Software By Rob

JANUARY 25, 2012

And the funds came from revenue generated by my portfolio of web applications and websites that I’ve built over the past several years. In Search Of… So that’s an intro to my startup philosophy, but where was I? Aaaah yes…the search. And I’d been a user since 2006.

Acquisition 63

Acquisition Software Review Fresno Algorithm 63

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. At that time I was working at Bain Capital Ventures, having just moved from Boston to spearhead the launch of their West Coast Office. That is, until we met Ashutosh Garg.

Mobile 136

Mobile SEO Cofounder Boston 136

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.

Acquisition 115

Acquisition Semantic Distribution Advertising 115

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.

Acquisition 100

Acquisition Semantic Distribution Advertising 100

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.”. My personal interest in podcasting, however, is how it dovetails beautifully with voice search. It’s the third largest search engine behind Google search and Google Images.) Image source ).

Syndicate 85

Syndicate Syndication Hosting Audio 85

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

But I’m working on a large team of people trying to figure out how to make micro improvements to a paid-search algorithm. It’s 2003 and VCs aren’t exactly lining up to fund startup businesses. Sure, our revenue is growing, but is that enough to raise an internal round? ” “Yeah, Ma.

Startup 417

Startup Dilution San Diego Stock Options 417

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. Because unlike Google search or other means, it involves people you already trust.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Viral Revenue Networking 111

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. But before Google became the giant corporation that it is today, it was almost sold for a shy $1 million to Excite CEO George Bell in 1999.

Bankruptcy 180

Bankruptcy Texas Naming Venture Capital 180

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Lee Odden Lee Odden is the CEO of TopRank Online Marketing , a digital marketing agency specializing in strategic internet marketing consulting, training and implementation services including: Content, Search, Email and Social Media Marketing. Shama Kabani Web and TV personality. All rights reserved.

Small Business 53

Small Business Marketing Social Media Cofounder 53

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 Lead Generation Differentiation 65

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I grew up in Los Angeles and went to undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 2003 with Honors in Economics. A few years ago “venture capital” was a revenue model. It was a great conversation and I thought it would be a good idea to do some visible networking with Aaron to get to know him better.

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles Southern California Startup Early Stage 150

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. That’s how Adam & I learned about search marketing and 10 years later both Doctor Computer and Price World Publishing still stand strong today.

Michigan 96

Michigan Boston Jordan Austin 96

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.

Community 65

Community Social Media RSS Engineer 65

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.

Retention 32

Retention Social Media Acquisition LLC 32

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

To be specific, AdWords is currently 16 years old, and last year alone it generated well over $50B in revenue. And the engineers, which had been working so hard to provide highly relevant search results, were undersandably very worried that users would be confused and frustrated by ads getting in the way of their search results.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike believes the reason AltaVista didn’t become Google ( despite their market leadership position ) was because they didn’t focus on search. Instead, they tried to use their search position to offer a portal like Excite and Yahoo! Of course, monetization of search became one of the best business models in the history of business.

Semantic 302

Semantic Acquisition Valuation Angel Investor 302

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

When I began my career in executive search and then later working in temporary staffing, I was able to build strong relationships with clients to gain a deeper understanding of their working style and culture. I realized this was my chance to bring that personalized approach to the job search process. Image Credit: Beth Tucker.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

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. This is her core market.

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. This is her core market.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay. In November of this year, the company announced that it had achieved “substantially” more than $1B in revenue in the third quarter. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0 based teachers.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

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

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

We do a lot of soul searching around how do we built this product, when nobody knows it exist. When they have a problem, the first thing they do is they go to Google and they search for it. We started that company in 2003, and we sold it in the 2011, so you frame up the timing. They were very much a luxury item.

Kansas City 39

Kansas City CTO Hire Las Vegas Kansas 39

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

I co-founded LinkedIn in 2003, and by 2005, after asking myself the key questions about my passion, focus, and commitment, I knew I wanted to bring in a CEO. At the time we began the search, I wouldn’t have believed how long the process would take. James Slavet, a partner at Greylock, introduced me to Jeff Weiner.

Founder 78

Founder Hiring Cofounder Hawaii 78

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

But if you want to accelerate growth and improve your revenues and profits, you need to up your game. It is a key factor in the success and prosperity of all businesses and nonprofits, regardless of their revenues. Entrepreneur outlined this in their look at USP : Pinpointing your USP requires some hard soul-searching and creativity.

Marketing 162

Marketing Charlotte Naming Design 162

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

Adding Ad Revenue. It was 2003 or right about then, and I was walking across the Green Street Mall in Brisbane, thinking that I was no longer interested in Magic the Gathering as a card game. I discovered blogging because I was told it was great for search engine rankings. I had someone running the forum. Deciding to Sell.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Software Review Audience Prospectus 76

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. 68% of U.S. workers say that they expect to work remotely in the future.

Cost 53

Cost Hiring Australia China 53

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. Shah saw how the power of adwords had evolved in just a few short years and knew right away the simple side project was destined to become an annual several billion dollar source of revenue for Google.

Marketing 154

Marketing Internet Salary Advertising 154

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

And going even further back there have been a few random ones have been built before like Salesforce.com and e-tailer RedEnvelope (IPO’d in 2003 though now defunct as a company). I think the long-tail (size in terms of market cap, revenue, employees etc – pick one doesn’t matter) is moving towards the city.

Silicon Valley 185

Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Startup 185

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

In searching for a suitable name for our new device, we came across a Koala orphaned after being caught in a bushfire (wildfire). I knew I wanted something search engine-friendly, and I’d always used the term photo safaris when inviting friends along to shoot around New York, so I went with that. 5 – Came Across a Koala.

Naming 48

Naming Entrepreneur LLC Software Review 48

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. Today, Litmus has had over 30,000 customers, 1 million+ in revenue, and is growing by around 10% a month. 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

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

also, just to clarify, the first idea we worked on that we called “meebo&# back in 2003 was my idea. Take the top 10 largest tech innovators (take your pick of largest by revenue or largest by idea) of the last 20 years in Silicon Valley. Hopefully your idea of business model isn’t “ad revenue based”.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

They’d upload a list of product terms and related topics— moisture resistant flooring adhesive, subfloor moisture proofing —and their keyword research tool would spit back hundreds of “0 searches per month” results. New, when products are so cutting-edge that few people know they exist, let alone that they should search for them.

B2B 133

B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

The search giant’s VP of Corporate Development, along with CEO Larry Page, signs off on the dozens of acquisitions and acqui-hires made every year, large and small. But there’s also the satellite-mapping company Keyhole, which in 2003 became the seed that sprouted Google Maps. Like Tweet +1 Share Pin It Share. ITA Software.

Acquisition 104

Acquisition San Francisco Social Media Mobile 104

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

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

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. As an example, Joel says that there is a chief revenue officer who is solely responsible for bringing in revenue to StackExchange.

Software Review 285

Software Review Software St. Louis API 285

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

We were able to use an open source database (Postgres), open source search (Lucene) and a host of other free components including Apache Tomcat, JBoss. It’s the input screens where we enter data or search requests. When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently.

Cloud 343

Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343