Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

Today, Europe and Israel have generated 23 public companies worth $231B and private cloud financing reached c. The $900M of SaaS VC funding in 2015 now represents less than Europe's largest financing round, with Celonis raising $1B in June this year. We opened our office in London in 2000, followed a few years later by Bangalore.

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Global Europe Software Review 62

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . Use Case I: Payments and Finance . And >40% of that revenue is coming from in-game purchases.

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Networking Global OTC Security 168

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. But the world you lead will be much different from the one your professors knew or your predecessors managed. Thank you for the kind introduction. Now look around.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Participants in the incubation program learn valuable lessons in entrepreneurial management, finding financing from incubator companies, modern office space, and fully permitted labs with a wide range of technical equipment and engineering resources.

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Incubator New York City Boston Intellectual Property 202

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. There was now a public market for companies with no revenue, no profit and big claims.

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. Similarly, in recent high profile private financing rounds for private technology companies with valuations over $1B, the valuation multiples were at or below corresponding multiples for publicly traded companies such as Google.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Database 78

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). People buy companies for 3 primary reasons: 1) they want the management team / talent 2) they want the technology or 3) they want the market traction (revenue, customer base, profits, etc). Check ‘em out!

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Venture Capital Term Sheet Valuation Stock Options 282

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by a16z managing partner Scott Kupor to the U.S. By way of background, I am the Managing Partner for Andreessen Horowitz, a $16.5 In fact, if you exclude the Dot Com Bubble of 1999-2000, they have been steady for nearly thirty years. 1999-2000 51.6% IPO market. 1990-1998 13.3%

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SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Just ask anybody who was trying to close funding the fateful week of September 11, 2001 or even March 2000. Huge downturns have a real impact on the revenue line of start-ups and therefore the pressure on valuations. The company had a huge burn rate but investors and management brought that under control by late 2008.

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Burn Rate Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Private Equity 263

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

My finance career began with a long commute and a cramped cubicle. I was having trouble managing remote teams and keeping track of their billable hours after working with them for a long, therefore Hubstaff was born. To put it another way, the better you are at risk management, the more profits you will be able to gain.

Entrepreneur 146

Entrepreneur Software Review LLC Web Development 146

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

One when scale started to kick in, when we hit the, you know, 200 employees at the head office, 2000 employees system wide, it started to get complex and a little bit outside of my sandbox. So now it's the chief revenue officer, right. Well, we did six consecutive years of a hundred percent revenue growth. I knew what to do.

CTO 79

CTO Cofounder Networking Operations 79

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Finance | Tuesdays. Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Managing Creativity. Leadership and Managing >. Quality Manager Job Description. Start-up | Mondays.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

The two decades from 1979 when pension funds fueled the expansion of venture capital to 2000 when the dot-com bubble burst were the Golden Age for entrepreneurs and venture capital firms. Until 1995 startups going public typically had a track record of revenue and profits. Number of Venture Backed Liquidity Events 1991-2000.

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Venture Capital IPO Liquidity Event Entrepreneur 297

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Another company which is going to have widespread impact is eShares, eShares is going to change the way the private companies manage their equity. Direct Revenue, meaning no three-way business models and no advertising, media, or content. We grew it to just under 20 people and were acquired at the height of the bubble in 2000.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco Early Stage Portfolio Software Engineering 48

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2022

He was part of the management team that was instrumental in launching NYTimes.com’s first digital paid product and the acquisition of About.com. Are there ways that you’ve seen local businesses use this in a way that might effectively drive revenue? [19:23] So about, this was like around 2000 ish, I think, or something like that.

Community 68

Community New York Small Business New York City 68

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. 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 The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Joining me at the Stanford University studio were: Matthew Wallenstein , chairman and co-founder of Growcentia , which aims to revolutionize management of soil health to help crops grow better and faster. Jason Young , co-founder of MindBlown Labs , which makes mobile social games to teach young adults about personal finance.

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Cofounder Entrepreneur Colorado Customer Development 120

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Big Data meets travel…in 2000. Magical, really. TripAdvisor’s History: Two Big Pivots.

Part-Time VPE 54

Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

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. trillion, it is by far the largest of its sort in the world and financed projects that in other settings may not have passed investment criteria screens. [3].

Private Equity 129

Private Equity New York City Chicago Investment Bankers 129

Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

percent in 2000 to 19.6 In 2013, North America accounted for just over 40 percent of the global home health care revenue. Financing and cash flow. This means a carefully thought out cash flow management plan is required to ensure you can get through these key first few months. population. percent by 2030. Rental expenses.

