Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

In 2011, our family was sitting around the dinner table brainstorming when our teenage daughter Mia had a great idea – starting a company that sells the best possible organic roasted seaweed in delicious flavors. Summit CPA is now a company with over $5M in annual revenue and our team is fully distributed throughout the United States.

Naming 150

Naming CPA Entrepreneur Software Review 150

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors. September 14, 2011 03:43:05 Reply 0 Flag this comment Ay?e e Cagal Follow [link] ÖDÜL KAZANMAK ?SYEN SYEN 10 DAK?KADA

France 77

France Marketing Social Media Startup 77

mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

in June 2011 for $400 million. Googles most recent and expensive acquisition to date occurred August 15, 2011 with its purchase of Motorola Mobility. in June 2011 for $400 million. Googles most recent and expensive acquisition to date occurred August 15, 2011 with its purchase of Motorola Mobility. Slide.com.

San Francisco 104

San Francisco Acquisition Social Media Mobile 104

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

May 26, 2011. 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. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

November 1, 2011 by Joshua Baer. Include screenshots of your product , a video walk-through and one or two charts that display traction or revenue. Here are some tips… November 1, 2011 16:54:48. November 1, 2011 19:55:36. November 1, 2011 22:26:46. Global Syndication Partners. Flag this comment.

Social Media 80

Social Media Startup Angel Investor RSS 80

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2018

In 2011, Russell Ruffino started Clients on Demand to help coaches, consultants, and professional service providers build and grow their companies. Within five short years, the company’s revenues totaled $4.5 So we decided to strip the audio from those and syndicate them into a podcast”. Clients on Demand, a Podcasting Example.

Demand 71

Demand Audio Syndicate Syndication 71

VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2011

See the June 2011 edition after the jump. The ratings agency noted that the improvement in public finances reflects both revenue growth as a result of buoyant output, as well as expenditure control, resulting from the adoption of new fiscal rules. For previous editions, click here. FITCH AFFIRMS ISRAEL AT “A” (OUTLOOK STABLE).

Balance Sheet 90

Balance Sheet Acquisition Africa 90

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

To be specific, AdWords is currently 16 years old, and last year alone it generated well over $50B in revenue. Because she understood the potential for IP-based syndicated content technology, Alex started searching for new and useful ways to put this technology to use. I’m sure all of you have heard of Google’s AdWords.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

How They Make Money : Facebook’s primary revenue stream is of course selling advertising on Facebook.com, which in total accounts for 85% of revenue. The next chunk comes from Facebook’s platform, in essence “taxing” the revenues of app developers like Zynga, which represents 15% of revenue.

IPO 100

IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100

Agile VC

DECEMBER 5, 2011

December 5, 2011. Objective Logistics has created a game layer on top of very sophisticated scheduling algorithms which increase revenue, save time, and improve customer and staff satisfaction. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. Previous Entries.

Silicon Valley 100

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 100

Agile VC

AUGUST 22, 2011

August 22, 2011. Even Amazon isn’t a platform… yes they have AWS but it accounts for <3% of their revenue and isn’t terribly profitable given the capex & opex currently going into growing it. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future.

Silicon Valley 113

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Startup Syndicate 113

Agile VC

AUGUST 12, 2011

August 12, 2011. The simple answer is “be able to convince a partnership of smart investors that your startup has a good probability of being a $100M+ revenue company within 5ish years.” But for other types of startups, particularly consumer-facing ones, a pre-revenue Series A may be entirely appropriate and feasible.

Seed Stage 113

Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Acquisition 113

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

1) Macro Environment Still Dictates IPO Windows - While 2011 saw dozens of tech IPOs, macroeconomic conditions still dictate when companies can successfully complete an offering. For SaaS or other recurring revenue businesses these figures might be on a bookings basis rather than GAAP revenue, but conceptually they’re similar.

IPO 100

IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

Costolo clearly wants to position Twitter as a complementary part of the media ecosystem (which it is by and large) rather than a competitor, and there remains a chance that Twitter will have other forms of revenue besides ads. Here’s why: Virtually all of Twitter’s revenue comes from advertising.

Media 113

Media Advertising Silicon Valley Revenue 113

Lightspeed Venture Partners

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

Despite having over 500k downloads and making $450k in revenue over the last 21 months, he had only $185k left in the bank, which meant that he would be out of business in 90 days if he didn’t raise more money. But eventually two syndicates emerged. Brooks has previously raised $1.6M What is important is prior execution.

Pre-Money Valuation 159

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Dilution Distribution 159

Agile VC

JANUARY 27, 2012

Revenue ramp of Groupon and Zynga –> Kleiner famously said Zynga was the fastest growing company they’d ever invested in , no mean feat for the original backers of Google, Amazon, Netscape, etc, and Groupon might be the fastest ever startup to reach $1B in revenue. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved.

Hockey Stick 113

Hockey Stick Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate 113

Agile VC

MARCH 30, 2012

Some believe that there are “new” revenue models being created by consumer web companies, like virtual goods or “freemium” services. Their first revenue stream is simply inserting affiliate links to e-tailers into the pinboards that users create. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved.

Business Model 113

Business Model Silicon Valley Advertising B2B 113

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

A company that in time can generate $100M+ in revenue and have an enterprise value measured in the hundreds of millions or more (what some VCs refer to as a “venture scale” outcome). © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. Simply put… startups that have golazo potential. What’s Your Favorite Future?

South Korea 124

South Korea Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate 124

Agile VC

MAY 23, 2012

E-commerce accounts for the vast majority of LL Bean’s revenue today ( it crossed 50% in 2010 though was as low as 15% in 2000 ), but because LL Bean is over a hundred years old and started as catalog & physical store retailer we typically don’t refer to it as an internet company. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved.

Internet 182

Internet Silicon Valley IPO Seed Stage 182

Agile VC

JANUARY 12, 2012

When a startup doesn’t match the stage where a particular investor focuses, founders may get a response along the lines of “This is interesting to us, but come back once you get from X phase to Y phase” That could be from seed stage to a larger Series A financing need, or to progress from pre-product to post-revenue.

Seed Stage 100

Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate Syndication 100

Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

In 2011, the valuation of pre-revenue, start-up companies is typically in the range of $1.5–$2.5 Such comparisons can only be made for companies at the same stage of development, in this case, for pre-revenue startup ventures. As can be seen the average (mean) pre-money valuation for recent pre-revenue deals is $2.1

Valuation 146

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Intellectual Property Technical Review 146

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

I think the long-tail (size in terms of market cap, revenue, employees etc – pick one doesn’t matter) is moving towards the city. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC Syndicate 10 July 2012, 5:13 pm What A VC Orders for Breakfast Says 27 June 2012, 10:16 am To Leave or Not to Leave as Your Startup Grows 12 June 2012, 12:21 pm.

Silicon Valley 185

Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Startup 185

Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Monday, June 20, 2011. But of course, the model had us requiring only $10M equity to breakeven and to achieve $185M in revenues in 2008 (the magic Year 5 in all business plans). June 21, 2011 2:32 PM. June 21, 2011 4:21 PM. ▼ 2011. (7). ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. How much is enough?

San Jose 28

San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Basically started as somebody of how do we take photos of cars and the pricing and descriptions of the cars, and put it all in one place, but then syndicate it. We started that company in 2003, and we sold it in the 2011, so you frame up the timing. They’ve come light years from there, that’s for sure.

Kansas City 40

Kansas City CTO Hire Las Vegas Software Developers 40