Lightspeed Venture Partners

JULY 15, 2013

It was at that time that I reconnected with Raj De Datta, a fantastically talented repeat entrepreneur with whom I had gone to Harvard Business School from 2001-2003. At that time I was working at Bain Capital Ventures, having just moved from Boston to spearhead the launch of their West Coast Office. That is, until we met Ashutosh Garg.

Mobile 135

Mobile SEO Cofounder Boston 135

VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

I grew up on a family potato farm in SE Idaho and I have a PhD in Engineering from Stanford (also known as The Farm). 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. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

Software 48

Software SQL Colorado Fractional CTO 48

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

chief, came to the rescue in 2003 and helped turn the company around for the better. Revenues have continued to increase every year and investors couldn’t be happier with what brave Mr. But before Google became the giant corporation that it is today, it was almost sold for a shy $1 million to Excite CEO George Bell in 1999.

Bankruptcy 195

Bankruptcy Texas Naming Venture Capital 195

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

When I decided to start my business in 2003 it was not a decision that I took lightly. I also help reverse engineer your most powerful solutions into profitable revenue streams. I have the keen ability to understand the big picture and reverse engineer concepts into tangible action items to turn dreams and goals into reality.

Non-Compete 103

Non-Compete Entrepreneur Demand Reputation 103

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 28, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. Convergent streams The most effective marketing strategy not only focuses on a core market and differentiators, it also finds ways to build multiple streams of recurring revenue. Business owners and marketers don’t necessarily need.

Marketing 64

Marketing Valuation Differentiation Lead Generation 64

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. Shama is a bestselling author with her book - The Zen of Social Media Marketing: An Easier Way to Build Credibility, Generate Buzz, and Increase Revenue. Award winning CEO of The Marketing Zen Group – a global digital marketing firm.

Small Business 53

Small Business Marketing Social Media Cofounder 53

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 13, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. Blocked revenue One of the best ways to build a business that has marketable value is to develop multiple streams of residual income that a potential business buyer can view as a valuable asset. .

Community 63

Community Social Media RSS Engineer 63

ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

The first shows were created in late 2003, and the term itself was coined in 2004 by combining “iPod” with “broadcasting.”. It’s the third largest search engine behind Google search and Google Images.) Advertising and sponsorship revenue can cover costs, if not create a livable wage. Let’s get started. .

Syndicate 85

Syndicate Syndication Hosting Audio 85

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. What would happen if you focused on the 20% of your customers responsible for 80% of your revenue? But what would happen if, instead of ending with the sales conversation; the new customer, you began with the customer purchase?

Social Media 32

Social Media Retention Acquisition LLC 32

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Necessity being the mother of invention, this is where the queue, the ratings system, and the recommendation engine all came from. In three month’s time, the team redesigned the site, introducing the queue, the rating system, and the recommendations engine all in support of Netflix being a subscription service.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

He is a self-taught software engineer and technologist. Founded in 2003, ActiveCampaign helps small teams power big businesses with the must have platform for intelligent marketing automation. Fuel your growth, boost revenue and save precious time by upgrading to active campaign today. This is John Jantsch.

Chicago 48

Chicago Campaign Software Review Software Engineering 48

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 4, 2014

If you just go ahead and redesign your site, chances are that it will fail – conversions / revenue per visitor actually go down. User experience guru Jared Spool was talking about the dangers of radical redesigns already back in 2003, Louis Rosenfeld was ranting against it in 2002, and so on. And this isn’t something new.

Conversion 124

Conversion Technical Review Design Framework 124

Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

What that meant is that six companies a year could achieve a hundred million in revenue or a billion in valuation. So last year Eileen Lee, did this amazing study where she dug into data going back to 2003. In 5 months since the program began his revenue is growing, he’s moved out of his basement and has hired his first employees.

Venture Capital 40

Venture Capital Valuation Los Angeles Chicago 40

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Our team is 5 engineers, 2 QA and a project manager. Posted by: Matt | September 10, 2007 9:43 AM Hmm, our current startup (now doing more than 1M/year) was bootstrapped for its first year on just 1500$ (and with that we grew revenue to 25K/month). I do think there is a built-in level of inefficiency with offshore development.

Bootstrapping 41

Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I hit over six figures in my first year in business – and the company revenue has increased annually ever since. My engineering career-as a researcher at Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs, before I started Flarion-had been in communications and information theory, so I’d expected to stay involved in those technologies.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

I co-founded LinkedIn in 2003, and by 2005, after asking myself the key questions about my passion, focus, and commitment, I knew I wanted to bring in a CEO. Dan went on to continue being a very successful company builder, becoming the CEO of Rocket Lawyer and, among other successes, quadrupling its revenues.).

