Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). They controlled distribution to the masses. In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s. Learning could be about product features, customer needs, the right pricing and distribution channel, etc.) distribution channels to reach customers and offer them the value proposition. Microsoft Windows 3.0).

Lean 120

Lean Agile Business Model Customer Development 120

Gust

JANUARY 31, 2013

In 2000, the SEC adopted Regulation FD in response to growing concerns regarding “ selective disclosure.” The first question is a fact-based analysis that involves reviewing Netflix’ public disclosures up until that time, determining the effects on revenue and earnings of the growth in hours streamed, etc.

SEC 158

SEC Prospectus United States Technical Review 158

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. On day one there are no customers to lose, no revenue and profits to decline.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. On day one there are no customers to lose, no revenue and profits to decline.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter.

Internet 335

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 335

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

Technical Review 127

Technical Review Algorithm Channel Analytics 127

Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

If we are in a bubble, that is a bit of an odd commentary for a company that grew revenues 83% year-over-year and grew earnings 93% year-over-year. In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000. LinkedIn has already built a series of popular recruiting products that produced $93m in revenue last quarter.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Software Review Valuation Internet 60

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Even though they may represent a much lower lifetime value for a brand, they can represent a significant chunk of revenue over a year. The most common example of distribution and information based scarcity used in luxury is one most brands should implement without exception: the “limited quantities available” message. Image source.

eCommerce 125

eCommerce Conversion Sales Technical Review 125

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Outcomes: Revenue | Ideas Funded Behavior: Path Length | Cart Abandonment Rate Acquisition: Assisted Conversions | Share of Search. Every ecommerce site has to obsess about Revenue. With advertising revenue in a tailspin, it is more important than ever. Let your competition be lame and play by 2000 worldviews.

Metrics 143

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 143

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. Matt Blumberg has a new book out titled Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. That year, we merged two companies: Return Path and Veripost.

Fractional CTO 70

Fractional CTO Cofounder Startup Lead Investor 70

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. American Biophysics debuted the Mosquito Magnet in 2000, at the height of the West Nile Virus scare. Product launches are one phase in the product lifecycle.

Product 110

Product Campaign Acquisition Social Media 110

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

What is the mix of revenue between ads, subscriptions, digital downloads & ecommerce. My favorite quote of the show, “Gregg, what’s the mix of revenue types?&# JibJab doesn’t do ad revenue at all. They never did any PR or marketing to get their videos to first get shown on the news during the 2000 election.

Viral 303

Viral Investment Bankers Video Business Model 303

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. And yet, revenue went up by 45% YoY. Build systems and processes that enable your team to create and distribute content seamlessly. You’d think that no one could recreate a product so sophisticated and advanced as space rockets, right?

Marketing 109

Marketing Social Media Non-Compete Audience 109

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. This means more people behind a screen, which means more opportunity across distribution channels. Even less does it mean high transaction volume or revenue.

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2019

According to IBM , companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Every day, we create 2.5 Every day, we create 2.5

Database 236

Database Social Media Global Distribution 236

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. But with the help of Grahams company, which specializes in creating tech systems for start-ups, Jumpstart grew to more than $50 million in revenue--enough to make it an attractive acquisition for media conglomerate Hachette Filipacchi.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 25, 2024

You could choose our system to move from vendor to trusted advisor, attract only ideal clients, and confidently present your strategies to build monthly recurring revenue. 2000 through 3000. Fuel your growth, boost revenue and save precious time by upgrading to active campaign today. It's time to transform your approach.

Campaign 85

Campaign Email Pennsylvania Technical Review 85

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

If the customer is a recurring customer, then they are more valuable and a lower quota might be tolerated, although a separate group of account reps are often accountable and paid commissions for the renewal revenue. To achieve friction-free revenue (and who doesn''t want friction-free revenue?), 3) Developer Driven Sales.

Sales 50

Sales Technical Review Software Review B2B 50

Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

While the average forward revenue multiple has declined slightly since its February 2020 peak (19x), it’s still higher today than last year at 17x vs 15.8x We opened our office in London in 2000, followed a few years later by Bangalore. The Index added another $0.9T in value in the past year and the pace of growth is accelerating.

