YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 30, 2015

Google is focused on expanding its already broad reach into the advertising market by increasing the span and coverage of its digital and mobile platforms, and the company’s 4Q14 results highlight how the company’s efforts to buttress its core services is paying off: Google’s revenue and gross profit climbed 15.3% billion and generated $4.1

Advertising 100

Advertising Revenue Mobile Intellectual Property 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. Prices have definitely gone up in 2011 as depicted in the anecdotal chart below. million post-money valuation with no revenue. There is no such thing as a uniform price. It was early 2000.

Pre-Money Valuation 336

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Silicon Valley Stock 336

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Fifty of its manufacturing activities and 70% of its consolidated revenues derive from global operations. During its 34 years, the BIRD Foundation has invested in more than 820 projects, which have yielded direct and indirect revenues of about $8 billion. Israel Corporation is Israel’s largest holding company.

Israel 96

Israel Peru Technical Review North America 96

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. At GE the biggest problem in 2017 was major revenue misses in their Power business.)

Institutional Investors 271

Institutional Investors Dividend Stock Technical Review 271

YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2012

Some of the success found in the auto industry today is due to recovery in Japan, where a year after the March 11, 2011 earthquakes, top auto makers have once again reached pre-earthquake levels. Following a boost in holiday retail sales, the service industry has experienced a fast pace of growth in late 2011 and early 2012.

Iowa 176

Iowa Technical Review India United States 176

Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

In 2011, the valuation of pre-revenue, start-up companies is typically in the range of $1.5–$2.5 Such comparisons can only be made for companies at the same stage of development, in this case, for pre-revenue startup ventures. As can be seen the average (mean) pre-money valuation for recent pre-revenue deals is $2.1

Valuation 146

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Intellectual Property Technical Review 146

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

I obviously don’t have a crystal ball so the economy could fare better than my gut, but here’s why I’m cautious for some time in 2010 or early 2011: Why is the future still so unpredictable? This is tied to having consumers who feel confident enough to spend.

Technical Review 269

Technical Review Stock Hawaii Early Stage 269

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers.

Partner 240

Partner New York City Cofounder Syndicate 240

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

In fact, they generated $100k in revenues over the last year, since they first pitched at one of our roundtables. Effectively, Sunil is speaking to a trend that I have been discussing recently on my blog that companies like Groupon are pointing at: revenue sharing with merchants for providing marketing services.

India 123

India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The daily customer engagement, whether from your customer success team, sales team, or customer support team, contains crucial market and revenue intelligence. A SaaS-based revenue startup was initially saving all their sales call recordings in Google Drive. Salesloft was founded in the year 2011 in Atlanta, GA.

Conversion 162

Conversion Technical Review Startup Software Review 162

View from Seed

JUNE 13, 2019

The company launched in 2011 and then was acquired by PetSmart for over $3 billion in 2017 (PetSmart itself owned by PE firm BC Partners), but Chewy is now preparing for life as a standalone public company. revenue business still growing >50% YoY? Is Chewy Still a Rapidly Growing Business? Embedded Growth From Existing Customers.

Leadership 214

Leadership .Net Revenue Aggregator 214

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. 2010 was the year of the “super angel&# and 2011 has to date been the year of unbelievably highly priced B,C & D rounds of venture capital. August 2011. When I first got into the industry it was 2007. We did not.

Stock 305

Stock Technical Review Marketing Greece 305

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

In 2011 YouTube had 1 trillion views, which is the equivalent of every human watching 140 videos. With what is rumored to be around 2 million consumers paying $8 / month that is now a $200 million per year not including their ad revenue business. Revenue models are emerging. 4 billion videos are watched daily.

Media 302

Media South Korea Distribution Technical Review 302

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2012

A pair of wake-up-call studies by the Fournaise Marketing Group in London in 2011 and 2012 found that more than 70 percent of CEOs think that their chief marketing officers lack business credibility, lack the ability to generate acceptable growth, and lack the ability to explain how their programs will lead to increased business.

Marketing 234

Marketing Software Review Technical Review Social Network 234

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Trada, like many of the companies we’ve invested in, had spectacular growth (both revenue, customers, and headcount) in 2011. Reference check – oh man how many times do I have to learn this lesson.

Software Developers 136

Software Developers Software Development Startup Hiring 136

Gust

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Copyright BillPayne.com 2011. Depending on the company, important milestones may include being granted a patent, receiving a 510k FDA approval, completing a prototype, receiving positive customer feedback on a beta test, achieving first revenues, hitting the goal in annual revenues of $1 million , etc. million and $4 million.

Angel Investor 179

Angel Investor Venture Capital Valuation Software Engineering 179

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

I advised Anupam to come up with a 2011 strategy. PDT on the following dates: Thursday, June 23, 2011: Register Here Thursday, June 30, 2011: Register Here Thursday, July 21, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, July 28, 2011: Register Here And you can sign up for the 1M/1M premium program here.

Spain 115

Spain Entrepreneur India San Francisco 115

Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Had I begun this tradition earlier, for those wondering, it would’ve been Airbnb in 2012, and Uber in 2011.). 2/ The Metrics-Momentum Signal: According to Forbes , Airtable’s revenues are slated to grow 4x this year to $20M annualized, with over 80,000 different companies using some part of the platform.

Technical Review 127

Technical Review Open Source Software Review Venture Capital 127

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

“However, if we are to do our job well, this small market is still pretty significant in terms of potential revenue due to the nature of the industry.&# soft-launched the website in late May 2011 and have been fulfilling orders daily ever since. “We don’t fool ourselves about it,&# he says. Customer service.

