crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 7, 2018

If you’re like most small businesses, your website is outdated, and not helping you to increase revenues and sales. For more about website design testing, we recommend you read How A/B Testing Can Help Your Small Business increase Conversions and Revenues. It can either help or hurt your revenues and profits.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue! I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

It has stood behind its paywall since 1997, trusting that customers interested in its content would pay upwards of $200 a year for it. One way to sidestep the loss of revenue is to aggregate more eyeballs. Yet, from the beginnings of the internet age, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) never caved. A lot of eyeballs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 22, 2018

It’s not surprising that companies with successful products grow their customer base, increase their revenues, and outperform competitors. Lipitor (1997). A successful product quickly acquires new users/customers and delivers consistent value. And, of course, ask the vital question – why? Image courtesy of The Daily Beast.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Since 1997, our immediate destiny has been in our own hands.” The $48bn+ revenue his company reels in today speaks for itself. That was the most fragile moment for Amazon. ” The rest, as the saying goes, is history.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. After I sold Smart Bear, that division has increased revenue and profit every year, for five years, even through the 2008/2009 economic disaster. Support.com — On 2.5m invested, IPO’ed in 2000 for $32/share — stock price now $2.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 28, 2022

The FTC and Chamber of Commerce were the greatest supporters of the Revenue Act of 1938. They began this practice fairly recently, in 1997. The Federal Trade Commission is, in essence, an organization that advocates for American consumers. This would prove essential during times of financial upset, such as during the Great Depression.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The company was originally founded in 1997 by Jonathan Bush (1st cousin of George W.) In 2012, analysts estimate they will do $425 million in revenue and $85 million in EBITDA. That is why I’ve chosen athenahealth for the third in my series on scaling (following Akamai and TripAdvisor ). Founding Story: A Pivot.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 1, 2017

Localisation prevents embarrassment and improves revenues. Indeed, 65% of multinational enterprises believe localisation is either important or very important for achieving higher revenues (California State University survey).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

In 1997, RIM introduced the first packet-switched messaging device. New Market Revenue Curve. In 1996 RIM was still in the hardware business selling packet-switched wireless radio modems to OEMs. In a major strategy shift, they decided to sell a product directly to businesses. RIM Interactive Pager 900.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2019

An example of sustaining innovation is Pfizer, the world’s biggest pharmaceutical company by revenues. Netflix launched in 1997 and its service wasn’t appealing to most of Blockbuster’s customers, who rented movies on impulse. And they have the resources to win. There are practical problems with neglecting either form of innovation.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

I graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 1997 and decided to use my OPT to give the company a proper shot. This meant that I had to either show enough revenue, or find investors who would be willing to put money into the company. The latter was fine by me since there was no money in the company for me to draw a salary any way.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 18, 2015

My wife Julia and I founded the company as Rainbow Academy in 1997. Put them first and the revenue will follow. We spoke with Guy to learn more about his business, the future of his business, and advice for franchise owners. Tell us about the history of the franchise and how you have been involved?

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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. We spent much of 1997 renegotiating thousands of these deals. The revenue stream for these guys ended.

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Pascal's View

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Combined with New Order Handling rules originally passed in September 1996 and implemented in 1997, these modifications to technical trading rules fundamentally changed how then-emerging electronic trading networks (ECN’s), such as Instinet, could buy and and sell stocks. This change to decimalization occurred in 2001.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

million in revenue the year before. . In 1997, a Charles River Ventures fund yielded a stunning 15x return, backing such superstars as Ciena, Vignette and Flycast. The average venture capital fund raised between 1995 and 1997 returned more than 50% per year. billion market capitalization. We had recorded $1.8

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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. 3/31/1997: 23.3. But they most certainly are not. Or maybe you are a lucky enterprise company and are pleasantly surprised—this time. How could this be?

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2017

An example of sustaining innovation is Pfizer, the world’s biggest pharmaceutical company by revenues. Netflix launched in 1997 and its service wasn’t appealing to most of Blockbuster’s customers, who rented movies on impulse. And they have the resources to win. There are practical problems with neglecting either form.

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Up and Running

APRIL 5, 2021

By 1997, the pop-up plague had spread to sites across the net, including Geocities, AOL, and The New York Times. Some online business sectors surged , with conversions and revenue being driven by pop-ups. According to Zuckerman, the idea came to be when a major car company became concerned that its content was appearing on porn sites.

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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. 3/31/1997: 23.3 But they most certainly are not. Or maybe you are a lucky enterprise company and are pleasantly surprised—this time. How could this be?

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Rogue Wave’s fall began during Java’s rise to power in 1997-8. When everyone took notice of Java and abandoned C++ in droves, Rogue Wave’s revenues plummeted. They still saw their license revenue coming in, albeit a little lower each quarter. As a result, Rogue Wave’s revenues continued to decline.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 8, 2022

That makes me sound like a genius today, But the point was 25 years ago that when you went to work for Hewlett, what's 25 years ago is 97, when you went to work for Hewlett Packard in 1997, you expected to be there for the next 40 years. And the three rules were revenue before cost, uh, I don't know, quality before, whatever.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 22, 2011

Since 1997, he has led an independent consulting practice focused on helping businesses of all sizes elevate performance and achieve healthy growth. Counting on immediate revenue to avoid financial problems. Losing patience with people who point out risks or shortcomings in his plan. Measuring progress by how good she feels.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Extremely-Sharp.com originally started with a few retail locations in 1997, and we quickly started the e-commerce site the next year. Many online jewellery stores are bricks-and-mortar stores supplementing revenues that don’t aligning to the tech-savvy consumer who want responsive technologies.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000. forward revenue for SaaS businesses when in the years before it had been less than 5x. What is the True Sentiment of VCs?

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 21, 2016

It is understandable, though perhaps too easy, for startups to become concerned about revenue generation, and as a result there’s a risk that you constantly add new features and benefits as you chase customers down. said Steve Jobs when he returned to Apple in 1997. Thanks to Abhishek Lal, VedSutra. #10 Photo Credit: Al Park.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 10, 2004

Yes, I know I may be oversimplifying, but the point I want to make is that revenue does not equal profit, especially when many of the new growth areas that technology companies are pursuing have single digit margins as a starting point. In the same Barron’s article, Pip Coburn goes on to say, “There’s tremendous hype.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Warren Buffet, 1997. He then argues Squarespace, as a result of choosing a Direct Listing, ended up with a valuation multiple of 6.7X, which he says compares unfavorably to its public peer $WIX (which has an 8X forward revenue multiple). Marketing 101: Customers love free stuff.

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