Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 So if your costs are $500,000 per month and you have $350,000 per month in revenue then your net burn (500-350) is equal to $150,000. But those of us with longer memories remember that the revenue line can move south very quickly when the market overall turns south.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2019

Founders need seed capital to get their operations up and running, and to begin generating revenue. For first time entrepreneurs or new entrants in a market, most initial problems start with failing to meet revenue projections — when product roll out is delayed, for example, or when it takes longer than expected to get revenue traction.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 9, 2019

If your primary goals are flexibility and scalability , internet-housed public cloud models such as Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure are optimal. In the worst case, you might end up with a cloud infrastructure that is a step down from your original solution — leading to lost customers and revenue.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Low fee: Lightning supports any size payment all the way down to sub 1 cent micropayments, which will unleash all kinds of new internet native, global commerce and even new payment types like “streaming” – imagine paying by the second for watching a movie or accessing car insurance. .

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Sam Cimino, Sales Manager SW of YouTube/Google As YouTube’s Southwest Regional Manager, Sam is responsible for generating revenue across YouTube and the Google Content Network which comprises a media network that reaches nearly 80% of all internet users worldwide. He was raised and educated in London.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

We particularly help companies in winning revenue from our LP network and raising capital for subsequent rounds from top-tier late-stage investors. Prehype , Rocket Internet , and numerous others. GOOG); Actua Corporation (ACTA, formerly Internet Capital Group); GSV Capital (GSVC); Harris & Harris Group, Inc.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. If you search the word “Affygility” we are the only company in the entire internet that displays. An interesting aside: revenue continued at old levels, even after slashing work hours by 60%). Buttercloth was born.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 24, 2011

Of course this is Survivor Bias at it’s finest; these examples don’t prove this is a great strategy , they just illustrate that it can work: Zappos decided to sell shoes over the Internet, even though it meant eating shipping costs as customers tried shoe after shoe, constantly returning merchandise on the basis of fit or look.

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Intellectual Property Open Source Bandwidth IP 242

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Digging through your IP closet for gold…. The Internet was young back when the patent was first filed by the Company, and their patented product allowed a visitor to dial into a computer (does anyone remember dial-up electronic bulletin boards?) Lots of work and millions of revenue in return. Don’t get me wrong though.

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Intellectual Property IP Internet Technology 62

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

This slinging of whatever against the wall to see what sticks does not a market make, is to me a sign of too much capital in the wrong hands, and it's already the most over invested area in recent years- in both human and financial capital- particularly relative to revenue. Otherwise it's a great idea.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Along with Greycroft Partners we were the first investors in Maker Studios 3 years ago when the company had no revenue and limited infrastructure. but not that this justifies take a 45% revenue share. Industry averages for talent revenue shares are about 70% with top talent making even more. ” YouTube takes 45%.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

I don’t know exactly when the agency to product transfer happened at Buddy, or at what point you can start calling yourself a software company (when service revenues dip below subscription/license revs?), They try to move more of their revenues to be recurring streams than to be hourly charges to a client.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 5, 2020

For instance, you can aim for: Improving the cash flow, Obtaining a larger market share, Beating the competition, Introducing a new product, Increasing revenue per buyer, Improving your market penetration, Reaching a new segment, and more. Web scraping (also known as data scraping ) is a process of gathering data from the Internet.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

Some networks are highly sophisticated, and organisers disguise their IP addresses. If you conduct some intricate research (detailed below), you may be able to identify the IP address of competing businesses. Loads of PPC platforms ( Google Ads included) allow you to blacklist IP addresses. . Competing businesses.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

As the first generation born into an established Internet, with a smartphone at hand from a young age, Gen Z’ers place a high value on self expression. Trend to watch : an equivalent to MCNs (Multi Channel Networks) on the early days of YouTube where creators band together to generate economies of scale (and share revenue).

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Agile VC

AUGUST 9, 2012

We also know lots of valid reasons why the company could be valued at far less than it once was including: Stalled Growth – revenue essentially flat over the last 4 quarters. Zynga’s trailing revenue is nearly $1.2B trailing revenue multiple. That much we all know.

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Agile VC

AUGUST 1, 2012

This question has lingered for Facebook and other consumer internet companies in recent months. The growth of internet connected smartphones and tablets is truly astonishing. ” This is broadly true for commerce based internet companies. Gameloft, Rovio) and a couple $1B+ revenue companies in Asia (GREE, DeNA).

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

For instance, Columbia has launched a variety of explicitly interdisciplinary centers in recent years, including the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute , Columbia Data Science Institute ; the Brown Institute for Media Innovation ; or cross-school courses such as Columbia Business and Engineering’s Research to Revenue course.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

For instance, while VPNs might have great DNS/IP protection for web browsing and email, when it comes to torrent clients they start leaking information all over the place. These services are almost always dependent upon ad revenues to survive, and use tracking cookies prolifically.

