 2020

Money talks, and if you can show that, by improving the customer experience, it might lead to a 1% increase in conversion, and that could lead to $XXXX more revenue per year, that can help put things into context. Others can actually make things worse for your customers and harm revenue. Share data or insights company-wide.

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

(Not logged on) | Register | Log On Home Discuss Jobs About The Business of Software A community discussing the business of software, from the smallest shareware operation to Microsoft. A part of Joel on Software. This community works best when people use their real names. Please register for a free account.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Many partnerships don’t make it past this stage, devolving into a tangled mess about who owns the idea and the code and what the compensation should be. If the idea was reliant on ad revenue for profit, it quickly becomes apparent that there will be no incoming money at all. At this point, everyone loses. Salaries/Bonuses.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

Like when they leave reviews with competitors and they talk about, “They didn’t show up on time,” or just whatever goofy things they’re saying, those are the problems that you need to figure out. Those have not paid dividends for very many companies at all. What’s the basic revenue play there?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, February 20, 2009 Work in small batches Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches. For software, the easiest batch to see is code. Every time an engineer checks in code, they are batching up a certain amount of work. This is easiest to see in deployment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

For example, a site outage may seem like it was caused by a bad piece of code, but: why was that code written? The net effect of all this was to make new engineers incredibly productive right away – in most cases, we’d have them deliver code to production on their very first day.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

” Our featured speaker was Caroline Cummings, the VP of Business Development at Palo Alto Software. Not only because it’s a product that Bplans and Palo Alto software makes, but because before I joined the company, I used LivePlan to pitch and raise my investment capital. Now you’re going to move into your revenue model.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 31, 2011

The traffic is then converted into revenue through several possible monetization methods. To be successful however, you must take your time and conduct the necessary due diligence up-front when selecting a topic or niche. If so are they generating heavy user reviews or are they duds that are simply sitting on the bookshelf?)

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

On his website, he states that, “new technologies – robots, software, artificial intelligence – have already destroyed more than 4 million US jobs, and in the next 5-10 years, they will eliminate millions more. The problem that many people have conceptually is that they think that the Freedom Dividend is meant as a work replacement.

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