1998 Business Model Revenue Venture Capital 
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. The Funding Problem.
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
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. 1970 – 1995: The Golden Age. The New Exits.
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Seeing Both Sides
JULY 21, 2014
In 1998, Yom Kippur fell on September 30th. But many years later, I began to appreciate that one of our core flaws was our business model. As a result, the full revenue for each deal was recognized in that quarter as soon as the software was shipped. This allowed our revenue to skyrocket from $1.8 million to $22.5
BeyondVC
DECEMBER 20, 2004
We did our own analysis of venture-backed software IPOs a couple of years ago (based on SEC filings, etc.) This reminds me of a conversation I had this summer with a Veritas executive who said how difficult it was to scale beyond $1-2 billion in revenue and that size matters. using pre-bubble data and this is what we found.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. The next round of funding is the one in which you might deal with actual venture capital firms. This money isnt revenue.
Cracking the Code
SEPTEMBER 2, 2008
The Deutsche Bank report has a very interesting chart on the topic presenting the Free Cash Flow margins vs. the revenue growth four years post IPO for select software leaders: As you can see, with 20% Free Cash Flow margin and a 50% growth rate, Salesforce is well positioned in the pack! Small and medium businesses. (2). internet. (6).
Up and Running
DECEMBER 9, 2014
Bates: Josh, it reminds me of when I was doing web sites back in the day in 2000 and 1998 and instead of going and being able to buy a shopping cart you had to code the shopping cart from scratch. The question is what metrics do you most rely on to understand your business’s health? Two, revenue. Bates: You know Josh—.
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