Canada 138

Canada IP Architecture Security 138

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Company generates revenue via premium accounts, targeted ads and transaction commission. Revenue of ~$160mm in 2008. students. -Is TechCrunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Sure, the revenue & margin will be significantly lower than traditional TV. It was then popularized into an Internet meme 3 days later by text an Australian group of guys called Sunny Coast Shake in what garnered about 300,000 views in a short period of time (now at 11.3 million views). means specifically one thing. Think Zork.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Credit and debit cards are easy and convenient, and accepting them has been proven to increase revenue by as much as 30 percent. Scanning only applies to merchants with externally-facing IP addresses. Are you properly protecting your business from the potential of tens of thousands of dollars in fines?

IP 67

IP Aggregator Security Operations 67

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Increasingly it became difficult to tell any system integration company apart and there was a whole new breed of competitors in the market helping companies build Internet businesses. Andersen had lost its long-time CEO, George Shaheen, was hemorrhaging staff and wasn’t exactly known as being an Internet pioneer.

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Turkey Differentiation IP Technical Review 302

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2023

So I've got my three year plan and it's mapped out exactly what's gonna happen, you know, 36 months from now where our revenue's gonna be and this is a plan and we're sticking to it. I mean I started, we didn't have the internet, you know, as one of our channels so to speak. These are all factors that matter.

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Technical Review Cofounder Kansas City Tulsa 65

The Next Web

OCTOBER 13, 2012

Virtually every major online venture that has done well has been replicated elsewhere in the world to cater to local markets, with copycats raking in revenues and leaving innovators fuming. The clones. If a business is online, there’s a copy (or several) of it.

Intellectual Property 136

Intellectual Property Differentiation Reputation Germany 136

Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2013

Today, Zayo has eclipsed $1.1Bin revenue and $600M in EBITDA, leading to an estimated Enterprise Value in the vicinity of $6B. Fiber was the workhorse of the Internet — and nothing would alter its importance for as far as the eye could see. Our biggest customers are the wireless carriers and big content/Internet companies.

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Bandwidth Colorado Startup IRR 147

The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Even if a mobile app developer manages to cross the distribution hurdle and starts raking in some revenue, the next challenge is even worse: getting copied. This kind of innovation would be hard to find in a traditional Chinese Internet company as usually they are copying others, copying those from the US and UK to bring them back to China.

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China Developer Intellectual Property Mobile 122

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 10, 2011

One of Nimesh's questions was that he is discovering that the BPO/call center industry does not give Internet access to employees; hence, the solution would not be accessible to them. I liked his approach to building an outsourcing solution: focusing on a niche and building in-depth skills and credibility within that vertical.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

in online revenue. Be it the news on TV, on the internet, in the paper or on the radio, we’re surrounded by a sea of negativity and sensationalism. can include t ips for CEO’s, leaders or managers to implement their own version of a Friday Forward in their companies). Why do you feel inspiration is important? .

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

From choosing a legal entity or jurisdiction to properly documenting IP assignments and stock issuances to complying with securities laws and avoiding potentially enormous tax penalties in the future, there is plenty here to warrant consulting a professional. Sales contracts accounting for significant revenue.

Intellectual Property 139

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Delaware Stock 139

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Do this at the very minimum for the 20% of the campaign that are responsible for 80% of your traffic / revenue. One of these days all web analytics vendors will migrate to the Asynchronous making the Internet a faster place to live in. Auditing your campaign tracking before they go live is a great idea. put traffic into Direct).

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Analytics Software Review Campaign Flash 122

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers. and we ultimately sold when we hit $14 million and had more than $30 million in backlog revenue. I learned about revenue recognition. The things you learn in tough environments. million, then $5.9m, $7.7m

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Venture Capital Hiring Software Review Stock Options 285

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Should the Warhol foundation, owners of Andy Warhol’s IP be paid out if you decide to “paint” a bottle of Scope in the AI-trained style of his Campbell’s Soup Can? You can’t train your ML tools on the cesspool that is the whole internet and not expect some potentially dangerous results.

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Generative AI IP Open Source Artificial Inteligence 97

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

But in my experience as an entrepreneur and now spending my time amongst investors I can generalize that almost all VC investments in early stage technology & Internet investments come down to just four key factors. Everyone has their own definition of momentum (user numbers, revenue, channel partners, biz dev deals, whatever).

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. Ran if for two years before we shut it down with almost no revenue achieved. One thing Id add: IP- and idea-defense isnt always the strategy behind the stealth tactic. It was yet another Web 2.0

Stealth 41

Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

To be specific, AdWords is currently 16 years old, and last year alone it generated well over $50B in revenue. They’ve been around for nearly 100 years, but they embraced technology and the Internet relatively early. Legal wasn't used to distribution via IP enabled devices. BBC MOBILE – Alex Pressland.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

We are on the high end of the range, and I think expecting less would be unrealistic unless you are building something really simple (and therefore with limited inherent IP). The best technique is just to lease / rent dedicated servers from hosts like SoftLayer, The Planet, etc, and pay several hundred dollars a month out of your revenues.

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