www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Why Arizona Bay started taking stock from its customers instead of cash. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. During the first Internet boom, companies that provided services to tech start-ups were all too happy to work for stock. The 2011 Top Lists.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

Here is a telling statement from an analyst on Apple’s most recent quarter: Apple’s stock price to earnings ratio has dropped to 16.72. 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. Ex-cash it’s 13.5.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

s form of no-holds-barred capitalism, our financial markets were slow to adopt the idea, with the trend really only taking hold during the heady securitization period of the mid-2000’ s. Sometimes buyers are able secure continued tax revenue, applied either as a property millage or sales tax. Ironically, given the U.S.’s

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. For example, Amazon’s market is, well, everything. Plenty of headroom there!

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. billion in revenue, over $1 billion in gross profit and $500 million in EBITDA. Founding Akamai.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

As a result, most models are used as a rough guide to see if you are “in the ball park,” or to see if a particular stock is either wildly under-valued or over-valued. What Professor Damodaran thinks, or what anyone who is not a buyer or seller of stocks thinks, is fairly immaterial. So here is the objective of this post. New Use Cases.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

He is on the board of the Angel Resource Institute, and is a partner with Montlake Capital (a late stage growth capital fund) and with Revenue Capital Management (a royalty based lender). as well as a more detailed description of the distribution of outcomes: Kauffman Foundation Angel Returns Study and NESTA Angel Investing Study.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. Within a year WAP became the laughing stock of the mobile industry. Apple wants to take a major share of the revenue. But you need to think in terms of broader distribution. Absolute Power Corrupts, Absolutely.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Outcomes: Revenue | Ideas Funded Behavior: Path Length | Cart Abandonment Rate Acquisition: Assisted Conversions | Share of Search. Every ecommerce site has to obsess about Revenue. With advertising revenue in a tailspin, it is more important than ever. Let your competition be lame and play by 2000 worldviews.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Hate mail started streaming in from everywhere - including emails directly to Bill Gates who would forward them on to the team with messages like "this is depressing MSFT's stock price. To be specific, AdWords is currently 16 years old, and last year alone it generated well over $50B in revenue.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

To create such a feeling make sure to: Avoid stock photos. Even though they may represent a much lower lifetime value for a brand, they can represent a significant chunk of revenue over a year. don’t fake you only have 2 items in stock when you have a full warehouse). Pay close attention to typography. Use fewer colors.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). They controlled distribution to the masses. MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Stock Quotes. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Eighteen months later, they sold the company to Facebook for $1 billion in cash and stock. Facebook didn’t buy the business because the company had no revenues. By the year 2000, the global market for personal computers exceeded 140 million units a year. What Facebook paid $1 billion for was the brand, Instagram.

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Silicon Valley Business Plan Stock America 96

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. I have a proposal written up including full cost and revenue projections. Once you’ve done that – then. 5% I believe.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The average revenue multiple is now 17x+, close to 10 times higher than during the 2008 crisis! Is the sky the limit for Cloud public stocks? In 2000 and 2008, the economic crises had a dramatic impact on the tech ecosystem, but 2020 seems to be very different. On the IPO front, the one word that comes to mind is “supersize”.

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Europe Cloud Silicon Valley 71

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google. Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. Enter the decentralized Internet.

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