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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Late last year we passed $100M in annual recurring revenue. That revenue is in on 75,000 customers, earned through the hard work of 500 employees across six offices on three continents. We just announced a few more things.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

But even more exciting is when I see inflection points of adoption — which is why 2011 was a particularly exhilirating year for me. This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. What We Saw in 2011….

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. So is John Rice, the head of Global Operations along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein.

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5 Companies That Could Become The Next Apple

YoungUpstarts

With an impressive product lineup of new iPhones, Apple watches, iPads and an all-new Apple TV queued for shipment this week, 2015 is the most successful year of revenue growth for Apple , according to Apple’s CEO Tim Cook. The online retailer Amazon experienced an 18 percent growth of revenue in 2015. percent) to 2014 (21.9

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Cracking The Code: SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble?

Cracking the Code

Wednesday, February 23, 2011. It would have been easy to explain the difference by changes in the 2010/2011 revenue growth projections but unfortunately that is not the case. revenues while large caps are trading at 6.4x. ▼ 2011. (2). Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning!

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

Outsourcing is spreading at a frantic pace today with a global footprint and players like oDesk and eLance have made it very easy for companies to connect with outsourcing vendors. In fact, they generated $100k in revenues over the last year, since they first pitched at one of our roundtables. Thursday, June 30, 2011: Register Here.

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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

June 5, 2011. They’ve grown from nothing to >$2B in revenue in 30 months time, making the company among the fastest growing businesses in the histroy of the world. Filing Date: initial filing June 2, 2011. How They Make Money: Groupon keeps a share of the coupon value (typically 40-50%) as its net revenue (1).