VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

to nearly 5% of the total retail market, with a forecasted continuous increase. The growth of eCommerce as a percentage of total retail is no secret. Steady growth over the past 10 years has propelled eCommerce from roughly 0.5%

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This partnership would leverage both audiences and the rapidly growing awareness of the vertical. Given that consideration and actual sales data are highly correlated in this vertical, it follows that if BMW can influence brand consideration, they can forecast a lift in future sales and possibly market share: Image Source.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

Take a look at the companies who have raised money (and are still going) after competing: [link] Preparing the pitch for a year is definitely excessive, but I don’t see the harm done in taking a few weeks of doing brutally honest market validation, surveys, financial forecasts etc.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

If they are optimists like me, they can forecast growth rates and get motivated about how big the startup can become. By lead type and vertical? It is tempting to include this in your forecast, particularly given the large investment needed to launch an Enterprise team. Have you looked at customer retention by cohort?

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 1, 2011

As a founder who developed into a CEO, I know that there is no manual and it is a nearly vertical learning curve. This kind of yo-yo emotional state can rattle a VC who may hear a massively aggressive forecast for the business one day then despondency the next. So staggering that you might not even be sure what to ask.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. Fortunately, on the side, the company had built up TripAdvisor.com as a demo site to show the prospective clients what a vertical search engine could do. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone. To be clear, I can’t forecast the details of how an augmented reality OS should work. I think AR is that big, it’s huge. Global smartphone revenue is about $420B.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2021

But how do people apply remote sensing opportunities to various processes across different verticals? Identification and forecasting of unfavorable processes and phenomena (floods, pests, diseases). Creation of forecast maps of possible changes in the components of the natural environment. Gas & Oil.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 1, 2008

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Make sure that leadership, managers, and stakeholders are reviewing the appropriate reports regularly and considering questions such as: How’s your financial performance when you compare your actuals against your forecasts ? Are the assumptions used to plan the goals still valid? .

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

Painting the scenario of how things will evolve, Cort Isernhagen of IDC Insights forecasted at the recent Infocomm Technology Roadmap Symposium 2012 that the ICT landscape over the next 10 years needs to consider four macro trends supported by four key pillars of technology. What will the future of InfoComm Technology (ICT) be like?

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

See Also: A Complete Guide to Forecasting Sales for Your Monthly Subscription (SaaS) Business. Still, it’s become one of our most profitable acquisition channels, and more importantly an excellent way to test new customer verticals and target markets. Lean marketing. Search ads are expensive, however. this drops by $0.30-$0.50

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

With regard to analyzing a given company’s financial model, that is a reasonable stereotype, given that VCs do not typically use financial leverage and financial forecasts of early-stage companies have a very high uncertainty rate. The VC Software Stack — the Untouched Vertical. Private Equity Software and Services Directory.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2020

For reliable insights on the economy, an outstanding resource is ITR Economics , an economic research organization that issues monthly economic trend reports by industry verticals and market segments. These insights will help business leaders view information relevant to their specific marketplace.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 22, 2020

The product is a complex AI service in an industry vertical that is large and growing fast. Didn’t make sense to him that the industry vertical had revenue anywhere near their forecast. They had a call with an investor who basically questioned their revenue numbers because it seemed to him that they were just too high.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2023

over the forecast period (2022-2028). I believe there are a lot more coming (some currently choose to be in stealth) and that we will be seeing tools for automation enter every role in the company (coding, sales, marketing, design, etc) across many verticals. According to a new industry report by Skyquest , AI will contribute $15.7

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 5, 2015

We have big challenges ahead sustaining the world’s growing population (on an exponential curve and forecast to grow from today’s 7bn to nearly 10bn by 2050) but technologies under development give us a strong chance of solving them. As you can tell, I’m very optimistic about the future.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

The Forecasted 2016 to 2026 job growth stands at 120%. Tech products and services command a high profit margin of 12.4%. Output in tech is set to increase from $356 billion in 2016 to $482 billion in 2026—a 135% increase. Source: Fundera . All this growth and power come with great responsibility. Enter Impact Tech.

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VC Cafe

JULY 25, 2017

This post is just my own learning process about this subject and doesn’t cover the rapidly growing bot ecosystem or the vertical messaging apps (startups like Crew ). Source: Messaging App Usage Worldwide: eMarketer’s Updated Forecast, Leaderboard and Behavioral Analysis. Today you message your friends and family mainly.

