The Startup Magazine

MARCH 8, 2024

Factors to Consider Before Taking on Debt The debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) is a financial metric lenders use to assess a business’s ability to cover its debt obligations. Utilize Debt for Strategic Investments Use debt to invest in revenue-generating assets that generate a positive return on investment for your business.

Finance 147

Finance Technical Review Metrics .Net 147

ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

Stacked Marketer turned a free newsletter into a six-figure revenue generator by staying actionable, convenient, and entertaining. Top marketers are 414% more likely to report success when they document their strategy, according to CoSchedule’s 2022 Trend Report. A marketing playbook, in the traditional sense, is an internal document.

Campaign 149

Campaign CTO Marketing Social Media 149

Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Instead of detailed documents, we focused on tracking our performance to our plan and managing to regularly updated schedules and milestones. Osterwalder defined a template called a Business Model Canvas, for documenting business models. The Lean Planning methodology starts with a documenting your hypothesis with a pitch.

Lean 147

Lean Silicon Valley Forecast Technical Review 147

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2018

For example, I still find businesses asking you to print, sign, and return documents by mail in lieu of digital signatures or email. You need to communicate quantified and updates goals quarterly, including the metrics to assess progress and success. In my mind, these are killing their businesses.

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Channel Social Media Metrics 211

Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

Should they look at the Document Management market? The Week 6 Lecture: Revenue Model. This week’s lecture covered the Revenue Model including questions like these: How does your company make money? What types of revenue streams are there? Should they create a freemium version of their current product?

Channel 234

Channel Artificial Inteligence San Francisco Business Model 234

Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Look at Docusign, as one shining example — a company many folks thought would be a $1-2B outcome for a feature (e-signatures) transformed into a $10B+ document management platform. 5/ The Enduring Allure Of Platform Potential: Revenue is important. Revenue acceleration is, too.

Technical Review 127

Technical Review Open Source Software Review Venture Capital 127

Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

And it was going to mention the two words that SuperMac marketing needed to live and breathe: revenue and profit. competitive analyses, channel and customer collateral (white papers, data sheets, product reviews), customer surveys, and market requirements documents. Two paragraphs, Five bullets. I couldn’t care less about those.

Silicon Valley 271

Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS PR 271

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

I hear similar things for pre-revenue startups that are on schedule, on time, and on budget - even though they are busy building something that nobody wants. (In Vanity metrics and success theater are in a moral grey area; they are masking the fact that some of our industry’s most “successful” ventures are actually value destroying.

Silicon Valley 167

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2021

Your app may cost you money, but the revenue it generates may justify the budget. You can start by researching your competitors to gain an understanding of cost structure, revenue generation, and the business model for your app. What has your revenue been for the last 1-3 years? What metrics are you tracking? 1-2 months?

Artificial Inteligence 150

Artificial Inteligence Developer Development Team Review United Kingdom 150

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

If you have co-founders, make sure you document who owns what, how you’re going to pay yourselves, and who makes what decisions. Figure out what your milestones are – customers, pageviews, revenue, etc. – Talk to each other about your expectations about work hours, funding or not, exit or not, decision making, etc.”. Scale rapidly.

Cofounder 164

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Digital Wallets – Digital wallets could grow select vertical software platforms’ revenues to $27-$50bn in 2030. Generalizable robotics represent a $24 trillion-plus global revenue opportunity. Reusable Rockets – Satellite connectivity revenues could exceed $130bn per year in 2030. trillion by 2030.

Artificial Inteligence 176

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

ConversionXL

AUGUST 4, 2020

Your new boss read that customer experience (CX) improvements can deliver billions in additional revenue. Doing so misses out on the incremental revenue you could be generating, and the big initiatives that do make it to implementation have a lot riding on them. You do CX a disservice if you focus only on metrics like NPS.

SQL 117

SQL Software Review Agile Metrics 117

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Internal resistance, non-standardized metrics, multiple (and confusing) platforms and lack of resources prove great obstacles to planning. The Proof Is In The Revenue. Report: Career Path of the Corporate Social Strategist: Be Proactive or Become Social Media Help Desk View more documents from Jeremiah Owyang. Photo by malko.

Social Media 134

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 8, 2009

A post by Fred Wilson pointed me to Dave McClure's Startup Metrics presentation. Define what you need from a metrics and reporting standpoint. Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp, Sept 2009) View more documents from Dave McClure. R : Revenue - can you monetize any of this behavior?

Metrics 225

Metrics Startup Retention Acquisition 225

ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

Business to Business (B2B) – Also referred to as Enterprise to Enterprise, it is typically utilized to transport documents, equipment, reports, and raw materials from one place to another. Particularly, monitor core metrics like average time taken for delivering a courier, daily active users, and monthly active users.

Technical Review 163

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Demand Social Media 163

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

Although our in-person services were put on hold, our eCommerce products, including virtual services tripled in revenue. Due to that, we decided to widen our client base to increase our revenue. 11- Paying attention to metrics. Metrics do not lie, and metrics over a longer time period are much more useful to study.

Entrepreneur 127

Entrepreneur Metrics Technical Review North America 127

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Developing documents and practices to organize your testing process can really help. For us, “vision documents” cemented the consistent process we desperately needed to get out of our own way. For that, you need your own tool, and for us, that tool is a vision document. A good hypothesis informs good success metrics.

Metrics 114

Metrics Database Retention Hiring 114

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 13, 2011

I’ve chronicled the eye-melting design work that punished potential customers in the evolution of the Smart Bear website, and yet with all that cringe-worthyness, here is a company that doubled in revenue and profit like clockwork for half a decade — a stat any startup would be proud to match.

