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Start-ups are all Naked in the Mirror

Both Sides of the Table

We also had facilities in Dublin, Ireland where our company was initially founded. I know that we haven’t brought in revenue as quickly as we had hoped. They haven’t hit their revenue targets. This is part of my ongoing series Startup Lessons. Building companies is hard work. We were unprepared. Believe me.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How Do You Catalyze A Region's Entrepreneurship?

ReadWriteStart

Today, at the roundtable, we had a discussion around the topic, especially in the context of specific geographies that were represented at the session: Dublin, Ireland, and Kolkata, India. I have thought a lot about the issue of how to stimulate a region's entrepreneurship over the years. It is no longer Silicon Valley's exclusive domain.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad. Flexible VC: Revenue -based. Of the Inc.

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10 Digital Startup Conferences You Should Attend This Year

YoungUpstarts

Dublin, Ireland. If you rely on affiliate marketing to drive revenue for your online business, consider attending the Affiliate Summit that’s most convenient for you to take advantage of the similarly minded professionals available to help you think outside your normal sphere of influence. SaaStock 2018.

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9 Case Studies That’ll Help You Reduce SaaS Churn

ConversionXL

This equates to a loss of revenue, which requires more and more signups from new customers just to replace what you are organically losing every month. I have seen this happen at a few startups I’ve worked with by expanding revenue from the current product, plus up-sell and cross-sell opportunities , but that will be a future post.

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From Israel to Pakistan, Community is Key When Building a Startup (Google I/O)

VC Cafe

The panel included Erik Hersman (Kenya ,founder of iHub), Eden Shochat (Israel, founder of Face.com, VC at Genesis, founder of The Junction), Jon Bradford (UK/Ireland, founder of Springboard), Jeffery Paine (Singapore, Golden Gate Ventures) and Jehan Ara (Pakistan). We don’t care about short term revenue.

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

in Ireland—despite being behind a paywall. The New York Times, which passed 5 million subscribers in February and cleared $800 million in revenue last year, supports that opinion. The travel section on Independent.ie was selected due to its ranking for evergreen queries, such as “things to do in Canada.” Currently, Independent.ie

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