Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

The fact that today’s Internet bubble does not represent all companies does not disprove its existence. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue! An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe.

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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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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2020

The rise of ecommerce started in 2001 – during the growth of the commercial availability of the internet in households. For most online vendors, this new revenue model was a significant change in the way brands set advertising campaigns. The Rise of Ecommerce. million annual customers.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. With Netscape’s IPO , there was suddenly a public market for companies with limited revenue and no profit. Carpe Diem.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2016

I’m equal parts baffled and agitated when I see someone complaining about how adblock is killing the Internet. Websites, they claim, need advertising revenue to survive. First and foremost is the fact that Internet ads haven’t been relevant for a very, very long time. Max Emelianov started HostForWeb in 2001.

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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. Much better.

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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. Let us look at examples of the last two major computing cycles (prior to the Internet). The internet is working. A lot has changed since the internet bubble eleven years ago.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 19, 2017

Between the spring of 2000 and the end of 2001, I had the worst, most stressful, and most painful business period of my life. I remember the trigger point being a 3/20/2000 article in Barron’s titled Burning Up: Warning: Internet companies are running out of cash — fast. They are both worth reading right now.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

This meant that I had to either show enough revenue, or find investors who would be willing to put money into the company. There were a sum total of three or four “venture capital” funds in Pittsburgh at the time, and none of them had done much with this new fangled thing called the Internet.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

Let me assume for this discussion it’s a garden variety 2010 IT or Internet business (as opposed to something requiring capital equipment or a life sciences project). Your revenue will take longer to ramp then you think. It’s a tricky question with no clear answer. There are trade offs. add a buffer.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Its chaos and insanity melds into a working city that was predicted by the architect Rem Koolhaas (with the Harvard Project on the City) in the 2001 book Mutations when he said that Lagos was a city of the future and one that Western cities would eventually base themselves on. But somehow Lagos works. Slowly overcoming its reputation.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 14, 2016

A durable, trendsetting presence in the industry since 2001, the Atlanta-based firm sends over a billion emails per day and is the go-to choice for over 14 million organizations and individuals around the world. Commercial email began in 1978 and exploded with the widespread growth of the internet in the 1990s.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 7, 2017

It’s the summer of 2001. Many Internet companies are struggling. By breakfast in the summer of 2001, the stock was trading under $1 / share. He certainly didn’t have to get up every day and go to the office, which by the summer of 2001 was a real business battle on multiple fronts. I was exhausted. But he did.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2014

Look for companies that make the Best Places to Work lists and are industry leaders in revenue per employee. And, of course, with the Internet and social media, this dynamic has been greatly amplified. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001. Innovation.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

How do you value pre-revenue companies? Last time we examined ten different ways to value companies already in revenue, usually beyond the early stage. Now we tackle the more difficult and subjective task of placing a value upon those startups that don’t fit into that mold. Using the method Here is the latest fine-tuning of the method.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 25, 2012

There are many ways to project the value of a company for purposes of pricing an investment, but all rely upon the revenue and profit projections of the entrepreneur as a starting point. For those of us who’ve invested in early stage companies, especially technology startups, we have confronted a universal problem.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0 I don’t think we as busy professionals and Internet junkies know how to sit still and self-reflect. Here is the TL:DR version in case you are pressed for time. STARTING IT UP. Back to the top.

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Most Internet marketing does not work that way. You’re essentially saying “Don’t worry about Internet marketing. I agree – this reminds me of a friend who was involved in three different IT start-ups, none of which ever turned a dime of revenue. If you build it, they will come.” 27 Apr 10.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

They talk about] businesses which are not contractually recurring revenue in the parlance of recurring revenue run rates. They conflate flow businesses or they conflate usage-based businesses with contractual, recurring revenue businesses, and so on. Dan Kimerling: I love 2001: a Space Odyssey. That scares me.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2014

He had just read my post on being uncomfortable with the phase of the current cycle and told me an anecdote from the great Internet bubble of 2001 that I hadn’t heard. And, is multiple of revenue really the correct long term metric? A guy came up to me and said “I just sold my dog for $12 million.”

