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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

People said there’s no money in hosting. Late last year we passed $100M in annual recurring revenue. That revenue is in on 75,000 customers, earned through the hard work of 500 employees across six offices on three continents. WordPress is just a toy. I’m sure people said similar things to Heather when she joined as our CEO.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In November 2011, David Rosenblatt took over as CEO and has been scaling the company ever since. Poshmark was founded by Manish Chandra in 2011. Julie Wainwright founded The Real Real in 2011. In November of this year, the company announced that it had achieved “substantially” more than $1B in revenue in the third quarter.

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21 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Eventually, the company was led to global dominance by Alfred P. Forbes, Shopify, and Gillette are among the clients who have learned how FUBU developed a successful global brand. billion in revenue annually. Despite serious challenges, she was visionary and sold her company to AOL for more than $300 million in 2011.

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How To Create Buzz Around Your Startup

David Teten

Host an event. If you have office space that isn’t used during the evenings, consider hosting an event to discuss your company or other themes pertinent to the startup / tech scene. ff Venture Capital recently hosted an event in its offices to feature two of its portfolio companies: MovableInk and Parse.ly.

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[Singapore] LiveJournal Blogshops Record S$96 Million In Transactions For 2011

YoungUpstarts

But blogshopping – shopping online via blogshops – has indeed taken off in a very big way: according to a LiveJournal survey, some 480,000 people visit LiveJournal-hosted, Singapore-based blogshops every month with an intention to shop. This will represent around six-percent of Singapore’s total e-commerce volume for 2011.

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Innovate Israel Conference Brings 28 Israeli startups to London

VC Cafe

Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD. Cell Buddy will be the world’s first Mobile Virtual Global Operator (MVGO). ClarityRay - Company Website.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter December 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Virtualization and cloud computing products allow multiple users to run on a single physical host, with each virtual machine sharing the resources of that hardware across multiple environments. Global business magazine placed Teva CEO Shlomo Yanai 20th on its list of the top 50 leading businesspeople in the world.