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JUNE 13, 2019

I know some of the investors in Chewy prior to the PetSmart acquisition, but I am not a shareholder nor do I intend to purchase shares in the IPO. revenue business still growing >50% YoY? Chewy now has over 10 million customers, repeat purchases by existing customers account for approximately 90% of their revenue today.

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MARCH 16, 2016

Look out for bootstrapped CarGurus , one of the leading used-car properties, targeting over $150M in revenue this year. Put all that together, and consider that this is a company that thinks in decades or even centuries, and we’re bound to see both more jobs and more acquisitions. Want the next TripAdvisor or Wayfair?

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Boston Early Stage Artificial Inteligence Semantic 215

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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. Prior to InVision, Jessica held several senior marketing roles at HubSpot, helping the company grow from $18m to $130m+ in revenue, and from a private company through a successful IPO. Back to Top).

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Operations Cofounder Technical Review Angel Investor 176

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JANUARY 20, 2015

And even acquisitions painted as successes may look very different below the (typically confidential) surface. But during the year 2000, we went through three different CEOs, fraud nearly killed the company, our revenue was negligible and unproven, and at our worst point, the company was burning well over $10 million a month — A MONTH!

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MARCH 22, 2016

Even if you’re in the pre-revenue, pre-seed or seed stage, there are still ways to get on a reporter’s radar. A business publication may care less about the technical nuances, but you can bet they’ll want to hear about your numbers and your strategy for raising revenue. This one is tricker in the pre-revenue stage.

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Seed Stage San Francisco Startup CTO Hire 120

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AUGUST 30, 2016

Acquisitions are happening more and more, while companies like PillPack, Actifio, CarGurus, OnShape, Acquia, Applause, and others continue to march forward. In addition, look at Facebook’s revenue per user growth globally over the past few quarters. A few years ago, HubSpot released their unit economics on David Skok’s blog.

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Social Media B2B North America Media 185

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

they can range from customer acquisition, product engagement/stickiness, or business model. growth/revenue target) to get to the next stage/financing round. disprove certain hypothesis so you can move on); otherwise they should either move your top line (revenue) or your bottom line (margin/profit) directly or indirectly (e.g.

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APRIL 23, 2015

Additionally, if you’re talking to VCs, it’s implied that you’re thinking big and thinking about a large acquisition or IPO, as well as generating hundreds of millions in revenue. Their business models are, in many cases, focused on outlier exits within the portfolio.

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