YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2015

As the end of the fiscal year approaches, it is critical for businesses to determine what initiatives where successful, as well as what were financial weights in order to create strategic operational goals that will result in increased revenues and reduced costs in the next year. Here are five things to look at: 1. Review What Worked.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2013

Quantification : the measurement of various benchmarks from number of customers, time of visits, products purchased, to revenue; and. Usually described in terms of money (revenue), business model, customer, and other standards; 3. Orchestration : how everything fits together in a systematic fashion where nothing is left to chance.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. The world of building profitable startups as the primary goal of Venture Capital would end in 1995.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 2, 2015

With the end of the 2015 fiscal year nearing, businesses may be reviewing their consolidated revenues and thinking of ways they can increase their profit margin as they enter the new fiscal year or second-half of the calendar year. A large portion of a company’s revenues can be wasted on unneeded expenses.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Increase current conversion rate by 25%, quantify how much increased revenue there will be. Aim for quintupling revenue, obviously, but calculating just 25% improvement will give you all the budget you need from your management to insert urgency into the shopping process. Yes, from 1995! Significantly higher revenue awaits.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2014

” I bootstrapped my first company and, while we did a lot of work for VCs, I liked taking money from them as “revenue” (where they paid Feld Technologies for our services) rather than as investment. I’d say – very bluntly – “stay away from VCs.” Feld Technologies was acquired in November 1993.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. (If

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2019

Together, they brought in total revenues of over $275 billion in 2018. The online classified site’s interface has remained mostly unchanged since it debuted in 1995. No one could call Craigslist a beautifully designed website – even in 1995. Simply showing up online with a business website isn’t enough to guarantee success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

The company now has more than 160,000 employees and revenues of $44 billion. As an entrepreneur, she grew EBay from 30 employees and $4 million in annual revenue to more than 15,000 employees and $8 billion in annual revenue, before moving on to HP. He built an overnight competitor to the U.S. Postal Service.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2013

The company now has more than 200,000 employees and revenues of $21 billion. As an entrepreneur, she grew EBay from 30 employees and $4 million in annual revenue to more than 15,000 employees and $8 billion in annual revenue, before moving on to HP. He built an overnight competitor to the U.S. Postal Service.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

The company now has more than 160,000 employees and revenues of $44 billion. As an entrepreneur, she grew EBay from 30 employees and $4 million in annual revenue to more than 15,000 employees and $8 billion in annual revenue, before moving on to HP. He built an overnight competitor to the U.S. Postal Service.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

Until 1995 startups going public typically had a track record of revenue and profits. Netscape’s 1995 IPO changed the rules. Suddenly there was a public market for companies with limited revenue and no profit. One of the ways most predictable ways for an investor to sell these shares was to take a company “ public.”

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 7, 2015

I originally invested in Harmonix as an angel investor in 1995. It’s rise was well chronicled in this awesome Inc. Magazine long form story titled Just Play.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

This is the use of game-thinking and game mechanics in business applications for marketing, to enhance user engagement, accelerate revenue flow, and expedite application learning. This is the youngest demographic, people born after 1995, who are sought-after by all new businesses. Gamification. Startup pivot.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

Meanwhile, a Scandinavian media company called Schibsted, whose publications had been free online since 1995, has begun scoring visitors on their likelihood of subscribing using information it has paired from Facebook and then customizing ads touting the benefits of becoming a subscriber. A lot of eyeballs.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Software revenue trails hardware slightly and ad revenue always takes a couple years to shift, but even here the results are astounding. Facebook will do $7-8B in revenue this year, essentially none was from mobile ads last year and now >40% of their ad revenue is from mobile ads.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 4, 2014

If you take the 1995 Netscape IPO as the start of the internet advertising market then that industry went from inception to decline in 19 years. Yesterday I noted that the desktop advertising has also peaked. There’s a similar story there.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

” Here’s the summary of his track record (excerpted from the Fast Company article): Forefront — IPO’ed in 1995 by CBT — CBT stock fell 85% in 1998 and prompted class-action lawsuits. GroupOn’s engine that turned capital into revenue growth was a form of force-feeding rather than building a product).

