ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The daily customer engagement, whether from your customer success team, sales team, or customer support team, contains crucial market and revenue intelligence. A SaaS-based revenue startup was initially saving all their sales call recordings in Google Drive. Salesloft was founded in the year 2011 in Atlanta, GA.

Conversion 78

Conversion Technical Review Startup Software Review 78

VC Adventure

AUGUST 31, 2017

Beyond that, they actually went back in time and looked at the earlier stage periods for these companies so we can track how some of the world’s best SaaS companies performed at revenue levels more akin to the typical Series B business. Companies in the study that scored 40% of greater had TTM revenue multiples of 6.4x

IPO 113

IPO Vertical Balance Sheet Valuation 113

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. They have have raised $2-3 million, built a product that has some amount of market traction and got to annualized revenues of around $1 million.

Startup 418

Startup Revenue Technical Review Flash 418

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2011

Even though it has been a long haul, it’s nice to see some optimism surfacing in 2011. A majority of small business leaders intend to be more aggressive in 2011 by implementing a range of actions to advance their businesses. Respondents cited a greater focus on operating efficiencies as the number one step to achieving growth in 2011.

SBA 224

SBA Small Business Administration Japan Forecast 224

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

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. At GE the biggest problem in 2017 was major revenue misses in their Power business.)

Institutional Investors 233

Institutional Investors Dividend Stock Technical Review 233

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

April 17, 2011. GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Quinstreet priced at $15.00/sh

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2011

I just read the Q1 2011 report from CB Insights , which shows venture capital is back. Your friends and family are really the only answer until you have a significant revenue stream. Use friends, family, and angels, if possible, to get a product, revenue, and customers first before the VC connection. Overall, investors put $7.5

Venture Capital 233

Venture Capital Revenue Elevator Pitch Silicon Valley 233

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

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).

North America 100

North America Chicago Boston .Net 100

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

APRIL 28, 2011

you might have 1000 play your game, 50 of them pay, and 1 of them give you half your revenue. Urbanspoon traffic doubled year to year, 7 figure a year revenue, 3 ppl built the company. Almost every app category has a dominate app – social fb , weather weather.com , etc. Word of mouth is a big influence for app discovery.

Portland 63

Portland Oregon Mobile Incubator 63

YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2012

Some of the success found in the auto industry today is due to recovery in Japan, where a year after the March 11, 2011 earthquakes, top auto makers have once again reached pre-earthquake levels. Following a boost in holiday retail sales, the service industry has experienced a fast pace of growth in late 2011 and early 2012.

Iowa 167

Iowa Technical Review India United States 167

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2015

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

San Diego 100

San Diego Fort Worth Los Angeles San Francisco 100

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

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). SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble? What happened? sales and marketing. (10).

Software Review 101

Software Review Technical Review Valuation Europe 101

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Through the great work of many other Intuit employees, Intuit Payments would eventually become a roughly $1B business for Intuit and a key enabling feature for over half of Intuit’s small business revenue. I was generously rewarded the Intuit Founders Award in 2011 for helping get it started.

Incubator 121

Incubator Cofounder Green Programming 121

Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

To provide some reference points, I surveyed thirteen angels groups in North American to determine their recent experience in negotiating the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue companies. See the 2010 data reported here: Current Pre-money Valuations of Pre-revenue Companies. 2011 Angel Group Valuation Survey. Current Average.

Angel Groups 125

Angel Groups Valuation Pre-Money Valuation St. Louis 125

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

In fact, they generated $100k in revenues over the last year, since they first pitched at one of our roundtables. Effectively, Sunil is speaking to a trend that I have been discussing recently on my blog that companies like Groupon are pointing at: revenue sharing with merchants for providing marketing services.

India 123

India Bootstrapping Non-Compete Entrepreneur 123

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

I advised Anupam to come up with a 2011 strategy. PDT on the following dates: Thursday, June 23, 2011: Register Here Thursday, June 30, 2011: Register Here Thursday, July 21, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, July 28, 2011: Register Here And you can sign up for the 1M/1M premium program here.

Spain 115

Spain Entrepreneur India San Francisco 115

Austin Startup

JANUARY 12, 2012

SailPoint today announced it posted record annual revenue growth in 2011 and closed its largest growth quarter to date in Q4 2011. The company’s momentum resulted from growing customer demand in all geographies and the strong industry validation SailPoint received in 2011 as an identity management market leader.

Global 76

Global Demand Revenue Customer 76

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

The survey also revealed that 77-percent of companies experienced revenue growth (61-percent had profit growth) in 2012; however, there was a 9-percent decline in the response on profit growth in 2012 to 61-percent as compared to 2011 profit performance.

Singapore 133

Singapore Cost Technical Review Cofounder 133

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Trada, like many of the companies we’ve invested in, had spectacular growth (both revenue, customers, and headcount) in 2011. Reference check – oh man how many times do I have to learn this lesson.

Software Developers 136

Software Developers Software Development Startup Hiring 136

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

APRIL 28, 2011

You might have 1000 play your game, 50 of them pay, and 1 of them give you half your revenue. Urbanspoon traffic doubled year to year, 7 figure a year revenue, 3 ppl built the company. Almost every app category has a dominate app – social fb , weather weather.com , etc. Word of mouth is a big influence for app discovery.

Portland 40

Portland Oregon Mobile Incubator 40

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2011

This will represent around six-percent of Singapore’s total e-commerce volume for 2011. “We Highest reported monthly revenue in the survey stands at S$20,000. Less than four-percent of active bloggers/blogshop owners say they use paid advertising to drive online traffic.

