1998 Global Internet Revenue 
Up and Running
JUNE 21, 2021
In 1998, a few years after launching, the company got a $200,000 SBA-guaranteed loan. Seeing a 200-percent revenue growth in just the first year after securing that loan, TRISTAR took out an additional $500,000 SBA-backed loan to expand its physical presence into two more locations. iRobot — From robots to riches.
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 bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 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.
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Ben's Blog
MAY 24, 2021
Small” IPOs — companies with less than $50m in annual revenue at the time of IPO – have declined from more than 50% of all IPOs in the 1980-2000 timeframe to about 25% of IPOs from 2001-2016; Companies are staying private much longer — the median time to IPO from founding hovered around 6.5 1990-1998 13.3% 1990-1998 10% 6.3%
YoungUpstarts
JULY 11, 2018
3G emerged from the growth of the internet during the 1990s , which created a demand for mobile phones that could support both SMS texting and multimedia MMS transmission of image, sound and video files. The introduction of 3G in between 1998 and 2003 brought 200 Kbps speeds, four times faster than 3G. 3G: Opening Up the App Market.
Ben's Blog
JUNE 18, 2011
If we are in a bubble, that is a bit of an odd commentary for a company that grew revenues 83% year-over-year and grew earnings 93% year-over-year. Let us look at examples of the last two major computing cycles (prior to the Internet). The internet is working. A lot has changed since the internet bubble eleven years ago.
VC Cafe
AUGUST 24, 2022
Nick Clegg, Meta’s President of Global Affairs. For example, in 1998, Prof. Paul Krugman, a Noble Prize winning economist, predicted that by 2005 it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy will be no greater than the Fax machine… Source: (you can check the authenticity on Snopes).
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 25, 2019
Global economic growth is determined by powerful markets, which are becoming more and more sophisticated. Among the most noteworthy markets for newly-established businesses, India and China are the ones most likely to eliminate inefficiencies in global trade. Following 1998, the economy was completely restructured.
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