Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. side note: our last fund at GRP Partners is currently ranked as the 5th best performing fund of the year 2000.

LP 311

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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. Three reasons: There is a relative valuation between the price a VC pays and their expectations of what it will exit for in an IPO or trade sale. While the company continues to perform well it has come at a cost.

Burn Rate 263

Burn Rate Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Private Equity 263

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 12, 2010

It's hard to explain" should not be a standard part of your sales pitch. billion market cap), mid-sized (NetBotz with millions in revenue and funding), and small (sub-$1m operations like us). You just need to try it" and "trust me" don't cut it. They were the disruptors, but they didn't profit from the disruption.

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Technical Review Software Review Engineer Search 243

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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Saudi Arabia Valuation IPO Technical Review 309

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In consumer packaged goods, the benchmark for a “highly successful” product launch is no easy feat: $50 million in first-year sales. Successful demand generation campaigns break down silos between marketing and sales. Another plus: It costs almost nothing to produce. Seed your launch campaign with advance sales.

Product 110

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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. If the total annual potential is 100,000 units, the slower cycle to market just cost the company two thirds of a year in the product’s profits.

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Differentiation Revenue Cost Operations 62

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

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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 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

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.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

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. The cost of capital nor commercial insurance pricing improvements are enough to excite the public. Ironically, given the U.S.’s Public Good Concerns.

Private Equity 132

Private Equity New York City Chicago Investment Bankers 132

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. SALES & MARKETING. 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.

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Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

When new companies enter the market they really have no chance to initially unseat the incumbents because the performance gap is too large and the costs / time of catching up too unachievable. In 1999-2000 they weren’t doing enterprise-wide installations at Merrill Lynch, Dell and Cisco. Enter Salesforce.com. They can’t.

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Vesting Framework Revenue Technology 376

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Of all your hires, if you have commissioned sales people, those will give you the most problems if they’re not all given an equal chance to make their quotas and achieve their personal earnings goals. Can you acquire them at a sustainable cost? I am very surprised when that cool thing actually meets a customer need or drives revenue.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

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. John Jantsch: Yeah.

Marketing 56

Marketing Social Media Analytics Software 56

Eric Friedman

JANUARY 4, 2017

With CES in full swing, I have been thinking more about hardware businesses that have a SaaS component for ongoing revenue and support. This is a great example of a hardware sale that probably happened at a nominal profit (maybe loss?) Can hardware costs come down to $0? Just see Internet of S**t for some hilarious tweets.

Non-Compete 74

Non-Compete Business Model Green Revenue 74

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 13, 2015

and 5%” or “cost to acquire a customer between $50 and $500″ or “average monthly revenue per customer between $20 and $200.” So they’ll need 1666 customers to achieve their revenue target. (We Including future cancellations, they’ll need to sign up a total of 2000 customers to net 1666.

Business Model 120

Business Model Affiliate Startup Bootstrapping 120

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

IPO 240

IPO Flash Bootstrapping Private Equity 240

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? AWS sales are off slightly. “Could Amazon Web Services be feeling the heat from new public cloud competitors? AWS is not the low price provider.

Cloud 176

Cloud Partner Hosting Cost 176

socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees. If you have a friend who is a recruiter then ask them to tell you what they recommend that will not cost anything. This means considering what the opportunity cost for working on a high risk venture is relative to other things they can spend their time on.

Part-Time VPE 41

Part-Time VPE Sweat Equity DC Washington 41

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.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Valuation Portfolio 48

Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

To supplement this guide, I interviewed an expert in the home health care field: Carol Byrne is the National Sales Director for 21st Century Health Care Consultants, a consulting firm which serves home health care agencies throughout the United States. percent in 2000 to 19.6 Nursing aide. Social work. percent by 2030.

North America 95

North America United States Technical Review America 95

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Below are the mistakes that have cost aspiring entrepreneurs a huge amount of money. Does the photo look like something taken on a mobile phone from 2000? I quickly navigated to the official site for buying the product and found that the shipping charge was almost three times the product cost. Who are such companies kidding?

Startup 124

Startup eCommerce Audience Widget 124

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Over the next ten years, while Ford focused on cost reductions, General Motors built a diverse and differentiated product line. It was not until October 2000 that Google offered its version of a pay per click advertising system -AdWords -allowing advertisers to create text ads for placement on the Google search engine.

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Silicon Valley Differentiation United States Customer Development 322

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."

San Francisco 105

San Francisco Technical Review Zimbabwe New York City 105

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

With that implicit assumption, startups hire a VP of Sales with a great rolodex and call on established mainstream companies while marketing creates a brand and buzz to create demand and drive it into the sales channel (web, direct salesforce, etc.) After twelve months Handspring’s revenue was $170 million. End result?

Customer Development 220

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 220

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

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. You have to do this; addressing real customer needs releases revenue dollars that you need to survive.

Software 127

Software Startup Architecture Bootstrapping 127

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

According to Ferenstein, “AAA estimates that the average cost of car ownership per year is about $9,000.” The fixed costs of this marginal car are very high (DMV registration, insurance, depreciation), yet the usage of that car is much lower. AAA estimates that the average annual cost of owning a car is $9,000.

San Francisco 111

San Francisco San Jose Marketing Technical Review 111

VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

That is because we do not sell, or use, anything other than “canned” software, for which we collect and remit appropriate sales taxes. He said that people who download “standard” software (like TurboTax) from the internet should pay sales taxes, just like someone who buys TurboTax in a box at BestBuy. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

Software 48

Software SQL Colorado Fractional CTO 48

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Marketing isn’t scheduling a launch and recruiting isn’t timing the start-dates of the next 50 hires in customer service and sales. We didn’t line up that press and have those sales materials and ensure code-quality high enough to scale on day one, without predictability. This means you can — and should!

Government 223

Government Startup Cofounder Technical Support 223

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2013

But marketing, when planned and executed correctly, can also lead to more sales and revenue. In many cases, the goal of online marketing (especially for small businesses), is to directly increase sales by targeting potential customers using different online channels. Direct sales. Search Engine Marketing. Direct mail.

Small Business 107

Small Business Marketing Affiliate PPC 107

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. If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity.

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. This could be 4-5 shoppers per day in a typical store and an extra bike sale per day. Tip 6: Focus on the Life of a Cyclist, Not the Initial Sale | Donny Perry. Focus on sales where you create or control the distribution.

North America 68

North America Iowa America Community 68

Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. This could be 4-5 shoppers per day in a typical store and an extra bike sale per day. Tip 6: Focus on the Life of a Cyclist, Not the Initial Sale | Donny Perry. Focus on sales where you create or control the distribution.

North America 60

North America Iowa America Community 60

Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. This could be 4-5 shoppers per day in a typical store and an extra bike sale per day. Tip 6: Focus on the Life of a Cyclist, Not the Initial Sale | Donny Perry. Focus on sales where you create or control the distribution.

North America 60

North America Iowa America Community 60

David Teten

AUGUST 7, 2019

LTV / CAC, revenue growth, etc.) When you invest in a Momentum company, everyone immediately congratulates you on your wisdom, sales skill, and success. . In 2000, LPs invested $104b into 638 funds, but by 2003, LPs’ commitment rate had dropped to just $11b into 161 funds. Sense of victory.

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Venture Capital Valuation Stock NDA 60