Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Small” IPOs — companies with less than $50m in annual revenue at the time of IPO – have declined from more than 50% of all IPOs in the 1980-2000 timeframe to about 25% of IPOs from 2001-2016; Companies are staying private much longer — the median time to IPO from founding hovered around 6.5 1999-2000 51.6% 1999-2000 37.5%

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. Even less does it mean high transaction volume or revenue.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. But in the real world, when you get to business numbers, sales are not accounts receivable and revenue isn’t income and people who read financial projections need to know that an apple is an apple, and not an orange. . I have the purchase history to prove it.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

For many years preceding 1999, the 1982 vintage was known as the industry’s worst vintage year. The remainder failed as a result of the phenomenon of investing in the best deals in their region which typically were not competitive on a national or global scale. JMB Realty: Real Estate Management company. This isn’t correct either.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Globalization has increased the level of competition and introduced more turmoil to the business environment. If you want to take your business to the next level, you’ll need to be open to the current realities of the new global economy, and get more creative. million in 1999, Zappos is now worth $1 billion.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

million in revenue the year before. . Amidst all the recent talk of boom vs. bubble , there is a hue and cry that the current environment may smack of 1999. Let’s not forget that Time Magazine featured Alan Greenspan, Rob Rubin and Larry Summers on the cover in February 1999 with the headline: “The Committee to Save the World.”

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OnlyOnce

JANUARY 2, 2011

When I left my job at MovieFone in 1999, there were approximately eight administrative assistants in a company of 200 people – one for each senior person. Inflation may seem like a neutral thing for a business – your costs may be going up, but your revenue should be going up as well, right? Why should you care?

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

And like the LITERATI, professionals we work with are educated on how to market their business in order to increase revenue opportunities. The original company name was Scene on TV (going back to 1999), and I expanded into movies, and the name was also confusing to people (Scene instead of Seen). Photo Credit: Nigel Whiteoak.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

A Startup’s Minimum Revenue Per Employee - crowdspring.co/GNlKua. Fewer US startups now than in 1999. Global study: World not ready for aging population – Yahoo News - crowdspring.co/19LsRt2. The Future of Business Models Will Be Centered on Crowds - crowdspring.co/16aTTiD. ” - crowdspring.co/16aZ5Ts. 1admMGv.

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Agile VC

MAY 7, 2014

Alibaba’s Genesis Alibaba was founded in 1999 by Jack Ma and 17 other colleagues, and like most startups they began as a small group working out of Ma’s apartment in Hangzhou. Today the B2B (aka wholesale) portion of the business only accounts for about 11% of Alibaba Group’s overall revenue.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

LinkedIn’s product had only been live for a couple months, we only had tens of thousands of registered users, and wouldn’t start generating revenue for more than a year after this point. This is my 2nd time trying this, first time was in 1999. We’re a how-to site and community for small business on marketing. .

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. This simply means revenues through recommendations / total revenues.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Andy is a global thought leader in remote work, telecommuting, and distributed workforces having served as CEO of Crossover and Sococo and on the board of Texas Central, our new bullet train. Bob invented Ethernet, founded 3Com (revenues of $5.7B), was the Editor of InfoWorld magazine, and was a venture capitalist at Polaris in Boston.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

By 1999 we had grown into the largest independent consulting firm in the world. By 1999 it seemed like everybody was growing, though. I left Andersen Consulting in 1999 at the height of the market. In other words, in a strong market even turkeys can fly. Ameet was right. The things that always differentiated Accenture?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2012

Founded in 1999 by college student Bryn Carey, this ski and snowboard rental and delivery service is used by over 30 ski resorts in locations such as California, Colorado and British Columbia, Canada. The company supports organizations including Translators Without Borders, the Philadelphia Global Water Initiative and the American Red Cross.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

The difference between many of these companies and what we saw back in 1999 is that there are real revenues and revenue growth at many of these companies--and their costs are largely in people, which can always be trimmed down. Facebook is doing billions in revenues. LinkedIn has great revenue growth. stock market."

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Decades ago, the thesis of Yossi Vardi , a prolific technology entrepreneur who has invested in 75 Israeli startups, was that Israeli entrepreneurs should seek quick exit opportunities through global corporations interested in buying a window into Israeli talent and technology. Today, this thesis is less relevant. American VCs are critical.

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The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2013

When cloud services company Cornerstone OnDemand got its start in Los Angeles in 1999, the odds were against it. Moving forward, Miller believes Cornerstone can grow to become an “extremely global company.” Miller detailed a series of crises that took place at Cornerstone roughly every $3 million in revenue. Miller noted.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. billion in revenue, over $1 billion in gross profit and $500 million in EBITDA. Founding Akamai.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 11, 2009

The abundance of risk capital during America’s technology bubble in 1999 and 2000 effectively financed the launch of the technology innovation ecosystems that now thrive in China, India, Singapore and other emerging (and increasingly robust) economies. We must stop damaging America’s global competitiveness. Share and Enjoy:

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 31, 2017

A study by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor found that 73 percent of entrepreneurs fund their ventures through their own savings, an average of $15,000. He’s the author of five international best-selling books and has empowered over 50 million people globally through his training programs. Not all debt is bad. billion dollars.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

For creatives, it is a global stage for creativity where title and experience don’t matter. In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. This was, instead, monthly recurring revenue and a real product. Thanks to Mike Samson, crowdSPRING. #3 3 – I was Fired Twice. Image Credit : Kent Lewis.

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Entrepreneur Australia Software Review LLC 48

Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. So here it is: for all the privacy invasions, security risks and and fundamental changes in our personal and domestic domains, this is what these companies* generate in revenue: Google – about $150 a year per person. But when the web 2.0

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Government Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Social Media 79

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. In November of this year, the company announced that it had achieved “substantially” more than $1B in revenue in the third quarter. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

While the global financial crash of 2008 and the resulting Great Recession initially slowed job growth in Silicon Valley, the meteoric rise of smart phones and social media helped the tech industry as a whole to power ahead despite the near collapse of the global economy. A Variation on the Global Economic Crash of 2008?

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 10, 2004

Yes, I know I may be oversimplifying, but the point I want to make is that revenue does not equal profit, especially when many of the new growth areas that technology companies are pursuing have single digit margins as a starting point. In the same Barron’s article, Pip Coburn goes on to say, “There’s tremendous hype.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Here’s an excerpt from Harvard University ‘s about blurb… Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders in many disciplines who make a difference globally. We started innocent in 1999 after selling our smoothies at a music festival.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Companies with less than $2 million in revenue were asking for $50-60 million valuations and getting them. Don’t spend like it’s 1999. The last big recession was in the early 90′s where IT and globalization were in their infancy in terms of impact. When I first got into the industry it was 2007. We’re 2.5

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Stock Technical Review Marketing Greece 305

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Economic Value (EcV) is the value of short and long-term revenue and cost savings. The causal impact does not have to be on Revenue. An example of the implication: Don't expect short term sales/revenue from any social participation. Deloitte, global account or US, mostly simply looks at itself and what it cares for.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

These standards allowed global collaboration and expanded the boundaries of trade. The great promise of the Internet was the ability to break down barriers and allow you to sell products and services globally, benefitting buyer and seller. Regulation will come. It needs to come fast.

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