the 10x Club – how internet startups can be evaluated by VCs

Bill Gurley wrote a detailed blog post about All Revenue is Not Created Equal: The Keys to the 10X Revenue Club  which I stumpled upon, literally using the service. It is a purely financial perspective on Internet startups, but it gives a comprehensive overview of a VCs evaluation scheme. Have a detailed look on the article, just to summarize the 10xClub is all about (according to Bill Gurley):

  1. Sustainable Competitive Advantage
  2. The Presence of Network Effects
  3. Visibility/Predictability Are Highly Valued
  4. Customer Lock-in / High Switching Costs
  5. Gross Margin Levels
  6. Marginal Profitability Calculation
  7. Customer Concentration
  8. Major Partner Dependencies
  9. Organic Demand vs. Heavy Marketing Spend
  10. Growth

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websensei on October 12th 2011 in Digital Products and Markets, Entrepreneurship

Success through social media

I found a very interesting video on YouTube showing how important social media is or becomes for marketing and business.

 

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PRclass11 on May 11th 2011 in Digital Products and Markets, Public Relations

Google’s don’t be evil

Google and it’s inofficial slogan “don’t be evil” – even the most critical voices love this spot and forget googles image as “datenkrake” (a genius must have created this word).

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PRclass11 on May 5th 2011 in Digital Products and Markets, Public Relations

Scratch “Marketing” From Your Social media Vocabulary

Interesting story under the following link:

http://www.flowtown.com/blog/scratch-marketing-from-your-social-media-vocabulary

„They want to get something from you that they do not get elsewhere.“

Thinking from a different side can make things more effective. Suddenly there are soooo many social media specialist out there.

Are you one of them?

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PRclass11 on May 3rd 2011 in Digital Products and Markets, Public Relations

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