Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 5, 2011

Today is Finance Friday and post #2 has been drafted by the Finance Friday team from University of Chicago Booth and is waiting for my edits. In 1999, 2000, and 2001 I had a my.yahoo.com page up with a bunch of stocks, including a number of companies I was an investor in, as my home page.

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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. On August 23, Stitch Fix announced that it had shipped its 100,000th Fix , and today the company announced that it has grown 500% since its last financing round this past February.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. The Exit Problem. There are 20x more consumers online.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

By 1999 we had grown into the largest independent consulting firm in the world. By 1999 it seemed like everybody was growing, though. I left Andersen Consulting in 1999 at the height of the market. Don’t be psyched out by your competitors big financing round, latest product release or business development deal.

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View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. We were a profitable company at that point with nearly $200M annualized revenue, one of the first tech companies to IPO after the dot-com bubble. When we started LinkedIn , it was a similar situation.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Most startups following the Product Development Model never achieve their revenue plan and burn through a ton of cash not knowing what hit them. Other companies in the 1999 PDA market were Palm, the original innovator, as well Microsoft and Hewlett Packard. After twelve months Handspring’s revenue was $170 million. End result?

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The revenue driven by the website will be ten times the outlay and is crucial to driving revenue, so do not scrimp on the cost with a part-time nephew or friend, or one of those “free” website platforms who might not have you live at least a month before opening.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2011

And you would think I would have created a financial model showing my growth potential and financing needs. It was a sunny day in August 1999 (I remember that because I was living in Santa Monica, CA at the time and every day was sunny). back to August 1999. It was August 1999. But in reality, I didn't do any of this.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

Perhaps you are caught in the “Series A crunch” or perhaps you are a consumer company and expected that you would be valued on users rather than revenue like the last time. 3/31/1999: 49.7. Financing capital market down round fundraising outkast' But they most certainly are not. How could this be? Aren’t markets rational?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

For nearly 15 years I had analytical, numbers-driven jobs in finance and banking, working for some of the world’s largest banks. I hit over six figures in my first year in business – and the company revenue has increased annually ever since. My oldest son, Coby Joshua, was born with Down syndrome in 1999.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. This was, instead, monthly recurring revenue and a real product. Thanks to Stacey Price, Healthy Business Finances. #27 For creatives, it is a global stage for creativity where title and experience don’t matter. Thanks to Mike Samson, crowdSPRING. #3

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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. To be specific, AdWords is currently 16 years old, and last year alone it generated well over $50B in revenue. The combination is amazing. NETFLIX – Kate Arnold.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

Perhaps you are caught in the “Series A crunch” or perhaps you are a consumer company and expected that you would be valued on users rather than revenue like the last time. 3/31/1999: 49.7 But they most certainly are not. Or maybe you are a lucky enterprise company and are pleasantly surprised—this time. How could this be?

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 11, 2009

The abundance of risk capital during America’s technology bubble in 1999 and 2000 effectively financed the launch of the technology innovation ecosystems that now thrive in China, India, Singapore and other emerging (and increasingly robust) economies.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. A high performing, high-growth SAAS company that may have been worth 10 or more times revenue was suddenly worth 4-7 times revenue. By the first quarter of 2016, the late-stage financing market had changed materially.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. In November of this year, the company announced that it had achieved “substantially” more than $1B in revenue in the third quarter. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

And like the LITERATI, professionals we work with are educated on how to market their business in order to increase revenue opportunities. The original company name was Scene on TV (going back to 1999), and I expanded into movies, and the name was also confusing to people (Scene instead of Seen). Photo Credit: Nigel Whiteoak.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

revenues from internet video services spanning user-generated content to television shows and movies will exceed $7 billion this year. In 1999, Lee joined the Silicon Valley new media content contingent as an Internet-company CEO, and has since founded two innovative Los Angeles media companies. How about Internet Video? Annual U.S.

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Mucker Lab

MARCH 19, 2015

I took it upon myself this week to at least try to solve the first question (the rest will come in the coming weeks) using publicly available (both “leaked” and “released”) data to reconstruct Uber’s topline revenue. From NYE 2012 to NYE 2013, its day over day revenue grew by 369% (source: Business Insider ). Finance Marketplaces'

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Previously, from 1999 to 2001, Seth was a Senior Revenue Accountant for the Veterinary Centers Of America. While there he managed the revenues for over 80 animal hospitals ensuring that the monthly closing entries were prepared so that the monthly and quarterly financial statements could be produced in accordance with SEC regulations.

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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 1999-2000 51.6% 1999-2000 37.5%

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

1999) – 300,000+ customers. Recommending the wrong brand of pizza for the company party rarely puts your job at risk, but selecting the wrong lead management software, or telephone system, or shipping provider could cost the company thousands in lost revenue. 1998) – 120,000+ customers. GetResponse (est. It never has been.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. They spend more time on strategy, go-to-market, business development, and financing. What are the challenges and lessons of scaling up? while maintaining R&D in Israel.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Companies with less than $2 million in revenue were asking for $50-60 million valuations and getting them. Finance where needed. Don’t spend like it’s 1999. When I first got into the industry it was 2007. Valuations were enormous relative to progress in companies. was still a term being bandied about. Fawk, man.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Or simply not having to worry about your finances in general? He has read many books on investing, personal finance, and business. Kiyosaki is best known for his famous book, “ Rich Dad Poor Dad ,” which is one of the most popular personal finance books of all time. Financial freedom. What does it mean to you?

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

He then argues Squarespace, as a result of choosing a Direct Listing, ended up with a valuation multiple of 6.7X, which he says compares unfavorably to its public peer $WIX (which has an 8X forward revenue multiple). Procore multiple in the highlighted box, based on the first day close of $88 per share, is really the “Party C multiple.”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Terrorism at scale can only occur when these organizations can move money around to finance people who make bombs, buy guns, train recruits and so forth. Ask yourself this — how did it go when a bunch of Internet companies when public in 1998–1999 with limited revenues or oversight? Regulation will come. It needs to come fast.

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