Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

This discussion expands on my Quora answer to a specific question: “ Why were the stock options of MySpace employees worthless even though the company was sold to News Corporation for hundreds of millions? ” The complete story includes a startup-within-a-startup, investments and exits by two VC firms, and some genuine corporate drama.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 25, 2012

And the funds came from revenue generated by my portfolio of web applications and websites that I’ve built over the past several years. The site generated revenue but it was losing customers and the hosting bill was hefty given the performance requirements of the site (it’s basically performing real-time analytics).

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Our business is located in House District 44 (Mike May), and Senate District 30 (Ted Harvey) and most of our ~15 employees live in these same or surrounding Districts in the South Denver area. That is because we do not sell, or use, anything other than “canned” software, for which we collect and remit appropriate sales taxes.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

It has made and wasted billions of dollars in oil revenues and outside Lagos the country is corrupt and doesn’t even run a Postal service for its people. We started with three employees building up an e-commerce platform in Nigeria. Moreover, investment in the country has been slow to accelerate.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Moving on … My second post was directed at employees. If you’ve done it for a long time then I usually advise hiring managers to hire you as contractors and not full-time employees. Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I was driven by my desire for freedom and that’s what I got; along with an amazing opportunity to help transform my employees’ and my client’s lives through homeownership and real estate. This is when I realized that I can use my business/sales experience that can and therefore I quit my job on the spot and started BuffetGO.

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Small Business Force

MARCH 11, 2017

However, the book “ Moneyball ” by Michael Lewis, published in 2003 and the follow-on movie, with Brad Pitt, from 2011, really seemed to bring it into mainstream thinking not just in sports, but in business and most everything else. For example, every business needs sales to succeed. But what drives your sales successes?

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Friendster was at its height, strongly battling MySpace after raising its premium round from Benchmark and Kleiner in the fall of 2003. we had no revenue. Friendster raised a big round in 2003; MySpace started gaining traction. To show potential revenue streams, we listed three products: ads, listings, and subscriptions.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

But back in 1999, a then very young Netflix based in Los Gatos with less than 20 employees, was on the edge of going bust. Even worse, DVD sales were starting to lag, and a Hollywood backlash further muddied the situation. To be specific, AdWords is currently 16 years old, and last year alone it generated well over $50B in revenue.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Things Change In 1956 Hewlett Packard (HP) was a 17-year old company with $20 million in test equipment sales with 900 employees. After failing dismally at making disposable digital cameras in 2003 Pure Digital Technologies reinvented their company in 2007 to make the Flip line of camcorders. But first some background.)

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

By prioritizing direct interaction with customers, fostering a culture of innovation, viewing setbacks as learning opportunities, investing in employee development, and upholding integrity and ethical conduct, businesses can navigate the challenges of growth and achieve sustainable success. This is John Jantsch. So what are you waiting for?

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

All of a sudden, you need to focus on a different set of challenges and concerns like establishing standard procedures and managing a large number of employees. I’d rather be solving intellectual challenges and figuring out key strategies, not debating which employees should get a promotion, or configuring project timelines.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Here, the “public” includes your customers, prospects, your employees, vendors, and others who connect in any way with your brand. But if you want to accelerate growth and improve your revenues and profits, you need to up your game. Are you interested in comparing revenues? Unique visitors? Total visits?

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

We basically automated that and then the business grew over eight years to do a bunch of different things that were related to sales and marketing for car dealerships. Matt Watson: It is a hard skill to learn and I love our employees dearly, but managing employees is hard. They were very much a luxury item.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2014

Running a company can be taxing so just remember – look up once in a while, take stock of how far you have come, and make sure to reward your employees for all their hard work. Mr. Wentzo joined Casewise in 2003 and has held a variety of Sales and Operational roles, with increasing responsibility.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I don’t actually have any employees. Because I have no employees, there’s a profit margin of about 70%, so it’s a really fantastic business model and gives me the freedom to travel and come back from my travel with more money than I left with. The biggest deal I’ve ever done was a sale of a $100,000 website. Adding Ad Revenue.

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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 The success of business can be measured through many metrics — page views, revenues, profits, the number of employees, or an exit (either through a private or through a public sale). STARTING IT UP.

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

It is apparent that the United States has the highest performing entrepreneurship, but what is truly amazing is how women contribute the biggest growth in revenue, employment and financial efficiency. She has also authored many best-selling books for Amazon on sales, marketing, entrepreneurship and small businesses. Tamara McCleary.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Also, for the full time coder, you may violate your employee contract especially in the area of non-competes or just plain piss off your boss when he finds out how much time you have been putting into a side project when deadlines were looming. Hopefully your idea of business model isn’t “ad revenue based”.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

in 2010, and for employees in the banking, finance and insurance sectors 64%. ChemChina, a state-owned company formed in 2004 from the former Ministry of Chemical Industry, had sales of $23 billion in 2010 and assets of $29 billion. Perrigo, which recorded net sales of $2.7 Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC) had revenue of $43.6

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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. It helps with sales cycles because customers know that they can switch away if they so choose. 29:45 minutes.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Founded in 2003, ASOCS develops and markets MultiComms.processors that provide seamless connectivity over diverse wireless networks. Established back in 2003, Comarcom Ltd. The ASOCS MP100 processor, featuring the ModemX™ core, represents a evolutionary approach to communications. Craze Productions. GoNet Systems. Logia Group.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Meanwhile, the rash of early liquidity and recent IPOs — unsatisfying as they were — gave liquidity to thousands of employees at large companies, and a subset of those made very real money. iOS App Store revenue still dwarfs Google Play’s, but the challenger is catching up fast. Source VentureBeat ]. -

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