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Average time until first revenue for software companies [closed]
I'm trying to do some research regarding how long it takes for a new software company to make its first revenue. I've looking on Google for 5 hours. I also searched all over the academic database in ...
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Revenue share for a mobile app with an (almost) guaranted success
I have a customer who wants to pay me by sharing the revenues. He already has a good user base on his PC software version, and we both know that a mobile app should sell quite well (let's say ...
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What is pull-through revenue and how is it significant to a business
I have heard the term pull-through revenue but do not know what it means, and I have not been able to find a good definition online. I have the sense that it may be related to maintenance of products; ...
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Splitting up the revenue [closed]
Can you guys tell me how to split the revenue?
I will be the director and hire 2 programmers with one artist. I am also going to try to partner up with a big company for advertisements. This is for a ...
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equity max of 23% split among “development” — a ripoff?
I've been working on a project with three other people: one is a developer, one is a manager type, and one is a sales type. I'm a developer. The two developers were invited into the project by the ...
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Revenue Sharing Agreement I am discussing with my boss
Three years ago I got employed at the company I am working for at the moment as a software developer. The company is an ERP solutions provider in the finance, procurement and logistics industry. I ...
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What is revenue stream of free mobile application of games? [closed]
There are so many mobile applications or games available in mobile app stores today which they distribute for free to users. They don't even show ads in their apps. Even, some of these apps are very ...
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SaaS company incentives
We run a Enterprise SaaS company.
Monthly, we pay our salesmen and distributors a commission upon their clients sales.
I'm afraid we're not giving incentives to software development, hardware ...
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How to decide advertisement budget for a new start up company?
We have developed a platform here in India for consumers which they can also rate and review. We also provide latest informative articles, "how to" guides, etc, to educate customers. Now, we want to ...
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How does a startup with a 2-sided business model succeed? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you solve the “chicken-and-the-egg” problem?
Hi I'm creating a hiring market place. I need both sides to be active on the website or else my startup will fail. ...
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What is 'Surplus of Revenue'?
What is the definition of 'surplus of revenue'? My textbook's explanation of revenue doesn't cover this.
For some context, here is a question from my textbook:
In the financial year 2008-2009, ...
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How to choose a Ads solution for website or mobile apps that uses the profiled data?
We have a website and some mobile apps which generate significant number of daily views (say 10M).
The main feature of these projects is that, in most cases, you know a lot about users interests, ...
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What is the current trend for software start-ups?
I had this question in my mind long ago. Now I'm daring to ask that. ;-)
What I have learnt from current trend is that, "Internet or e-commerce is the only field for the software start-ups to get ...
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Is this break down of startups by stage normal?
Ran across this breakdown of startups applications (roughly 7000 "startups" in the database) that appears to show that less than 10% of startups looking for funding have any revenue. Seems hard to ...
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Please explain to me , how does software like SMPlayer or VLC or UMPlayer do revenue (all open source)
as software developer, i can't understand how does software's like SMPlayer or VLC or UMPlayer
do there revenue , they all open-source they all downloaded Millions of times they all
professional ...
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Funding with no revenue but have traction
If you have a startup that is free for all users and does not generate revenue, but the site/product is used by a lot of people so you have a lot of users, would a VC potentially give you funding even ...
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How much traffic is necessary to generate $1000 per month in advertising revenue?
One of my new ventures is a site that will be Stack Overflow for predictions. Hopefully it will be a high traffic site with many inbound links and targeted keywords.
Assume all the risks bear out ...
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Revenue from iOS apps with Apple's iAds
I have a free iOS app with about 2000 daily active users. I just submitted an app update that includes Apple's iAds. Now I'm curious about how much revenue I can generate with this user count.
I ...
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How do I determine the optimal price to maximize profit from a contest?
We are trying to setup a contest at my school where contestants have to pay to enter and compete. We have enough money to cover a grand prize, as well as other minor prizes. According to my naive ...
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How to estimate revenues with several business model options?
How would you estimate the revenues on a business plan if you have several possible business models (i.g. Freemium and/or Advertisement). The revenues could be generated by one or a combination of ...
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Do companies get taxed on money deposited by owners?
I just started a business (startup) and wanted to do the right thing by having a bank account for the company and putting all the business expenses on the business account. Now, I am in NY and I know ...
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Do you need to “be a company” to make money online?
A friend and I have a great startup idea which we plan to put into action at the beginning of the summer. We've also worked some revenues into our business model by allowing users to pay for some ...
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Who are the leading web advertising sales reps in the world? What kind of traffic do I need to have to get their attention?
I've tried feeding the question to Google, and various smaller alternatives of it too, but this seems to be the only page with even tangentially relevant info.
My ultimate goal is to sell advertising ...
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How Much Can I Sell My SaaS Product Currently Earning Me $2,000/month?
I have a web service targeted at web designers that currently earns about $2,000 per month in revenue. It is a SaaS business and my customers have been with me for years and we are growing (albeit ...
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percentage for revenue developer and sales man [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly?
Im a developer of mobile apps [mostly iOS, a bit of android].
I work by day on iOS development, with ...