Design 253

Design Lean Cofounder Database 253

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

At least, not in the traditional sense of trying to squeeze every tenth of a point out of a conversion metric or landing page. Even if it shows improvement in some micro metric, does that invalidate the overall design? That was evident in the metrics and in the in-person usability tests. Let me illustrate.

San Francisco 154

San Francisco Lean Metrics Design 154

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

How to create a growth hacking strategy using the pirate metrics model. Growth hacking in marketing incorporates the five stages of the customer lifecycle into the “ AARRR Framework ,” otherwise known as the “Pirate Metrics model.”. Take the documentation productivity platform, Swimm. Activation.

Retention 113

Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

There are a whole range of valid reasons why non-developers would want to dictate the production release schedule (Seasonal/timing issues, marketing, fulfillment concerns, documentation/training, revenue controls, legal/regulatory. Besides training, how does documentation/Help keep up? June 18, 2009 1:05 AM Anonymoussaid.

Continuous Deployment 167

Continuous Deployment Software Review San Francisco Lean 167

Board Effect

MARCH 23, 2022

A nonprofit fundraising plan is a written document that outlines your nonprofit’s fundraising goals along with a step-by-step plan for bringing them to fruition. Also, take note of whether there was a carryover of expenses or revenue which will help you determine which activities were productive and impactful versus those that weren’t.

Campaign 98

Campaign Software Review Technical Review Metrics 98

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

In other words, the API is the target of a distinct business and opportunity (with its own metrics), which will then have a range of tactics to support it. The most common example of an API strategy is around companies who aspire to build a developer community as a new revenue source or as the foundation of their business.

API 135

API Audience Dividend Programming 135

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. I believe that Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem.

Revenue 60

Revenue Term Sheet Founder Technical Review 60

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Milestones and Metrics. Ideally, the executive summary can act as a stand-alone document that covers the highlights of your detailed plan. You don’t need to go into excruciating detail here, though–if an investor is interested in more detail they will ask for it, and you can provide that information in a separate document.

Business Plan 163

Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Too many businesses handle change on a piecemeal basis – maybe they update the product, but don’t look at the revenue model, or the selling process. That means all realignments require over-communication, in multiple medias – video, voice, documents, and actions. Pick metrics to measure change implementation and results.

Metrics 120

Metrics Video Cost Revenue 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

The days of lengthy, text-heavy, business plan documents prepared by expensive experts are behind us. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity. Incorporating a business entity early through online services.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Startup Angel Groups Social Media 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2016

As a result, Google has become a verb, and the company is a tech giant with record growth rates and a revenue of $74.5 Set business goals and milestones, and use metrics to track performance. That means milestones have to be documented, measured and desired results rewarded. billion in 2015. But Google is not unique.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Architecture Agile Business Model 120

ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2014

If you’re an AdSense and/or AdWords user, connecting these accounts will add powerful dimensions, metrics, and reports to determine how AdSense is making you money, and what traffic your PPC spend is bringing you. Improve Your Site’s Ad Revenue with AdSense Data. push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new

Analytics 132

Analytics Software Review eCommerce Search 132

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Metrics for this depth are rare and only long-term. The metrics for this level are more concrete and objective. But your audience spends time on a variety of non-owned platforms, and their next action might not be a buying action, so consider which metrics you want to optimize for each asset, on each platform.

Agile 139

Agile Social Media Audience Software Review 139

ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

The goal tree is a document that shows the C-suite how data ties to the business value they want to achieve. Say your objective is to increase sales revenue from your existing customer base, and your key result is to generate an additional $500k from these customers by the end of Q2. Someone will need to track additional metrics.

Technical Review 107

Technical Review Software Review API Analytics 107

Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2017

I don’t recommend writing the plan in the same order you present it as a finished document. Finally, you’ll want to outline the key metrics you’ll be tracking to make sure your business is headed in the right direction. Key Metrics. Revenue/Sales Forecast. Just click here. Build your plan, then organize it. Competition.

Business Plan 134

Business Plan Balance Sheet Forecast Lean 134

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Remember that a business plan is a living document. Financial Summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company. Milestones and metrics that you’ll need to hit to be viable. Milestones and metrics. Metrics for a cannabis company might include: Repeat customers.

Business Plan 154

Business Plan Technical Review Forecast Software Review 154

Up and Running

JANUARY 14, 2022

Our major challenge was how do we compete with companies that have billion-dollar valuations, millions in investor funding, and millions in revenue? We’re in the electronic signature and document automation space. This metric let us know the potential traffic available in our niche – excluding brand searches. Domain authority.

SEO 104

SEO Software Review Search Acquisition 104

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. At this stage, simply list your primary revenue streams and your key expenses. In this section, you really just want to document how your business will make money.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2017

You can further “educate” your Google Analytics metrics by using UTM parameters on your links. You hardly ever need to look at user-specific data, but having that data available is fundamental to truly understand your metrics at scale. Read more about tracking metrics for a SaaS business here.

Marketing 98

Marketing Analytics Campaign Metrics 98

ConversionXL

JULY 28, 2021

It also gives you access to predictive metrics to help identify users and actions that may lead to a purchase. Revenue prediction: The predicted revenue from purchases in the next 28 days from users active in the previous 28 days. . This summarizes key areas of your website: traffic, engagement, conversions, and revenue.

Analytics 146

Analytics Artificial Inteligence eCommerce Audience 146