Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Myspace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. When their deep pockets went empty, Google stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. This simply means you need to be sensitive to costs, revenue projections, and a timeline, such that there is light at the end of the tunnel.

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Widget Angel Investor Revenue Early Stage 242

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. This simply means you need to be sensitive to costs, revenue projections, and a timeline, such that there is light at the end of the tunnel.

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Widget Angel Investor Revenue Early Stage 137

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

So their revenue figures, pre IPO financing and ownership, and other info is all widely available. If this were a math class, I’d just say the proof is evident but if you want some data on Twitter’s 2013 YTD revenue here you go. Twitter’s IPO has garnered a ton of attention in the tech and popular press.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 7, 2010

Back in 2003 Google acquired Applied Semantics for just over $100M. Obviously this moniker lives on in Google’s ad network, Adsense for Content, which serves as a base for a significant chunk of Google’s revenue today. With it, Google monetized via advertising not only on their own search pages, but beyond.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

The first shows were created in late 2003, and the term itself was coined in 2004 by combining “iPod” with “broadcasting.”. Make sure you have a strong open and close that includes calls to action like subscribing, sharing a link to your website, thanking sponsors, or reminding interested parties to advertise on your podcast (if relevant).

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Syndicate Syndication Hosting Audio 85

Genuine VC

JANUARY 7, 2010

Back in 2003 Google acquired Applied Semantics for just over $100M. Obviously this moniker lives on in Google’s ad network, Adsense for Content, which serves as a base for a significant chunk of Google’s revenue today. With it, Google monetized via advertising not only on their own search pages, but beyond.

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Acquisition Semantic Distribution Advertising 100

www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Since most companies have little to no revenue, who else has already invested in the deal is heavily weighted to prove value. Every week StartupDigest publishes weekly newsletters about the best events, jobs, and what to read for your industry. Follow McCann on Twitter @Mccannatron. Roberts also takes issue with the emphasis on ?social

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Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Angel Investor 50

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

When I decided to start my business in 2003 it was not a decision that I took lightly. When I started Write On Creative I planned to take a break from advertising and marketing for a while. I also help reverse engineer your most powerful solutions into profitable revenue streams. Invitation.”

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, podcast industry ad revenue will reach $220 million in 2017, up 85 percent from 2016’s $119 million ( source ). The show starts with the history of Podcasts and ends with where they may be headed. Interestingly, Podcasts are starting to become a big business too.

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Audio Silicon Valley Curation Cofounder 109

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

For example, it still heavily relies on print advertising (bridal magazines) and brides were limited to only shopping in brick and mortar stores to find their wedding attire. I would love logging in to Second Life to sell marketing and advertising to businesses trying to make it in a virtual setting. Image Credit: Brittany Haas.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2013

Catch up on Part 1 of his “Playing with Glass” series, this is Part 2… It was 2003, 10 years ago, but I remember meeting Larry Page like it was yesterday. He also told us about a new advertising model they were using called “ Adwords ”, where advertisers bid on keywords and only pay per click. He said this.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Friendster was at its height, strongly battling MySpace after raising its premium round from Benchmark and Kleiner in the fall of 2003. we had no revenue. Friendster raised a big round in 2003; MySpace started gaining traction. To show potential revenue streams, we listed three products: ads, listings, and subscriptions.

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Entrepreneur Revenue Viral Networking 111

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 28, 2011

Convergent streams The most effective marketing strategy not only focuses on a core market and differentiators, it also finds ways to build multiple streams of recurring revenue. All rights reserved. iThemes Builder by iThemes Powered by WordPress Delicious Facebook Digg Flickr LinkedIn Twitter SlideShare Youtube grab this

Marketing 65

Marketing Valuation Differentiation Lead Generation 65

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 13, 2011

Blocked revenue One of the best ways to build a business that has marketable value is to develop multiple streams of residual income that a potential business buyer can view as a valuable asset. Of course, the flip side is true as well–audiences have become pleasantly surprised when they actually get value from time spent reading or viewing.

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Community Social Media RSS Engineer 65

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Shama is a bestselling author with her book - The Zen of Social Media Marketing: An Easier Way to Build Credibility, Generate Buzz, and Increase Revenue. Award winning CEO of The Marketing Zen Group – a global digital marketing firm. All rights reserved.

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Small Business Marketing Social Media Cofounder 53

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I didn’t start actively networking until I started my business in 2003. Before 2007, when a handful of companies may have gone after the same piece of business, now scores of them are, meaning we all have to work longer and harder, and in some instances we do so for the same, or even a lesser, amount of revenue. I have a secret.

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PR Networking Social Media Differentiation 138

VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, podcast industry ad revenue will reach $220 million in 2017, up 85 percent from 2016’s $119 million ( source ). The show starts with the history of Podcasts and ends with where they may be headed. Interestingly, Podcasts are starting to become a big business too.

Audio 60

Audio Curation Silicon Valley Media 60

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

What would happen if you focused on the 20% of your customers responsible for 80% of your revenue? This is ultimately how a small, growing or even larger business can grow its revenue, customer and content base from the inside out by adding new leads to the traditional funnel without necessarily having to sacrifice any on the back end.

