Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. As the founder & CEO I personally went and met with as many people at Thames Water as I could. 15 companies North of $1 billion exit.

China 333

China Silicon Valley Software Review Technical Review 333

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

I remember just a decade ago in 2003 when we all laughed at how dumb people in the 90′s were talking about the race to “capture as many eyeballs as possible” before your competition. The company with no revenue and a $150k burn rate that raised $2.5 I have seen much of that behavior over the past 2 years get worse.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. As the founder & CEO I personally went and met with as many people at Thames Water as I could. 15 companies North of $1 billion exit.

China 328

China Silicon Valley Software Review Technical Review 328

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Newzoo estimates the global games market revenue at approximately $150 Billion in 2019, across all platforms, devices etc. According to Statista, the Music industry generated around $56 Billion in revenue in 2019, and movies generated record of $42.5 Billion in revenues in 2019. Billion in revenues in 2019.

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Global Revenue Mobile IP 131

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Over a 25 year career, Baughman has gained experience in leading worldwide sales organizations, brings expertise in full life cycle product management, proven revenue creation and growth management including taking a start up from zero to $1.6B, and shepherding companies through all phases from start up launch to IPO to acquisition.

Naming 59

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

In 2003, the journey of the podcast began, and by 2007, “The Ricky Gervais Show” made headlines with a record-breaking audience 260,000 listeners. Because they can earn revenue from other sources. Russell Smith, founder of Russell Smith Chartered Accountants , is a small business owner with over a decade’s worth experience.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Hosting Community Audio 101

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. I’ll also never forget all of the potential technical co-founders that we talked to who never seemed to be a perfect fit. That is, until we met Ashutosh Garg.

Mobile 136

Mobile SEO Cofounder Boston 136

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

For starters let me use “CEO” as a proxy to include her “inner circle” which might mean co-founders or might just mean senior execs of the business. The Mind of the Founder. The mind of a founder is wired differently than most people. The startup CEO was not the original founder.

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Startup Dilution San Diego Stock Options 417

SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News In 2003, Jessica Herrin started Stella & Dot, making jewelry kits out of her home in Austin, Texas. This year, the company will do $220 million in revenue, Herrin said at Startup Grind 2014 in Mountain View, Calif.

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Texas Austin Revenue Founder 74

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

At an accelerator … Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago. Your A round?

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Venture Capital Liquidation Preference Valuation Term Sheet 417

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. As the founder & CEO I personally went and met with as many people at Thames Water as I could. Winning the contract meant that we would hit our quarterly revenue figure and be in good position for our annual sales target.

Software Review 151

Software Review Technical Review Silicon Valley France 151

Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

We were a profitable company at that point with nearly $200M annualized revenue, one of the first tech companies to IPO after the dot-com bubble. We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003.

Startup 188

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage Boston 188

www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Chris McCann is the co-founder of StartupDigest , the members-only guide to the tech startup world. Since most companies have little to no revenue, who else has already invested in the deal is heavily weighted to prove value. Follow McCann on Twitter @Mccannatron. Roberts also takes issue with the emphasis on ?social social proof?

Technical Review 50

Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Angel Investor 50

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

chief, came to the rescue in 2003 and helped turn the company around for the better. Revenues have continued to increase every year and investors couldn’t be happier with what brave Mr. Revenues have continued to increase every year and investors couldn’t be happier with what brave Mr. Drexler has done for J. million in 2005.

Bankruptcy 180

Bankruptcy Texas Venture Capital Naming 180

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

20 years ago, the classic startup model was to have young founders start a breakthrough company, then bring in “grey hair” in the form of experienced executives once it was time to scale the business. In other words, Ben asserts that bringing in a professional CEO should be a last resort for a founder. During the dot com era, Yahoo!’s

Founder 78

Founder Hiring Cofounder Hawaii 78

View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

We were a profitable company at that point with nearly $200M annualized revenue, one of the first tech companies to IPO after the dot-com bubble. We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003.

Startup 120

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage Boston 120

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 ). My own fascination with podcasts began with a warm recommendation from Pablo (founder of Antidote ). One of them is Alex Blumberg, founder of Gimlet Media.

Audio 109

Audio Silicon Valley Curation Cofounder 109

Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

We were a profitable company at that point with nearly $200M annualized revenue, one of the first tech companies to IPO after the dot-com bubble. We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003.

Startup 100

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 100

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Monty Munford is the founder of Mob76 , a company that helps companies become investible and prepares them for exit. It has made and wasted billions of dollars in oil revenues and outside Lagos the country is corrupt and doesn’t even run a Postal service for its people. Moreover, investment in the country has been slow to accelerate.