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Spencer Fry

JULY 16, 2013

A little background on me for anyone who hasn’t been reading my articles since 2009: I started selling on the Internet when I was eleven years old, in 1995. It’s revenue. Revenue comes from sales. If you don’t have sales, you don’t have revenue, and without revenue, you will die.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 4, 2012

A little known fact about us is that he was the only person I knew in Boulder when Amy and I moved here in 1995 (he moved to the east coast within the next year.) We were 12 people and slightly more than $1 million in revenue. If you want a sample, download a free chapter (GE’s key decision) and read Verne’s six page Introduction. .

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In 1995 there were ~1,350 public hospitals representing ~27% of the industry. Sometimes buyers are able secure continued tax revenue, applied either as a property millage or sales tax. High regulation in the post-industrial economy added to the public health system complexity.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

One could argue that there’s nothing new here, as Internet distibution models started in 1995. Drive for a repeatable and scalable business model (revenue in Dave McClure’s investment thesis, “ network of scale &# in Union Square’s.). But in reality they only became mainstream ~5-7 years ago.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

In January of 1995, Miller opened the doors to Miller Paper Company and started with $300K in savings and 15 employees. Today the business is generating over $7M in annual revenue and has been on D&B’s list of the nation’s fastest growing companies. Business has not been a walk in the park, to say the least.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 18, 2021

because you found more gold, or reached a revenue target. Catan, published in 1995, became an international hit, and popularized the German game genre throughout the world, including in America. Similarly, in RuneQuest or in real life, you might succeed or fail on your quest or your product launch. But you don’t say, “I won!”

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

DECEMBER 13, 2018

If your audience cannot remember your name then you will lose sales and revenue sources. In 1995, Jeff Bezos made an online book seller named Cadabra , Earth’s biggest bookstore. Even if a customer wants to share your brand name with family and friends, if the name is too ordinary or confusing they undoubtedly will not remember it.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2019

But, when Amazon first issued its mission statement in 1995: …to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon – Develop a consistent, reliable multi-channel brand. What You Can Do.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

— Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. Typically, this caliber of bankers wouldn’t talk to you unless your company had five profitable quarters of increasing revenue.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

That cap will now specifically apply to a broader group of small companies: those with annual gross revenues of $1 billion or less (adjusted for inflation), within a five-year interval from the sale of its first security. Over 85% of CEOs said that going public was not as attractive of an option as it was in 1995.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

Perhaps you are caught in the “Series A crunch” or perhaps you are a consumer company and expected that you would be valued on users rather than revenue like the last time. One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0. One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0. But they most certainly are not. How could this be? Aren’t markets rational?

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Through the process, I was struck by just how much marketplaces have evolved since eBay sparked the first wave of product-focused marketplaces in 1995. Over the past few months, Version One has been diving into every detail of marketplace strategy while putting together a handbook on “ Building Marketplace Startups.”

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

million in revenue the year before. . The average venture capital fund raised between 1995 and 1997 returned more than 50% per year. 2010 was a year of firming and climbing out of a hole, but the tepid IPO market and general macroeconomic malaise seemed to linger until late in the year (similar to how 1995 felt).

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Bunting worked with At Home In The Country to add personalized product recommendations to their site, which resulted in a… 13% increase in revenue. The onboarding process brought more people to the core value, thus increasing revenue and improving retention. 3% increase in average visit duration. increase in conversions.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JUNE 24, 2011

Advertising revenue has paid for his education at UB, and he has ideas for other software-related startups he would like to launch after he graduates next May. “I The son of economists who emigrated in 1995 from St. This begs the questions — are non-business students more entrepreneurial than business students?

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

Perhaps you are caught in the “Series A crunch” or perhaps you are a consumer company and expected that you would be valued on users rather than revenue like the last time. One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0 One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0 But they most certainly are not. How could this be? Aren’t markets rational?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 17, 2019

But, when Amazon first issued its mission statement in 1995: …to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. As a side effect, your brand will get a boost, too.

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aweissman.com

APRIL 14, 2010

All of it made me think back to my youth, the days of AOL, around 1995-1997. This destroyed AOLs original platform, as it could no longer share variable usage revenues with its content partners. The revenue stream for these guys ended. All of it made me think back to my youth, the days of AOL, around 1995-1997.

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