2002 Customer Revenue Viral 
Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). Mostly smartphones + restaurateurs attitude towards viewing the internet as a customer acquisition tool.
abovethecrowd.com
OCTOBER 17, 2013
Customers are first asked to fill out an in depth profile to help identify their size, style, and preferences. Then, on the customer’s requested date, the company sends a personally styled offering (a Fix) of five items (previously unseen) to the individual to try on in her own home. Katrina herself is equally impressive.
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Cracking the Code
DECEMBER 11, 2015
Mastering your pitch to a VC, prospective customers, new hires or partners is part art and part science. 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. Talk about passion and commitment!
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. In simple terms the customer's risk of doing nothing has to be higher than the risk of buying software from an unknown startup.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
The Past (1985-2002). billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king.
Cracking the Code
SEPTEMBER 2, 2008
The Deutsche Bank report has a very interesting chart on the topic presenting the Free Cash Flow margins vs. the revenue growth four years post IPO for select software leaders: As you can see, with 20% Free Cash Flow margin and a 50% growth rate, Salesforce is well positioned in the pack! 2002, the stock price went from $17.5
crowdSPRING Blog
SEPTEMBER 13, 2010
At crowdSPRING we talk a great deal about how we can leverage our limited marketing resources to drive traffic and revenues and build strong community. Finally, we work hard to create marketing value in the social media space and work to engender word-of-mouth and the viral effect. The Obama campaign and viral video. Yes we can!
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