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A Crowded Space

JANUARY 13, 2016

The founders of the company have experience as operators in this industry and rather than just copying Uber, they thought carefully about what really made sense for this vertical. The drivers cart tons of food around in their car and the company tries to plan accordingly based on forecasted demand in a particular area.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Sloan put in place GM’s management accounting system (also borrowed from DuPont) that for the first time allowed the company to: 1) produce an annual operating forecast that compared each division’s forecast (revenue, costs, capital requirements and return on investment) with the company’s financial goals.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Similar tools are available from Microsoft: Entity Association, Keyword Group Detection, Keyword Forecast, and Search Funnels (all at Microsoft adCenter Labs ). In all three cases, you can compare your performance to specific vertical markets (for example, retail, apparel, software, and so on), which is much more meaningful.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

When you pick your investment in a vertical you mostly have to steer clear of direct and adjacent competitors, especially if you were a lead check and/or a Board member. This is less of a problem when the entire vertical falls apart (think of the last generation of scooter startups). Opportunity Cost of Non-Investment in Competitors.

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Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

There needs to be collaboration between risk and the business, vertically up and down but then also horizontally across the organization. Support the development of predictive analytics capabilities: These capabilities enable organizations to forecast potential risks and opportunities, thereby improving strategic planning.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Overall, COVID prompted people to revise their growth forecast slightly downward and be more conservative on their cash burn, but so far, the impact hasn’t been dramatic. Interestingly, companies have adapted very similarly in Europe and the US, except on the cash front, where EU companies have been more conservative.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

In the past you have focused on revenue because (a) getting real orders at any price over 0 proves whether people value the offering at all, and (b) setting a real price via real orders is much more realistic than market research forecasts. The revenue-delayed models seem to go against that risk-reduction rule.

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Small Business Force

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Whether that be something as simple as more effective decision-making, or better planning techniques or better sales forecasting or assistance with the development of a new product roll-out plan. You can get your Uncle Burt to do that.a lot cheaper. Have some desired results in mind. So how do find the right one for you?

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VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

While estimates vary widely, we forecast it may generate up to $5 trillion by 2030 Value Creation in the Metaverse, McKinsey June 2022. I love landscapes as they help organise the categories needed to define the vertical. This adds up to substantial potential economic value for the metaverse.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2023

Goldman Sachs forecasts that AI investments AI investment will approach $200 billion globally by 2025. Clever founding teams can do much more with limited resources and automate workflows for both consumers and enterprises across verticals. But not all is rosy.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Startup executives have three documents to guide their hiring and staffing; a business plan, a product development model and a revenue forecast. Doesn’t it depend on vertical market.? All of these are execution documents – they direct the timing and hiring of spending as if all assumptions in the business plan are 100% correct.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Asking founders to prematurely perfectly forecast the amount of capital they need to get to a Series A is an unnecessary constraint. Why should I expect premature precision in budgeting and forecasting the capital requirements? Why does this matter to founders (and to us)? A few reasons. Which also means… 3.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 18, 2022

Do you understand your cost structure and can you manage to a forecastable growth rate. It seemed that the outcomes were bigger than we ever anticipated and each vertical could create multiple huge winners because of market size, massive global reach, and so on. What’s the biggest open question for most companies in remaining ‘great?’

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Sloan put in place GM’s management accounting system (borrowed from DuPont) that for the first time allowed the company to: 1) produce an annual operating forecast that compared each division’s forecast (revenue, costs, capital requirements and return on investment) with the company’s financial goals.

Silicon Valley 184

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you want to learn about how to do simple forecasting and trend analysis, please see the official forecast function in Excel post on the Microsoft website, and this handy tutorial on trend lines and forecasting in excel. For this blog, Benchmarking classifies me into Internet & Telecom vertical.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

If it’s a new division inside a larger company, forecasts talk about return on investment. Combined with product costs, an engineering budget, and schedules, this results in a spreadsheet that faintly resembles the first financial plan in the company’s business plan.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 4, 2017

monte carlo forecast simulations) are utterly, utterly useless. Focus on finding good-neighbor funding sources that add value by helping your company to grow in verticals where the angel/VC has both capital and subject expertise. Discounted cash flow models and complex valuations (e.g. Did they do what they said they would do?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 15, 2019

” And people come back and they forecast it at 90% because someone said, “Oh, they contacted us about IT issues.” Ian Altman: And the idea is, on a blank sheet of paper we draw a vertical line down the center of a page, horizontal line across it, creating four quadrants.

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