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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Founding Date: 2004. How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million. Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008).

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. There’s lots of lore, emotion, and misconceptions of what VC’s do or don’t do for entrepreneurs. While there was an occasional bad apple, the public markets rewarded companies with revenue growth and sustainable profits.

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“Customer First” Healthcare

abovethecrowd.com

Most large healthcare IT systems are chosen based on one primary objective: revenue management. healthcare system is complex and difficult, and most of these large EHR systems’ number one purpose is to deliver revenue. From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242.

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Transcript of An Entrepreneur’s Journey to Success

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of An Entrepreneur’s Journey to Success written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Landon Ray: Yeah, that would have been 2004. John Jantsch: I wonder how many times entrepreneurs have said that I couldn’t find the tools so I built it myself. Back to Podcast. Transcript. How many people?

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Tech IPOs Are Back ? So Now What? ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

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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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

We love a good entrepreneurial success story – entrepreneur as protagonist overcomes obstacles and builds a thriving, successful company (and become wealthy while doing so). spent $20 million to get back to the same revenue that I had when I was CEO. Also worth a read after you review these startup failure post-mortems.