Rob Go

DECEMBER 28, 2011

IPO’s/Exits. Kayak: Registered for an IPO but on hold. 61M in Q3 revenue, up 28% YoY. Raised $174M in its IPO in April, current market cap ~$550M. in its IPO, current market cap of $282M. The company is expected to do around $500M in revenue in 2011 and has seen 50%+ growth YoY the past two years.

Technical Review 54

Technical Review Boston Software Review IPO 54

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

A VC: MBA Mondays: Revenue Models – Subscriptions – [link]. Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5 10 brilliant examples of responsive design in ecommerce | Econsultancy - [link]. The Science of Productivity: How To Get More Done In Less Time – [link].

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2018

Potential investors love to see gross margins in the fifty percent range or greater, with recurring revenue through subscriptions, follow-on sales, or services. Online and ecommerce businesses are especially attractive here, since they are instantly worldwide and not people-intensive. Business model showing costs, pricing, and margins.

Product 145

Product Intellectual Property Liquidity Event Exit Strategy 145

Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

unfortunately, social commerce morphed to mean solutions like Facebook eCommerce stores offered by numerous small vendors who are now mostly no longer in business. This, by the way, isn’t very different from how the term social commerce became muddled after Bazaarvoice first started promoting it in 2006 to describe what we do?—?unfortunately,

Networking 48

Networking Fractional CTO CTO Hire B2C 48

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

They’ve had a total of 12 deals that have IPO’d. eCommerce is hot again! We discussed whether investing in the second largest player in a category makes sense given that Groupon is 10x the revenue, 3.5x But LivingSocial is reportedly doing around $180,000 per day in gross revenue. Yes, that’s right.

IPO 236

IPO .Net Venture Capital Strategic Investors 236

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

It is a non-profit, unlike eTail or Internet Retailer (today I hear that Shoptalk is the biggest eCommerce conference), and it is where the highest level people in digital retail go as a result. They will bring you revenue, delight your clients (the right salespeople care about the ultimate value delivered?—?not

Software Review 48

Software Review Sales Cofounder Analytics 48

The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 8, 2012

According to Paul most startups should look at revenue growth, but active users is a good proxy for companies that aren’t charging their customers (yet). Growth is the main driver of value in our companies and it is what makes them exciting to IPO investors and acquirers. I disagree that growth should be the sole focus though.

Silicon Valley 149

Silicon Valley IPO eCommerce Valuation 149

The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Revenues for the July-September quarter were $569m, up 32% on the year ago and losses narrowed considerably to $3m for the quarter. All the growth came from Groupon’s new direct ecommerce business.). Groupon will be ok now, even if their IPO investors will lose nearly all their money.

IPO 104

IPO Marketing Venture Capital eCommerce 104

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The average revenue multiple is now 17x+, close to 10 times higher than during the 2008 crisis! On the IPO front, the one word that comes to mind is “supersize”. We can see ecommerce/marketing has been boosted by COVID and security is in second place, with cyber criminality not slowing down.

Europe 71

Europe Cloud Silicon Valley 71

Version One Ventures

JULY 20, 2015

Our rule of thumb is that marketplaces at scale are valued at roughly 1x annualized GMV (typically about 6-8x annual revenue). Consensus estimate of approximately $270M for 2015 revenue. Etsy had a market cap of about $2.22B as of July 20, with a revenue multiple of 8.2 immediately following its IPO). for 2015 GMV.

Valuation 60

Valuation Early Stage IPO eCommerce 60

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

My first day at Bazaarvoice was just a few weeks later, on May 2, 2005, and we built a company from inception to IPO on around $12m of capital use (out of the $24m we raised) in 7 years, creating over a thousand jobs and impacting clients all over the world?—?starting I built the eCommerce engine myself and self-funded the business.

Bootstrapping 48

Bootstrapping Austin Equity Cofounder 48

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

So today, less than two years after the video, he is highlighting that Uber’s San Francisco revenues are a “healthy multiple” bigger than the historic market for both limousines and taxis. He then goes on to note that the San Francisco market for car ownership is closer to $22 billion. And Uber is still growing quite nicely in that market.

San Francisco 111

San Francisco San Jose Marketing Technical Review 111

Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2016

For example, ater working with a handful of small businesses, I realized buzz words like “SEO” were often thrown about as a way to generate revenue, but few knew how to make them work for their business. Since then, we moved our storefront to Amazon and our own eCommerce website. Then that SEO service is pointless.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur SEO Web Merger 48

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

Their last company was in the telephony meets Internet infrastructure space and the three RR founders were there through the IPO. eCommerce companies that don’t recognize this are turning away business. 3) Publishers (media companies) are missing out on this revenue by not bridging the offline / online component.

Mobile 329

Mobile Advertising Affiliate Internet 329

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

Meanwhile, Meg Whitman helped Pierre Omidyar’s eBay become the second most powerful ecommerce company in the world (trailing only Amazon). Dan went on to continue being a very successful company builder, becoming the CEO of Rocket Lawyer and, among other successes, quadrupling its revenues.).

Founder 78

Founder Hiring Cofounder Hawaii 78

ConversionXL

AUGUST 23, 2020

According to a study of 3,000 mobile searchers by Google & IPOS, nearly half indicated that they are more likely to convert elsewhere if they can’t call a business directly from the search result. That’s kind of a big deal.

Mobile 112

Mobile Analytics Web Conversion 112

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 23, 2014

According to a study of 3,000 mobile searchers by Google & IPOS, nearly half indicated that they are more likely to convert elsewhere if they can’t call a business directly from the search result. The ability to record phone sales, which is starting to surface in some platforms, is one way to distinguish quality calls from lesser ones.

Mobile 117

Mobile Analytics Lead Generation Web 117