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Public transit app: possible revenues and IP issues?
I am looking at developing a website sort of like ones that NY-area commuter railroads have, showing train departure times and tracks. One major transit hub near me has no central location for this ...
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how does an existing company roll in new revenue models into existing ones?
I've got a consulting business built around my personal skills and offerings. I've picked up a few sales people to help increase work volume (currently part-time outside of a day-job). The company ...
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Will Open-Sourcing my SaaS solution positively impact revenue?
I have yet to go public with my SaaS startup, and am considering releasing it under an open-source license.
Below are some thoughts I've collated in answer to this question:
No
As competitors ...
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Where to seek the right sales executives working on a revenue share basis?
We're a startup company providing payment services/network/platform, we are similar but not like conventional payment service providers. The product has just been developed, compliance is underway - ...
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Revenue / user growth projection for UGC-social-startup business plan
I have to write a business plan and I'm stuck on the revenue and business projection part.
We're building a platform that is all about user-generated-content concerning a certain topic. It also has a ...
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What to choose: freeware, shareware or software?
This question seems appropriate for programmers as well as for startups
A few years ago I've developed a program that has a steady group of users. It became quite popular and now we have close to two ...
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Software For Tracking Monthly Revenue / Expenses / Traffic / Users for SaaS Startup
Anyone know of any software which I can input expenses, revenue, traffic, users and other things that are important to a SaaS start up and it will generate some graphs and basic overviews.
Right now ...
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How much Apple will cut my revenue from selling items (e.g. shirts) in an iPhone app?
I'm developing a "free" iphone app for selling shirts based in an Asian country.
The payment method is by credit cards or wire transfer, not by Apple's in-app purchases.
Does Apple allow this kind of ...
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Which websites successfully make money just from ads?
I'm wondering how many websites are actually successful at making money purely off ads. Clearly the search engines do, but apart from them can you point out specific sites which have successful ...
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Accurately Estimating the revenue of an internet company like StackExchange
This question is a bit of an abstract thought experiment, so if you do not like such things I encourage you to stop reading.
I tend to have no intuition on the profit and revenue of internet ...
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Ads or no Ads for a web app?
I'm just about to release my first publicly available web app, and I'm wondering what type of revenue model to use.
Basically, the entire idea of the app is that it does not require log ins, so, ...
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Splitting up revenue
My partner and I decided to split up a partnership (things just weren't working out between us). We have some apps on the market that are still generating revenue, we decided the best thing to do was ...
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Dropbox revenue will double even without single paid customer. How?
Recency I read an article about growth of dropbox. Drop is growing with an amazing pace with 50 million users already with only less than 10% paid customers. They are expecting that next year their ...
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CPC v/s CPM Which one is better
So i have got investors for my website(say), and in order to pay them back ( :P ) i have to start making revenues from the very first day i guess, and i heard about these two methods:
CPC AND CPM
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Monetizing your website: how do you setup an affiliated vendor?
I have two websites that have to do with health. I originally made them just to practice SEO, and since now I am an SEO guru, they get lots of traffic.
The problem is that those sites only get ...
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How to make revenue and user acquisition projections for product which is not launched yet?
How can you make revenue and user acquisition projections before launching your product?
And are they worth anything?
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How to find the market size, expected revenue etc. for any start up idea? for eg market size of online flash banner creator websites
I have seen many website which create flash banner ads online and you can directly download the customized flash banner, thought it is not a new business idea I feel I can add some unique feature to ...
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Software based on a book: What are good revenue sharing options with the author?
We're making apps based on a book. We have approached the author and he has agreed to let us use the trademark and help us promote them in exchange for revenue share. The revenue comes from affiliate ...
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Where do I find company information for revenue projections?
I'd like to get the information for Groupon or another web 2.0 company to see their revenue, subscriber, traffic, etc. curves for our business plan financial projections. They are a close model to our ...
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What is a fair revenue split for a boardgame brought onto the iPad
I would like to bring an existing boardgame onto the iPad. The owner of the boardgame and the idea behind the game is positive for negotiations and asked me to find out what a fair market / revenue ...
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What can I do to increase revenue? [closed]
I have developed a tool, and I have gotten a great response from it. I have 400+ registered users and 15 paid users without any ads and stuff. Paid users pay $5.99/month to use this tool. Now I want ...
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Money Maker - Android/BlackBerry/Windows Phone?
As per the recent report published by Distimo, very few developers are actually making money (by selling apps) in Android store. The figures actually look quite depressing for android developers ...
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How to handle tiny income streams?
As a site owner, I often get emails from random people about doing blog posts, asking for promotions, etc. This amounts to a tiny income stream, often at random timing and rate.
The transactions are ...
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How long was it before you started generating revenue?
For a software business, how long did it take to get:
Your first $1 in revenue?
Your first $100 in revenue?
Your first $10,000 in revenue?
Your first $100,000 in revenue?
Intent
Hopefully we can ...
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Working out key financials
Hi i am writing my business plan, I have identified my potential revenue streams such as;
1) Ticketing and Merchandising
2) Advertising
As well as a few others, however how do you go about ...
