A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

There’s also an armed globally-dispersed Sales and Support teams, so we’re selling to our 70,000 existing customers as well as thousands of new customers per month, which means we’ll end up adding more new revenue in one month than a small company will take in over a whole year. No, it’s a colossal failure.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. Since that date the S&P 500 is up 2.45% while Accenture stock is up 206% with revenue of $23 billion and a market cap of $32 billion. Ameet said, “Don’t worry, we’ll be fine, just wait for the next downturn.&#.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2019

According to IBM , companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. Global personal location tracking. Global manufacturing. Manufacturing is a global industry with complex and widely distributed value chains and a large amount of data available. Every day, we create 2.5

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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. Your time at ESADE has trained you to become a global business leader. Companies horde cash and squeeze the most revenue and margin from the money they use.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As the president of Content at Scale , Julia is spearheading major initiatives for what’s quickly become one of the most sought-after AI content writing tools for SEO marketers globally. She's an eight time author and built a writing agency express writers to $5 million in revenue and over 100 on staff. So it's been a wild ride.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Follow along as we explore 10 of the most exciting college business incubators around today, and be sure to share your own favorites in the comments: Entrepreneurs Hall @ The RIT Global Village. At Rochester Institute of Technology’s Entrepreneurs Hall, innovation is a way of life.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

If manufacturers can increase productivity , they can produce more without increasing costs, then they are more globally competitive. 18 months and 2000 hours later I finished coding the software and released it. I want to help make American Manufactures more competitive so that reshoring makes economic sense.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The Israeli tech ecosystem has made its mark globally since its early days somewhere in the 1990s. What’s less discussed, is that Israel also, has one of the highest number of unicorns, aka privately owned startups worth more than $1 billion, globally. in 2000, M-Systems, inventor the disk-on-key, was acquired for $1.6

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. In November of this year, the company announced that it had achieved “substantially” more than $1B in revenue in the third quarter. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0 The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007.

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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% 1999-2000 37.5%

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Brandanew

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Global mobile data traffic grew 69% in 2014 as per estimates by Cisco. seconds in 2015 compared to 12 seconds in 2000. Brand sponsored content is seen as an alternative revenue channel by media sites and has gained considerable attention from brands. Mobile content saw a major consumption hike to cross 50% in 2014. source ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2017

According to IBM , companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. Global personal location tracking. Global manufacturing. Manufacturing is a global industry with complex and widely distributed value chains and a large amount of data available. Every day, we create 2.5

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Driven by strong customer demand for its award-winning identity governance solution, SailPoint achieved record growth in 2010, with revenue up 200% over 2009. SailPoint doubled its customer base in 2010, adding 40 global companies. SailPoint’s worldwide partner network saw dramatic growth in 2010.

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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 decade ago we didn’t have smart phones.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2017

WPP and Kantar Millward Brown just released their latest BrandZ report on the most valuable global brands. The 2017 Brandz Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands report offers important branding lessons for startups and small business. percent global share of that market in 2016. We didn’t give up. Millennials.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. Even less does it mean high transaction volume or revenue.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Wintegra, founded in 2000, has 165 employees with the majority of its R&D development team located in Ra’anana, Israel, and Austin, Texas. Shamir Optical reported revenues of $142 million in 2009, generated mainly in Europe and the United States, and has about 1,400 employees. billion, of which $2.5 billion net profit.

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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. LinkedIn has already built a series of popular recruiting products that produced $93m in revenue last quarter.

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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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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

percent in 2000 to 19.6 To date, North America has dominated the home health care global marketplace due mainly to a more sophisticated health care infrastructure and more resources committed to research and development. In 2013, North America accounted for just over 40 percent of the global home health care revenue.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 2, 2013

Mobile ad units are cheaper and more ineffective than online units, putting even more pressure on newspaper revenues. In the US, newspaper revenues in 2012 were half what they were in 2000. This is a global trend: newspapers in Brazil, Germany and elsewhere are fed up with giving away their articles for nothing on the internet.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. Thanks to Steven Randall, Vonya Global ! #8-Provide 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- Photo Credit: Steven Randall.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

We have companies now who have every store, globally or in a whole country, shuttered. I think about this in customers and protecting your employees and customers, always protect your P&L, your revenue. Try to understand where your largest revenue streams are that are at risk and how you can minimize them if you can.

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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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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

We often talk about online conversion optimization without mentioning that many businesses, especially B2B, rely on offline sales to produce revenue. Sales enablement is the act of enabling salespeople to help them close more deals/bring in more revenue/hit their quota. The two aren’t disconnected, though. Image Source.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

The market size is over $US10 billion globally in revenue. The entire mating process and the business models which have underpinned it have changed more radically in the past 20 years than they did in the previous 2000 years. We now expected that people in a relationships met online.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 12, 2012

SailPoint today announced it posted record annual revenue growth in 2011 and closed its largest growth quarter to date in Q4 2011. SailPoint’s customer roster now features more than 100 Global 2000 companies spanning 25 countries. SailPoint’s customer roster now features more than 100 Global 2000 companies spanning 25 countries.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2012

Founded in 2000 by Jiri Stejskal, this translation and interpretation company offers services to government and corporate clients in almost 100 languages. The company supports organizations including Translators Without Borders, the Philadelphia Global Water Initiative and the American Red Cross. Boasting revenues of up to $1.5

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. LinkedIn’s product had only been live for a couple months, we only had tens of thousands of registered users, and wouldn’t start generating revenue for more than a year after this point. We three partners are working hard.

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gigaom.com

JULY 10, 2012

Developers that exceed that amount will be charged $20 for each 2000-point increment, which works out to about 1 cent per transaction. Mobile Q4: The scramble for spectrum continues Updated: Forecast: global mobile subscribers, 2010–2015 Carrier IQ and the continued erosion of operator trust. Image courtesy Flickr user Lazurite.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Is 2012 going to be 2000 all over again? The difference between many of these companies and what we saw back in 1999 is that there are real revenues and revenue growth at many of these companies--and their costs are largely in people, which can always be trimmed down. Facebook is doing billions in revenues. Valuations.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

For example, if you look at SaaS comps, the average FWD revenue multiple is around 5.4x However, in my view, the qualities of the companies and the globalization of the market makes the situation different from 2000. for a growth rate of 25%. This is very similar of where these comps were in 2006 when I started in venture.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

For the market size, he states, “For my base case valuation, I’m going to assume that the primary market Uber is targeting is the global taxi and car-service market.” He then goes on to calculate a global estimate for the historical taxi and limousine market. The global market would obviously be much larger.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

Instead, the global pandemic has turned 2020 into its most harrowing year. You become a global company. If you're in the travel business, a global pandemic is an existential threat. And it was amazing how global travel was halted. Airbnb- Eric Ries : Airbnb was founded during a global recession. What if it works?

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 24, 2012

Nic Brisbourne on why the technology start-up ecosystem will remain an important part of the global economy, despite some recent missteps. The reality is that we have been dealing with a market failure to provide liquidity to investors in late-stage companies for most of the time since the internet bubble burst in March 2000.

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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. Global warming: a plague for humanity?

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Facebook didn’t buy the business because the company had no revenues. By the year 2000, the global market for personal computers exceeded 140 million units a year. In the 25 years between 1975 and 2000, there were hundreds of brands of personal computers introduced in the American market.

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