Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

To find out whether or not today’s public technology companies have hit bubble valuations, let’s compare some companies that survived the great bubble with their bubble era valuations: The Enterprise Value-to-Revenue multiple (EV/Rev) and Price-to-Earnings multiple (PE) are commonly used metrics to tell the valuation:value story.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 11, 2018

The Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 established specific rules to locate, authenticate, store, audit and transmission of EHR. The lawsuits against the organizations who do not comply with the ADA regulations is resulting in a loss of revenue. Secure electronic health information exchange.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. in December 1996, while on a student visa. This meant that I had to either show enough revenue, or find investors who would be willing to put money into the company.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

We alsothought wed be able to sign up a lot of catalog companies, becauseselling online was a natural extension of their existing business.But in 1996 that was a hard sell. When we got real funding nearthe end of 1996, we hired a great CFO, who fixed everything retroactively. We officially launched in early 1996.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

But remember that when Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, he was doing so as the co-founder and CEO of NeXT computer, a marginal computer workstation company which Apple purchased for less than $500M. For years, he’s avoided taking any revenue inconsistent with optimizing the user experience.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. Include screenshots of your product , a video walk-through and one or two charts that display traction or revenue. Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share. You can follow Joshua on Twitter @joshuabaer.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. After I sold Smart Bear, that division has increased revenue and profit every year, for five years, even through the 2008/2009 economic disaster. Support.com — On 2.5m invested, IPO’ed in 2000 for $32/share — stock price now $2.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Most startups following the Product Development Model never achieve their revenue plan and burn through a ton of cash not knowing what hit them. After twelve months Handspring’s revenue was $170 million. Palm in a New Market What makes this example really interesting is this: rewind the story 4 years earlier to 1996. End result?

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Software By Rob

APRIL 7, 2009

People can go to the app store, download it for free, and we’ll pay them a cut of the revenues. Front End Developer Resume, An 11-pound Notebook, A 2-pound Netbook, and Internet 1996 | Software by… [.] Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. inch screen that slides out of a 17-inch screen).

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ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

Revenue, downloads, and sign-ups are all examples of lagging indicators. Common examples are Revenue and Conversions. After conducting the test, the revenue gained from the additional foot traffic to the store was nullified by increasing margins. A lagging indicator is an outcome. The data point.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 15, 2024

Jeff Walker is best known for their groundbreaking strategies that have contributed to multiple successful launches, totaling over $1 billion in revenue. So when I started, I started publishing a newsletter in 1996, and it was about the stock market. But at that point, there was no teaching or training about marketing online in 1996.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

In 1996 RIM was still in the hardware business selling packet-switched wireless radio modems to OEMs. New Market Revenue Curve. Doctors and drug dealers equally found these devices handy. Unlike the circuit-switched cell phone networks, pager networks were built around digital packet-switched technology. Sell Directly to Businesses.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

He discovered that the average age of the founders of successful American technology businesses (ie, ones with real revenues) is 39. Dane Stangler of the Kauffman Foundation studied American firms founded in 1996-2007. There were twice as many successful founders over 50 as under 25, and twice as many over 60 as under 20.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2024

No, not 19 2006, not 1996, 2006. Fuel your growth, boost revenue and save precious time by upgrading to active campaign today. Phil (01:40): Well, when I started, I had no clue. I remember back in 19 what? When I got started, I was like, well, what the heck is here? That's active campaign.com/duct tape. So what are you waiting for?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

I have been involved in startups since I graduated from college in 1996. Two, revenue. Many business owners today really think of financials as being about the past, how much revenue have we had, how much cost did we have. You heard a little bit from others about that. What do you do? One, profit and loss statement.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

In May 1996, Open Market completed a successful IPO and more than doubled on the first day of trading, ending with a $1.2 million in revenue the year before. . But what if it’s actually more akin to 1996? 2011 is the first year where it feels like a real boom – much like 1996. billion market capitalization.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has set guidelines for determining if someone is an employee or an independent contractor. She began her work-at-home career in 1996 with the launch of her first website: Home-Based Working Moms. Independent contractors can also include outside companies doing work for you on an ongoing basis.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Software revenue trails hardware slightly and ad revenue always takes a couple years to shift, but even here the results are astounding. Facebook will do $7-8B in revenue this year, essentially none was from mobile ads last year and now >40% of their ad revenue is from mobile ads.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2012

million in revenue (for just the two locations) and another two outlets sprung up earlier this year. “I have been in the fitness industry since 1996 and honestly can’t imagine doing anything else,” Walden laughs. In 2011 it saw US$1.1

