Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

One when scale started to kick in, when we hit the, you know, 200 employees at the head office, 2000 employees system wide, it started to get complex and a little bit outside of my sandbox. And that was, you know, 2004, 2005 was, I was realizing that it was no longer about working harder. So now it's the chief revenue officer, right.

CTO 79

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them.

Retention 115

Retention Customer Developer Programming 115

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them.

Retention 112

Retention Developer Customer Programming 112

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them.

Retention 105

Retention Customer Developer Programming 105

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them.

Retention 98

Retention Customer Developer Programming 98

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. 3/31/2000: 73.4. 3/31/2004: 31.6. In June of 2000, I raised money at an $820M post-money valuation. But they most certainly are not. 3/29/1996: 22.3.

Down Round 78

Down Round Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation 78

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Would you be surprised to know that almost half of the dot com companies founded when the boom started in 1996 were still around in 2004--four years after the peak of the NASDAQ? Because companies today have way more revenues than the companies that went public or had huge up rounds back then.

Hockey Stick 60

Hockey Stick Valuation Startup Maryland 60

ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2013

And analyzing the results in the 2004 Olympics, researchers have found that red also means dominance. They examined boxing, taekwondo, Greco-Roman wrestling and freestyle wrestling, basically all of the one-one-one sports in the 2004 Olympics. Similar tendencies were found in the 2004 European Soccer Championship. Red means hot.

Green 134

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BeyondVC

APRIL 14, 2009

  We had our huge exponential growth years from 2000-2004 during a difficult time in the technology markets.  That may be why during the 1990-91 recession, according to a Bain & Company study, twice as many companies leaped from the bottom of their industries to the top as did so in the years before and after.

Advertising 68

Advertising Portfolio Cost Revenue 68

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Google realized that being the way to find the world’s information was a blitzscalable market, thanks to the network effects in its AdWords revenue engine. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.

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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. 3/31/2000: 73.4 3/31/2004: 31.6 3/31/2000: 73.4 3/31/2004: 31.6 In June of 2000, I raised money at an $820M post-money valuation.

Marketing 46

Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation Down Round 46

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

We should end the year with a few million in fully recurring revenue and we’re projected to double next year. But more spend = more viral opps = more revenue down the road. >50% of our revenue in now viral. Probably revenue based. I think a couple of million or revenues is probably a reasonable goal.

Founder 329

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

From the introduction of our solutions in 2000 through September 30, 2006, our enterprise subscriber base has grown to approximately 1,500 companies who spend from $2,000 to more than $100,000 annually, including companies such as Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Procter & Gamble, Merrill Lynch, UPS and Cisco Systems. million for 2004, $1.9

IPO 60

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 20, 2004

This reminds me of a conversation I had this summer with a Veritas executive who said how difficult it was to scale beyond $1-2 billion in revenue and that size matters. There were a number of companies in that revenue band but very few above it like Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle. received its first round of funding between 1999 and 2000.

IPO 60

IPO SEC Valuation Revenue 60

BeyondVC

JULY 23, 2006

Fred Wilson has a great post on remembering the old wounds from the last bubble in 2000. This is a vibrant area for discusssion – we never know the real answer as hindsight is 20/20 but it reminds me of a post I wrote back in March 2004 called Thoughts from PC Forum – going into attack mode.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Big Data meets travel…in 2000. Magical, really. TripAdvisor’s History: Two Big Pivots.

Part-Time VPE 54

Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

BeyondVC

JULY 5, 2004

Looking at Venturesource, I see that Jamdat was first funded in March 2000 precisely the time when VCs thought wireless was the next big thing. Just look at Jamdat’s numbers: $90k revenue in 2001 with a $5mm loss and $7mm revenue in Q1 2004 with $740k profit which is an annualized revenue runrate of $28mm-not too bad in a few years.

IPO 60

IPO Mobile Distribution Revenue 60

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

And like the LITERATI, professionals we work with are educated on how to market their business in order to increase revenue opportunities. I started a consulting firm called Global Marketing Resources, LLC in 2000 as source for additional income while I was a corporate executive. Thanks to Anita O’Malley, Leadarati ! #16-

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

What is the mix of revenue between ads, subscriptions, digital downloads & ecommerce. My favorite quote of the show, “Gregg, what’s the mix of revenue types?&# JibJab doesn’t do ad revenue at all. They never did any PR or marketing to get their videos to first get shown on the news during the 2000 election.

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Viral Investment Bankers Video Business Model 303

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

In 2004 I began blogging. I got out of the university in early 2000 and I never went on to a full-time job, so it’s always been an online business for me. 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.

Technical Review 76

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says.

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

spent $20 million to get back to the same revenue that I had when I was CEO. created a vastly higher cost structure; I had 80 people mostly on base salaries under $100,000 and was bringing in revenue at the rate of $20 million annually. .”). During this year they. deprecated the old feature-complete product (ACS 3.4)

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

conversionxl.com

OCTOBER 31, 2011

When you try to replicate what Valve did to increase their revenue 40x , it might not work for you, but then again, why not give it a try? Well, in eight studies published from 1987 to 2004 charm prices ($49, $79, $1.49 What’s the best way to sell a $2000 wristwatch? Does it really work? Right next to a $12 000 watch.

St. Louis 111

St. Louis Portland San Diego Sales 111

YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

Reach $125 billion in sales by 2000.” billion in revenue, with a total revenue of $136.3 My company was founded in 2004, but we didn’t have a BHAG until 2013. But a BHAG shouldn’t focus solely on revenue or growth. Ford wanted to make the automobile something everyone could enjoy, not just the wealthy or elite.

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David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

Redistribution of resources and services through social platforms is creating new business and new revenue streams by monetizing previously underutilized assets. In 2004, Roo founded we:nited magazine – a youth politics magazine and website. Ebay, Etsy, AirBNB, and many more rapid growth businesses are redrawing the map of trade.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

By all accounts, the first one burst in 2000 when the NASDAQ crash brought the first dot-com era to a close. is mostly sanguine, claiming that the market’s standards for viability have increased since the 2000 bust and citing Twitter (revenue but no profit) as the model for the new public tech company.

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