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How much is that one additional unit worth?

Berkonomics

Here’s the importance of that event and how it affects every productive move you make after that moment. Every dollar of gross profit falls to the bottom line, increasing net profit faster with each transaction. Just to be fair, a 5% cut in costs would also double net profit. An example to make this clear.

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Recurring revenues: Oil or glue?

Berkonomics

Management undertakes a simple exercise of calculating the increased profitability of shutting down all R&D, sales and subordinate operations, and universally notes with shock the high net profit that results – from shutting down all operations except customer service to recurring customers (as in software support operations.).

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How big is your ocean? A lesson in TAM, SAM & SOM

Berkonomics

You, the lonely fisherman, must weave a net to catch your fish. Should your net be large and bulky, requiring more effort and expense to weave? Or should it be small and delicate, to catch those fish that would otherwise fall through the net? TAM, SAM & SOM? This lesson is important. .

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Building Products for Mass Adoption

Both Sides of the Table

Chris Dixon wrote a blog post last week titled, “ Techies and Normals &# in which he defined “Techies&# as people who are not just “early adopters&# but also have more of a geeky, technical, product bent. They use products because the products solve a need they have. Launch a product, iterate, fail fast.

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The power of just ONE more unit.

Berkonomics

Every dollar of gross profit falls to the bottom line, increasing net profit faster with each transaction. A ten percent increase in revenues for a company with 50% gross margin and 5% net profit before the increase would double net profit for the period with that ten percent increase in revenue.

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5 Key Points Of Focus For Every Scalable New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Process myth: Why building a product leads to failure. Great businesses begin with a customer problem that has a big and monetizable pain point.

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OpenX Launches New Service Around Content Optimization, Ad Monetization

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OpenX said the new Revenue Intelligence product uses algorithms to figure out the total value a page generates, based on a net present value calculation--taking into account page views and clicks, traffic, and more. Pricing on the new product was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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