article thumbnail

Gaming is Eating the World

VC Cafe

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.

Global 131
article thumbnail

Bad Notes on Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

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?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Bad Notes on VC

Gust

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?

article thumbnail

The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. and we ultimately sold when we hit $14 million and had more than $30 million in backlog revenue. I learned about revenue recognition. The things you learn in tough environments. million, then $5.9m, $7.7m

article thumbnail

Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

To be specific, AdWords is currently 16 years old, and last year alone it generated well over $50B in revenue. Because she understood the potential for IP-based syndicated content technology, Alex started searching for new and useful ways to put this technology to use. Legal wasn't used to distribution via IP enabled devices.

Product 60
article thumbnail

How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

We are on the high end of the range, and I think expecting less would be unrealistic unless you are building something really simple (and therefore with limited inherent IP). The best technique is just to lease / rent dedicated servers from hosts like SoftLayer, The Planet, etc, and pay several hundred dollars a month out of your revenues.

article thumbnail

Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

VC Cafe

After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’ Looking at the conference agenda , it’s not hard to spot the trends for 2010: Mobile Clouds – additional storage and new revenue streams to operators.

Mobile 109