Singapore 171

Singapore Hosting Global Advertising 171

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Wayfair - $350M + revenue, 300 employees. Chase Garbarino – BostonInno. Scaling Companies To Watch (ie: probably hiring). Gemvara - Online retailer for customized jewelry. Founded by recent Babson Alum. Recently raised their very first VC round from Battery and Spark earlier this year. HubSpot - Inbound marketing pioneer.

Boston 56

Boston Technical Review Community CTO Hire 56

Gust

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Copyright BillPayne.com 2011. Depending on the company, important milestones may include being granted a patent, receiving a 510k FDA approval, completing a prototype, receiving positive customer feedback on a beta test, achieving first revenues, hitting the goal in annual revenues of $1 million , etc. million and $4 million.

Angel Investor 179

Angel Investor Venture Capital Valuation Software Engineering 179

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2011

In 1999… with the company’s revenue north of $100 million…I handed the keys to a new CEO and left. During the next couple years…and much humbler… I raised more money and started another company, one that was lucky enough to go public in the dot.com bubble. I had married a wonderful woman and together we had two young daughters.

Philadelphia 335

Philadelphia Miami Silicon Valley Thailand 335

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Not only will they offer human resources, it allows you to increase revenue as well. They have a direct impact on revenue and it is a key component for attracting talent and for out shining the competition. Netflix suffered an immediate decline in customers when they raised their prices in 2011. Understand Your Customers.

Balance Sheet 60

Balance Sheet Technical Review Leadership Revenue 60

Up and Running

JUNE 29, 2016

It’s not just the overall trend toward online shopping that makes this a solid strategy for increasing revenue, however. Then, in 2008, she started her own independent ecommerce site, with revenues reaching $28 million by 2011, and $100 million by 2012. Go beyond “straight sizing”.

Revenue 76

Revenue eCommerce Social Media Campaign 76

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?), 3/15/2011 – All in on Facebook, “Your Trusted Social Media Marketing Company” Social Media Platform.

Software 105

Software Media Social Media Advertising 105

The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

Since Eric Ries wrote The Lean Startup in 2011 smart founders have understood that the best way to progress is to get onto the ‘build-measure-learn’ loop and iterate to success. A business that grows to £10m in revenues over five years and sells for 1-3x that amount can still be a life changing event.

Startup 60

Startup Incubator Technical Review Lean 60

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The Proof Is In The Revenue. While engagement points can translate into leads and money saved, it's up to social media strategists to connect the dots and make the case that their efforts generate revenue efficiently. If these pros are seeing major barriers to their success, then what chance do others have in moving the needle?

Social Media 134

Social Media Media Programming Viral 134

Growthink Blog

JULY 23, 2013

Situation #3: One Revenue Stream One of the biggest mistakes many businesses make is relying too heavily on one customer or revenue stream. Most companies will work with different clients and customers, but may rely on one specific client for the majority of their revenue. Revenue sources need to be analyzed.

Revenue 115

Revenue Security Acquisition Business Model 115

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 7, 2010

SpeedMenu clients benefit from increased table touches, higher revenues and associated tips as well as repeat sales. SpeedMenu will begin the full rollout to Micros clients in January, 2011. The Micros integration continues to push SpeedMenu as the standard platform for mobile menuing, ordering and payment.

Utah 74

Utah Software Review Customer Mobile 74

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

He says that you should never consider a public offering unless you are confident that the company will deliver increasing profits and revenue after the offering, so that the public buyer can anticipate a gain. Draper III, in his new book titled “ The Startup Game.”

IPO 223

IPO Social Media Media Exit Strategy 223

Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

Given the predictability of SaaS GAAP revenues on a quarterly basis, the fact that the 08/09 projections were unchanged is not a surprise. Given that the revenues are not growing very fast, this means that most of the companies have reduced their sales force and focused on productivity improvement. ► 2011. (2). software.

Software Review 63

Software Review Technical Review Cloud Forecast 63

Up and Running

DECEMBER 27, 2018

It partners with many companies/inventors and splits the licensing revenue 50-50. Between 2011 and 2016, leading banks like JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America made 947,907 transactions for patent loans. They work with patent-holders to help them unlock the financial potential of their patent. It has another benefit.

Intellectual Property 93

Intellectual Property Technical Review Due Diligence Cofounder 93

Gust

OCTOBER 16, 2012

This summer I conducted our third annual survey of the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue companies recently funded by angel groups in North America. Access to our 2010 and 2011 surveys can be found at 2011 Valuation Survey of North American Angel Investor Groups. Pre-revenue life Science, biotech and medical device deals.

Angel Groups 169

Angel Groups Valuation Pre-Money Valuation North Dakota 169

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

On Saturday, April 9, 2011, I arrived in Chennai at 3 a.m. At the end of the day, we sealed a partnership between 1M/1M and TiE Chennai whereby TiE Chennai members can receive a discount of 25% off the annual membership fee for the 1M/1M premium program until June 16, 2011, and a 15% discount thereafter. At 11 a.m.,

India 126

India Technical Review Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 126

Guy Nirpaz

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Here are three posts to get the discussion started: October 2011 – David Cummings on Inside Sales Rep Comp Model for Startups. Commissions would be 10% – 20% of first-year’s revenues (e.g. July 2011 – Larry Steele (VP of SaaS at Savvis) Tips for Transitioning Your Business to SaaS. If you set up term limits (i.e.,

Sales 48

Sales Technical Review Channel Salary 48