Gust
JANUARY 31, 2013
Modern theories of economics and finance teach us that in a world of perfect information, the market will decide what a fair price is for any company’s stock at any point in time based on its current financial condition, results of past operations, analysts’ forecasts of future performance, industry conditions and so on.
Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). And obviously all the liq prefs went away in the IPO when pref stock converted to common.
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abovethecrowd.com
OCTOBER 17, 2013
While I am extremely proud of that team’s accomplishments (the parent company recombined Nordstrom.com in 2002 and the direct division now has revenue of over $1.25B and is the fastest growing unit inside of Nordstrom ), I built a healthy respect for the complexities and difficulties of managing women’s fashion inventory.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 14, 2012
IPO stands for Initial Public Offering, and is the first sale of a private stock to the public. EBITDA, or Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization, is a metric of measurement of cash earnings that is generally non-GAAP. What You Thought It Meant: Giant Awesome Animatronic Porcupine.
Up and Running
OCTOBER 8, 2014
They’re a camera company that got started in 2002. At Palo Alto Software, we use our own product – LivePlan – to manage and keep track of key business metrics. To cater to a unicycle hockey player’s needs, Unicycle.com, headquartered in the UK, has decided to stock ice-hockey sticks. Very clever. Ever heard of GoPro?
Feld Thoughts
APRIL 21, 2016
Anything that hints of a down round brings questions about the success metrics that have already been “booked.” In 2001 and 2002 I learned a brutal set of lessons, including experiencing that $100 million of paper money going to $0 when Interliant went bankrupt.
ConversionXL
SEPTEMBER 5, 2019
They took on cheesy stock photos and cringey names like Big Spender Billy. running regression analyses against success metrics), but we knew what our “ideal customer profile” looked like for the most part, and we knew which customer profiles were worth the most money to us generally. Artistic and Aspirational Alex…?
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