Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 7, 2015

Companies were being bought (and valued) at 10x forward revenue only to be valued at between 0.5x revenue several years later. We were bought for a more reasonable 1x revenue (and about 4x pre-tax income) when the value of the AmeriData stock, options, and cash we took out were factored in. I’d argue the 0.5x

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2016

Not only are you kicking it when it comes to revenue, you’re also savvy marketers with impressive do-it-yourself skills. Digging into the numbers, 70 percent of small business owners reported meeting or exceeding their Q1 2016 revenue targets. Get Ready Now To Crush It At Year-End.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In April 2015, Neil took things a step further and ran a live marketing experiment: within 12 months, he would build a business that would generate $100,000 of revenue a month. Throughout his blog posts, Neil often insists that anyone can grow a successful online business, as long as they invest time in learning marketing skills.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Since then, innovative startups registered in 2014 more than tripled their sales volume by the end of 2016, while those which registered in 2015 doubled their revenue in one year alone. Perhaps due to… This story continues at The Next Web.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Minecraft” accounts for nearly all of Mojang’s revenue, highlighting the risk to Microsoft should interest in “Minecraft” dissolve, or Microsoft fails to produce “Minecraft” sequels or add-on software.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2015

Lenovo’s modest overall revenue growth in calendar 2Q15 – 3.1% billion – masks how sagging performance from its PC business wiped out the momentum Lenovo had generated since 2013 and has forced Lenovo to reset its profit and revenue growth expectations for its enterprise and mobile device businesses. year-to-year to $10.7 and Europe.

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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. Gong was founded in the year 2015 in Palo, California.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Since 2015, the rising interest abroad continues to contribute to steady growth. This generated $16 billion in annual revenues in 2015. billion in revenue. By 2025, the province wants to generate annual revenue of $4 billion within the tech sector. Global interest in Canadian tech jobs has increased by 58%.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2015

As the end of the fiscal year approaches, it is critical for businesses to determine what initiatives where successful, as well as what were financial weights in order to create strategic operational goals that will result in increased revenues and reduced costs in the next year. Here are five things to look at: 1. Review What Worked.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 28, 2015

For the first time, iPhone revenue accounted for more than two-thirds to total revenue – iPhone revenue climbed 57% year-to-year in 4Q14 to $51.2 billion in revenue in 4Q14 – signifying that the iPhone has been cemented at the core of the value propositions of Apple’s entire product and services portfolios.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Fast forward a couple of years and the company is now beyond 8-figure million of recurring revenue, has dozens of sales reps and growing rapidly and is now gearing up for multiple offices, enterprise integrations and relationships with Salesforce.com, HubSpot, Marketo, Marin Software and many others.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

So you’re interested in raising capital from a Revenue-Based Investor VC. A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors (“RBI”) are emerging. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Rational burn profile, up to 50% of revenue at close, scaling down. Bigfoot Capital.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 23, 2012

By 2015, over 200 million Americans – about 65% of America – will have smartphones or tablets. One thing is clear: mobile gaming – an industry whose market value is projected to exceed $54 billion in 2015 – is highly lucrative for the brains behind the games. Mobile Gaming.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2015

With an impressive product lineup of new iPhones, Apple watches, iPads and an all-new Apple TV queued for shipment this week, 2015 is the most successful year of revenue growth for Apple , according to Apple’s CEO Tim Cook. The online retailer Amazon experienced an 18 percent growth of revenue in 2015.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Chorus.ai (2015) – Chorus uses AI to analyze sales calls by joining the conference calls, transcribing the data and extracting important action items. The company’s chairman was the former General Chief of Staff of the IDF 2011-2015. Deep Instinct was named “Cool Vendor in 2016” by the Gartner Research Group.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. 5/ The Enduring Allure Of Platform Potential: Revenue is important.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Add New Revenue Streams and More Aggressive Marketing: At the same time, most small businesses plan to spend more on digital marketing in the year ahead, and pursuing new revenue streams is seen as a top priority for transforming bottom line profits. 2015 business optimism entrepreneur strategy' Marty Zwilling.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Here at WePay, 2014 was a big year for us as well — we pivoted fully into our API business, introduced the industry’s first risk API, launched the first white label payments product with complete protection from fraud, and more than doubled our revenue. But as big as 2014 was, 2015 has the potential to be even bigger.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2015

