Ben's Blog

APRIL 27, 2011

An irrepressible leader, Alfred was soon promoted to run all of engineering. 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’ The New Company.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

Over the past two decades, she has led large revenue-producing divisions at businesses ranging from start-ups to the Fortune 500. Over the past two decades, she has led large revenue producing divisions at businesses ranging from startups to Fortune 500. Tiffani is also the host of the podcast  What’s Next! with Tiffani Bova.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue! An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe. I said that at the Founder Showcase, too. and profits! Sure, that makes them better companies than those of 12 years ago.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 12, 2023

And you haven't grown revenue in a decade. (08:30): Then I want to talk to you about adding a new revenue stream to your business that will completely change how you work with clients. They promote the sales person into a sales manager when they just wanna sell and the commission or the engineer into an engineering manager.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. With Netscape’s IPO , there was suddenly a public market for companies with limited revenue and no profit. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

He holds a Bachelors in Electrical and Computer Engineering with University Honors and a Masters in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University; and a Ph.D. Direct Revenue, meaning no three-way business models and no advertising, media, or content. VatorNews : What do you like to invest in? Frighteningly Early.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JULY 15, 2013

It was at that time that I reconnected with Raj De Datta, a fantastically talented repeat entrepreneur with whom I had gone to Harvard Business School from 2001-2003. At that time I was working at Bain Capital Ventures, having just moved from Boston to spearhead the launch of their West Coast Office. That is, until we met Ashutosh Garg.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

So first, we were much more sort of with a high growth rate, and we did not even care about how we got the revenue when we got it. And now we are much more careful about revenue quality revenues. So this has always been our most significant focus area, whether in 2022, 2021, or 2001. . Would you say that? . David Zhang.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

I dropped out of college in 2001, so this would be 17 years in. Could you go down to some obscure form of engineering software company or something of that nature? What’s the basic revenue play there? I don’t get it. John Jantsch: Now that you’re starting another business … How long …? Yeah, yeah.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. This meant that I had to either show enough revenue, or find investors who would be willing to put money into the company. I always knew that I would someday start my own company.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 22, 2010

Your revenues are “just around the corner.&# Your angel investors are nervous because the VCs aren’t moving that fast to fund your next round. Now is the time that you need “all hands on deck.&# That awesome gal you hired in engineering has job options and she knows it. Their not committing quickly to that bridge.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2012

Good piece covering NSF’s new “ Science and Engineering Indicators ” and its data on the funding of research universities in the U.S. State funding declined as a share of these universities’ budgets from 28 percent in 2001 to 19 percent in 2009. — sound like its time for the Lean University.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2022

The revenue of products that contain chips is worth tens of t rillions of dollars. Engineers design chips (adding their own designs on top of any IP cores they’ve bought) using specialized Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software. An engineer selects a fab appropriate for their type of chip (memory, logic, RF, analog).

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 14, 2011

Without a budget to spend on outsourcing content creation, buying domains and web hosting, and marketing the sites to rank well on search engines, this project would have been a non-starter. More recently, I worked on a new project to develop 50 niche websites, all at once. If I had known how things would turn out, I might never have started!

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 26, 2010

At the time (2001), digital cameras were very much maligned by “real photographers&# , and certainly by the general public. When everyone took notice of Java and abandoned C++ in droves, Rogue Wave’s revenues plummeted. They still saw their license revenue coming in, albeit a little lower each quarter.

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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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BeyondVC

MARCH 23, 2004

There were a number of attendees who were here during the past few years and their businesses raised a fair amount of capital and somehow they managed to survive the nuclear winter during the 2001-2002 period. Go after your competition, take some calculated risks, and focus on creating some revenue growth. What allowed them to do it?

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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. How do you not only make money in terms of revenue and revenue growth, but ultimately how do you develop profits and a profit center? And then I taught a class called “Intelligent Growth in Startups” in the engineering department.

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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 All those sites used up our meager resources — monetary, design, engineering and intellectual. Here is the TL:DR version in case you are pressed for time. STARTING IT UP. Photo courtesy of Scott Beale of Laughing Squid.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

And this was at a prestigious engineering school. In 2001, I came home to find my apartment on fire. Many online jewellery stores are bricks-and-mortar stores supplementing revenues that don’t aligning to the tech-savvy consumer who want responsive technologies. You couldn’t read it. 17) Devastating Event.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I knew I wanted something search engine-friendly, and I’d always used the term photo safaris when inviting friends along to shoot around New York, so I went with that. When I actually started my PR firm in 2001, I had the name and the LLC already, so that’s what I went with, and in 2009 we rebranded to simply be The Eisen Agency.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 22, 2013

For the first time since 2001, PC sales were lower that they were the previous year. Search engine optimization: all links and bookmarks point to one URL. O`Neill monitored conversions, transactions and revenue for three weeks prior to going responsive. Revenue increased by 101.25%. Revenue from all devices went up 42.4%.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2016

So he added a tiny bit of copy to remind users to enter the billing address associated with their credit card, and noticed the errors went away, “thus saving support time and increasing revenue on the improved conversion”. Error Message Best Practices That Have Lasted Through The Years. Preserve as much as the user’s work as possible.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2016

Despite being a bootstrapped company with little revenue, we over-invested in a central New York City office at a rate of 15% rent to revenue. By giving their engineers dedicated time each month to focus on side and personal projects, team members keep their creative juices flowing and stay motivated.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Mark: Google had trouble dealing with customers and contracts because they historically were so engineering driven. While that happens sometimes, it was a challenge for Google because it frequently had trouble adapting from an engineering driven culture. What is the best reporting structure for an engineering team.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2013

However, there is good news and a good idea coming from a bipartisan group of lawmakers that would do much to help innovative startup companies, the engine of U.S. Those federal programs would be made whole by transfers from general revenues. Good News for Startups. Prior to joining alliantgroup, Dean was Senior Tax Counsel to the U.S.

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