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Social Media Retention Acquisition LLC 32

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Posted by: Matt | September 10, 2007 9:43 AM Hmm, our current startup (now doing more than 1M/year) was bootstrapped for its first year on just 1500$ (and with that we grew revenue to 25K/month). No salaries, at first, but we did a lot ourselves and then did a lot as trade and/or on an advertising basis.

Bootstrapping 41

Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Around 2003, Quigo was doing tens of millions of dollars in revenue with two main products: a ready-to-use, search engine marketing solution for advertisers called FeedPoint and a contextual advertising platform for publishers called AdSonar. Quigo Lands Overture as Client, Rejects Their Acquisition Offer.

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Semantic Acquisition Valuation Angel Investor 302

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

To be specific, AdWords is currently 16 years old, and last year alone it generated well over $50B in revenue. Sales was nervous that this idea of a self-service advertising platform would diminish the value of what the sales team was trying to sell. Some were just plain uncomfortable with advertising.

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Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

Adding Ad Revenue. I began placing advertisements on the website. Would you be interested in advertising on my website?” and I got a handful of advertisers who said yes. I still made money from advertising that went on the website. That website gave me money to play with. Deciding to Sell.

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Technical Review Software Review Prospectus Audience 76

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

It’s also about the company’s reputation, the way a company’s products and services are advertised, and about a company’s values. But if you want to accelerate growth and improve your revenues and profits, you need to up your game. Or through traditional print advertising in newspapers or magazines?

Marketing 162

Marketing Charlotte Naming Design 162

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

You can imagine the dealers advertiser on auto trader and cars.com, and their website, and all these different places, and sending that data, in all those different places and updating it every day would be a lot of labor to do manually. We started that company in 2003, and we sold it in the 2011, so you frame up the timing.

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Kansas City CTO Hire Las Vegas Software Developers 40

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 22, 2012

This theory suggests that the sectors that NY is particularly strong in – consumer, advertising technology, media – are out of favor for some reason. Perhaps the poor performance of the Facebook IPO soured Wall Street on the consumer sector and advertising-based business models? NYC’s tech sectors are out of favor with public markets?

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Boston IPO Technical Review New York 52

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2011

Marketing guru Amish Shah was no stranger to these fumbles when he began his marketing and consulting empire back in 2003. Back when Shah got into online marketing in the early 2000′s and made his first several thousand, Google adwords were still a fledgling avenue for internet advertising. But immediately there were problems.

Marketing 154

Marketing Internet Salary Advertising 154

Transformify

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

As for that financial impact, it would typically consist of the bad hire’s salary and benefits, their training and education, lost revenue while looking for a replacement, and of course the cost of searching for and hiring a new staff member. Retail staff took 23 weeks. IT & Tech staff took 29 weeks. Legal staff took 32 weeks.

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Cost Hiring Australia China 53

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 The niche audiences were slower to develop, and advertising support never really showed up. I found it hard to deal with advertising related stuff. Here is the TL:DR version in case you are pressed for time.

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Founder Conversion Distribution Silicon Valley 80

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

As I looked at my competition it felt as though each advertising law firm created advertisements that seemed very self-centered. I met with an advertising agency and we brain stormed several ideas that were consistent with this core value. I started my home-buying business in 2003 with a personal net worth of negative $80,000.

Naming 48

Naming Entrepreneur LLC Software Review 48

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Update: Part 2: Finding Your Co-Founders CrunchBase Information Seth Sternberg meebo Information provided by CrunchBase Tweet Next Post Previous Post Advertisement Now Commented Facebook Goodbye, MacBook Pro. also, just to clarify, the first idea we worked on that we called “meebo&# back in 2003 was my idea.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

By generating a steady revenue from consulting projects and sales, the founders were able to spend time growing their business slowly. Instead of spending tons on advertising, the site got noticed when bloggers started sharing the site with their communities. Today, SparkFun has a wide following and boasts over $10 million in revenue.

Bootstrapping 78

Bootstrapping Startup Cofounder Salary 78

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Shama is a bestselling author with her book - The Zen of Social Media Marketing: An Easier Way to Build Credibility, Generate Buzz, and Increase Revenue. Award winning CEO of The Marketing Zen Group – a global digital marketing firm. I Have a Web Site, What Else Should I be Doing Online 5 Congratulations! All rights reserved.

Web 31

Web Social Media Small Business Matching 31

Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

It is apparent that the United States has the highest performing entrepreneurship, but what is truly amazing is how women contribute the biggest growth in revenue, employment and financial efficiency. Here are some of the most interesting facts about female founders as well as startups. Background Image: Unsplash/Rawpixel. Cynthia Johnson.

Entrepreneur 76

Entrepreneur Social Media B2B Cofounder 76

VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

It is the B2B advertiser’s Mecca, but it is an undeserved market when it comes to user experience and consolidation of services. Yair Margolin: I was a member of the core team at Peerapp in 2003, a supplier of caching solutions for ISPs. C onferences are big business. VC Cafe: You have a pretty long track record in startups.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

But there’s also the satellite-mapping company Keyhole, which in 2003 became the seed that sprouted Google Maps. In January 2006, Google acquired advertising company dMarc Broadcasting for $102 million. The company helped Google improve its mobile advertising solutions. 10 Stellar Space-Themed Accessories For Your Office.

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San Francisco Acquisition Social Media Mobile 104