YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Of course incumbents cannot be expected to jeopardize their revenue streams or investments in CRM platforms with new concepts that wipe out the need for their current solutions. Too much was at stake, we couldn’t afford the risk of destabilizing everything and losing substantial revenue. A new paradigm. Early results are exciting.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 12, 2010

billion market cap), mid-sized (NetBotz with millions in revenue and funding), and small (sub-$1m operations like us). They were the disruptors, but they didn't profit from the disruption. Disruptive technology often comes from research groups commissioned to produce innovative ideas but unable to capitalize on them.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. Thank you for the kind introduction.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Just ask anybody who was trying to close funding the fateful week of September 11, 2001 or even March 2000. Huge downturns have a real impact on the revenue line of start-ups and therefore the pressure on valuations. While the company continues to perform well it has come at a cost. I argued for literally a year to slash burn.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 9, 2020

And these are indeed strange times, especially if you haven’t lived through 2000-2002 and 2007-2008 recessions and difficulty in finding money from banks and investors. A shocking example of operations affecting cash control. Have you considered how to make your operation more efficient as an important way to increase cash flow?

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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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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

If we are in a bubble, that is a bit of an odd commentary for a company that grew revenues 83% year-over-year and grew earnings 93% year-over-year. In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000. Firstly, the cost of running an internet application has fallen 100-fold. —Horace Dediu, Asymco. Today, there are over 2.1

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Typically you want to see a 3x ratio between the contribution margin per rep (factoring in the lifetime value of the customer, or LTV) and the cost per rep to acquire that customer, fully loaded (i.e., customer acquisition cost or CAC). To that point, a well-run telesales operation will be super metrics-driven.

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

percent in 2000 to 19.6 There are also societal and political factors at play including a growing acceptance among physicians of the practice of home care, as well as pressure to alleviate the demands placed on hospitals and an overall desire to find cost efficiencies in the health care system. “In percent by 2030.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

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. VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

s form of no-holds-barred capitalism, our financial markets were slow to adopt the idea, with the trend really only taking hold during the heady securitization period of the mid-2000’ s. Private Equity sees infrastructure investing as uncorrelated diversification and has the additional upside of correcting any operational inefficiencies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. They need a combination of capital and experience to separate from the rest of the pack – the low cost of starting a business means it is even more vital to become the market leader more quickly. The Funding Problem.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Office and Operations. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. Theres a huge opportunity cost in not taking equity," he says. And his vendors ended up with nothing when his company, OpenAuto.com , went out of business, in 2000. Naming a Business. Franchises.

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gigaom.com

JULY 10, 2012

AT&T promised in April to open Watson up to general development, but on Monday AT&T SVP for technology and network operations John Donovan made the launch official in a blog post , revealing seven different “contexts,” or language libraries, that app builders can access to speechify their products. Sign up for a free trial.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

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

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 29, 2014

Amazon turned in slightly declining quarter-over-quarter revenue on AWS, although significant year-over-year quarterly growth, as explained in Sign of stress or just business as usual? ” Could Amazon’s nature be catching up with it, or is it just operating in a more competitive market? AWS sales are off slightly.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Your business works as intended if you can attract customers that fit into the context of your operation. Can you acquire them at a sustainable cost? Is there a development step that you must take to fulfill demand for a particular use case, and, if so, how does that cost get absorbed? Are the logistics manageable?

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Since in most cases, there was no revenue in many of these companies, all trying to gain market share at any cost, we had to invent the metric to use. But, when the bubble burst in 2000, most of us quickly grew up. Great revenue projections from a small user base lead to worries over sustainability.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

The dot-com boom of early 2000 saw a proliferation of similar anything-at-your-service start-ups. Struggling to manage costs, the start-up closed shop as quickly as it opened. Others, such as Loosecubes, are looking for a more consistent stream of revenue by switching to a subscription-based model. Thats real money."

