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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Babbling VC

AUGUST 10, 2011

OK, hands up, who's truly surprised by the drop in the stock markets or the postponed tech IPO's or even the upcoming slowdown in venture financing? I am seriously babbling like everyone else did in 2001, 2008 and now again in 2011. Make your customers happy, especially the ones generating the majority of your revenues.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

Drupal was launched in 2001, and Acquia started in 2007. Red Hat was one of the first of these types of companies bridging open source with big finance, leveraging Linux support into a profitable business, also leveraging the enterprise. Acquia, Inc. Because they are open source. They kind of invented this business model.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. As many of your listeners may know, there was an incredible piece published by a gentleman from Founders Fund, discussing Tiger [Global Management] and how they’re focused on the speed and scale business. On Sushi and VC.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Similarly, in recent high profile private financing rounds for private technology companies with valuations over $1B, the valuation multiples were at or below corresponding multiples for publicly traded companies such as Google. And hence the great crash of 2000 and 2001. Public market comparables. Much better.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. There was now a public market for companies with no revenue, no profit and big claims.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Another company which is going to have widespread impact is eShares, eShares is going to change the way the private companies manage their equity. Direct Revenue, meaning no three-way business models and no advertising, media, or content. VN : What do you look for in companies that you put money in? Frighteningly Early.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 19, 2015

An accounting firm based in Santa Monica, CA, specializing in bankruptcy, from 2001 to 2003. Previously, from 1999 to 2001, Seth was a Senior Revenue Accountant for the Veterinary Centers Of America. An accounting firm based in Santa Monica, CA, specializing in bankruptcy, from 2001 to 2003.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2013

by Dean Zerbe, alliantgroup National Managing Director, and former Senior Counsel to the Senate Finance Committee. Those federal programs would be made whole by transfers from general revenues. Dean Zerbe is alliantgroup ‘s National Managing Director based in Washington D.C. Senate Committee on Finance.

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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. That meant that if the change was starting on the founders side, then there had to be a change on the financing side. As people work much more remotely and in distributed teams, there's this very unsolved problem around knowledge management.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

You have an open source stack, cloud services for storage, processing & management and APIs for just about anything you want. These days that’s not the case and it’s a great outcome for entrepreneurs and for innovation. .&# Either you’re an angel or you manage professional funds. We all know that.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

But there are also problems / risks: - the funding environment might change dramatically – there may never be a next round (see: March 2000, September 11, 2001 and September 2008). - Let’s assume that the $2 million buys 25% of your company, which is the norm in an equity financing. .&# If it works you’re a hero.

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BeyondVC

AUGUST 9, 2006

Ultimately what will give you the best chance for success is focusing on the things that you can control – building a real business with a real economic model that can generate cash from internal operations vs. through external financing. We’ll manage just fine without the IPO money — thank you.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

Perhaps you are caught in the “Series A crunch” or perhaps you are a consumer company and expected that you would be valued on users rather than revenue like the last time. 3/30/2001: 26.3. If your managers intentionally or accidentally lied, then you will need to address that too. But they most certainly are not.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

We managed to create a single software that is so powerful that we can optimize any business whether it is manufacturing, retail, transportation, oil and gas, metals or anything else. My idea was that during market downturns, people need to invest in marketing and reputation management because that’s when marketing matters most.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

Perhaps you are caught in the “Series A crunch” or perhaps you are a consumer company and expected that you would be valued on users rather than revenue like the last time. 3/30/2001: 26.3 If your managers intentionally or accidentally lied, then you will need to address that too. But they most certainly are not.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Saba currently works as the operations manager (Sumo) at AppSumo. In October of 2001, Webster, McCarthy, and Graff decided to do just that and GoldStar was born. By generating a steady revenue from consulting projects and sales, the founders were able to spend time growing their business slowly. Photo by earthlightbooks.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

They’ll likely need to a dose of anxiety to remind them the problem they’re trying to solve is very real, but also need signs of relief and reassurance that the problem is manageable and worth fixing. See, Mailchimp had already been around since 2001 and it took them from 7 years to reach their first 10,000 customers.

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