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 7, 2017

Len and I co-founded Interliant (originally Sage Networks) with Steve Maggs and Rajat Bhargava in 1996. His last company – the one he built with Jerry Poch that had acquired my first company – was bought in 1996 by GE Capital for $500 million. Len had already had an extremely successful business career.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The success of business can be measured through many metrics — page views, revenues, profits, the number of employees, or an exit (either through a private or through a public sale). Met you in 1996 Mr Malik and always knew that you were going to make it and make it big one day. Back to the top. ARE YOU WINNING AS A FOUNDER?

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 21, 2014

As a result, the full revenue for each deal was recognized in that quarter as soon as the software was shipped. This allowed our revenue to skyrocket from $1.8 But the downside to our business model was that we did not have hardly any recurring revenue. . I later came to realize that r ecurring revenue is magic.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2012

In 1980, the company reached at point at which their revenue from money transfers exceeded that of their telegram service, and now no longer performs telegrams, focusing solely on financial services. But in those days, as the Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company, the only thing they were sending was telegrams.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

As a judge for the MIT $50k until 1996, there were always a lot of VCs hanging around. Over the last decade, however, they’ve demonstrated that they have a real business, now valued at $8 billion with Q313 revenue of $396m, Q313 GAAP Net Income of $80m, and cash flow from operations in Q313 of +$158m. He longed to be at MIT.

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Software By Rob

MAY 4, 2009

And credit card processing fees took another 3%, which left me with a net profit of around 10% of my gross revenue. Except the shopping cart (shopify.com – awesome hosted cart) charged a percentage of sales that wound up totaling about $80. From a blockbuster month of sales I made just over 10% net profit.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 27, 2014

I’ve known Cindy and her husband Terry Gold since 1996, shortly after I moved to Boulder. It went from an idea and a few founders to an almost $10 million revenue company, before growth peaked about a decade ago. My friend Cindy Gold wrote Sailing an Alien Sea about a year ago. I read it last month and loved it.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Energy Brands was founded in 1996 by J. In 2002, the Glacéau, line of beverages became the top-selling enhanced water brand in America and it raked in $350 million in revenues in 2006. Darius Bikoff, who distributed his enhanced drinks to health food stores, independent retailers and mom-and-pop stores in the New York area.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 12, 2021

I had launched my first business, a VAR, in 1996. Their company skyrocketed in size with over $42 billion in revenue in 2019. I felt invisible. Back then the popular three letter acronym for a managed service provider, was Value Added Reseller. We did basically the same thing MSPs do today, just with the technology of time.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Seth graduated from Pace University in 1996 with a bachelor’s degree in Accounting. Previously, from 1999 to 2001, Seth was a Senior Revenue Accountant for the Veterinary Centers Of America. Seth graduated from Pace University in 1996 with a bachelor's degree in Accounting. CPA’s. Show Quotes .

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 19, 2012

One of our slides today showed VC exits over $100 million since 1996, split between the US and Europe. There are strong parallels between the way we present our portfolio and the way our portfolio companies present their revenue projections and pipeline at board meetings.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2016

My first company (Feld Technologies) was acquired by a company doing a rollup (AmeriData – acquired 40 companies between 1992 and 1996 when it was then acquired by GE Capital.) The classically rollup strategy was much more focused on acquiring revenue.

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BeyondVC

MAY 18, 2007

I first met David in 1996 when he made his move from offline to online advertising as my prior fund invested in the initial round of 24/7. I would go small and focus on building its publisher base where Google gets over 1/3 of its revenue. Wow-what a past couple of days!

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BeyondVC

MAY 18, 2007

I first met David in 1996 when he made his move from offline to online advertising as my prior fund invested in the initial round of 24/7. I would go small and focus on building its publisher base where Google gets over 1/3 of its revenue. Wow-what a past couple of days!

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m a partner at TCV, which we founded in 1996. So first, we were much more sort of with a high growth rate, and we did not even care about how we got the revenue when we got it. And now we are much more careful about revenue quality revenues. David Zhang. We’re a crossover fund. That’s not what we do.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Would you be surprised to know that almost half of the dot com companies founded when the boom started in 1996 were still around in 2004--four years after the peak of the NASDAQ? Because companies today have way more revenues than the companies that went public or had huge up rounds back then.

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