Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2012

In 2011 Facebook paid out $1.4 Both companies generate direct revenue from their platform in the form of a revenue share / platform tax (typically 30%) on software and digital goods sold through the respective platforms. Apple generated nearly $130B in revenue in 2011. June 5, 2012.

Java 170

Java Flash Software Azure 170

View from Seed

JUNE 13, 2019

The company launched in 2011 and then was acquired by PetSmart for over $3 billion in 2017 (PetSmart itself owned by PE firm BC Partners), but Chewy is now preparing for life as a standalone public company. revenue business still growing >50% YoY? Is Chewy Still a Rapidly Growing Business? Embedded Growth From Existing Customers.

Leadership 214

Leadership .Net Revenue Acquisition 214

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. Israel Corporation is Israel’s largest holding company.

Peru 96

Peru Technical Review North America 96

www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Doubling SaaS Revenue By Changing The Pricing Model. It only tends to weakly proxy revenue. Yes, in general, a company with 10 servers tends to have more commercial success than a company with 1 server, but there are plenty of single-server companies with 8 figures of revenue. Results From Testing: 100% Increase In Revenue.

Revenue 62

Revenue Distribution Software Non-Compete 62

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The daily customer engagement, whether from your customer success team, sales team, or customer support team, contains crucial market and revenue intelligence. A SaaS-based revenue startup was initially saving all their sales call recordings in Google Drive. Salesloft was founded in the year 2011 in Atlanta, GA.

Conversion 78

Conversion Technical Review Startup Software Review 78

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. They have have raised $2-3 million, built a product that has some amount of market traction and got to annualized revenues of around $1 million.

Startup 418

Startup Revenue Technical Review Flash 418

VC Adventure

AUGUST 31, 2017

Beyond that, they actually went back in time and looked at the earlier stage periods for these companies so we can track how some of the world’s best SaaS companies performed at revenue levels more akin to the typical Series B business. Companies in the study that scored 40% of greater had TTM revenue multiples of 6.4x

IPO 113

IPO Vertical Balance Sheet Valuation 113

Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Had I begun this tradition earlier, for those wondering, it would’ve been Airbnb in 2012, and Uber in 2011.). 2/ The Metrics-Momentum Signal: According to Forbes , Airtable’s revenues are slated to grow 4x this year to $20M annualized, with over 80,000 different companies using some part of the platform.

Technical Review 127

Technical Review Open Source Software Review Venture Capital 127

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2011

Even though it has been a long haul, it’s nice to see some optimism surfacing in 2011. A majority of small business leaders intend to be more aggressive in 2011 by implementing a range of actions to advance their businesses. Respondents cited a greater focus on operating efficiencies as the number one step to achieving growth in 2011.

Small Business Administration 224

Small Business Administration SBA Japan Forecast 224

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

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. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. This never existed a decade ago.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. At GE the biggest problem in 2017 was major revenue misses in their Power business.)

Institutional Investors 233

Institutional Investors Dividend Stock Technical Review 233

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

According to Forrester Research (2011 report) 77% users who abandoned an online purchase cite the inability to speak to some as their primary reason for leaving. RingRevenue grew it’s revenue 3x 2010 over 2011 and is on track to grow more than 3x again in 2012 with no signs of slowing. We have ridden the mobile wave.

New York 311

New York Mobile Technical Review Software Review 311

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

April 17, 2011. GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Quinstreet priced at $15.00/sh

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2011

I just read the Q1 2011 report from CB Insights , which shows venture capital is back. Your friends and family are really the only answer until you have a significant revenue stream. Use friends, family, and angels, if possible, to get a product, revenue, and customers first before the VC connection. Overall, investors put $7.5

Venture Capital 233

Venture Capital Revenue Elevator Pitch Silicon Valley 233

Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

In 2011, the valuation of pre-revenue, start-up companies is typically in the range of $1.5–$2.5 Such comparisons can only be made for companies at the same stage of development, in this case, for pre-revenue startup ventures. As can be seen the average (mean) pre-money valuation for recent pre-revenue deals is $2.1

Valuation 146

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Intellectual Property Technical Review 146

YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2012

Some of the success found in the auto industry today is due to recovery in Japan, where a year after the March 11, 2011 earthquakes, top auto makers have once again reached pre-earthquake levels. Following a boost in holiday retail sales, the service industry has experienced a fast pace of growth in late 2011 and early 2012.

Iowa 176

Iowa Technical Review India United States 176

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

June 5, 2011. They’ve grown from nothing to >$2B in revenue in 30 months time, making the company among the fastest growing businesses in the histroy of the world. Filing Date: initial filing June 2, 2011. How They Make Money: Groupon keeps a share of the coupon value (typically 40-50%) as its net revenue (1).

North America 100

North America Chicago Boston Silicon Valley 100

Agile VC

JUNE 13, 2019

The company launched in 2011 and then was acquired by PetSmart for over $3 billion in 2017 (PetSmart itself owned by PE firm BC Partners), but Chewy is now preparing for life as a standalone public company. revenue business still growing >50% YoY? Is Chewy Still a Rapidly Growing Business? Embedded Growth From Existing Customers.

Leadership 100

Leadership .Net Revenue Acquisition 100

Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2019

So in 2011, with support from the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (the entrepreneurship center in the Stanford Engineering School), we created a new capstone entrepreneurship class – the Lean LaunchPad. If you had dropped by in 2011, the first time I taught the class, and then stuck your head in today, you’d say it was the same class.

