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Hypothesis-Driven Growth: How to Turn Data into Revenue

Duct Tape Marketing

Hypothesis-Driven Growth: How to Turn Data into Revenue written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Doug Davidoff, the founder and CEO of Lift Enablement and the author of The Revenue Acceleration Framework.

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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

You can read various articles out there which will give you the cursory facts about Airbnb like their overall revenue or profitability or how their business has faired here in 2020 in the COVID environment. But ops & customer support is another 17-20% of revenue and arguably you couldn’t run the business if you took that away.

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How to Deliver More Software Projects On Time

Both Sides of the Table

We feel pressure to hit milestones for a variety of reasons: Investor presentations, conference demos, customer sales meetings, competitive pressures, a need to drive revenue, business development commitments – whatever. CEOs are time-driven creatures.

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I Haven’t Seen A Startup Yet Thrive Without Marketing

Startup Professionals Musings

There is a reason that sites like Priceline.com Europe and Facebook, which everyone believes were made popular by viral marketing, have spent at least $50 million each becoming a household name. That’s a double death wish.

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6 Strategies For Startup Exit That Investors Accept

Startup Professionals Musings

If you can convince investors that your startup will generate a solid revenue stream, and the market won’t go away any time soon, they may see an opportunity for an ever larger return. Less tangible assets like the brand name, business relationships, and even your reputation may be lost or damaged. You can kick-off your next startup.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Tech IPO prices exploded and subsequent trading prices rose to dizzying heights as the stock prices became disconnected from the traditional metrics of revenue and profits. Still, unless your startup has access to large pools of capital or have a brand name like Katzenberg, Lean still makes sense. The Lean Startup isn’t dead.

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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

And it was going to mention the two words that marketing needed to live and breathe: revenue and profit. This year, marketing needs to provide sales with 40,000 active and accepted leads, company and product name recognition over 65% in our target market, and five positive product reviews per quarter. Educate our sales channel(s).

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