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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Founding Date: 2004. How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million. Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008).

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

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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Tech IPOs Are Back ? So Now What? ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

But even during the macroeconomic boom of 2004 to early 2008 (inflated by various credit bubbles – housing, sovereign debt, LBOs) tech IPOs were extremely rare and then the global economic crisis of late 2008 – 2010 only further dampened hopes for a recovery. Zynga – 8x+ trailing revenue. trailing revenue.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. spent $20 million to get back to the same revenue that I had when I was CEO. Post-Mortem Title : Why Wesabe Lost to Mint.

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“Customer First” Healthcare

abovethecrowd.com

Most large healthcare IT systems are chosen based on one primary objective: revenue management. healthcare system is complex and difficult, and most of these large EHR systems’ number one purpose is to deliver revenue. From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242.

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Transcript of An Entrepreneur’s Journey to Success

Duct Tape Marketing

Landon Ray: Yeah, that would have been 2004. We don’t really share revenue numbers but we do pretty well. We grow the business out of our own revenue the old-fashion way which has been challenging but wonderful also. I’ve never made software before or even a website. How big is ONTRAPORT today? How many people?