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

The days of being able to trust that there will be an investor or lender on the other end of a call or email whenever needed ended with the 2000 and 2008 bursts of those respective bubbles. Business plans that I see often show three to five years of projections, demonstrating profitability at the end of so many months of operation.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

The fact that SaaS valuations are being more affected by the downturn than the Nasdaq can be surprising given the supposed resiliency of the SaaS model (recurring revenues) but it translates the public investors belief that SMB software spend is going to be hit very hard by this recession. With this decline, the average EV/08 rev.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2018

You can get big-time, modern, virtual phone functionality at a fraction of the cost. He is the president and founder of Revenue & Associates and the creator of The bullseye marketing framework and we’re going to talk about a book built on that called Bullseye Marketing: How to Grow Your Business Faster. Louis Gudema: Yeah.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And, as the industrial revolution showed us, there are some real costs to scale. 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. The second is a lack of operational scalability.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A safe, clean environment in which to operate. . In 2000 he founded Studer Group, a consulting firm designed to help organizations improve results. By the time Studer Group was sold in 2015, it had 250 employees and $93 million in yearly revenue. Research shows that jobs and education are the two areas key to quality of life.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Because of the magical ordering system and the ability to efficiently organize a distributed set of drivers, Uber can operate effectively in markets where it simply didn’t make sense to have a dense supply of taxis. According to Ferenstein, “AAA estimates that the average cost of car ownership per year is about $9,000.” New Use Cases.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Small companies operate this way by necessity, and it works! If we under-estimate, our support folks get overwhelmed with too much work, their quality of life suffers, and service to each customer suffers; if we over-estimate, we have too many people which is a cost penalty. It’s a big reason why they move quickly.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Among other corporate positions in my career, I have been a Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Research Engineer for small private companies, and also some Fortune 500 and even Fortune 10 companies. This bill will NOT affect our company. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, Oracle PeopleSoft 8.9,

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 3, 2016

Another reason was because when I started my business it was 2000, and people used the phone more, I wanted something short and sweet I could say while answering the phone all day. Our projects will begin to have a financial or operational impact within the first 90 days. customers, revenue, etc.). 11 – An Open Name.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. billion in revenue, over $1 billion in gross profit and $500 million in EBITDA. The first year of revenue (1999) was $4 million – a remarkable achievement. Market Cap.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Guest author Bernard Lunn is a serial entrepreneur and business adviser to start-ups and is ReadWriteWeb's former Chief Operating Officer. You have to do this; addressing real customer needs releases revenue dollars that you need to survive. SaaS reduces your sales cost but also means that VC is needed.

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David Teten

AUGUST 7, 2019

LTV / CAC, revenue growth, etc.) In 2000, LPs invested $104b into 638 funds, but by 2003, LPs’ commitment rate had dropped to just $11b into 161 funds. I’d add that public market investors don’t have as much of a problem with this psychological challenge, since they’re operating in a much more efficient market. .

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. They therefore have large cost bases and have to pass on those costs to you. - But the trade-off in terms of flexibility and costs were enormous. Apple wants to take a major share of the revenue.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The very best analysts are comfortable operating with ambiguity and incompleteness, while all others chase perfection in implementation / processing / reports. Outcomes: Revenue | Ideas Funded Behavior: Path Length | Cart Abandonment Rate Acquisition: Assisted Conversions | Share of Search. We have to really get good at this.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I knew it was an easy fix, so I really didn’t want to pay for a tow truck in addition to the cost of the repair. It struck me that had the technology existed, travelers could have taken advantage of our empty aircraft to get back to London and then the aircraft could be dropped in Oxford, with minimal additional cost.

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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, $0.9 million and $1.8

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

13:58) Advice for companies who think it's too late to start looking for new ways to operate, including some examples from Austin, Texas. (15:55) I think about this in customers and protecting your employees and customers, always protect your P&L, your revenue. Highlights from the show: Carl details his background and experience.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Put it this way: if you’re operating on the basis of making decisions at 95% significance, there is a 5% probability of a type 1 error (“alpha error,” or a false positive). All told, that’s 2 x 50 x 20 = 2000 segments. x 2000 = 100 statistically significant results purely by chance.

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