abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Smith identified that when men and women specialize their skills, and also importantly “trade” with one another, the end result is a rise in productivity and standard of living for everyone. In November of this year, the company announced that it had achieved “substantially” more than $1B in revenue in the third quarter. annual GMV.

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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. Secondly, developers are more productive. We have over 60 companies in our portfolio and none of them use any products from the current software leader, Oracle. Horace Dediu, Asymco.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. Startups needed millions of dollars of funding just to get their first product out the door to customers. A hardware startup had to equip a factory to manufacture the product.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million). Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005).

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Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 2, 2015

However, the rise of the Internet equalized if not flipped the ratio as the web (and mobile) created a new product category and distribution platform. For the first time, entrepreneurs could build consumer services AND distribute them at scale with almost no physical middle men and inventory costs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. Yeah, I mean there's a lot of that because when we think about how we invest in companies, we’re not thinking about just a product that people want. They’re products that are applicable to the people here now.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

We come in after a product has landed and found product market fit and has some escape velocity. So first, we were much more sort of with a high growth rate, and we did not even care about how we got the revenue when we got it. And now we are much more careful about revenue quality revenues. That’s not what we do.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

But once the company has honed in on a strong value proposition and found initial product-market fit, what is the best approach to scaling it? 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. After all, scaling is hard. Really hard.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. Instead, I wanted to focus on what I knew best — product and editorial strategy.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Hand reared, growing into a cheeky, unique little character, full of personality and attitude… what better name for our product than ‘Oska. The name for my independent film production company, Corner Piece Productions, was inspired by a motif of puzzle pieces in our first feature, West of Her.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

No venue wants to be told that their product is worthless, and no customer wants to go see a show that’s unsellable,” said Robert Graff. In October of 2001, Webster, McCarthy, and Graff decided to do just that and GoldStar was born. They have no plans of selling the company or taking in outside investment. How’d they do it?

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

When you can proudly use your product or service and find the value in it on a daily basis, you know you’re on to something. With the recent wave of on-demand offerings from taxi cabs to mobile dry cleaning, consumers have started to rethink the way they book and buy products and services. Thanks to David Wachs, Handwrytten ! #5)

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

And content distribution. That was a huge revenue. We forget, we think this is ancient history, it was 2001, I mean it wasn’t that long ago. Firstly was ensure a more stable revenue stream so that you weren’t depending on people making an discretionary purchase. How do you decide what to do about it?

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