Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

There’s a lot of buzz about the Amazon acquisition of TWITCH this week. It gained recognition during the 2004 presidential campaign when Howard Dean’s IT director decided to use it as a platform for community and campaigning. Because they are open source. But Drupal has succeeded way beyond it’s original expectations.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. million in 2004 to $6.5 And yet…Forrester found that 70% of CMOs did not list retention as a top priority. The result?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Macro conversions are the primary goal of your website, to convert user traffic into revenue. On the other side of the coin, micro conversions are actions a user completes that are either on the path to revenue-generating macro conversions or not directly related to revenue-generation at all. 1) Revenue per visitor.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. million in 2004 to $6.5 And yet…Forrester found that 70% of CMOs did not list retention as a top priority. The result?

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 29, 2015

AmeriData was a public company, a voracious acquirer (we acquired 40 companies in three years), and a very fast growing business (they were less than $50 million in revenue when they acquired Feld Technologies and over $2 billion in revenue three years later when GE acquired them.) And very, very little got done.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. Revenue of ~$160mm in 2008.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. Read on for a fuller explanation. Redpoint, led by Geoff Yang , invested $11.5

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. How They Make Money : Facebook’s primary revenue stream is of course selling advertising on Facebook.com, which in total accounts for 85% of revenue. Financial Snapshot : 2011 Revenue: $3.71 2011 YoY Revenue Growth: 88%. 2011 YoY Revenue Growth: 88%.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Would you be surprised to know that almost half of the dot com companies founded when the boom started in 1996 were still around in 2004--four years after the peak of the NASDAQ? Because companies today have way more revenues than the companies that went public or had huge up rounds back then.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

But even during the macroeconomic boom of 2004 to early 2008 (inflated by various credit bubbles – housing, sovereign debt, LBOs) tech IPOs were extremely rare and then the global economic crisis of late 2008 – 2010 only further dampened hopes for a recovery. Zynga – 8x+ trailing revenue. trailing revenue.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Look instead at measuring KPIs like close rate, cost per acquisition, cost per lead, conversion rates, average contract value, and lifetime customer value. Since co-founding Moz in 2004, Rand has continually put himself out there as a public face. Of those, 72% say they directly impact pipeline and revenue. The metrics.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 16, 2003

Zone is expected to do around $28mm of revenue in 2003 and $42mm in 2004. The revenue multiple is 7x for 2003 and 5x for 2004. That is pretty much in line with existing security multiples of 6-8x revenue. The more significant point is that Checkpoint made its first, meaningful acquisition.

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Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Both in terms of revenue and profit. Since its launch in 2004, Facebook was the clear winner of social networking with 3.6 97% of FB / Meta’s revenue comes from advertising. billion users across its platforms which include Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Zuckerberg really needs this to work. Hype or Reality?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

His latest book, “ Flip the Funnel: How to use existing customers to gain new ones ,” presents a powerful hypothesis that retention can become the new acquisition through the strategic incorporation and elevation of customer service, customer experience and customer initiated word-of-mouth, content creation and incentive-based referrals.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 12, 2006

The acquisition price of $350mm is pretty sweet validation for the open source model considering that the multiples are about 20x trailing revenue ($20mm estimated revenue in 2005) and 6-7x forward ($50-60mm estimate for 2006). And on top of that the company only raised $10mm which means it was incredibly capital efficient.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Quigo Lands Overture as Client, Rejects Their Acquisition Offer. 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.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

In this way, you can clearly visualize what percentage of people would buy at a given price (in the chart above, 3% of people would buy at $41), and you can determine which price would maximize revenue. In that case, the seller actually lost revenue through bracketing because he bracketed his price down. Now 80% bought the $1.80

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Expedia grew to account for roughly one third of the company’s revenues. Think about that.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. I took a look back at our original financial model we presented to VCs in 2004. Is $120M enough capital to reach these exit goals?

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

This is nothing new; long favored by family-controlled media empires such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation , among Internet firms alone, Google took a dual-class approach when going public in 2004. In the case of an acquisition, the shares are tendered for cash and/or stock in the acquiring company.).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

In 2004 I began blogging. Adding Ad Revenue. If you decide to follow a blog acquisition strategy, you’re not going to write the blog yourself, not very likely. I hired those writers, the traffic increased, I started getting more revenue from advertising, and the income increased to about $1,500 per month as a result of that.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

The only thing that seemed to be consistent about my growth was that my revenue was relatively flat while my user base kept growing. This turned out to be a good move since it doubled their revenue that month. He has a great stats page that shows everything from monthly revenue to the breakdown of users by plan type.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

Kauffman Fellows Report (2020): “Diverse Founding Teams generate higher median realized multiples (RMs) on Acquisitions and IPOs]. BCG (June 2018): “Startups founded and cofounded by women actually performed better over time, generating 10% more in cumulative revenue over a five-year period: $730,000 compared with $662,000.”.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. Comcast Corp.,

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

Chris had been working on creating a better desktop search since early 2004, knowing that no existing solutions were any good. While finishing his final two years of his PhD, helping take reddit to acquisition in late 2006 and moving to San Francisco to start a family, Chris had realised that academia was not the road for him. “I

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

ChemChina, a state-owned company formed in 2004 from the former Ministry of Chemical Industry, had sales of $23 billion in 2010 and assets of $29 billion. billion in 2010, has made 14 acquisitions over the last six years, the largest of which was PBM Holdings Inc., Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC) had revenue of $43.6

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