Feld Thoughts

JUNE 19, 2017

Between the spring of 2000 and the end of 2001, I had the worst, most stressful, and most painful business period of my life. I remember the trigger point being a 3/20/2000 article in Barron’s titled Burning Up: Warning: Internet companies are running out of cash — fast. I was too inexperienced in 2000 to understand this.

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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. Innovation.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

In fact, since 2000, more than 10 million Americans have filed personal bankruptcy due to their employers’ failed health insurance plan. That’s because every hour you spend managing your employer-provided health insurance is another hour you are not spending managing and improving your product or service.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

Key Takeaway: The Chief Operating Officer is the second in command to the CEO – they’re the go-to person that should be running the business. Questions I ask Cameron Herold: [2:27] Are there some things in those early days of figuring operations out that really stuck with you? [3:38] Cameron Herold (02:35): Uh, something changed.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. There was now a public market for companies with no revenue, no profit and big claims.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Social media is seen as something new that can be bolted onto existing CRM and loyalty management platforms. 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. The “Horseless Carriage Syndrome”.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

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. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999.

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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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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. The company had a huge burn rate but investors and management brought that under control by late 2008.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Hurricane Irma had a major negative revenue impact on one whose fall book of business was mostly in Florida. We all need some disturbance to keep us operating at our potential. We just closed out in 2017 our 10-year early-stage venture fund started in 2000. Think about that. Do the math.

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

percent in 2000 to 19.6 In 2013, North America accounted for just over 40 percent of the global home health care revenue. It is almost a given that your business will operate at a loss for the first three to six months while your client base grows and you get on a regular billing cycle with Medicare and Medicaid. population.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

He is a co-founder and managing partner of Relationship Impact , a consulting firm focused on helping great leaders build great leadership teams. And I really wanted to get into management consulting field. We rode the re-engineering process, re-engineering craze in the 1990s, but we did it from a change management perspective.

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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. Additionally, investment managers are attracted to matching long-dated pension liabilities with the extended duration nature of leased asset.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. Office and Operations. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Managing Creativity. Leadership and Managing >. Quality Manager Job Description. Recruitment Manager Job Description. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 13, 2022

12:18] What’s been your inspiration in terms of the development of your own time management? [15:55] Evergreen important topic of getting more done managing your time. And we've now over a thousand student, over 2000 students, I've gone through that program. Can you unpack the 5 D’s now? To move back with you, John.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

If the customer is a recurring customer, then they are more valuable and a lower quota might be tolerated, although a separate group of account reps are often accountable and paid commissions for the renewal revenue. To that point, a well-run telesales operation will be super metrics-driven. to, finally, $2M in annual quota.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2012

The company managed to increase sales by an astonishing 24,000% with its ingenious events that feature an intoxicating and unequaled blend of races, mud, music, pig roasts and beer. The company operates a unique policy that requires each of its employees to spend at least one day each month volunteering in the local community.

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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. For starters we saw a huge influx of inexperienced managers enter the VC industry proving clearly that being a VC is not a purely quantitative job. The Funding Problem.

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Berkonomics

JULY 8, 2021

The organization, like Vistage, manages roundtables of CEOs meeting monthly in small groups, where they discuss their mutual challenges and help solve each other’s complex problems, acting as an informal board of advisors. How do roundtables operate? The post Can you be an adaptive business leader? first appeared on BERKONOMICS.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

Ben offers that as Apple, Google and Amazon survived the dot.com crash, we can ignore the fate of the thousands of failed public and private dot.com companies when the bubble burst in March of 2000. They manage this all with knowledge of the game they’re playing, but they don’t hype it, talk about it or fan the flames.

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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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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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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,

Software 48

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A safe, clean environment in which to operate. . At SCI we focus on issues like strategic planning, marketing, effective hiring, time management, and more. In 2000 he founded Studer Group, a consulting firm designed to help organizations improve results. We’ve kept a careful eye on where businesses are placed.

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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. Are the logistics manageable? I am very surprised when that cool thing actually meets a customer need or drives revenue. Many tech products are hard to condense into a line or two, or even into a manageable deck.

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Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

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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Software Review Technical Review Valuation Portfolio 48

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Small companies operate this way by necessity, and it works! So, no project can have fewer than, say, three people dedicated to it, plus people management and possibly some form of Product or Project Management. If Google launches a new product that generates $10,000,000/year in revenue, is that good? This is difficult.

Government 223

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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. I was trying to think of a name for my public relations and social media management agency that was memorable and catchy. customers, revenue, etc.).

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2018

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. In fact, keep listening, I’m gonna tell you how to get 50 percent off. I’d love to see it, If it does.

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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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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, also known as “The Bean” to loyal customers, is a Los Angeles based, family-run coffee and tea company that’s owned and operated by International Coffee & Tea, LLC. Party Pieces grew rapidly and the Middletons moved their operations to three converted farm buildings outside of London.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

But you don't have any lords and masters to answer to and the pay out goes entirely to the founders and management team. Guest author Bernard Lunn is a serial entrepreneur and business adviser to start-ups and is ReadWriteWeb's former Chief Operating Officer. He is currently Co-Founder of CapitalMarkets.com and Editor Of SaaSInsights.

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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. Momentum investors almost always argue that they’re investing in a “rock star management team”. than comparable companies in the same sector that raised at a higher valuation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2022

John also spent several years at The New York Times Company at NYTimes.com running strategy, marketing, and operations. He was part of the management team that was instrumental in launching NYTimes.com’s first digital paid product and the acquisition of About.com. 19:23] What’s next for businesses on Facebook? [22:24]

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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. App is one step forward, two steps back – In 1999 I launched my first company, BuildOnline, a SaaS-based (back then we were ASP’s) content management platform for large-scale engineering and construction projects.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I soon found that yoga taught me 2000-year-old strategies, to be more present with my kids, be more patient with my family and feel more calm and energized at the same time! At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about

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