Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Next year I’m going to spend time in Seattle and Boulder in addition. Winning the contract meant that we would hit our quarterly revenue figure and be in good position for our annual sales target. Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software.

China 333

China Silicon Valley Software Review Technical Review 333

VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). I urge you to oppose HB 1192, the so-called “Software” Tax. CDs) – shouldn’t change whether the software should be taxed.

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Software SQL Colorado Fractional CTO 48

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Next year I’m going to spend time in Seattle and Boulder in addition. Winning the contract meant that we would hit our quarterly revenue figure and be in good position for our annual sales target. Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software.

China 328

China Silicon Valley Software Review Technical Review 328

YoungUpstarts

MAY 18, 2017

Who would have thought that the entire empire on which Microsoft is built, the Windows operating system with current annual revenues of about 7 billion dollars, was not the brainchild of Harvard dropout, Bill Gates, or his high school buddy Paul Allen.“ In fact other people thought of many of Microsoft’s great successes first.

Marketing 113

Marketing Seattle Operations California 113

A Crowded Space

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Notice the distinct absence of little things like revenue, customers, engagement metrics, or gross margin. Sometimes they are just building software for unsexy industries like the $380 billion global shipping industry. We have founders and wonderful portfolio companies in Seattle, San Diego, Chicago, and Atlanta.

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San Diego Software Review San Francisco Silicon Valley 60

Austin Startup

AUGUST 29, 2017

That goes for any industry, location or product; from enterprise SaaS in my home town of Austin, to live music ticket sales in Virginia, to B2C services in Seattle. At worst you will destroy hard earned revenue and/or profit. In software, services, or more complex product offerings, the packaging can get significantly more complicated.

Differentiation 54

Differentiation Virginia .Net B2C 54

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

But as sweet as that success has been (we invested pre-revenue in a small team) today my even more important news was the further expansion of our partner ranks. It was a software platform for allowing advertisers to purchase brand integration (product placements) as a standardized unit through a marketplace.

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Partner Los Angeles South Africa Cap Table 340

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m in Seattle this week. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really.

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Seattle Silicon Valley Technical Review Los Angeles 317

Gust

OCTOBER 16, 2012

This summer I conducted our third annual survey of the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue companies recently funded by angel groups in North America. For the first time, we asked for data from specific business sectors, as follows: All pre-revenue deals. Pre-revenue life Science, biotech and medical device deals. Organization.

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Angel Groups Valuation Pre-Money Valuation North Dakota 169

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

What makes it scalable and more of a marketing channel is that it's managed using software. If I can build a partner program using software with a thousand different partners, with a thousand different tactics, I, I have inherently a, a diversified portfolio. That, that stops work. They are the partner and the supplier are all in one.

Marketing 87

Marketing Affiliate Channel Software Review 87

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Seventy-six percent of all revenue in the U.S. It’s best to just let users try before they buy, and engage them for recurring and long-lasting revenues. People are now programmed to think that software is free. Russ Oja , Seattle Windows and Construction, LLC. . Apple App Store comes from in-app purchases.

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LLC Seattle .Net Software 149

adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Too Much Big Company Blood Theres an old joke about General Managers from a certain very large software company who think theyve "built" a billion-dollar business who then fail spectacularly at starting a company when they no longer have that big company business card. Thats a REALLY bad sign. Well, its not a joke.

Technical Review 41

Technical Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO Startup 41

Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

To provide some reference points, I surveyed thirteen angels groups in North American to determine their recent experience in negotiating the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue companies. See the 2010 data reported here: Current Pre-money Valuations of Pre-revenue Companies. Pre-money Valuation of Pre-revenue Companies.

Angel Groups 125

Angel Groups Valuation Pre-Money Valuation St. Louis 125

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2018

The Growth Edition (April 29th-May 1st) is for companies whose founders are already making a full-time living from their software products. The Starter edition is for founders who are not currently making a full-time living from their software products but who seek to do so in the future. Business of Software. Seattle, USA.

Las Vegas 124

Las Vegas Software Review Affiliate Cofounder 124

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I, I literally just wanted a pizza and I was a software developer and so I wrote a version, one of, of a neighborhood delivery guide showed me all the restaurants delivered to me. I was making about half as much money as I did as a software developer, which wasn't great, but it was like, okay, this is all right. I had quit my job.

Founder 80

Founder Chicago Kansas Startup 80

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

Could you go down to some obscure form of engineering software company or something of that nature? What’s the basic revenue play there? Hopefully next time I’m out the Seattle way we can meet in real life and have a beer or something of that nature. John Jantsch: How niche can you get with that? Rand Fishkin: Yeah.

Silicon Valley 32

Silicon Valley SEO Startup Technical Review 32

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

At 24 I was putting myself through college and running the creative services department at an energy systems engineering firm in Seattle when the company was purchased by a French firm. Before starting Bizstim Software Solutions I was a college professor and I had a tutoring company as a side hustle. Photo Credit: Andrea Heuston.

Entrepreneur 146

Entrepreneur Software Review LLC Web Development 146

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Ask Microsoft, Autodesk or Salesforce.com – the evidence was there from Seattle to Sand Hill Road. reinvented, with more people online and trained. It was mostly timing.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2015

24% experienced better deliverability and greater revenue. Because not only does “acquiring a new customer costs 6-7 times more than retaining and selling to an existing one,” but “existing customers are your most profitable source of recurring revenue.” They report total season revenue increases of up to 4%. Dynamic Prices.

Sales 48

Sales Software Review Seattle Email 48

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

Here in Boston the same dynamic as Silicon Valley has been afoot… at least in the software/internet sphere, the majority of startups have migrated from the suburban loop of Rt 128 back into the urban core of Boston & Cambridge. So why are software & internet startups more urban today than 5-10 years ago? link] leehower.

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Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Startup 185

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I managed to visit Seattle as part of the Australian national Magic The Gathering team in 1998, so that was the highlight of my career as a professional Magic player. Adding Ad Revenue. I paid him half of the Adsense revenue, which turned out to be about $500 a month, and he just managed the whole site. We increased the revenue.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Software Review Prospectus Audience 76

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. But of coursetheir main job is to build version 1 of their software. Software is not only moreconvincing, but a better way to explore ideas. You get to work on juicy kinds of work, likedesigning software. Wethought software was all that mattered.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

Software Review 285

Software Review Software St. Louis API 285

thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

Aaron Swartz made it into the Summer Founders Program with his flexible blogging/wiki software Infogami, which he had already been working on for some time. I flew out from Seattle, where I lived, to Boston to Paul’s lecture on the back of his essay,” Phil tells me. Apples China App Store Brings in 18% of Downloads, 3% of Revenue.

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Cofounder San Francisco Programming Founder 70