A unified Microsoft has set the stage for sustained revenue growth. Expenses related to supporting Microsoft’s growing devices businesses will offset overall profit growth and search revenue gains through 2015. year-to-year revenue gain in calendar 4Q14, to $26.5 While Microsoft’s 7.9% year-to-year in 4Q14 to $16.3

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

Michael Troiano (@miketrap) July 21, 2015. . Said another way: More consumer transaction vs audience focus companies in #Boston #BostonB2C @robgo @bijan pic.twitter.com/NpQgVsHP2C — David Chang (@changds) July 21, 2015. kaufer @NextViewVC #bostonb2c pic.twitter.com/1gu6I5j9M9 — Ty Danco (@tydanco) July 21, 2015. We had a plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Investors want proof of a business model and real customer revenue, as well as a product. Thus you need deep pockets or generous investors before advertising or alternative revenue streams can kick in. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 12/02/2015. Business work should start only after the product is done."

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2014

DSO is the average number of days that a company takes to collect revenue after a sale has been made. According to The Economist forecast for 2015, ASEAN will add USD 335 billion and become the fourth largest economy in the world. Economic Watch, Singapore’s Economic Outlook for 2015. Anthony Coundouris.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

trillion in profits due to cost-saving and increased revenues. He founded and ran his own digital marketing agency, KickStart Search, for 6 years prior to being acquired by Los Angeles-based Wpromote in April of 2015. Cisco and DHL published research last year indicating that IoT-connected supply chains could lead to as much as $1.9

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Check the full schedule here — and keep these six big incentives to join us in mind: New speakers for 2015 Half of this year’s 100+ speakers and mentors are new to our conference. 16-19, 2015 in San Francisco, CA. This is an investment in your professional development, after all. We're not just another networking event.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 23, 2020

Under his leadership, the company grew from just over $6 million in annual revenue in 1993 to over $1.6 Cree was recognized as MIT Technology Review’s 50 Smartest Companies for 2014 and as one of Fast Companies World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies in 2015.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Heck, up until its first shipment in 2015, it was science fiction. However, if the Apple Watch becomes a device eligible for reimbursement , there’s a huge revenue upside for Apple. When I was a kid, this was science fiction. But as impressive as its technology is, the Apple’s smartwatch has been a product looking for a solution.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 18, 2015

Newzoo, a video game research firm, reported that 2014 revenue for mobile gaming was $25 billion – up 43% over revenues from 2013. And 2015 is expected to exceed that same growth with some projecting as much as $40 billion in revenue by 2017. Social Integrations.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2015

This plunge in productivity has critical impacts on a business’s efficiency and revenues. Only five years ago, 80 clerks and salespeople, at one company, spent a combined 3,200 hours a week completing data-related processes (Monga, 2015). Here are three tips to keep your business at top performance despite summer setbacks: 1.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

When I left Intuit in 2015, I was VP of Innovation and led Intuit Labs, Intuit’s internal incubator. 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.

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Agile VC

JUNE 13, 2019

revenue business still growing >50% YoY? Chewy now has over 10 million customers, repeat purchases by existing customers account for approximately 90% of their revenue today. This is analogous to SaaS companies like Slack or Dropbox, which have strong revenue growth just as their existing users consumer more of their service.

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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. Pierre Valade is the Co-Founder & CEO of Sunrise , a mobile calendar app that was acquired by Microsoft in 2015 for more than $100 million. She holds a degree in Psychology from Harvard University.

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The Next Web

JULY 18, 2013

Rose wants all 94 to offer them before the end of 2015 in order to help young people develop better skills, guarantee future jobs and create a pipeline of developers in the South London tech ecosystem. One of Croydon Tech City’s aims for the coming months is getting even more schools in the town to offer Code Club coding lessons.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

And three, utilize Section 105 of the Internal Revenue Code to establish a formal self-insured medical reimbursement plan to reimburse employees for their substantiated individual health insurance costs on a pretax basis. Open enrollment in the Marketplace begins on November 15, 2014, and runs until February 15, 2015.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. I believe that Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Fortunately, in 2015, loans to small businesses are expected to increase; great news for small businesses searching for capital. Additionally, poor inventory management eats up capital , and according to the 2015 State of Small Business Report , 46% of SMBs with 11-500 employees currently do not track inventory or are using a manual process.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In April 2015, Neil took things a step further and ran a live marketing experiment: within 12 months, he would build a business that would generate $100,000 of revenue a month. Throughout his blog posts, Neil often insists that anyone can grow a successful online business, as long as they invest time in learning marketing skills.

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