Founder 78

Founder Hiring Cofounder Hawaii 78

Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

Houses were cheaper, you couldn’t get good engineers, etc. In 2003 Electronic Arts actually moved their headquarters from Silicon Valley to Playa Vista, an crazy move at the time, and accelerated their growth as a result. Great PR and finance firms, but not many startups. That has all changed.

California 20

California Southern California San Francisco Silicon Valley 20

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay. In November of this year, the company announced that it had achieved “substantially” more than $1B in revenue in the third quarter. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

One of them that was in that book was called engineering as marketing, which make sense to us, our customers are engineers, and so basically the point of that was to build a tool that our customers could use, that they would be searching for this tool. They were very much a luxury item. It was a different day and age.

Kansas City 38

Kansas City CTO Hire Las Vegas Software Developers 38

Software By Rob

OCTOBER 26, 2010

By 2003, I entered my first show and in 2004 I had a full-fledged business running. When everyone took notice of Java and abandoned C++ in droves, Rogue Wave’s revenues plummeted. They still saw their license revenue coming in, albeit a little lower each quarter. As a result, Rogue Wave’s revenues continued to decline.

Java 66

Java Product Software Developers Software Development 66

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

But if you want to accelerate growth and improve your revenues and profits, you need to up your game. It is a key factor in the success and prosperity of all businesses and nonprofits, regardless of their revenues. Are you interested in comparing revenues? Your revenue model could provide a frame of reference.

Marketing 162

Marketing Charlotte Naming Design 162

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Around 2003, Quigo was doing tens of millions of dollars in revenue with two main products: a ready-to-use, search engine marketing solution for advertisers called FeedPoint and a contextual advertising platform for publishers called AdSonar. Quigo Lands Overture as Client, Rejects Their Acquisition Offer.

Semantic 302

Semantic Acquisition Valuation Angel Investor 302

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. How do you not only make money in terms of revenue and revenue growth, but ultimately how do you develop profits and a profit center? And then I taught a class called “Intelligent Growth in Startups” in the engineering department.

Founder 68

Founder Lean Venture Capital Cofounder 68

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. is it really that the only people who can build great startups are engineers? Engineers don’t always have the best business ideas.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2011

Marketing guru Amish Shah was no stranger to these fumbles when he began his marketing and consulting empire back in 2003. Shah saw how the power of adwords had evolved in just a few short years and knew right away the simple side project was destined to become an annual several billion dollar source of revenue for Google.

Marketing 154

Marketing Internet Salary Advertising 154

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

And going even further back there have been a few random ones have been built before like Salesforce.com and e-tailer RedEnvelope (IPO’d in 2003 though now defunct as a company). I think the long-tail (size in terms of market cap, revenue, employees etc – pick one doesn’t matter) is moving towards the city.

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Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Startup 185

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 All those sites used up our meager resources — monetary, design, engineering and intellectual. Here is the TL:DR version in case you are pressed for time. STARTING IT UP. Photo courtesy of Scott Beale of Laughing Squid.

Founder 80

Founder Conversion Distribution Silicon Valley 80

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

Adding Ad Revenue. It was 2003 or right about then, and I was walking across the Green Street Mall in Brisbane, thinking that I was no longer interested in Magic the Gathering as a card game. I discovered blogging because I was told it was great for search engine rankings. I had someone running the forum. Deciding to Sell.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Software Review Prospectus Audience 76

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. Shama is a bestselling author with her book - The Zen of Social Media Marketing: An Easier Way to Build Credibility, Generate Buzz, and Increase Revenue. Award winning CEO of The Marketing Zen Group – a global digital marketing firm.

Web 31

Web Social Media Small Business Matching 31

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I knew I wanted something search engine-friendly, and I’d always used the term photo safaris when inviting friends along to shoot around New York, so I went with that. Towards the end, we decided we needed a name that really spoke to what we wanted to do, that being, increasing visibility for companies and driving traffic and revenue.

Naming 48

Naming Entrepreneur LLC Software Review 48

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Most businesses have a handful of target accounts they dream of closing—big, prestigious companies that could generate a whole lot of revenue in a single deal. Set up in 2003, the website has a strong network-effect moat that makes it harder for other blogs and publications to compete. Use targeted case studies to close dream accounts.

B2B 133

B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’ Looking at the conference agenda , it’s not hard to spot the trends for 2010: Mobile Clouds – additional storage and new revenue streams to operators.

Mobile 109

Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

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. Mark: Google had trouble dealing with customers and contracts because they historically were so engineering driven. 29:45 minutes.

Software Review 285

Software Review Software St. Louis API 285

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. Dasur’s solution is based on a unique, patented pattern recognition engine. Cellint provides the best road traffic information service world wide.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Another big innovator in helping manage cloud implementations is Okta , founded by Todd McKinnon, the former VP of Engineering at Salesforce.com (who knows a thing or two about cloud services) and Freddy Kerrest who was senior in biz dev & sales at Salesforce and was there from 2002-07.

Cloud 343

Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343