Both Sides of the Table
MAY 19, 2010
Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers.
ReadWriteStart
MAY 5, 2011
Next, Douglas Villalobos from Costa Rica pitched GeoInvenio, a mobile application development platform. Douglas has identified about 50 software companies in Costa Rica that may be willing to develop apps on top of the GeoInvenio platform. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. GeoInvenio.
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ReadWriteStart
JUNE 23, 2011
The SharePoint cloud eco-system is not sufficiently mature, and for Daniel to be able to realize his vision, he needs to get enough application developers active soon. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. There is one problem with the strategy, though.
This is going to be BIG.
JUNE 19, 2012
I don’t know exactly when the agency to product transfer happened at Buddy, or at what point you can start calling yourself a software company (when service revenues dip below subscription/license revs?), Our current focus is on creating sticky, super viral applications that help users get more out of Facebook and other social media.
Ben's Blog
APRIL 27, 2011
When Alfred presented the acquisition to BEA’s board of directors, one prominent board member said: “if you think that this company is going to pay $150M for a company with $150K in revenue, you are out of your f&%!$n’ Impatient and shortsighted shareholders forced Alfred to sell BEA to Oracle in January of 2008 for $8.5B.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year.
Seeing Both Sides
APRIL 2, 2009
On the positive side, 2008 saw 1 trillion text messages (up 3x from previous year) and double-digit growth in revenue and subscribers. Content and applications are exploding as everyone is trying to follow iPhone’s pioneering moves and (finally) smart phones and the mobile Internet are becoming mainstream in the US.
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