Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The laws of supply and demand, and marginal pricing, withstand the test of time. Demand matters: IPOs are a bull market product Gauging demand for an IPO can be difficult, in part because so many IPO order books are over-subscribed. The tl;dr: It’s Economics 101. So, what happens when we combine the data from the two charts?

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2014

He had just read my post on being uncomfortable with the phase of the current cycle and told me an anecdote from the great Internet bubble of 2001 that I hadn’t heard. They raised relatively little so probably had supply / demand on their side – which drove competition and enabled a higher price.

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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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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

According to the S-1 filing: Salary.com is a leading provider of on-demand compensation management solutions. From April 2001 through June 30, 2006, we achieved 21 consecutive quarters of revenue growth. In fact, during the last 3 fiscal years for the company, it did $6.4mm, $10mm, and then $15mm in revenue. million, $0.9

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

” I think the first thing to remember is you can spot the early warnings long before these things are at your doorstep demanding that you respond to them. That was a huge revenue. We forget, we think this is ancient history, it was 2001, I mean it wasn’t that long ago. They certainly could have seen it coming.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 14, 2011

In 2001, when I launched my first foray into becoming a serious information marketer and built a portfolio of infoproducts, my goal was to be able to fund one heart operation from business profits. Customer Demands Sometimes it’s better NOT to know how the future will be! The status quo just got a lot more shaky and uncertain!

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Founded by Michael Bruno in Paris in 2001, 1stdibs (*) is the world’s largest online marketplace for luxury one-of-a-kind antiques, high-end modern furniture, vintage fashion, jewelry, and fine art. In November of this year, the company announced that it had achieved “substantially” more than $1B in revenue in the third quarter.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. Well known founders within Silicon Valley demanded this kind of change across the board, and if they wanted to see it internally, they also had to see it within the organizations that touched their group. I've been in venture now twice.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

One dimension is a pretty firm belief that starting financial services companies should not be as hard as it is, and that there is demand in the market for yet another venture fund focused on functionally day-zero companies in financial services. Dan Kimerling: I love 2001: a Space Odyssey. That scares me. On Dan’s Favorite Books.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2014

Look for companies that make the Best Places to Work lists and are industry leaders in revenue per employee. Apple CEO Tim Cook is very demanding, but it starts with himself. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001. Employees endorse the company. He’s up at 4:30 a.m.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

— in a class so high in demand that I had to wait several quarters to take it? With the recent wave of on-demand offerings from taxi cabs to mobile dry cleaning, consumers have started to rethink the way they book and buy products and services. In 2001, I came home to find my apartment on fire. 16) Bring Change.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0 But it was a conversation with Toni Schneider (now CEO of Automattic, the on-demand WordPress service), and a venture partner at True that made it all come together. STARTING IT UP. Back to the top.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2018

We knew that we wanted our new consulting firm to focused on improving customers top line revenue growth. At the time of its incorporation (2001), I had seen an article published by the University of Chicago showing that 82 % of CEOs had revenue growth as their #1 objective. Thanks to LaVon Koerner, Revenue Storm ! #5-

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Corner Piece Productions doesn’t have its own website currently, but here’s the site for West of Her, which picked up five Best Narrative Feature awards over our festival tour this summer, along with rave review from critics across the country, and is set for wide video on demand distribution this year. Image Credit: Keval Baxi.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 23, 2020

After September 11th, 2001, people were afraid to fly. down 97%: Austin Business Journal Restaurant revenue is down 73%?—?despite despite the ability to offer takeout: Austin Restaurant Revenues Dropped by 73 Percent Austin’s unemployment rate went from 2.6% TSA had two functions. First, make us safer when we fly. An R0 of 2.5

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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. 44% 2001-2019 13.7% Time Period IPO Pop* 1980-1989 6.1% 1990-1998 13.3% 1999-2000 51.6%

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Novel means unknown, and what is unknown demands attention of our brain. Patricia Wolfe, Brain Matters (2001). Amazon reported that 100ms increase in speed equals 1% revenue increase. Our minds seems to gravitate toward novelty. Once the new thing is known and understood, then we look to find another unknown to master.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million). Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005).

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