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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Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Most brilliant “Internet of Things” ideas are quicksand for capital unless you have the branding, vertical integration and customer lock-in that Apple achieved. 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.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Bplans and Palo Alto Software are strong supporters of entrepreneurs and small business owners. A durable, trendsetting presence in the industry since 2001, the Atlanta-based firm sends over a billion emails per day and is the go-to choice for over 14 million organizations and individuals around the world.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. 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. The theme of this episode is how to scale unicorns.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2016

Jessica Mah , founder of InDinero , provider of accounting software and tax services for small businesses. Jessica has been starting her own Internet businesses and programming since middle school. We were depending on investor funding, but with $60,000 in revenue no one would fund it. . Jessica Mah. Peggy Burke.

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Over 1 million people use 37signals simple web-based software to collaborate on projects, track contacts, and organize their business with an intranet. I was initially unfamiliar with project management software, and the name helped me understand why exactly I should give basecamp a shot. Most Internet marketing does not work that way.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2017

Offices also steal 30-40% of each of their employees’ productivity per day, shave annual revenues by 15%, and waste anywhere from 15-25% of the space in a leased office. Founded in 2001, eFileCabinet, Inc. To add insult to environmental injury, 68 million trees are cut down each year to fuel these inefficiencies. The Freedom of Time.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers. I learned about revenue recognition. I’ve acknowledged that many times.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. This meant that I had to either show enough revenue, or find investors who would be willing to put money into the company. I always knew that I would someday start my own company.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The Business of Software. Software Development. After that, Ill finish the article by saying a few things about the specific challenges of hiring software developers. For small independent software vendors (ISVs), my rule is: Dont fill a position until after the need for that position is painfully clear. About Eric.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

That was a huge revenue. Well, I think a stellar example for that business specifically, is the Norway based companies Schibsted, and their head of operations said in the early 90s, he said the internet is perfect for classified ads, classified ads are perfect for the internet. They certainly could have seen it coming.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

To find out whether or not today’s public technology companies have hit bubble valuations, let’s compare some companies that survived the great bubble with their bubble era valuations: The Enterprise Value-to-Revenue multiple (EV/Rev) and Price-to-Earnings multiple (PE) are commonly used metrics to tell the valuation:value story. Much better.

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BeyondVC

JULY 5, 2004

As an investor, the difficult part of any consumer wireless play is that the wireless world is a walled garden and not an open network like the Internet. That being said, I just view wireless as another pipe, an increasingly important one that every software or web-based company will have to be aware of and leverage.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. After I left academia (too slow moving) and the consultancy company I worked for (lack of vision), four friends and I applied that puzzle-solving passion to creating software for solving supply chain puzzles. That’s it.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0 I don’t think we as busy professionals and Internet junkies know how to sit still and self-reflect. Here is the TL:DR version in case you are pressed for time. STARTING IT UP. Back to the top.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In October of 2001, Webster, McCarthy, and Graff decided to do just that and GoldStar was born. By generating a steady revenue from consulting projects and sales, the founders were able to spend time growing their business slowly. Today, Litmus has had over 30,000 customers, 1 million+ in revenue, and is growing by around 10% a month.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

See, Mailchimp had already been around since 2001 and it took them from 7 years to reach their first 10,000 customers. This may seem like a small thing, but the focus bringing this friendly, welcoming experience to the forefront was the catalyst for Mailchimp’s most substantial growth spurt. million customers total) in 2012.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, I held several executive positions in a publicly-traded software company and was previous to that an investment banker. 44% 2001-2019 13.7% As a result, they are much more mature at the time of IPO (median revenue is about 10x what is what in the Dot Com bubble) and thus much higher valued.

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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). But I knew I had to look for investments in “software meets X (often known as Vertical Software solutions)” rather than necessarily horizontal enterprise software applications. Video is the new HTML.”

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