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

We seed funded a company a few years ago called Parachute Home that has grown 180% CAGR (compounded annually) and is now doing tens of millions of revenue with very little capital raised. I will use some examples from Parachute and some other portfolio companies to give you examples from our experiences of watching successful brands grow.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 8, 2010

J erusalem Venture Partners successfully raised $25 million for an annex fund to strengthen the portfolio companies in the Israel-focused JVP IV which closed in 2001. The aim of the fund is to support existing investments by “enhancing their business propositions&# and preventing premature sales in a downturn. Will it work?

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

The real truth is, since the "Internet bubble" burst in 2001, initial public offerings have not resumed the vitality levels of the late 1980s, let alone the boom years of the '90s. It refers to this specific, new group of young, low-revenue companies for whom some of the SOX reporting regulations will no longer apply.

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BeyondVC

JULY 5, 2004

As an investor, the difficult part of any consumer wireless play is that the wireless world is a walled garden and not an open network like the Internet. Many of these companies are no longer around, but it is nice to see Jamdat make it through such turbulent times, only with $33 million in VC funding.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. In March of 2009 EliteEditing.com launched, and I would run back and forth to an Internet café five blocks from my office to manage work coming through and to take business calls. In 2001, I came home to find my apartment on fire.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

But in a small company that is funded by its own revenues, it is almost always a mistake to hire for a position before it is absolutely clear that hiring is the right thing to do. Copyright 2001-2011 Eric Sink. Your investors didnt give you millions of dollars because they want their cash sitting in your bank instead of their own.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

When I actually started my PR firm in 2001, I had the name and the LLC already, so that’s what I went with, and in 2009 we rebranded to simply be The Eisen Agency. Towards the end, we decided we needed a name that really spoke to what we wanted to do, that being, increasing visibility for companies and driving traffic and revenue.

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Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Most brilliant “Internet of Things” ideas are quicksand for capital unless you have the branding, vertical integration and customer lock-in that Apple achieved. However, the rise of the Internet equalized if not flipped the ratio as the web (and mobile) created a new product category and distribution platform.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2016

Jessica has been starting her own Internet businesses and programming since middle school. We were depending on investor funding, but with $60,000 in revenue no one would fund it. . Especially difficult were the days after the Internet bubble burst: 2001 was a staggering blow to technology. I was really fricking scared.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services. annual GMV.

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BeyondVC

JULY 5, 2004

As an investor, the difficult part of any consumer wireless play is that the wireless world is a walled garden and not an open network like the Internet. Many of these companies are no longer around, but it is nice to see Jamdat make it through such turbulent times, only with $33 million in VC funding.

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IPO Mobile Distribution Revenue 60

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 25, 2015

Imagine being an investor and being approached by a business SaaS company that has raised $5 million, has $100k / month of revenue, has been growing at about 5% per month, and is doing a $10 million round. Your revenue growth flattens out for a few quarters but you didn’t get ahead of the cost dynamic.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 14, 2011

These are some of those factors that will power change in your business: More Knowledge And Experience When I started my Internet infopreneur voyage , I didn’t even know if writing was my strong suit. Dr. Mani Get your bonus copy of my book "How To Start An Internet Business & Make Your First $1,000 Online" Download Here.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2017

Offices also steal 30-40% of each of their employees’ productivity per day, shave annual revenues by 15%, and waste anywhere from 15-25% of the space in a leased office. Founded in 2001, eFileCabinet, Inc. To add insult to environmental injury, 68 million trees are cut down each year to fuel these inefficiencies. The Freedom of Time.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. billion in revenue, over $1 billion in gross profit and $500 million in EBITDA. The first year of revenue (1999) was $4 million – a remarkable achievement. Founding Akamai.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. 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. The theme of this episode is how to scale unicorns.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2018

In my field—online English language teaching—there are a lot of literal business names out there: Joe’s Internet English School, Learn English Online via Skype, etc. We knew that we wanted our new consulting firm to focused on improving customers top line revenue growth. That’s it, let’s call our company Revenue Storm!

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