1997 Engineer Finance Revenue 
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! Or worse yet they may never get financed. That asset class need not represent the broader market.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 23, 2012
Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. After I sold Smart Bear, that division has increased revenue and profit every year, for five years, even through the 2008/2009 economic disaster. It’s not about the financing path, it’s about what you’ve decided to build.
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K9 Ventures
SEPTEMBER 24, 2009
In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. I graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 1997 and decided to use my OPT to give the company a proper shot. I always knew that I would someday start my own company.
Reid Hoffman
MARCH 19, 2019
And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.
Up and Running
APRIL 5, 2021
By 1997, the pop-up plague had spread to sites across the net, including Geocities, AOL, and The New York Times. This is particularly useful before search engines pick up new pages and display them in organic search results. Some online business sectors surged , with conversions and revenue being driven by pop-ups.
Duct Tape Marketing
DECEMBER 8, 2022
That makes me sound like a genius today, But the point was 25 years ago that when you went to work for Hewlett, what's 25 years ago is 97, when you went to work for Hewlett Packard in 1997, you expected to be there for the next 40 years. And the three rules were revenue before cost, uh, I don't know, quality before, whatever.
Hearpreneur
AUGUST 19, 2015
And this was at a prestigious engineering school. Extremely-Sharp.com originally started with a few retail locations in 1997, and we quickly started the e-commerce site the next year. I never want renters to find themselves in my situation – scared, displaced and worried about my finances. You couldn’t read it.
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