A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. We just announced a few more things. Late last year we passed $100M in annual recurring revenue. Every day, 5% of the entire online world visits a customer running on the WP Engine Digital Experience Platform.

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Engineer Revenue San Francisco Security 152

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

If you like this, go see his Shockwave Innovations blog ) Anyone that has taken an accounting class or learned basic business financials knows the interaction between key elements of a P&L (revenue, cost, expense) and a balance sheet (assets, liabilities, equity). Measure, assess, refine, repeat.

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Churn Rate .Net Metrics Hosting 288

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

And when you look at the tools that we use, I mean we’ve made so many technological advances, but really to manage a meeting there’s not a practical tool available. We use email; we use Word; we use task manager; we use a file sharing tool. They are so happy that they finally have a tool to manage their business.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Review Management 220

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 20, 2011

Even if you’ve managed to scrape together ten million dollars of revenue over the past five years, that’s still just a drop in the bucket, irrelevant, not worth their time. Salesforce.com recently bought Heroku for $250m because the latter controlled fully-managed Ruby on Rails deployments. Actually, no. Actually, no.

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