Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

You have been at five startups, you had an exit at your last company where you were the Chief Revenue Officer. Not in Europe or South Korea. He wants to retain the CEO title.” ” And I said, “That sounds pretty terrible to me. Why on earth would you go take this job as president?” 20 years ago it mattered.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2014

The US, as the world’s largest supplier in the Internet ecosystem, is the biggest benefactor – it’s captured 30% of global Internet revenues and over 40% of the Internet’s net income. Infographic credit: FEInternational.com ].

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 2, 2014

The company then started its international expansion, and today has presence in 15 countries around the world in especially in Latin-speaking countries (which isn’t a surprise considering its Spain roots), but also covers parts of Asia including Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore. million euros by 2011.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

instead of doing a GroupOn clone in South Korea, how about contacting GroupOn and asking if you can franchise? They do the spec and marketing work and are seeing $80k a month in revenue, so a successfull relationship with contract development work is very possible. What do they do that sucks so much that you can do better?

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

A company that in time can generate $100M+ in revenue and have an enterprise value measured in the hundreds of millions or more (what some VCs refer to as a “venture scale” outcome). As a seed-focused VC fund we invest comparatively small sums of capital at the very beginning of a startup’s life.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 25, 2018

To find investors who will stay with you for the long haul, showcase realistic, revenue-generating applications of this technology and prove it can outlive the hype. South Korea only recently started exploring regulation, for instance, while Sweden has been offering derivatives in Bitcoin since 2015.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 22, 2012

They can’t – certainly not based on Facebook’s current revenue opportunities. First , there’s a huge disconnect between Facebook’s user growth and potential revenue per user. That’s very healthy revenue, but significantly below the revenue needed to justify a 100 billion dollar valuation.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2015

A new study by Forrester Consulting [2] found that cross-border e-commerce is a major revenue opportunity for small to mid-sized businesses (SMEs), but they can still be losing out because of logistics concerns. In fact, being a minnow in the world of big business no longer carries the disadvantage of size.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

How They Make Money : Facebook’s primary revenue stream is of course selling advertising on Facebook.com, which in total accounts for 85% of revenue. The next chunk comes from Facebook’s platform, in essence “taxing” the revenues of app developers like Zynga, which represents 15% of revenue.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2016

Globally, SMEs that sell overseas generate average revenues of US$1.5 In China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain and Taiwan, exporting SMEs are roughly twice as likely to report such rapid growth compared to their non-exporting counterparts, while exporting SMEs in Brazil, Colombia and India are between 1.1-1.3

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 3, 2012

Though a global innovator, Apple in 2010 only invested 2% of its revenue in R&D, much lower than other high-tech companies. Anobit previously supplied its technology to South Korea’s Hynix Semiconductor Inc., has decided to open its first ever development center outside of its California headquarters in Israel.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 1, 2016

About 10 years ago, I traveled to China, South Korea and Japan for AbeBooks with my co-founder Hannes to understand our expansion options. We’d need to sell many, many more books in China than the rest of the world to get the same revenues. Very different culture. Ultimately, we were too small to take the risk. Not necessarily.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2018

9-Increase in my revenue. This year I was able to increase my revenue by more than double from the previous year. This year I was able to increase my revenue by more than double from the previous year. I also helped to coach clients to increase their business revenue by 10x. Thanks to Robert Sollars. #9-Increase

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Transformify

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The reasons are obvious – many international companies have their production plants in China, while others are dependent on the big Chinese market and any decline in the demand for their goods and services can hit their revenue targets. Speaking of Korea, I am very surprised by the bad news that COVID-19 has spread there.

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Transformify

MARCH 20, 2020

It is highly likely that thousands of small businesses will go bankrupt as few can afford to pay rent and salaries while generating no revenue at all. Most conferences and events have been canceled not only cutting the revenue stream of the organizers but also, in many cases, they needed to issue refunds as tickets have been sold in advance.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

Sal Khan : If you go back to mid-February, it sounds like the world was very different then, but it was in mid-February that we started seeing traffic pickup in China and South Korea. Sometimes, I'm in negotiations with partners around revenue or something. If we step up, it's good for the world." That helps.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2018

currently trails China and South Korea in 5G development, a situation which puts America at a disadvantage if it is not addressed. In addition to the revenue generated from apps themselves, the increased business efficiency powered by apps had a ripple effect on the economy. As a tariff war between the U.S.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

T he response rate has been overwhelming and we ended up with 40+ companies and 80+ attendees, most of them CEOs and CxOs of leading public and private saas companies representing around 80% of the revenues of the SaaS industry in 2007. Your key business metrics are CMRR (Contracted Monthly Recurring Revenue) and cash.

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