Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue! I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . And >40% of that revenue is coming from in-game purchases. Use Case I: Payments and Finance .

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Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2021

Seeing a 200-percent revenue growth in just the first year after securing that loan, TRISTAR took out an additional $500,000 SBA-backed loan to expand its physical presence into two more locations. It has grown from five employees generating $120,000 in annual revenue to 350 employees generating annual revenues of $16.5

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

Before answering this, let’s take a look at what happened in the global software and cloud market over the last year. Global market snapshot The world now has 10 software and cloud giants worth more than $100B, representing $4.1T Beyond the giants, the momentum continues for the public companies in our global cloud Index.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Of course incumbents cannot be expected to jeopardize their revenue streams or investments in CRM platforms with new concepts that wipe out the need for their current solutions. Too much was at stake, we couldn’t afford the risk of destabilizing everything and losing substantial revenue. A decade ago we didn’t have smart phones.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Wintegra, founded in 2000, has 165 employees with the majority of its R&D development team located in Ra’anana, Israel, and Austin, Texas. Shamir Optical reported revenues of $142 million in 2009, generated mainly in Europe and the United States, and has about 1,400 employees. billion, of which $2.5 billion net profit.

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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.

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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. I started a consulting firm called Global Marketing Resources, LLC in 2000 as source for additional income while I was a corporate executive. Thanks to Anita O’Malley, Leadarati ! #16-

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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.” 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. Even less does it mean high transaction volume or revenue.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

We have companies now who have every store, globally or in a whole country, shuttered. I think about this in customers and protecting your employees and customers, always protect your P&L, your revenue. Try to understand where your largest revenue streams are that are at risk and how you can minimize them if you can.

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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. Global personal location tracking. Global manufacturing. Manufacturing is a global industry with complex and widely distributed value chains and a large amount of data available. Every day, we create 2.5

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

For the market size, he states, “For my base case valuation, I’m going to assume that the primary market Uber is targeting is the global taxi and car-service market.” He then goes on to calculate a global estimate for the historical taxi and limousine market. The global market would obviously be much larger.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As the president of Content at Scale , Julia is spearheading major initiatives for what’s quickly become one of the most sought-after AI content writing tools for SEO marketers globally. She's an eight time author and built a writing agency express writers to $5 million in revenue and over 100 on staff. So it's been a wild ride.

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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. I mean nothing like a global pandemic to wake us up to our temporary nature. It's time to transform your approach. The first 1000, right?

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

The fact that SaaS valuations are being more affected by the downturn than the Nasdaq can be surprising given the supposed resiliency of the SaaS model (recurring revenues) but it translates the public investors belief that SMB software spend is going to be hit very hard by this recession. Global warming: a plague for humanity?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2017

WPP and Kantar Millward Brown just released their latest BrandZ report on the most valuable global brands. The 2017 Brandz Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands report offers important branding lessons for startups and small business. percent global share of that market in 2016. We didn’t give up. Millennials.

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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. Global personal location tracking. Global manufacturing. Manufacturing is a global industry with complex and widely distributed value chains and a large amount of data available. Every day, we create 2.5

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 2, 2013

Mobile ad units are cheaper and more ineffective than online units, putting even more pressure on newspaper revenues. In the US, newspaper revenues in 2012 were half what they were in 2000. This is a global trend: newspapers in Brazil, Germany and elsewhere are fed up with giving away their articles for nothing on the internet.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

If the state has budget issues, which I believe it does, and needs to raise tax revenue (which has other options available such as cutting staff, eliminating duplication and programs and implementing automation – all of which businesses have been doing for the last ~2 years), then let’s raise taxes. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The Israeli tech ecosystem has made its mark globally since its early days somewhere in the 1990s. What’s less discussed, is that Israel also, has one of the highest number of unicorns, aka privately owned startups worth more than $1 billion, globally. in 2000, M-Systems, inventor the disk-on-key, was acquired for $1.6

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gigaom.com

JULY 10, 2012

Developers that exceed that amount will be charged $20 for each 2000-point increment, which works out to about 1 cent per transaction. Mobile Q4: The scramble for spectrum continues Updated: Forecast: global mobile subscribers, 2010–2015 Carrier IQ and the continued erosion of operator trust. Image courtesy Flickr user Lazurite.

