Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 13, 2012
By then, I had become a venture capitalist at Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance and found myself talking to a lot of entrepreneurs who were proclaiming their great technology yet were struggling with little revenue, and claiming they were “crossing the chasm”. Maysee now enjoys hockey stick revenue growth.
Hearpreneur
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
The sales helped them raise $30K and the attention of a startup incubator, which offered them training and another $20K in funding. Over the years, despite massive losses, Netflix was able to bounce back and improve its revenue by 47%. Thanks to Jen Wan, Soteri Skin ! It's steadily risen to the most popular toymaker spot once more.
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Gust
NOVEMBER 4, 2011
The early history of MySpace is inextricably intertwined with that of Intermix, a small-cap publicly traded Internet company in Los Angeles where I worked as corporate counsel from 2004-06. MySpace was incubated by a small team of employees within Intermix in 2003 (Chris DeWolfe, Tom Anderson and four others).
Eric Friedman
JULY 12, 2016
Eric is the General Manager of Expa Labs , an incubator in Soho backed by $100MM that is investing $500k each in its first six companies ( TechCrunch story here ). Previously, Eric was the Global Senior Director of Sales and Revenue Operations for Foursquare.
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.
mashable.com
NOVEMBER 2, 2011
Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. You can follow Joshua on Twitter @joshuabaer. What is your viral coefficient?
David Teten
JUNE 7, 2011
Redistribution of resources and services through social platforms is creating new business and new revenue streams by monetizing previously underutilized assets. In 2004, Roo founded we:nited magazine – a youth politics magazine and website. Ebay, Etsy, AirBNB, and many more rapid growth businesses are redrawing the map of trade.
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