Version One Ventures
OCTOBER 15, 2020
And >40% of that revenue is coming from in-game purchases. When they can invest the marginal engineering hour in listing a new token that drives revenue vs. saving some costs on settlement, it’s hard to justify. The app could then take a small % of all revenue from “paid” messages. account-based identity model to the Web 3.0
Scalable Startup
AUGUST 26, 2014
As further market proof of the power of Drupal in the enterprise, Acquia has received about $100 million in funding in the past 3 months, which puts its valuation at over $1 billion. Plus, there are tons of expenses like servers, bandwidth, office space, travel and the time of many professionals. Because they are open source.
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Scalable Startup
JULY 20, 2013
Spell-guesser, auto-fill, travel, accounting, calculating company valuations, facebook, pinterest, dropbox, codecademy, me writing this blog are all managed by a SaaS platform. This saves energy, mistakes, cost, time, client computer memory and bandwidth. The software just doesn’t leave it’s cloud hosts anymore.
thebarefootvc
DECEMBER 16, 2011
Discovery, in contrast to search, took center stage as Pinterest displayed hockey stick growth (and raised VC money near a $200M valuation in late 2011). The viral nature of social media no doubt aided this growth, as did improvements in the online shopping experience.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
— Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. Typically, this caliber of bankers wouldn’t talk to you unless your company had five profitable quarters of increasing revenue.
The Next Web
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
Prospective buyers are going to want to dig deep into your business in order to understand drivers for revenue, as well as potential risks. Engaging the right external resources to help with this is critical – you may not have the bandwidth across your existing team, so you need to judge this early. Pay attention to NDAs.
Ben's Blog
MARCH 24, 2011
As we do so, keep in mind that the relevant bubble statistic is not valuation. High valuations are fine if the underlying value is there. In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. If too much venture capital hits the streets, valuations will bubble up.
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