North America 95

North America United States Technical Review America 95

www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Because we achieved our most aggressive revenue targets and built a strong community, we realized that we had a broader opportunity to change the world of graphic design. Size of Opportunity - market size, revenue or usage, exit outcome and their ability to get equity early are all important. Culture - a fun, collegial work atmosphere.

CTO 43

CTO CTO Hire PHP Cofounder 43

Transformify

JANUARY 4, 2024

IR35, or the off-payroll working regulations, is a policy that His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) implemented in the United Kingdom. It was first established by the UK government in 2000. It may also affect their feeling of autonomy and management over their entity, which is a major attraction for many contractors.

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United Kingdom Operations Reputation Government 52

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

And this rapid prototyping thing when your back's against the wall and your revenue model's gone from 100% to 10%, if you're a small business, restaurant owner or you're running a small curbside, even a consignment store, I'm trying to help a leader understand how he can serve. So, how are you investing in being even better?

Technical Review 148

Technical Review Balance Sheet Texas Austin 148

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. I started a consulting firm called Global Marketing Resources, LLC in 2000 as source for additional income while I was a corporate executive. Thanks to Anita O’Malley, Leadarati ! #16-

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Naming Entrepreneur Green LLC 97

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

The fact that SaaS valuations are being more affected by the downturn than the Nasdaq can be surprising given the supposed resiliency of the SaaS model (recurring revenues) but it translates the public investors belief that SMB software spend is going to be hit very hard by this recession. With this decline, the average EV/08 rev.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Valuation Portfolio 48

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Wintegra, founded in 2000, has 165 employees with the majority of its R&D development team located in Ra’anana, Israel, and Austin, Texas. Upon closing the deal, Essilor will fully consolidate Shamir Optical while keeping the Israeli management team of Shamir Optical in place. In 2009 it boasted revenue of $4.49

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Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79

The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 25, 2015

Moreover, predicting when crashes and recessions will happen is nigh on impossible so trying to manage according to where we are in the cycle is a fools game. I saw that in 2000 and then again in 2008. Making things worse still, consumers and enterprises have less money to spend and startups find it harder to grow revenues.

Valuation 60

Valuation Startup Stock Portfolio 60

Agile VC

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. I started off as a product manager and while I never actually slept over at the office, there were frequently late nights. When we started LinkedIn, it was a similar situation.

Startup 188

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 188

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Messy cap tables can come back to haunt you when you do a financing or sell the company. Are the logistics manageable? I am very surprised when that cool thing actually meets a customer need or drives revenue. Many tech products are hard to condense into a line or two, or even into a manageable deck.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2016

I’ve worked in the finance for over 12 years. Early on, one of my managers noticed my knack for helping clients out. For example, ater working with a handful of small businesses, I realized buzz words like “SEO” were often thrown about as a way to generate revenue, but few knew how to make them work for their business.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur SEO Web Merger 48

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

But there are also problems / risks: - the funding environment might change dramatically – there may never be a next round (see: March 2000, September 11, 2001 and September 2008). - Let’s assume that the $2 million buys 25% of your company, which is the norm in an equity financing. .&# If it works you’re a hero.

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Venture Capital Startup Silicon Valley Warrant 319

Growthink Blog

MARCH 28, 2018

In 1971, he took that trash business public and within a year had bought 133 other garbage truck companies - hyper-growing right away the $14 billion conglomerate that became Waste Management. Combined with the passion and guts was an inherent foresight as to the overriding business importance of predictable customers and recurring revenue.

Chicago 48

Chicago Business Model Acquisition Video 48

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. I started off as a product manager and while I never actually slept over at the office, there were frequently late nights. When we started LinkedIn , it was a similar situation.

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Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 120

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Google buzz Advertise Network Blippr iPhone App Mashable France MashDeck Twitter App Mobile Site Social Media Events Twitter Guide Book Facebook Guide Book Partners App Development WordPress Expert Rackspace Hosting MaxCDN Content Delivery Dynect Managed DNS ConVerdge Communities About Us Submit a Tip!

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2018

He is the president and founder of Revenue & Associates and the creator of The bullseye marketing framework and we’re going to talk about a book built on that called Bullseye Marketing: How to Grow Your Business Faster. In fact, keep listening, I’m gonna tell you how to get 50 percent off. I’d love to see it, If it does.

Marketing 56

Marketing Social Media Analytics Software 56

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. 3/31/2000: 73.4. In June of 2000, I raised money at an $820M post-money valuation. But they most certainly are not. How could this be? 3/29/1996: 22.3.

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Down Round Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation 78