View from Seed

JANUARY 20, 2015

And even acquisitions painted as successes may look very different below the (typically confidential) surface. We went public in 2002 and eBay bought the company later that year for over $1.5 But the reality of tech entrepreneurship is that not everyone is “killing it,” and certainly not all of the time.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 21, 2015

And even acquisitions painted as successes may look very different below the (typically confidential) surface. We went public in 2002 and eBay bought the company later that year for over $1.5 But the reality of tech entrepreneurship is that not everyone is “killing it,” and certainly not all of the time.

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Cofounder Seed Stage Employee PR 100

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 11, 2015

When Elon Musk received $200 million from the proceeds of the PayPal acquisition in 2002, he re-invested everything to build the next big thing: $100 million in SpaceX and $100 million in Tesla. . #6 Passion While everyone wants to make money, good VCs look for more in an entrepreneur than the desire to cash out.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco Churn Rate Silicon Valley Engineer 48

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Being enterprise scale means that your representatives have regular dialogue at CXO or at least VP level with Global 2000 accounts are they are bringing in millions of revenue from those accounts every year. You have to do this; addressing real customer needs releases revenue dollars that you need to survive.

Software 127

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

7:52] Was there competition that you had to buy up, and/or what type of acquisitions did you feel like you had to make? [9:19] But when I switched from that to online ordering the revenue and the business tripled with the same customer base and, and I realized just how much friction there was in the ordering process.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Past (1985-2002). billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king.

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners. Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering.

Oakland 326

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

In the case of an acquisition, the shares are tendered for cash and/or stock in the acquiring company.). Ordinarily, every share of Common Stock in a public company is identical, carrying one vote per share on matters put to any vote of stockholders.

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www.humbledmba.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. Ran if for two years before we shut it down with almost no revenue achieved. Oh, and what was the company? It was yet another Web 2.0 Shocking, I know.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

MANAGE MY SUBSCRIPTIONS By clicking the Subscribe button, you agree to the Privacy Policy Fintech products ease more Americans into the stock market The percentage of Americans who own stocks is falling, according to the Wall Street Journal : only 55 percent own stocks today, compared to 67 percent in 2002. in addition to home ownership.

IPO 36

IPO Stock Software Review API 36

ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

The quote first surfaced in 2002. Three tactics to maximize revenue from a CRO program: Free test software. Build acquisition into your product (LinkedIn, TransferWise). As a publisher, content doesn’t make you very much money (with ads at least), so: Think about additional revenue streams. That’s your job.

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PPC Analytics Video Non-Compete 48

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

There’s been ample coverage in the popular press of course highlighting everything from the company’s revenue growth, lack of profitability, and the well-publicized fact that founder/CEO Jack Dorsey is also CEO of Twitter so would theoretically be running two public companies simultaneously. Revenue Composition. Starbucks Deal.

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