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Nigeria Africa Reputation Email 148

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

For more page-turning corporate drama, including the feud between Intermix co-founders and UCLA college buddies Brett Brewer and Brad Greenspan, Nasdaq delisting, proxy contest and lawsuits by Greenspan after he was fired as CEO, see Stealing MySpace by WSJ reporter Julia Angwin. MySpace became its own company, MySpace, Inc.,

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

She’s also a founding member of All Raise, a non-profit committed to improving diversity in both funders and founders. 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.

Founder 68

Founder Lean Venture Capital Cofounder 68

David Teten

AUGUST 7, 2019

Likely signs of a Value investment: the company has challenges in filling out the round; the investors have more negotiating leverage than the founders during the closing process; the company has significantly better metrics (e.g. LTV / CAC, revenue growth, etc.) Requires less analysis. But VC is historically and consistently cyclical.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Valuation Stock NDA 60

Gust

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago. Revenue multiple? At an accelerator …. Your A round?

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Liquidation Preference Valuation Term Sheet Stock 153

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 ). My own fascination with podcasts began with a warm recommendation from Pablo (founder of Antidote ). One of them is Alex Blumberg, founder of Gimlet Media.

Audio 60

Audio Curation Silicon Valley Media 60

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. Lisa Barone Lisa Barone is Co-Founder and Chief Branding Officer of Outspoken Media , Inc and writes for the Outspoken Media Blog. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Small Business Marketing Social Media Cofounder 53

om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Om Malik is the founder of GigaOM. He is the founder of Desiparty.com. Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned. Being a startup founder is hard, tough, frustrating and rewarding – possibly all within the space of a nanosecond. Are You Winning As a Founder? He is a venture partner at True Ventures.

Founder 80

Founder Conversion Distribution Silicon Valley 80

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. As for Google a decade later, after an IPO and billions upon billions in ad revenue later Google is one of the largest companies in the world. He said this.

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Michigan Boston Jordan Austin 96

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Jason also serves on the board of the Future Founders Foundation, a Chicago-based organization that empowers the next generation of business leaders and entrepreneurs. He is the founder and CEO of ActiveCampaign. Fuel your growth, boost revenue and save precious time by upgrading to active campaign today. This is John Jantsch.

Chicago 50

Chicago Campaign Software Review Software Engineering 50

Growthink Blog

JUNE 12, 2012

But Delong & Vijayaraghavan (2003) reported that it's a wiser move to support the large middle-base (your team's B-players): "Like all prize-winning supporting actors, B-players bring depth and stability to the companies they work for, slowly but surely improving both corporate performance and organizational resilience.

Employee 79

Employee Leadership Hiring Revenue 79

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. 3/31/2003: 44.6. Down rounds are bad and hit founders disproportionately hard, but they are not as bad as bankruptcy. But they most certainly are not.

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Down Round Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation 78

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. Why bootstrap? Either way, bootstrapping is a viable model.

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Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

Despite not going to university, Ash became a serial tech founder and the first marketing director of a unicorn startup – Just Eat). Well, you're gonna judge it by the team, by the co-founders. And when you're judging it by the co-founders, that's when you have to try and decide, okay, what have they got going for themselves?

Audio 87

Audio Cofounder Framework Early Stage 87

Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

We Changed Our Mind In 1966, 10 years after Hewlett’s memo, Hewlett Packard’s revenue and headcount had grown ten fold; $200 million and 11,000 employees – all from test and measurement equipment. At HP the founders were still at the company and still running the business.

Silicon Valley 164

Silicon Valley RSS California Agile 164

Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

What that meant is that six companies a year could achieve a hundred million in revenue or a billion in valuation. So last year Eileen Lee, did this amazing study where she dug into data going back to 2003. That founder has now raised almost $200M in funding. Four companies a year matter. Which represents .07% So we have.

Venture Capital 40

Venture Capital Valuation Los Angeles Chicago 40

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008).

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IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 202

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. My fiancé is one of the best ideation consultants in the world (the brain), he was a top rated mentor at Founder Institute and has built and sold numerous successful businesses. Eitan Lev, was born in 2003 with a rare and serious heart defect known as TAPVR.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

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. 3/31/2003: 44.6 Down rounds are bad and hit founders disproportionately hard, but they are not as bad as bankruptcy. But they most certainly are not.

Marketing 46

Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation Down Round 46