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

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. The numbers of potential buyers had decreased dramatically both because large companies were shedding jobs and because many past buyers simply lacked resources to make acquisitions.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

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

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2011

Assuming your startup takes off, you will probably find that the fun is gone by the time you reach 50 employees, or a few million in revenue. So here are the most common exit strategies and considerations these days for planning purposes: Merger & Acquisition (M&A). Entrepreneurs love the art of the start.

Exit Strategy 231

Exit Strategy Initial Public Offering Startup IPO 231

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, we investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. But, when the bubble burst in 2000, most of us quickly grew up. Email readers, continue here.]

Metrics 83

Metrics Revenue Advertising Internet 83

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

Let me assume for this discussion it’s a garden variety 2010 IT or Internet business (as opposed to something requiring capital equipment or a life sciences project). Your revenue will take longer to ramp then you think. They can fund a deal if necessary and valid at the time you present an acquisition target to them.

Venture Capital 319

Venture Capital Startup Silicon Valley Warrant 319

Growthink Blog

MARCH 28, 2018

Combined with the passion and guts was an inherent foresight as to the overriding business importance of predictable customers and recurring revenue. Getting out at that peak moment before the emergence of the Internet and video streaming technologies led to the video rental chain's infamous demise and death. And to delegate.

Chicago 48

Chicago Business Model Acquisition Video 48

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Most internet opportunities were of modest scale – often worth pursuing – but not usually worth taking public. Because most internet business concepts were not capable of productively employing tens of millions of dollars of venture capital does not mean they were bad ideas." And, they aren''t necessarily revenues from other dot coms.

Hockey Stick 60

Hockey Stick Valuation Startup Maryland 60

The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 24, 2012

You can see from the chart below that the share prices of high-profile internet companies Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga are down 48-60 per cent over the last three months. Secondly, many of the problems are limited to one aspect of the start-up ecosystem: late-stage funding for some consumer internet companies. With its $1.5

IPO 101

IPO Valuation Silicon Valley Venture Capital 101

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” The key thesis was this: if an Internet company could obsess about only one metric, it should be conversion. As such, it is time to pound the table again – conversion is by far the most powerful Internet metric of all.

Metrics 93

Metrics Conversion Internet Acquisition 93

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

He started in online publishing before the Internet (with Prestel in 1980!). Being enterprise scale means that your representatives have regular dialogue at CXO or at least VP level with Global 2000 accounts are they are bringing in millions of revenue from those accounts every year. That is the surface change.

Software 127

Software Startup Architecture Bootstrapping 127

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. And then came AOL.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

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

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Between working with the co-founders on the strategy, validating concepts with the users, assessing the analytics, driving features and functionality with the team, and working with finance on the new business model, marketing on acquisition, and the warehouse on fulfillment, you can imagine the workload Kate faced on a daily basis.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I had a lot of fun learning what the internet could do for me. In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. Adding Ad Revenue. It was a little bit geeky, but I really enjoyed it.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Software Review Prospectus Audience 76

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. Instead of spending 4 years at university, I spend 4 years starting 2 internet companies that failed.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

The kinds of places where you have to sign an NDA when you walk in the lobby… When I lived and worked in the bay area (2000-2005) virtually all the startups were down on the peninsula somewhere. So why are software & internet startups more urban today than 5-10 years ago? link] leehower. link] Matthew Tagg.

Silicon Valley 185

Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Startup 185

Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Always Be Testing The biggest lesson I learned while taking the site from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars a month (revenue, not profit), is that there are a lot of great theories about marketing, but no one can tell you the exact thing that’s going to lead to an uptick in sales. At that point you find out if your design works.

Design 51

Design Software Review Marketing Software Developers 51

Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

Internet - $20-60/month. If you work with.NET be prepared to pay $1000-2000 for an MSDN subscription (or if you’re developing a product talk to Bob Walsh , get signed up with Microsoft BizSpark and get the same thing for a few hundred bucks). Smartest thing I have read on the internet all day, well done sir. #8

Software Review 52

Software Review Software Hosting Salary 52

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghoshs research. Software. -

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

There are a number of trends concerning IPOs and capital formation to note: First, the raw number of IPOs has declined significantly: From 1980-2000, the US averaged roughly 300 IPOs per year; from 2001-2016, the average fell to 108 per year. 1999-2000 51.6% Time Period IPO Pop % Above IFR 1999-2000 51.6% 1990-1998 13.3%

SEC 36

SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

VC Cafe: Let’s talk about revenue. VC Cafe: How to you manage new customer acquisition/sales? Our second acquisition channel is the Internet where we have seen significant traction from south America – about 70%. Competitors charge something approximately $2000-$3000 for what we deliver for free at the moment.

Cloud 134

Cloud South America Bootstrapping 134

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

VC Cafe: Let’s talk about revenue. VC Cafe: How to you manage new customer acquisition/sales? Our second acquisition channel is the Internet where we have seen significant traction from south America – about 70%. Competitors charge something approximately $2000-$3000 for what we deliver for free at the moment.

Cloud 134

Cloud South America Bootstrapping 134

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. My entire staff had been laid off due to an acquisition by an aggressive v.c. increase not only brand share but also revenue. It was in year 2000 and my friend and I were young and ambitious. Thanks to Emily Mazza, Mazza Virtual Assistants ! #7-

Entrepreneur 115

Entrepreneur Czech Republic Retention B2C 115

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

PMC-Sierra, a premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, is purchasing Wintegra Inc. , Wintegra, founded in 2000, has 165 employees with the majority of its R&D development team located in Ra’anana, Israel, and Austin, Texas. In 2009 it boasted revenue of $4.49 billion, of which $2.5

Bandwidth 79

Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Aerotel Medical Systems is a world leading manufacturer of modular, home and mobile telecare and telemedicine solutions designed to transfer essential data over the telephone, mobile phone and the Internet. Flash Networks’ Harmony Content Control enables safer, more productive mobile use of the open Internet for consumer or business use.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

Following the acquisition S1 shareholders will own about 55 percent of the combined company and Fundtech shareholders the rest. The company has developed a kind of private advertising channel that enables advertisers to send marketing messages directly to potential customers via Internet banners. S1 CORP BUYS ISRAEL’S FUNDTECH.

China 90

China Cofounder India 90

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Bates: Josh, it reminds me of when I was doing web sites back in the day in 2000 and 1998 and instead of going and being able to buy a shopping cart you had to code the shopping cart from scratch. Two, revenue. My name is John Bates. I’m the CEO of Executive Speaking Success and I’m a long-time entrepreneur. What do you do?

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95