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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Late last year we passed $100M in annual recurring revenue. That revenue is in on 75,000 customers, earned through the hard work of 500 employees across six offices on three continents. It’s the heroin-hit that hooks the entrepreneur. (The We just announced a few more things. We have never been in a stronger position.

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19 Entrepreneurs Share Their #1 Goals for 2024

Hearpreneur

Often entrepreneurs and business owners create their New Year’s Resolutions around their businesses. It could be more revenue, hiring clients, or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. It’s almost new year and right after the ball drops, it’s time to go to work.

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IIoT Drives Sustainability, Safety, Revenues in Energy

The Startup Magazine

Jory brings over a decade of experience in entrepreneurship, flow theory and security technology. The post IIoT Drives Sustainability, Safety, Revenues in Energy appeared first on The Startup Magazine. Founder & Former CEO of GlobalRim, a solar GPS company and MeshMe, an offline communication platform.

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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

New tech entrepreneurs can find it difficult to surmount the onslaught of obstacles to getting a new business off the ground. Seeing a 200-percent revenue growth in just the first year after securing that loan, TRISTAR took out an additional $500,000 SBA-backed loan to expand its physical presence into two more locations.

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What Are Apps Doing With Your Data? Five Things To Know About Data Privacy And Security

YoungUpstarts

Hughes is neither the first nor the only tech entrepreneur to blow the whistle over data privacy concerns, and the problems he identifies are not limited to social media. Look for the company message and prioritization of security. Take the time to do a simple Google search on a company’s privacy and security policies.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments In 2021

Hearpreneur

In the last few days of 2021, we took some time to ask a few entrepreneurs and businesses what their biggest business accomplishments were. #1- Our membership network of thousands of small business owners and entrepreneurs across hundreds of local chapters nationwide feel like they belong to an entire community now.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

So you’re interested in raising capital from a Revenue-Based Investor VC. A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors (“RBI”) are emerging. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Rational burn profile, up to 50% of revenue at close, scaling down. Bigfoot Capital.

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