Global 62

Global Israel Europe Software Review 62

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g. Why liberal arts undergraduate degrees can be more valuable than economics / business undergraduate degrees. -Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues]. Revenue model: % of total ad or data buy purchased through platform.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Los Angeles Oakland Asia 217

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

To be specific, AdWords is currently 16 years old, and last year alone it generated well over $50B in revenue. The year was 2000, and the hardest part about the AdWords project was simply getting agreement that they could work on it. Legal wasn't used to distribution via IP enabled devices.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2017

According to IBM , companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Every day, we create 2.5 Every day, we create 2.5

Database 188

Database Social Media Global Distribution 188

ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

We often talk about online conversion optimization without mentioning that many businesses, especially B2B, rely on offline sales to produce revenue. Sales enablement is the act of enabling salespeople to help them close more deals/bring in more revenue/hit their quota. The two aren’t disconnected, though. Image Source. of visits: 430.

B2B 48

B2B Sales Technical Review Software Review 48

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Software Helps companies rapidly convert unstructured online data and content into structured data assets that can be used to create new products, revenue Streams, and enhance current online data sets.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

endeve – Issue invoices, manage clients and check revenues all in one place. Shoutlet – Distribute and track viral marketing campaigns across social media outlets. Office Applications Celum Imagine – Software that lets you manage and distribute your photos, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs and multimedia content.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2022

Are there ways that you’ve seen local businesses use this in a way that might effectively drive revenue? [19:23] So about, this was like around 2000 ish, I think, or something like that. One is, you know, potentially revenue. Not, not just to build numbers, but to do something that might effectively, uh, drive revenue.

Community 76

Community New York Small Business New York City 76

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

They found ways to support longterm care facilities, homeless shelters, and other locations serving those most at risk, all while schools, their main source of revenue, were closed. So here we are today designing, producing, distributing close to three million meals per week across 400 cities. Rev Foods rapidly scaled up.

Cofounder 60

Cofounder Security Founder Entrepreneur 60

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2017

Today, AWS is on pace for a $14 billion revenue year – just for one relatively new segment of Amazon’s business. Sometimes called “Gen Y”, millennials are the much sought after generation born between 1980 and 2000. Our third-party seller business is an example of that. We didn’t give up. Millennials.

Small Business 53

Small Business Startup Global Design 53

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Because of the magical ordering system and the ability to efficiently organize a distributed set of drivers, Uber can operate effectively in markets where it simply didn’t make sense to have a dense supply of taxis. The consultant’s prediction, 900,000 subscribers, was less than 1% of the actual figure, 109 Million. New Use Cases.

San Francisco 111

San Francisco San Jose Marketing Technical Review 111

Agile VC

MAY 23, 2012

We now only think about “electricity” companies in the narrowest of senses… the small number of businesses (relative to the overall impact of electricity in the economy) that are actually in the business of generating and distributing electrical current.

Internet 182

Internet Silicon Valley IPO Seed Stage 182

Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. We were a profitable company at that point with nearly $200M annualized revenue, one of the first tech companies to IPO after the dot-com bubble.

Startup 188

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage Boston 188

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Driven by strong customer demand for its award-winning identity governance solution, SailPoint achieved record growth in 2010, with revenue up 200% over 2009. The fourth quarter of 2010 was the company’s eighth consecutive growth quarter, highlighted by a record number of new customers.

Global 73

Global North America Customer Cofounder 73

BeyondVC

JULY 5, 2004

Looking at Venturesource, I see that Jamdat was first funded in March 2000 precisely the time when VCs thought wireless was the next big thing. In addition, imagine the competition to get distribution from the carriers-there are lots of little guys knocking on the door.

IPO 78

IPO Mobile Distribution Revenue 78

The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

It turns out that network effects can be broken – Amazon and StubHub took on eBay in the mid 2000’s. For many locally focused marketplaces, its significantly more valuable to dominate a single DMA than thinly penetrate multiple DMA’s given the same revenue traction. Investment stopped, and entrepreneurs focused on other categories.

B2C 136

B2C B2B Demand Vertical 136

ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2013

Only 25% of the Alexa 2000 uses a CDN. look at the Distributions tab to see page load speed distributions). Amazon reported already in 2006 that they got 1% revenue increase for every 100ms of improvement. 8% of people cite slow loading pages as a key reason for abandoning their purchase. Pretty useful stuff. Conclusion.

Conversion 131

Conversion Caching Hosting Analytics 131

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Facebook didn’t buy the business because the company had no revenues. By the year 2000, the global market for personal computers exceeded 140 million units a year. In the 25 years between 1975 and 2000, there were hundreds of brands of personal computers introduced in the American market.

Silicon Valley 96

Silicon Valley Business Plan Stock America 96