Austin Startup

JANUARY 20, 2021

In 2006, I joined Yelp as employee #20 when the company had $1M in annual revenue. It can also rapidly iterate your sales motion, build your sales team, help you win deals, and grow revenue more quickly. With that, here are five tactical examples of how to apply speed in sales at startups. The cost? ~10%

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2015

In Lean Analytics , Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz gave a great example of the value of cohorts, using data from a hypothetical online retailer: January. Average Revenue Per Customer. Customers that converted in the last year that had a sales cycle of less than x weeks. Their metric was revenue: Image Source.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

Though that level of restraint may mean living quite “lean” in your personal life for a while, doing so provides an opportunity to establish solid footing for your business as early as possible, so that you have at least one year to learn from the trends and sales cycles that will emerge once you’re past “break even.”

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

OCTOBER 6, 2023

CPQ streamlines the sales process, reduces errors, and impresses customers with a professional-looking quote. If your organization needs more efficient revenue processes, including slow quoting, siloed product data, and difficult configuration management, then a CPQ solution can help.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2014

Not because they’re all operating in stealth or pre-product – in fact some already are earning $1m+ in revenue per annum. Party rounds blew up on a number of startups who found it difficult to get ongoing operational support from investors who didn’t have time or inclination to lean in.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 5, 2016

The survey is heavily focused on enterprise firms and leans towards discussion of “big data,” but the lesson is universal. Sales – Your sales dashboard is how you keep track of your sales pipeline elements of the marketing hourglass. Typical sales dashboard metrics include: Leads. Sales cycle.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Those who didn’t have a product or much of a product used a concierge model of sorts ala Lean Startup philosophy to start running their business. At a high level, business is simple! :) You bring revenue in and your costs send money out the door. You want your revenue to be higher than your costs. But the execution is hard.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Those who didn’t have a product or much of a product used a concierge model of sorts ala Lean Startup philosophy to start running their business. At a high level, business is simple! :) You bring revenue in and your costs send money out the door. You want your revenue to be higher than your costs. But the execution is hard.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Consider that NYT.com readers are on average 44 years old, have an average income of just under $75,000, over 50% are college educated, and over 25% work in some professional or managerial position – it makes sense that awe or anger inducing, opinionated articles perform the best on the left-leaning news site. image source.

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