2005 Revenue Technical Review Viral 
Hearpreneur
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
The company didn’t turn a profit until 2003, but by 2005 business was booming – Netflix was shipping out a million DVDs daily. Over the years, despite massive losses, Netflix was able to bounce back and improve its revenue by 47%. Netflix was founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph to combat late fees for video rentals.
Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. LinkedIn’s product had only been live for a couple months, we only had tens of thousands of registered users, and wouldn’t start generating revenue for more than a year after this point.
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year.
reidhoffman.org
NOVEMBER 12, 2013
we weren’t the natural leader of a market or technology trend that everyone was paying attention to, we didn’t have substantial organic growth, and. we had no revenue. As a result, we knew that our pitch would need to steer into investors’ biggest concern: the lack of revenue. Investors see a lot of pitches. Why is it valuable?
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 2, 2009
He’s been at it since 2005. We should end the year with a few million in fully recurring revenue and we’re projected to double next year. But more spend = more viral opps = more revenue down the road. >50% of our revenue in now viral. I founded it in 2005 at the age of 37.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
JUNE 19, 2010
I have a few contractors to do the technical side of my work and a customer support person, but that’s it. I didn’t have a contractor doing technical things for me. It made this site very sticky and it grew organically through viral word-of-mouth as a result of doing that. Adding Ad Revenue. I’m the content creator.
Software By Rob
MARCH 26, 2015
The interesting part is that my own path moving from consulting to products followed the same steps, as you can see in my product revenue chart from the past decade: Each revenue jump is when I made the move to the next step of the Stairstep Approach. Step 2: Rinse and Repeat.
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