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Ted Rheingold Founded Dogster in 2004: Five Questions About Building a Startup, Selling a Startup and Whether SF Is Still a Good Place

Hunter Walker

Dogster launched January 12, 2004 (Happy 12th Birthday Dogster!) I wish I could claim I deftly foresaw this, but I was just seeking recurring revenue to to cover OneMatchFire’s office expenses. Though I should point out was still doing client work for OneMatchFire until mid-2005 until the business could pay full salaries.

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The Coming Zombie Startup Apocalypse

This is going to be BIG.

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? Most internet opportunities were of modest scale – often worth pursuing – but not usually worth taking public.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers. I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). and we ultimately sold when we hit $14 million and had more than $30 million in backlog revenue.

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28 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why they Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

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 Kent Lewis, Anvil Media. #4 software.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. I started my business back in 2004 when I wanted to escape the corporate rat race. The revenue on the darkroom rental was close to what I was making weekly, I was in disbelief. I was sitting in a pool and wondering about home. I was thinking about Vancouver.

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10 Rules for Winning (and Making More Money) in 2014

ConversionXL

And you know what – this was mostly in 2012 (+ Moneyball came out in 2004). Everyone is welcome on every public website on the internet. . It’s like saying “I don’t want to learn how to code, can I just get a top developer salary without it?” So this is the past. This leads me to rule #1. #1.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

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. .”). Thin line between life and death of internet service is a number of users.