YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

by Jack Narcotta, Devices Analyst at Technology Business Research. 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. Microsoft’s $2.5

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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. My first company, Feld Technologies, was bought by AmeriData, which bought 40 companies in three years. The post The Great Coding School Rollup of 2015 appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 28, 2015

by Jack Narcotta, Devices Analyst at Technology Business Research. 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 Apple’s success in China – Greater China revenue surged 70% year-to-year in 4Q14 to $16.1

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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 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

AUGUST 14, 2015

by Jack Narcotta, Devices Analyst at Technology Business Research. Lenovo’s modest overall revenue growth in calendar 2Q15 – 3.1% year-to-year revenue growth in calendar 3Q15 to $10.9 year-to-year to $10.7 Additionally, lower profits in PCs – operating profit fell 7.8% year-to-year to $7.3 and Europe. and Europe.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

By now you have many smart people around your board but probably people who don’t totally understand the nuances of your employees, customers, sales reps, marketing messages, technology challenges, competitors and strategic choices.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. These events mean that technology is advancing fast enough to make better decisions than humans in order to accomplish a given task. Chris Rust, Clear Ventures).

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Suppliers also have machinery and technology issues to contend with as they create customized products. Aside from communicating with suppliers as much as possible, many companies are also employing some advanced technology solutions to supply chain planning. trillion in profits due to cost-saving and increased revenues.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2015

by Jack Narcotta, Devices Analyst at Technology Business Research. 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. While Microsoft’s 7.9%

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 23, 2012

Technology has done wonders for the world; it has eradicated disease, brought man to the moon (and soon Mars) and increased living standards across the globe. By 2015, over 200 million Americans – about 65% of America – will have smartphones or tablets. by Alanna Hardy. Mobile Gaming. A Career In Video Game Design Industry.

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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. Benchmark the industry DSO.

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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

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. The reason?

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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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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. She also blogs at FreshlyTechy.com.

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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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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

Although we have companies that are leveraging all of these technologies, we’ve realized that the best companies tend not to be easily categorized and don’t necessarily fit the standard playbooks. Fareed Mosavat is the product lead for Upgrades and Expansion at Slack, focused on revenue growth for Slack’s small business customers.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

ARRIS, headquartered in Suwanee, Georgia, USA, specializes in the design, engineering and supply of technology supporting triple- and quad-play broadband services for residential and business customers around the world. Fifty of its manufacturing activities and 70% of its consolidated revenues derive from global operations.

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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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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

By Brian Sutter, Director of Marketing, Wasp Barcode Technologies. Fortunately, in 2015, loans to small businesses are expected to increase; great news for small businesses searching for capital. Most entrepreneurs start a new business with dreams of success, but the unfortunate fact is that too many of them fail.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2015

This plunge in productivity has critical impacts on a business’s efficiency and revenues. Revisit technology inefficiencies in the office. 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). Offer a summer promotion or discount.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

I usually envision a 50-50 ownership split for their efforts, but every engineer believes the technology side deserves the majority share. If you consider yourself a technologist, you probably believe and may be propagating one of the following myths: The first priority for funding should be to develop the technology.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

For those of us that have been working in the startup and technology space for at least the past 10 years, these addresses mean two things. Despite that data, we don’t compete in one of the largest opportunities (in terms of sheer number of people using the product) that the startup and technology world has to offer. 1 Hacker Way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Too many entrepreneurs look for that one magic bullet -- an exciting new technology, perhaps, or their own determination to make the world a better place -- to override any shortcomings in their startup model. Validated pricing and a sufficient revenue stream. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/18/2015.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2015

Skip the fuzzy marketing terms, such as "easier to use," "lower cost" and "disruptive technology." " Investors want to buy into an entrepreneur with a startup that can provide evidence of an ability to double customer productivity, at half the cost, with patented technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2016

As a result, Google has become a verb, and the company is a tech giant with record growth rates and a revenue of $74.5 billion in 2015. Optimize team efforts with the latest technology and tools. In this era of rapid technology advancement, an open mind must be the norm in leveraging the latest tools and process architectures.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

As we are now in 2015, midway through the second decade of the new millennium, I thought I’d reflect on shifts I am seeing in culture, commerce and technology. That is a type of technology which could become a species threat before we realise what we’ve created. The first thought is pretty obvious.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

As we are now in 2015, midway through the second decade of the new millennium, I thought I’d reflect on shifts I am seeing in culture, commerce and technology. That is a type of technology which could become a species threat before we realise what we’ve created. The first thought is pretty obvious.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Altimeter Report: Social Commerce, How Brands Are Generating Revenue in Social Media - [link]. Technology expected in homes in 10 years – Scientists unveil moving 3D holograms – [link]. By 2015 ebooks will triple to $3 billion industry – [link]. 45 Amazing Car Print Ads Around The World – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Many of the respondents for Hubspot’s State of Inbound 2015 Asia report – in fact, almost half – comes from India. In 2016, businesses and organisations will need to put a greater emphasis on effectiveness, top-line revenue and overall engagement.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

The number of startups rose in 2015 for the first time in five years, with the largest year-over-year increase in two decades. Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Incorporating a business entity early through online services.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2017

Although most paper-based breaches and leaks occurred prior to the advent of digital technology, events like this one still occur today. It’s up to organizations to use technology that makes compliance as easy as possible. As ignoble as the answer may seem, it’s because it’s not their job—at least not yet.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

According to Google, the number of mobile search queries overtook desktop queries in 2015. specialises in helping clients in the Technology, Healthcare and B2B sectors increase their revenue and profitability. . Provide A Mobile Responsive Experience. At the same time, your search engine rankings will be affected too.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 7, 2020

Congratulations to Manny Medina and everyone at Outreach , which was named the Fourth Fastest Growing Company in North America on Deloitte’s 2019 Technology Fast 500™. Outreach was named to this prestigious list thanks in part to triple-digit year-over-year revenue growth and the largest customer base in the sales engagement category.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

However, as an agency, clients expect you to be knowledgeable about shifts in the market, new technologies, approaches, tactics, and methodologies. For ambitious agencies, taking an MVP approach can unlock incredibly lucrative revenue streams. We couldn’t grow to where we wanted to go without increased revenue. Image source ).

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