1999 Revenue Valuation Web 
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 7, 2015
When I saw the proposal, I immediately thought of the web consulting rollups of 1999. Do you remember US Web, iXL, Scient, and Viant? Companies were being bought (and valued) at 10x forward revenue only to be valued at between 0.5x revenue several years later. Anyone remember the web hosting rollup?
Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. It’ll be nearly two years before the concept of “Web 2.0″ ″ is popularized by Tim O’Reilly (the first Web 2.0 It was a pretty good valuation for the time. It was a $4.7M
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thebarefootvc
DECEMBER 16, 2011
Discovery, in contrast to search, took center stage as Pinterest displayed hockey stick growth (and raised VC money near a $200M valuation in late 2011). Disruption in the Education Space: When I first started looking at education technology investments in 1999, very few VCs would go near the sector.
This is going to be BIG.
NOVEMBER 7, 2011
Valuations. There are a ton of companies being funded at $500+ million valuations--seriously limiting exit opportunities. Facebook is doing billions in revenues. LinkedIn has great revenue growth. Are their valuations justified? The have actual revenues that are growing. stock market."
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. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. I’ve written in detail about that in this post, “ On Bubbles, And Why We’ll Be Just Fine.”.
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 5, 2010
Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Another important web 2.0 Why You Should Write.
Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 24, 2019
Then we would write case studies about our success with them, do webinars with them, ask them to speak at our client summit, help them speak at industry events like Shop.org (especially when Web analytics and online word of mouth was so new it was seen as the next hot thing), help them win industry awards, and ask them to serve as references.
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