Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2015

I’m not saying don’t hire sales staff or market your products aggressively. I’m not saying you shouldn’t grow engineering or do PR. I see another breed of startups who are dependent on startups for the majority of their revenue. But as with any sales advice, revenue diversity matters.

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Up and Running

MAY 9, 2016

Census Bureau, in 2014, the construction industry as a whole generated $960 billion in annual revenue, and according to the U.S. Infrastructure: also known as heavy engineering, heavy/highway, or heavy civil, and usually encompasses large-scale public works projects, highways, roads, bridges, dams, utilities, and water/wastewater systems.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 1, 2011

Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared to keeping my mind in check. As the founding CEO, every hire and every decision that the company ever made happened under my direction. If a great engineer quit, that was my fault. You are all alone.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

And this rapid prototyping thing when your back's against the wall and your revenue model's gone from 100% to 10%, if you're a small business, restaurant owner or you're running a small curbside, even a consignment store, I'm trying to help a leader understand how he can serve. So, how are you investing in being even better?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

A complete collapse of revenue that simultaneously affects your employees and your customers, your partners, your investors, everyone all at once and all the news is bad. And these are people that we spent so much time to hire. I'm perhaps an oddity of Silicon Valley because I'm not an engineer by training. So then what?

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

You should have a good solid executive summary, you should have full financials, and that means a projected balance sheet, P&L and cash flow. Now you’re going to move into your revenue model. Okay, so now your revenue model, so this is—. You’re the engineer; you’re the person who creates the product or service.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

The company had a wild year, from the initial crisis management that came in the form of restructuring the company and refunding millions of dollars off their own balance sheet, to lobbying Congress, to provide support to hosts, [and] launching initiatives to provide housing for frontline healthcare workers. And I said, “Why?”

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

The company had a wild year, from the initial crisis management that came in the form of restructuring the company and refunding millions of dollars off their own balance sheet, to lobbying Congress, to provide support to hosts, [and] launching initiatives to provide housing for frontline healthcare workers. And I said, “Why?”

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Companies with less than $2 million in revenue were asking for $50-60 million valuations and getting them. On the positive side, corporate profits are up, their balance sheets have been repaired and they have recapitalized themselves to have lower amounts of debt relative to equity. was still a term being bandied about.

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