Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. The cap is irrelevant if the next equity financing is at a valuation below the cap amount.)

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I’ll focus for now on the business itself, there’s plenty of other info on the web if you care to understand the equity ownership or financing history of Facebook and frankly this has been fairly well known for awhile. ==. Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. Financial Snapshot : 2011 Revenue: $3.71

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Venture Financing. Company generates revenue via premium accounts, targeted ads and transaction commission. Founded by Matt Rutledge in 2004 and based in Dallas.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

OH in South Park, San Francisco (or on Zoom from Big Sky, Montana): “OMG, crazy – that firm just paid 100x revenue to invest in [insert hot startup here] – what could they be thinking?” Multiples are not only used to value companies today but also to value companies several years down the line.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Entrepreneurs often ask me for help with their financing decks. What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. MYTH : The startup financing process is about one thing — money.

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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. 3/31/2004: 31.6. Financing capital market down round fundraising outkast' But they most certainly are not. How could this be? Aren’t markets rational?

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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.”. Explore a pay-per-conversion affiliate program for referring site traffic that results in listeners, especially if you’re trying to generate revenue from your podcast. Let’s get started. .

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Campus Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

This is an awesome story from Forbes on Jamie Murray Wells, a student who used his student loans to finance an online eyeglass store after be shocked by the cost of new glasses. In 2004 while studying for final exams at University of the West of England, Wells, then age 21, went shopping for a pair of prescription glasses.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Financing, that is.I 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. One truth of start-up financing is that it generally takes twice as long and twice as much money to accomplish your milestones.

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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. 3/31/2004: 31.6 But they most certainly are not. Or maybe you are a lucky enterprise company and are pleasantly surprised—this time. How could this be?

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Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation Down Round 46

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

It has historically been the case that VCs would rather fund the promise of 100x in a company with almost no revenue than the reality of a company growing at 50% but doing $20+ million in sales. This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. This is true in consumer but it’s also true in enterprise software.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

After taking another year to build a second email marketing startup (with Anvil running in the background), I finally decided it was time for me to commit to building my own team and Anvil grew in earnest in 2004. This was, instead, monthly recurring revenue and a real product. Thanks to Stacey Price, Healthy Business Finances. #27

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BeyondVC

AUGUST 23, 2006

According to Phil Wainewright : Acquired as Expertcity in February 2004, the Citrix Online division is an on-demand giant in its own right, with trailing twelve month (TTM) revenues of $121.6 As Phil Wainewright of ZDNet mentions in his blog, let’s not forget about the powerhouse that is now Citrix Online.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Google realized that being the way to find the world’s information was a blitzscalable market, thanks to the network effects in its AdWords revenue engine. In other words, what percentage of sales are available to pay for growth, and to reward investors for financing that growth. The third is high gross margins.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

My strength was not in finance, so one of the first things I did was hire someone to handle the books and keep me on a solid financial path, so I could focus on running my business. I started Patch Homes last year as I saw many homeowners who had valuable homes, but had little to no savings or money for their day to day finances.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

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. They sold in December 2007, but he started selling Quigo in 2004.

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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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Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

BeyondVC

OCTOBER 25, 2003

According to many investment bankers I have met with, today’s companies, unlike yesterday’s, need to have $10-20mm of revenue a quarter, be profitable now and not in 8 quarters, come from an established and not an emerging sector, and have a valuation based on real earnings and growth and not one on revenue.

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IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Valuation 60

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

And like the LITERATI, professionals we work with are educated on how to market their business in order to increase revenue opportunities. When I decided to quit the corporate world and build my company in 2004, I saw very few companies focused on helping SMB with digital marketing services. Photo Credit: Nigel Whiteoak.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

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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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

And you know what – this was mostly in 2012 (+ Moneyball came out in 2004). Higher revenue / conversions are more important than boss’s wife liking the sliders. The more support you have from everyone to experimentation – IT, legal, finance, C-level people – the faster you can experiment.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

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.”. ” (I discuss this more in Why are Revenue-Share VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders ?)

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

spent $20 million to get back to the same revenue that I had when I was CEO. created a vastly higher cost structure; I had 80 people mostly on base salaries under $100,000 and was bringing in revenue at the rate of $20 million annually. .”). Finances were just one part of the story. During this year they.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. Include screenshots of your product , a video walk-through and one or two charts that display traction or revenue. Money and Finance Lists. You can follow Joshua on Twitter @joshuabaer. What is your viral coefficient?

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 29, 2009

Business/Revenue model – show me that the economics of your business work – note that single digit gross margins will get you thrown out the door pretty quickly (1 slide). The financing round – lay out the dollars you are asking for, how it will be used, and how long the cash will last (1 slide).   (1 slide).

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Since coming to Australia in 2004 my passion for creativity was further boosted and was well alive while still doing my business degree and working in corporate world until 2011. I never want renters to find themselves in my situation – scared, displaced and worried about my finances. Thanks to Eric Narcisco, Effective Coverage ! #18)

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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., Finance, Banking, Loans, etc. start-ups fail, he says. Replay the event.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

in 2010, and for employees in the banking, finance and insurance sectors 64%. 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. Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC) had revenue of $43.6 Intel Israel exported $2.7 billion in 2007.

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Architecture Dividend Minneapolis 92

mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). Young founders tend to complicate things too much, from structuring partnership agreements, financing, leases, etc. If so, I hate to break it to you, but theres a good chance it will fail.

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Cofounder Technical Review Startup Software Review 111

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2013

by Dean Zerbe, alliantgroup National Managing Director, and former Senior Counsel to the Senate Finance Committee. Those federal programs would be made whole by transfers from general revenues. Senate Committee on Finance. When it comes to U.S. Good News for Startups. Dean is a regular contributor to Forbes.com (Dean of Tax).

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