Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

On a public stock market that is the value that investors place on future free cash flows of the business discounted to today’s date to account for the time value of money. The price of public stocks change instantly in reaction to news that is perceived to affect the future value of that company. It was early 2000.

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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Silicon Valley Stock 336

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job. He tripled Microsoft’s sales to $78 billion and profits more than doubled from $9 billion to $22 billion.

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Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job. He tripled Microsoft’s sales to $78 billion and profits more than doubled from $9 billion to $22 billion.

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Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

There are a number of trends concerning IPOs and capital formation to note: First, the raw number of IPOs has declined significantly: From 1980-2000, the US averaged roughly 300 IPOs per year; from 2001-2016, the average fell to 108 per year. double the rate of the prior year, 103 of those being venture-backed companies.

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SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Of course incumbents cannot be expected to jeopardize their revenue streams or investments in CRM platforms with new concepts that wipe out the need for their current solutions. Too much was at stake, we couldn’t afford the risk of destabilizing everything and losing substantial revenue. That was a decade ago. How about today?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. During the down market they were able to double down on recruiting, sales, outsourcing, new market entries and marketing (yes, with Tiger ads ). Ameet said, “Don’t worry, we’ll be fine, just wait for the next downturn.&#.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Later on, we’ll dive into research that shows how this type of imagery can increase your sales. 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. Product image size can matter as well.

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eCommerce Conversion Sales Technical Review 125

Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

in February 2000 – part time, with the goal to quit my full-time job within one year. By the end of December, 2000 I had sold over $100,000 in Hunter Douglas shadings, through my company, Custom Blinds for Less, Inc. We kicked in 2020 with outstanding sales. million in sales, 2 showrooms, and 18 employees.

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Balance Sheet Design Founder Omaha 98

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

We moved into the legal process and final due diligence in January and February of 2000. Our final closure was the first week of March 2000. If anything changed (stock market crash, real estate crash, somebody trying to buy Salesforce.com, whatever) I could end up with goose eggs. VC, sales, biz dev, M&A or otherwise.

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Technical Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Venture Capital 301

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

My competitors from those days STILL love to talk about how much money we raised in February 2000 (get over it already!). Our sales forecasts were revised downward – many times. I know that we haven’t brought in revenue as quickly as we had hoped. They haven’t hit their revenue targets. We were hot.

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PR Software Review Ireland Germany 331

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. Three reasons: There is a relative valuation between the price a VC pays and their expectations of what it will exit for in an IPO or trade sale. They also make M&A activity more difficult and with lower outcomes.

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Burn Rate Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Private Equity 263

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue! I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class.

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Saudi Arabia Valuation IPO Technical Review 309

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. VC’s invested their limited partners’ “risk capital” in a portfolio of startups in exchange for illiquid stock. Here’s why. Source: NVCA.).

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. SALES & MARKETING. 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. The Goods: Your Business Toolbox | Thursdays. Finance | Tuesdays. Innovation | Fridays.

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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. Even worse, DVD sales were starting to lag, and a Hollywood backlash further muddied the situation.

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Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. In its most recent quarter, the company processed the exchange of $923 million of sales, which equates to a $3.6B In 2017, the company reported sales of over $500 million. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them.

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Retention Developer Customer Programming 112

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them.

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Retention Customer Developer Programming 105

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them.

Retention 98

Retention Customer Developer Programming 98

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

.” Here’s the summary of his track record (excerpted from the Fast Company article): Forefront — IPO’ed in 1995 by CBT — CBT stock fell 85% in 1998 and prompted class-action lawsuits. invested, IPO’ed in 2000 for $32/share — stock price now $2. Support.com — On 2.5m Surely not.

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IPO Flash Bootstrapping Private Equity 240

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2014

In our case, we’ve evolved from a company that developed the first software to graphically represent business processes in the 1990s, to a collaborative enterprise architecture tool in the 2000’s, and finally, to a social, web-based communication platform that includes integrated social media tools today. Pay Attention to the Trends.

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Social Media Architecture .Net Operations 205

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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Private Equity New York City Chicago Investment Bankers 129

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. Stock Quotes. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. Businesses For Sale |. AllThingsDigital. AllThingsDigital. Financial News. Professor Journal. SmartMoney. Student Journal. WSJ Classifieds. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd.

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Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

Carl was also worldwide head of stores at Home Depot when Hurricane Katrina hit, running sales out of the backs of trucks and accepting IOUs for payment. I think about this in customers and protecting your employees and customers, always protect your P&L, your revenue. So, how are you investing in being even better?

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Technical Review Balance Sheet Texas Austin 148

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Of all your hires, if you have commissioned sales people, those will give you the most problems if they’re not all given an equal chance to make their quotas and achieve their personal earnings goals. If you’ve been in the sales game, you know that most customers will sell themselves if you just let them. You’ve just got to listen.

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Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

David Teten

AUGUST 7, 2019

The second strategy is Value Investing , a strategy which “seeks to maximize returns by finding stocks that are undervalued by the market…Investors assess a stock’s intrinsic value…and compare that value with the stock price. LTV / CAC, revenue growth, etc.) Sense of victory.

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Venture Capital Valuation Stock NDA 60

VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

Net foreign investment in stocks traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) totaled $440 million in June, 9% higher than in May, and well above the $240 million monthly average recorded during the first six months of the year. “ Ophir has a history of impressive revenue growth. S1 CORP BUYS ISRAEL’S FUNDTECH.

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China Cofounder India 90

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

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2013

But marketing, when planned and executed correctly, can also lead to more sales and revenue. In many cases, the goal of online marketing (especially for small businesses), is to directly increase sales by targeting potential customers using different online channels. Direct sales. Search Engine Marketing. Direct mail.

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Small Business Marketing Affiliate PPC 107

Up and Running

JUNE 28, 2012

In the 1990’s and early 2000’s it was “You got mail” as made famous by the AOL advertising stable. It might seem like fun and games as in the social media stock market “ Empire Avenue.” And the better those interactions are, the better chance for increased revenue, increased customer satisfaction, and repeat business.

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Social Media Government Metrics Database 91

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 9, 2010

Most people don’t know that Zappos had a very turbulent history when it was founded, or about the many personal sacrifices that Tony Hsieh (and early Zappos employees made) to help Zappos achieve such extraordinary success and $1 billion dollars in revenues in fewer than 10 years.

Social Media 93

Social Media Differentiation Stock Small Business 93

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.

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San Francisco San Jose Marketing Technical Review 111

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. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

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Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. billion in revenue, over $1 billion in gross profit and $500 million in EBITDA. The first year of revenue (1999) was $4 million – a remarkable achievement. Gross Profit. $(60).

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Distribution Lean Massachusetts Cofounder 49

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. B2B / Enterprise Sales: Salesforce. With advertising revenue in a tailspin, it is more important than ever. Stock Photography: Shutterstock.

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Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Do that – nothing else but one product / company / focus and get to $1M in sales with atleast $15% net profit. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44