Singapore 230

Singapore Distribution China Bootstrapping 230

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2014

program in 2011, I approached Edmund Pendleton from University of Maryland, Jim Chung from George Washington University and Jack Lesko from Virginia Tech with the idea that together we could leverage the respective strengths of our institutions, and catalyze the region through I-Corps. When Steve and NSF created the I-Corps™.

Maryland 280

Maryland Lean DC Virginia 280

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue! But when it’s all over and they define the era of this mini run up in stock prices I suspect they’ll include 2011 in the “over valued&# category. I said that at the Founder Showcase, too. and profits! That may be. Good things may come out of bubbles.

Saudi Arabia 309

Saudi Arabia Valuation IPO Technical Review 309

VC Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2011

Back in January 2011, Groupon bought out Grouper.co.il , Israel’s first to market daily deal site for an estimated $8-15 million US dollars. On August 3rd, 2011, BUY2 bought out competitor Deal Hayom for 2 million shekels ($568,000, 08/06/11, Hebrew article). and BUY2 is succeeding. 90,000, and Groupon.co.il made a palsy ?

Israel 102

Israel Aggregator Marketing Germany 102

VC Adventure

AUGUST 31, 2017

Beyond that, they actually went back in time and looked at the earlier stage periods for these companies so we can track how some of the world’s best SaaS companies performed at revenue levels more akin to the typical Series B business. Companies in the study that scored 40% of greater had TTM revenue multiples of 6.4x

IPO 113

IPO Vertical Balance Sheet Valuation 113

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

YouAppi (2011)- YouAppi creates adtech to streamline mobile user acquisition. The company’s chairman was the former General Chief of Staff of the IDF 2011-2015. Co-founders Ami Daniel and Matan Peled both served as naval officers. This interview with Ami sheds more light on the company.

Artificial Inteligence 122

Artificial Inteligence Israel Technical Review Startup 122

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

The survey also revealed that 77-percent of companies experienced revenue growth (61-percent had profit growth) in 2012; however, there was a 9-percent decline in the response on profit growth in 2012 to 61-percent as compared to 2011 profit performance.

Singapore 133

Singapore Cost Technical Review Cofounder 133

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2011

Even though it has been a long haul, it’s nice to see some optimism surfacing in 2011. A majority of small business leaders intend to be more aggressive in 2011 by implementing a range of actions to advance their businesses. Respondents cited a greater focus on operating efficiencies as the number one step to achieving growth in 2011.

SBA 224

SBA Small Business Administration Japan Forecast 224

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

He is best-known as the creator of 52 Weeks of UX and was also head of UX at HubSpot, by way of being co-founder of Performable (acquired in 2011). Any success (growth, revenue, or profits) we have will follow from that. Josh Porter is the founder of What to Wear Daily , a service that helps you prepare for your day.

Design 330

Design Product Cofounder Boston 330

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The Proof Is In The Revenue. While engagement points can translate into leads and money saved, it's up to social media strategists to connect the dots and make the case that their efforts generate revenue efficiently. If these pros are seeing major barriers to their success, then what chance do others have in moving the needle?

Social Media 134

Social Media Media Programming Viral 134

Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I’ll try to offer some guidelines to address these issues, but I generally recommend you keep the day job until your new company is producing real revenue. Numbers are numbers, after all.

Startup 180

Startup Forecast Angel Investor Software 180

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Through the great work of many other Intuit employees, Intuit Payments would eventually become a roughly $1B business for Intuit and a key enabling feature for over half of Intuit’s small business revenue. I was generously rewarded the Intuit Founders Award in 2011 for helping get it started.

Incubator 121

Incubator Cofounder Green Programming 121

View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

Fareed Mosavat is the product lead for Upgrades and Expansion at Slack, focused on revenue growth for Slack’s small business customers. Before Sunrise, Pierre became a UX designer at Foursquare after impressing CEO Dennis Crowley during a 2011 Foursquare hackathon. She holds a degree in Psychology from Harvard University. Back to Top).

Operations 176

Operations Cofounder Technical Review Angel Investor 176

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 16, 2014

Apps are increasingly becoming a vital part of how businesses deliver services and goods to consumers, in fact Gartner predicts that by 2017 apps will generate more than $77 billion in revenue and be downloaded more than 268 billion times.

Developer 162

Developer Application Development Syndicate Syndication 162

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 29, 2014

Even a minute of downtime means millions lost in revenue and tons of bad PR. In what is arguably the most massive security breach in history, hackers stole credit card and personal information from 77 million PlayStation users in mid-April 2011. People went offline and “cloud computing” was just a bunch of castles in the air.

Security 174

Security Engineer PR Framework 174

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD. Now your SD content can be turned into True HD. The proposed resolution upgrade is fully automatic, fast, and hassle-free.

Israel 133

Israel Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2011

I just read the Q1 2011 report from CB Insights , which shows venture capital is back. Your friends and family are really the only answer until you have a significant revenue stream. Use friends, family, and angels, if possible, to get a product, revenue, and customers first before the VC connection. Overall, investors put $7.5

Venture Capital 233

Venture Capital Revenue Elevator Pitch Silicon Valley 233

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For this article, we asked 14 SaaS CEOs a simple question: “How much did you spend on your MVP before you had your first dollar of revenue?”. The MVP took around four months to build, during which time the company earned no revenue. They then spent the first year qualifying the product and testing out their revenue model.

Sweat Equity 78

Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 78

Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2012

They won a design award at a trade show, but have no revenue and no orders. He did $5M in 2011 sales and is projected $7.2m Some partial answers came up, including spending on a new version of the product with additional features, and excessively high inventories relative to actual sales in holiday 2011.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review Technical Cofounder Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 110