ReadWriteStart
DECEMBER 20, 2022
According to an Accenture study, companies are increasingly becoming invested in creation, with 62% of high-growth companies planning to invest in technologies that lead to higher rates of innovation study. Rental subscriptions and late fees were the main drivers of revenue for the organization. Application Development Activity.
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.
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. The Funding Problem.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 20, 2019
Just as Information Technology (IT) services transformed India in the 1990s, Software as a Service (SaaS) will dramatically shift the nation in the 2020s. Today, more than one-quarter of all software revenue is derived from the SaaS model, and it is growing twice as fast as traditional software growth. percent in 1998 to 7.7
K9 Ventures
AUGUST 13, 2010
We really were doing the i-thing before Apple came out with its first iMac in 1998. In the end the revenue simply wasn’t enough to make a sustainable business and so we had to switch gears once more (in today’s parlance that would be a “Pivot”). I tell these stories to lay the groundwork for what I am going to call Revenue Development.
K9 Ventures
APRIL 20, 2019
In 1998–1999, when I was running my first company, one of my investors, the late Don Jones , came by to visit us at the office. I’ve written before about Revenue Development ). The architecture and technology will have to evolve over time. Don was totally a people person and just an all around great person to talk to.
Ben's Blog
MARCH 24, 2011
Lately, everybody seems to be talking about a new technology bubble. In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. If publicly traded technology companies are not at bubble-like prices, then private technology valuations aren’t either because they are roughly equivalent.
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