Rob Go

DECEMBER 28, 2011

So I thought I’d jot down some of the highlights I have seen from my vantage point in this 2011 Boston Consumer Web Year in Review. 61M in Q3 revenue, up 28% YoY. The company is expected to do around $500M in revenue in 2011 and has seen 50%+ growth YoY the past two years. IPO’s/Exits. market cap.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

For example, according to CBInsights nearly 140 machine intelligence have been acquired since 2011, with over 40 being bought so far in 2016. While these acquisitions have teams of great researchers, they rarely contribute actual revenue generating products (because most never reached that stage when they were acquired.)

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The next event will be on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, at 8:00 AM (PDT), register to attend here. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

We’ve taught two cohorts: 21 teams ending in December 2011 , and 24 teams ending in May 2012. The NSF I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class has different goals then the same class taught in a university or incubator. In an incubator, the Lean LaunchPad develops angel or venture-funded startups. Here’s what they found.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 19, 2012

We hope that this innovative tool will help small blog-shop businesses in Singapore to boost their efficiency and increase revenues.” TackThis has been in open beta since September 2011, and to date, have signed up nearly 1,000 retail merchants. TackThis is incubated by NUS Enterprise.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

I remind my students that I’m teaching them a methodology they can use the rest of their careers, not running an incubator. Hershey just bought Krave Jerky, a team in our 2011 Berkeley Lean LaunchPad class, for >$200 million. Every once in awhile a team ignores my advice and builds a company worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

For instance, Columbia has launched a variety of explicitly interdisciplinary centers in recent years, including the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute , Columbia Data Science Institute ; the Brown Institute for Media Innovation ; or cross-school courses such as Columbia Business and Engineering’s Research to Revenue course.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Since most companies have little to no revenue, who else has already invested in the deal is heavily weighted to prove value. Every week StartupDigest publishes weekly newsletters about the best events, jobs, and what to read for your industry. Follow McCann on Twitter @Mccannatron. Roberts also takes issue with the emphasis on ?social

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

For example, according to CBInsights nearly 140 machine intelligence have been acquired since 2011, with over 40 being bought so far in 2016. While these acquisitions have teams of great researchers, they rarely contribute actual revenue generating products (because most never reached that stage when they were acquired.)

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 9, 2011

PDT on the following dates: Thursday, June 16, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, June 23, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, June 30, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, July 21, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, July 28, 2011: Register Here. We will be holding future roundtables at 8 a.m.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 9, 2014

In May 2011, I wrote the post: Investor Nomenclature and the Venture Spiral. The party rounds , which were the range in late 2010 and early 2011, became less common and we started to see the smaller funds begin to lead rounds. Threshold for an IPO is higher Ten years ago, if you had $20M in revenue you were ready to go public.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. This never existed a decade ago.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 21, 2011

This is good news: A revenue model is always good to have early on to sustain a venture while the bigger scaling points are still being sorted out. Nimesh has pitched before, during the roundtable on March 10, 2011 , and came back with additional competitive analysis on his OpenTable-like restaurant reservation system.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

6, 2011 we hosted our 64th free One Million by One Million (1M/1M) strategy roundtable for entrepreneurs, and the first for this year. John already has a couple of customers, and needs about 50 customers to get to $1M in annual revenue. I like the idea, and recognize the problem. You can register for the next roundtable here.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

They gathered almost $30,000 in two months and were invited to a training session for a startup incubator, where they received training and $20,000 in cash. billion in revenue annually. Despite serious challenges, she was visionary and sold her company to AOL for more than $300 million in 2011. 18- FedEx by Frederick Smith.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

On the alumni side, we set up an incubator downtown, called the Columbia Startup Lab. … Of the cohort that just graduated I think eight are completely self-sufficient and actually revenue positive and another 10 are in Series A round financing. . It has been phenomenally successful. Wasn’t anybody giving you advice at the time?

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Fifty of its manufacturing activities and 70% of its consolidated revenues derive from global operations. During its 34 years, the BIRD Foundation has invested in more than 820 projects, which have yielded direct and indirect revenues of about $8 billion. HADASIT LAUNCHES JEWISH-ARAB BIOMED INCUBATOR IN GALILEE.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 24, 2016

So I thought to myself how can I help other entrepreneurs through the same issues – I now have the experience, so I wanted to setup a type of incubator/Venture capital arm. The year I founded the company (2011).ly I was in someone else’s shadow, they were using my patents, my ideas even my manufacturing facility.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

YouAppi (2011)- YouAppi creates adtech to streamline mobile user acquisition. The company’s chairman was the former General Chief of Staff of the IDF 2011-2015. Co-founders Ami Daniel and Matan Peled both served as naval officers. This interview with Ami sheds more light on the company.

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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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dondodge.typepad.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

from David Dalka - Creating Revenue and Retention - Chicago GSB MBA As discussed in my recent post about a TiE event on Chicago start ups, there are many factors to consider when taking in funding and employees. Web startups, which I presume is the kind of main interest amongst your readers, can be started completely without VC's.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

November 1, 2011 by Joshua Baer. 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. Include screenshots of your product , a video walk-through and one or two charts that display traction or revenue. November 1, 2011 19:55:36.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. I have a proposal written up including full cost and revenue projections. Once you’ve done that – then. 5% I believe.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 30, 2011

The site has 11 million page views a month, and Jeu expects 2011 revenues to be about $250k. The revenue models need to be revisited, and the customer acquisition strategy as well. PDT on the following dates: Thursday, June 23, 2011: Register Here Thursday, June 30, 2011: Register Here Thursday, July 21, 2011: Register Here.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

Finally, I will be speaking at The Commonwealth Club next Thursday, on August 11, 2011, at 6:30 p.m. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 16, 2012

g industry, which is estimated at $21 billion in revenue in 2011 according to this KMPG report. From Seed Incubators and Angels to the hedge funds investing in startups, the infographic below draws a good picture of the range of funds investing in digital startups in various stages. Gaming industry infographic.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. SM: Every incubator you look at takes pride in how exclusive they are. RS: What makes 1M/1M unique?

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Prestigious London-based Monocle magazine, a global briefing journal covering international affairs, business, culture and design, has chosen Haifa as the city with the most promising business potential for 2011. From 1999 to 2009, Teva’s revenue grew to about $14 billion from $1.3 billion in 2010.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? They are many more examples.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

He would know; he’s been backing tech start-ups since 1984, incubating at least one hen house full of millionaires.and probably a few empty ones. is mostly sanguine, claiming that the market’s standards for viability have increased since the 2000 bust and citing Twitter (revenue but no profit) as the model for the new public tech company.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

I’ve been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I’ve spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it. Those numbers are likely conservative. Open Sesame! (A

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