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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. SailPoint doubled its customer base in 2010, adding 40 global companies. SailPoint’s worldwide partner network saw dramatic growth in 2010.

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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.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

endeve – Issue invoices, manage clients and check revenues all in one place. Xing XING – A global networking and contact management site for business professionals. CEOWorld.biz – Global networking for managers, entrepreneurs, and senior execs. I have around 2000 emails to verify. Awsome post btw.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Is 2012 going to be 2000 all over again? 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. Valuations.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 12, 2012

SailPoint today announced it posted record annual revenue growth in 2011 and closed its largest growth quarter to date in Q4 2011. SailPoint’s customer roster now features more than 100 Global 2000 companies spanning 25 countries. SailPoint’s customer roster now features more than 100 Global 2000 companies spanning 25 countries.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Bernard is based in New York, was born in Berlin, has lived in and started companies in Asia and Europe as well as America; he is comfortable with globalization. You have to do this; addressing real customer needs releases revenue dollars that you need to survive. You can reach Bernard Lunn at bernard dot lunn at gmail dot com.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 24, 2012

Nic Brisbourne on why the technology start-up ecosystem will remain an important part of the global economy, despite some recent missteps. The reality is that we have been dealing with a market failure to provide liquidity to investors in late-stage companies for most of the time since the internet bubble burst in March 2000.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

Instead, the global pandemic has turned 2020 into its most harrowing year. You become a global company. If you're in the travel business, a global pandemic is an existential threat. And it was amazing how global travel was halted. Airbnb- Eric Ries : Airbnb was founded during a global recession. What if it works?

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BeyondVC

JULY 5, 2004

For those of you that don’t know, Jamdat is a provider of global wireless entertainment applications and enabling technologies that support multiple wireless platforms to wireless carriers, handset manufacturers, media companies, and independent content developers.

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IPO Mobile Distribution Revenue 78

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.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

The kinds of places where you have to sign an NDA when you walk in the lobby… When I lived and worked in the bay area (2000-2005) virtually all the startups were down on the peninsula somewhere. I think the long-tail (size in terms of market cap, revenue, employees etc – pick one doesn’t matter) is moving towards the city.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2013

Only 25% of the Alexa 2000 uses a CDN. Amazon reported already in 2006 that they got 1% revenue increase for every 100ms of improvement. Tagman has a conversion loss calculator so you can work out how much revenue you could gain by speeding up your site. What will a 1-second delay cost you? The trend is up everywhere.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

. “Having shown an excellent track record in weathering the most recent crisis via timely monetary and fiscal policy responses, the country earned well deserved respect and confidence among global investors,&# the bank said. “ Ophir has a history of impressive revenue growth. Share/Bookmark.

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BeyondVC

JULY 5, 2004

For those of you that don’t know, Jamdat is a provider of global wireless entertainment applications and enabling technologies that support multiple wireless platforms to wireless carriers, handset manufacturers, media companies, and independent content developers.

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IPO Mobile Distribution Revenue 60

ConversionXL

APRIL 22, 2015

Following global marketing trends, copying your competitors and implementing best case practices don’t work for this reason: websites are highly contextual. A rough ballpark would be 2000-3000 pageviews per design screen. Implementing fixes or testing is likely to drive significant change in conversion and revenue.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Oversi, the global leader in OTT Internet Video and P2P caching solutions, announced today that it has completed a new investment round, totaling US$ 4.9 By assuring QoE, Oversi’s solutions open up new monetization opportunities and facilitate the delivery of tiered services, increasing ARPU (average revenue per user). PRESS RELEASE.

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