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Google's $585 MILLION mistake

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In this video, we’re going to remember Google Plus, Google’s most ambitious take on social media, and its somewhat inevitable downfall to death. We’ll first revisit some of Google’s previous attempts on social networks, then go over why and how Plus was born, review some of the product features and development, do the necessary confrontation with Facebook and finally get to some conclusions on the outcome.

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Startup Financial Modeling 101: Tutorial and Template

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If you're starting a business, a Financial Model is a critical tool to estimate the potential of your company. How much do you plan to charge for your product? How much do you expect you'll pay to acquire a customer? How much time do you need to finish development, and how much will those salaries cost? The sooner you know how much extra cash you'll have, the sooner you can deploy it, and the sooner you can yield results, i.e., multiply it. In the startup world, weeks can make a world of difference. So the model that we use at Slidebean, the model that made us profitable, we are making it available to the world as a free download. We’ll show you how it works in this video.

0:01 - Slidebean’s learnings about the financial model

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Why Motorola’s CEO cried on his first day

Motorola Company was a pioneer in mobile communications and helped shape entire markets with

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0:50 - Company origins

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Boosted Boards: from flight risk to $70 million failure

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Boosted boards are out of business: What happened?

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How we made $2.5M from YouTube and Google

Picking the right marketing strategy when you’re starting up can be the difference between success and failure. Slidebean is here to help

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There is no clickbait here. The backbone of our company success has been Google, and by extension, YouTube. In this video, I am going to talk about what we did to kickstart our ranking in Google search, how much money we have spent doing it, and how much money we spend today. Finally, we'll help you figure out if or when your company should attempt to do content marketing.

#slidebean #startups #contentmarketing

00:00 - Introduction

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Our website gets around 250,000 organic visits per month. I'm excluding all paid and all social media traffic from that number; those are visits to our website that came from somebody looking for an answer in Google and stumbling upon our content.

Also, our YouTube channel is getting close to 500,000 monthly organic views. Since we started these efforts, the traffic driven to our products has generated over $2.5MM in sales! Insane.

So the potential when focusing on Google or Youtube content marketing is enormous. We are still a small brand, considering, but we get millions and millions of brand impressions every year, you could say 'for free,' thanks to our presence in Google.

But this did not come easy, or cheap. It took us years to develop it.

Read the article here: https://slidebean.com/blog/startups-google-youtube-content-marketing

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How Microsoft ruined Skype

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What happened to Skype?

All of a sudden, video calls have become a part of our daily lives. From university classes and business meetings to birthdays and yoga. Online is the new normal and will be for a while. Fortunately, there are plenty of options: Zoom, Meet, and Microsoft’s own Teams. But, there’s a name that seems to have disappeared. A name, mind you, that no so long ago was the go-to program for video calls.

What happened to Skype? It’s safe to say that, if all of this happened, say, in 2010, we would’ve been Skyping. But now, we’re doing anything but Skyping. What happened? We’ll tell you, in this episode of Company Forensics.

#Slidebean #Startups #Skype

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How to estimate the revenue model of an eCommerce Business

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For this video, I am going to show you how to estimate the business revenue model for an eCommerce platform with our financial model template. We’ll understand how a financial model works and we will go over all the sheets that you will need to complete. What is absolutely vital for any model is what drives your revenue, and this model will help you do all the math around it.

#slidebean #startups #ecommerce

0:00 - Introduction

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Beyond Meat vs Impossible Foods: a fight to take away my steak

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Burgers are a staple in the Western world. People eat millions every year, from the cheap, fast-food option to expensive, gourmet editions.

Two companies want to create a vegan option that's just as good as the real thing. This battle, however, is much more than just a burger patty. It's controversies, big names, and questionable products. So, let's take a look at the duel between Beyond Meat vs. Impossible Foods in this episode of Company Forensics.

#startups #Slidebean #BeyondMeat #ImpossibleFoods

0:00 Beyond Meat vs. Impossible Foods - Intro

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Will Airbnb survive Coronavirus?

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Today, we talk about traveling. Before all of this happened, chances are we used Airbnb to find a place to stay, and we discovered that some of those options were great and others, well, not so much. But, regardless of personal experiences, one thing is certain. Airbnb revolutionized how we traveled.

The past years, however, have brought criticism and backlash, from local and national governments alike. This latest crisis has only aided in putting the company to the test. Layoffs, controversial refunds, and a shaky IPO, Airbnb is going through turbulent times. Will it come out on top? Let’s review in this episode of Company Forensics.

#slidebean #startups #airbnb

0:00 - Introduction

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What nobody told me about Starting a Business

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If you are new to our brand or our YouTube channel, you might assume I am just this guy that makes videos on failed companies. But no. Our company, Slidebean, actually, around 30 people, is a venture-funded startup. And our core business is not video, but presentation design.

Now, I don't want to jinx it, but we are on our way to 100,000 subscribers. It's a defining moment for our business, where YouTube is not only our primary source of customers for Slidebean, but the videos themselves, the ads, and the sponsorships we are getting are already a business of its own. We created a new, profitable business- that sells our other business. It's a marketing Nirvana!

This felt like the right time to reflect on this six-year journey- especially on the stuff that nobody told me about.

#slidebean #startups #entrepreneurship

What nobody told me about Starting a Business

0:00 - Intro

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