Lean 248

Lean Business Model Balance Sheet Video 248

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Wednesday, February 23, 2011. It would have been easy to explain the difference by changes in the 2010/2011 revenue growth projections but unfortunately that is not the case. revenues while large caps are trading at 6.4x. ▼ 2011. (2). SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble? What happened? sales and marketing. (10).

Software Review 101

Software Review Technical Review Valuation Europe 101

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

APRIL 28, 2011

you might have 1000 play your game, 50 of them pay, and 1 of them give you half your revenue. Urbanspoon traffic doubled year to year, 7 figure a year revenue, 3 ppl built the company. Almost every app category has a dominate app – social fb , weather weather.com , etc. Word of mouth is a big influence for app discovery.

Portland 63

Portland Oregon Mobile Incubator 63

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Through the great work of many other Intuit employees, Intuit Payments would eventually become a roughly $1B business for Intuit and a key enabling feature for over half of Intuit’s small business revenue. I was generously rewarded the Intuit Founders Award in 2011 for helping get it started.

Incubator 121

Incubator Cofounder Green Programming 121

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2015

With an impressive product lineup of new iPhones, Apple watches, iPads and an all-new Apple TV queued for shipment this week, 2015 is the most successful year of revenue growth for Apple , according to Apple’s CEO Tim Cook. The online retailer Amazon experienced an 18 percent growth of revenue in 2015. percent) to 2014 (21.9

San Diego 100

San Diego Fort Worth Los Angeles Indianapolis 100

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

billion in revenue annually. He envisioned a means for long-distance partners and team members to stay in touch when he founded the audio-visual cloud conferencing platform Zoom in 2011. Despite serious challenges, she was visionary and sold her company to AOL for more than $300 million in 2011. 8- Eric Yuan, Zoom.

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur Software Review Las Vegas Bankruptcy 114

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2015

In February 2011, the company’s NPS was very high at 73 percent. Then, in the fall of 2011, the company decided to split off its home delivery of DVDs and the streaming service into two companies, which angered customers. Netflix offers a great example.

Customer 100

Customer Analytics Revenue .Net 100

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

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.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

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.

Artificial Inteligence 122

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

To provide some reference points, I surveyed thirteen angels groups in North American to determine their recent experience in negotiating the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue companies. See the 2010 data reported here: Current Pre-money Valuations of Pre-revenue Companies. 2011 Angel Group Valuation Survey. Current Average.

Angel Groups 125

Angel Groups Valuation Pre-Money Valuation St. Louis 125

VC Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2011

Back in January 2011, Groupon bought out Grouper.co.il , Israel’s first to market daily deal site for an estimated $8-15 million US dollars. On August 3rd, 2011, BUY2 bought out competitor Deal Hayom for 2 million shekels ($568,000, 08/06/11, Hebrew article). and BUY2 is succeeding. 90,000, and Groupon.co.il made a palsy ?

Aggregator 102

Aggregator Marketing Germany 102

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2017

Among many other strategies employed by e-retailers, improving the customer experience seems to carry a significant weight in increasing revenues. Retaining a customer involves keeping them engaged, anticipating their needs, and making sure your brand stays at the top of their mind whenever they are thinking about purchasing again.

Software Review 133

Software Review Technical Review Retention Channel 133

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2011

This will represent around six-percent of Singapore’s total e-commerce volume for 2011. “We Highest reported monthly revenue in the survey stands at S$20,000. Less than four-percent of active bloggers/blogshop owners say they use paid advertising to drive online traffic.

Singapore 190

Singapore Hosting Global Advertising 190

View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

Fareed Mosavat is the product lead for Upgrades and Expansion at Slack, focused on revenue growth for Slack’s small business customers. Before Sunrise, Pierre became a UX designer at Foursquare after impressing CEO Dennis Crowley during a 2011 Foursquare hackathon. She holds a degree in Psychology from Harvard University. Back to Top).

Operations 176

Operations Cofounder Technical Review Angel Investor 176

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

In fact, they generated $100k in revenues over the last year, since they first pitched at one of our roundtables. Effectively, Sunil is speaking to a trend that I have been discussing recently on my blog that companies like Groupon are pointing at: revenue sharing with merchants for providing marketing services.

India 123

India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 7, 2011

So, I’m psyched that I get to play TechStars 2011 Startup Madness this march. Haven’t raised funding of $250,000 or more and haven’t generated revenue of more than $250,000 in a single year. We are picking 64 companies to participate. To qualify, you must enter by March 9th and meet the following requirements.

Startup 132

Startup Revenue Internet Programming 132

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

I advised Anupam to come up with a 2011 strategy. PDT on the following dates: Thursday, June 23, 2011: Register Here Thursday, June 30, 2011: Register Here Thursday, July 21, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, July 28, 2011: Register Here And you can sign up for the 1M/1M premium program here.

Spain 115

Spain Entrepreneur India San Francisco 115

Austin Startup

JANUARY 12, 2012

SailPoint today announced it posted record annual revenue growth in 2011 and closed its largest growth quarter to date in Q4 2011. The company’s momentum resulted from growing customer demand in all geographies and the strong industry validation SailPoint received in 2011 as an identity management market leader.

Global 76

Global Demand Revenue Customer 76

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

The survey also revealed that 77-percent of companies experienced revenue growth (61-percent had profit growth) in 2012; however, there was a 9-percent decline in the response on profit growth in 2012 to 61-percent as compared to 2011 profit performance.

Singapore 133

Singapore Cost Technical Review Retention 133