Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2022

Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial Public Offering) is finally up from the dead zone of the last two decades, and is now double the rate back in 1999. As best, you should reserve this option for later stage VC discussions, once you have a well-proven business model, large market following, and substantial revenue.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The best drivers apply the brakes just ahead of the curve (they take out excess costs), turn hard toward the apex of the curve (identify the short list of projects that will form the next business model), and accelerate hard out of the curve (spend and hire before markets have rebounded). Progressive. Image source ). are moot.”.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

billion dollar business this year to $5 billion by 2012, taking market share away from DVD retailers and intensifying the carriers' ambition to bid for the best (and first run) titles. revenues from internet video services spanning user-generated content to television shows and movies will exceed $7 billion this year. Annual U.S.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

For many years preceding 1999, the 1982 vintage was known as the industry’s worst vintage year. Exabyte, one of Colorado’s hottest deals, was formed in 1985; Connor Peripherals (fastest growing company in the history of technology manufacturing, four years to $1 billion in revenue) raised its first round in 1987. “By

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2013

In 2012, total entrepreneurial activity in the United States hit its highest level since their survey started in 1999, according to Babson College. This means building a revenue stream, and tuning your business model to produce margins in the 50% range or above. It’s a jungle out there. If you want to survive.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

In addition to market concerns, I had the unique experience of working with Dan Nordstrom and the team at Nordstrom.com in August of 1999. Most importantly, I became convinced that Stitch Fix was one of those rare companies where the unique product advantage also contributes to a unique business model advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2015

Just because you would have loved to have your groceries picked out and delivered, doesn’t mean the mainstream customer was ready for Webvan in 1999. Never take your eye off the ball in business. While there should be no stigma for failure, there is no joy in being a dead business walking.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

The Future of Business Models Will Be Centered on Crowds - crowdspring.co/16aTTiD. A Startup’s Minimum Revenue Per Employee - crowdspring.co/GNlKua. “Investing early & often in customer success is essential to keeping a fast-growing SaaS business’s momentum.” Fewer US startups now than in 1999.

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Scalable Startup

DECEMBER 15, 2011

innovation is heavily suffering right now – almost anything is a business model. when many vaporware and vapor-businesses crash or fade away they leave damage, possibly fueling the recession (remember 1999-2000? Eventually it also needs revenue growth and profits.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

Revenues have continued to increase every year and investors couldn’t be happier with what brave Mr. Drexler has done for J. But before Google became the giant corporation that it is today, it was almost sold for a shy $1 million to Excite CEO George Bell in 1999. Under Drexler’s leadership, J. million in 2005. Whole Foods Market.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

The difference between many of these companies and what we saw back in 1999 is that there are real revenues and revenue growth at many of these companies--and their costs are largely in people, which can always be trimmed down. Facebook is doing billions in revenues. LinkedIn has great revenue growth. stock market."

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

On some level we felt we did because being a SaaS company in 1999 was trailblazing. This is especially problematic in the Web 2.0 / Freemium world where too many company build their business models around trying to build massive scale of free customers and then convert a small share to low monthly payments. Who else?).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

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. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. And the future?

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. The first year of revenue (1999) was $4 million – a remarkable achievement.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

20 – To Blend A Beautiful Business Model. I started my business with my fiancé because of our combined skills and experiences. When we blended together we were able to create a beautiful business model that has proven to be a success for us and our clients. Greene, Land Carroll & Blair PC ! #20

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. You can even see the humiliating evidence of my smug incompetence in this absurd article from 1999.) No business model, either.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Airbnb has changed the world, created a new business model for many people, and has drastically impacted how people look at properties and the space that they own. billion in annual revenue. In 1999, Alibaba had to face many failures; for the first three years, the company made zero revenue. Airbnb now makes $2.5

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

App is one step forward, two steps back – In 1999 I launched my first company, BuildOnline, a SaaS-based (back then we were ASP’s) content management platform for large-scale engineering and construction projects. Apple wants to take a major share of the revenue. iPhone is not a business model unless you’re Apple.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 20, 2004

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. There were a number of companies in that revenue band but very few above it like Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle. received its first round of funding between 1999 and 2000.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

But back in 1999, a then very young Netflix based in Los Gatos with less than 20 employees, was on the edge of going bust. Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model. The combination is amazing. NETFLIX – Kate Arnold. So the team got to work.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

When it was spun out as a a separate company, Iridium’s 1990 business plan had assumptions about potential customers, their problems and the product needed to solve that problem. They made other assumptions about the type of sales channel, partnerships and revenue model they would need. iridium-9500 satellite phone ~1999.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 10, 2010

Many of the sessions were focused on business models and revenue streams, and somewhat related to that the exploitation of mobile search and location capabilities for ad and online marketing objectives.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 6, 2003

It feels like 1999 again when the ASP (application service provider) business model was all the rage. Siebel’s enterprise license revenue model is coming under real pressure as large enterprises are getting tired of spending millions of dollars upfront with no real ROI.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 20, 2010

Although I had been developing softwares since 1999, it was the first time I could think of an idea, write the application, publish it online and virally reach thousands of people! Some companies are doing just fine in the Facebook ecosystem (Zynga), it is simply not the long term vision I have for my business.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

billion dollar business this year to $5 billion by 2012, taking market share away from DVD retailers and intensifying the carriers' ambition to bid for the best (and first run) titles. revenues from internet video services spanning user-generated content to television shows and movies will exceed $7 billion this year. Annual U.S.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 28, 2018

Moran’s entrepreneurial spirit was evident as he built the original business around automotive resale & wholesale and eventually saw the need for automotive and transmission parts and repair services. Barb has led the company through a changing industry and has served as the President and CEO since 1999.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. Adding Ad Revenue. I paid him half of the Adsense revenue, which turned out to be about $500 a month, and he just managed the whole site.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. So here it is: for all the privacy invasions, security risks and and fundamental changes in our personal and domestic domains, this is what these companies* generate in revenue: Google – about $150 a year per person.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

The G/SCORE measures the key milestones a company has achieved in business building along seven factors: overall concept, market opportunity, competitive risk, product development, business development, team, and business model. From 1999 to 2009, Teva’s revenue grew to about $14 billion from $1.3

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 31, 2017

For example, taking out a mortgage to pay for a home that you’d rent out for monthly recurring revenue. Musk kick-started his rise to entrepreneurial fame when he sold his digital media company, Zip2 to Compaq for $307 million back in 1999. Not all debt is bad. Good debt is the type that results in cash flow assets.

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