Assuming your startup takes off, you will probably find that the fun is gone by the time you reach 50 employees, or a few million in revenue. For bigger companies, it’s a more efficient and quicker way to grow their revenue than creating new products organically. If you startup is your dream, why would you want to think about an exit? MORE >>

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. Here’s why. The Golden Age for Entrepreneurs and VC’s. MORE >>

Back in 2000, when Google was wildly popular but generating no revenue, the conventional wisdom  was that their business model was uncertain. Display ads generally hurt the user experience, and are also not very efficient at producing revenues. Startups usually succeed because of a single major product or business innovation. MORE >>

from box-office revenue. But the total movie industry revenue was  $87 billion. After the VCR was introduced, studio revenues took off like a rocket.  2000 – Digital Video Recorders (DVR) like TiVo allowing consumer to skip commercials was going to be the end of the TV business. The reality? Sound familiar? Piracy. MORE >>

If you have a super high churn rate, then at best you’ll be stuck at a revenue treadmill (doing lots of work but flat revenue and no profitability). Here’s a quick thought experiment: Lifetime value is the sum of the revenue that a user might generate from their first time period to when they quit the service. MORE >>