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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

“Value brands can also effectively reach out to pained-but-patient consumers who previously bought higher-end brands, a strategy Wal-Mart aggressively used with its ‘everyday low prices’ policy in the 2001 recession.” Even less does it mean high transaction volume or revenue. Premium-brand market leaders [.] recession in 2009.”.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

Still in second inning for enterprise move to cloud : Regardless of what economic cycle we endure, the Fortune 500 march to a cloud-native architecture will continue. The 10 year bull market where every company’s revenue chart is up and to the right is over.

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The CEO’s CEO

Ben's Blog

When Alfred presented the acquisition to BEA’s board of directors, one prominent board member said: “if you think that this company is going to pay $150M for a company with $150K in revenue, you are out of your f&%!$n’ In recognition of his phenomenal vision and execution, BEA named Alfred its new Chief Executive Officer in October 2001.

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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

Scalable Startup

Drupal was launched in 2001, and Acquia started in 2007. Currently they face enormous pressure to innovate faster, and are responding with Drupal 8, which will incorporate many new modern web architectures previously not part of the Drupal platform. Acquia, Inc. Because they are open source.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

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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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

To find out whether or not today’s public technology companies have hit bubble valuations, let’s compare some companies that survived the great bubble with their bubble era valuations: The Enterprise Value-to-Revenue multiple (EV/Rev) and Price-to-Earnings multiple (PE) are commonly used metrics to tell the valuation:value story. Much better.

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Helping Startups And Small Businesses: A Good Idea From D.C. (Can You Believe It?)

YoungUpstarts

Those federal programs would be made whole by transfers from general revenues. For example, industries such as manufacturing, food processing, computer software, architecture and engineering are all good candidates for the R&D tax credit, as well as the traditional fields such as the pharmaceutical, medical and transportation sectors.