We have all heard it before. Why we strive to be the one to be disrupting – build the next Door dash, AirBnB, why Amazon even. Noam Cohen in his piece ‘Seeing Through Silicon Valley’s Shameless Disruption’ in Wired provokes some critical thoughts.
CB Insights wrote a report on the use of Psychographics, the stuff that brought infamy to Cambridge Analytica and its ultimate demise. It seems this approach is far more prevalent in commercial advertisement than otherwise understood.
Too many things to do, too little time. Most entrepreneurs feel this pressure on a daily basis. Managing time (as a person or as an organisation) is a challenge. Continuing my readings on Time, I found this post by Josh Spector making 3 great points:
Perhaps the last place saas folks are thinking of as the next big opportunity is – Africa. But according to Anish Shivdasani, CEO of Giraffe, for the next 30 years the opportunity will be there. Based on his experience scaling his job app to a million users he shared his takeaways at the 2019 SaaStr conference –
David Cummings recently wrote about re-evaluating the current methods of startup funding and proposed a structural change more conducive for funds to keep flowing for Startup investments. His solution is revenue financing – which is like a high (but adjustable) interest loan both in terms of interest and period that provides the much necessary cash to fund the initial stages without the Angles or investors loosing it all.
It is already 17B and growing. CB Insights projects it will be a 33B industry by 2022. The halo days of proprietary software is limited and Open Source captured the imagination of developers all over. Companies like Microsoft, Google, Redhat make large contributions to open source softwares. The criticality is evident from the Microsoft’s acquisition of Github for 7.5B in 2018, the largest in enterprise software in history.
Anthony Iannarino needs no introduction. Author of some of the most popular books on Sales, speaker and coach – he recently elaborated in his blog why he thinks nurturing and pursuing a list of at least 60 dream clients is necessary.
Kristin Wong wrote this interesting article for Lifehacker on the big timewasters most of us indulge in and come to regret. As we grow older we seem to recognize some of these and make amends perhaps. But recognizing these and adapting to these early can make a lot of difference to ones productivity.
Typical LTV of customers are calculated based on a 3 year revenue estimate with annual increment of 15-30%. So a $10000 deal in Year 1 will ultimately provide around $38K in revenue.
You would wonder if all seed stage startups are created equal. Well they are not. Investors always found a flavor of the year in most positive investment scenarios and backed ideas that seemed right for some disruptive value with the potential of a hockey stick growth. Fintech, Blockchain, AI/ML – you get the drift.
