Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. So if your costs are $500,000 per month and you have $350,000 per month in revenue then your net burn (500-350) is equal to $150,000.

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Burn Rate Balance Sheet .Net Valuation 383

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. For the first time, we asked for data from specific business sectors, as follows: All pre-revenue deals. Pre-revenue life Science, biotech and medical device deals. million).

Angel Groups 169

Angel Groups Valuation Pre-Money Valuation North Dakota 169

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

How They Make Money: Majority of Kayak’s revenue actually comes from advertising on their site (55%), not lead generation or referral fees to travel suppliers as you might think (more on this below). Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million. Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008).

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 3, 2020

With this change in destination preference, new and booming vacation rental areas will not only demand compliance with rules and regulations but will have an eye toward maintaining a long-term tax base backed by lodging revenues. Pam joined Avalara in 2012.

Non-Compete 147

Non-Compete Hosting Technical Review Government 147

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

Citing from a recently conducted ’2013 ICT Business Outlook’ survey conducted by the industry federation that polled over 100 ICT companies on their 2012 business performance and expectations this year, the SiTF revealed that survey participants were skeptical of key schemes in Singapore’s Budget 2012.

Singapore 133

Singapore Cost Technical Review Retention 133

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

For example, you may generate more revenue during the holiday season and find that summer is a bit slower. A CRM that offers customizable options and allows easy integration with your other sales and marketing tools will help you grow revenue in both your busy and slow seasons. Taking it on the road.

Small Business 113

Small Business Sales Colorado Technical Review 113

Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

June 19th, 2012. June 17th, 2012. But in the real world, when you get to business numbers, sales are not accounts receivable and revenue isn’t income and people who read financial projections need to know that an apple is an apple, and not an orange. . June 13th, 2012. June 10th, 2012. June 5th, 2012.

Startup 180

Startup Forecast Angel Investor Software 180

YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

This generated $16 billion in annual revenues in 2015. Since 2012, it produced half of all the tech jobs added to Canada, per the CBRE research done on Canadian tech talent. billion in revenue. By 2025, the province wants to generate annual revenue of $4 billion within the tech sector. of Canada’s economic output.

Canada 167

Canada Hiring Artificial Inteligence Software Developers 167

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2015

A Captive Network study of 600 white collar North American workers says that workplace productivity drops 20 percent during the summer months, worker attendance decreases by 19 percent, projects take 13 percent more time to complete, and workers are 45 percent more distracted (Sprung, 2012). Offer a summer promotion or discount.

Employee 100

Employee Software Review Technical Review Software 100

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. How They Make Money: Groupon keeps a share of the coupon value (typically 40-50%) as its net revenue (1). Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $713M. to the merchant.

North America 100

North America Chicago Boston Silicon Valley 100

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2018

Founded in 2012, BounceX’s People-Based Marketing (PBM) cloud is the first new revenue channel with scale in 10 years. Founded in 2012, BounceX’s People-Based Marketing (PBM) cloud is the first new revenue channel with scale in 10 years.

Marketing 62

Marketing Software Review America Channel 62

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

A VC: MBA Mondays: Revenue Models – Subscriptions – [link]. Top 50 Photoshop Tutorials from 2012 | Speckyboy – [link]. The Absolute Best Fonts of 2012 | Creative Beacon – [link]. Round Up of Free Fonts of 2012 | Sharing Mantra – [link]. Top Free Vector Graphics Of 2012 - [link].

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

David Teten

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Applications are now open for the January 2012 class ERA class; Application deadline is November 20th, 2011. Times Square (January 9th, 2012 – March 30th, 2012). * 80% of startups have revenue (as of September 2011). Benefits: * Get a $25,000 investment for your startup. * One-on-one, hands-on support.

Revenue 128

Revenue Community Partner Startup 128

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2012

5000 list in aggregate generated some US$299 billion in revenue for the year 2011, creating some 389,000 jobs for the economy. “To rank among the 2012 Inc. The companies in the Inc. Companies in the Inc. 5000 – let alone, the Inc. editor Eric Schurenberg. 500 will appear in the September issue of Inc. ’s.

United States 159

United States Aggregator Social Network Revenue 159

YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2014

” Getting some revenue from at least 3 clients (proving that there’s value to what you’re doing) would be fantastic, but other types of traction and validation would help too. Demonstrate that you have been able to get a great deal done with minimal to no money. Enter Competitions and Incubators.

Security 200

Security Incubator Technical Review Bootstrapping 200

Austin Startup

MARCH 6, 2021

Muhummad Mahdi (left) and Arifin Hasan (right), Founders of Nitex In 2012, Bangladeshi computer science student Muhammad Mahdi received a call from an old high school friend, Arifin Hasan. HITTING THE RUNWAY For three years the company relied on revenue alone as skeptical investors failed to see their vision.

Bangladesh 62

Bangladesh Denmark Retention Austin 62

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2019

In 2012, the global revenue of the VoIP industry reached $43.27 Cellphones and traditional phone systems are reliable for personal use, but not for your business. Eventually, you’ll experience the failure of traditional systems and it will be a major inconvenience to your business. billion and is expected to reach $500 billion by 2020.

Technical Review 80

Technical Review Technology Software Review Bandwidth 80

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Looking Ahead: The Rest of 2011 and 2012 Outlook. As small business owners look to the future months and 2012, 50-percent say it will be “steady as she goes – continuing much as we are now” for the holiday season. . · 77-percent cited “being their own boss” as the key benefit to being a small business owner.

Small Business 176

Small Business United States Social Network Government 176

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 21, 2013

So we spent some time iterating--leanly, we thought--on the revenue model. Justin Wilcox, who joined us earlier this year for a lively webcast on applying Lean Startup ideas beyond Silicon Valley, will be returning to follow up on his surprising 2012 talk on pricing and MVPs. Here’s here 2012 talk.

Lean 152

Lean Startup Metrics Silicon Valley 152

The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 31, 2014

As you can see from the chart above 53% of their ad revenues now come from mobile. That’s an amazing story of business transformation, and their share price is now around the $60 mark valuing the company at c$150bn, up from $104bn at IPO in May 2012.

Revenue 102

Revenue Mobile IPO 102

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Although Sharktank has been running reruns on Fridays the last few weeks, the show ran a Sharktank 2012 Holiday special on Tuesday night. Revenue is driven by children’s parties, which cost $600-$4,000 for a two hour party for 15 kids, which apparently is the market price for kids parties in LA.

Covenant 156

Covenant Warrant Southern California Los Angeles 156

ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

To do that, we built a demand funnel that took us from nothing to 44X revenue growth in a single year. SiriusDecisions Rearchitected Demand Waterfall (2012). That difference cascades down the funnel, allowing you to track the ROI of your lead sources between inbound and outbound campaigns—all the way through to revenue.

Demand 101

Demand Revenue SQL B2B 101

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 22, 2018

Steve founded his company in 2012 with a goal to help other business owners around the globe. When I started in 2012, I decided I would keep that nickname. The Small Business and Mindful Caring Divisions taking off and eclipsing the revenue generated from Home Care. How did you come up with your business name?

Entrepreneur 90

Entrepreneur Technical Review Programming Naming 90

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Nearly 100,000 new developers created applications this year for the App Store, which rakes in 4x more revenue than Google Play. With the number of App Store applications now topping 1 million, [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

Revenue 129

Revenue Developer IP API 129

Gust

JANUARY 15, 2013

in Revenue Stage. New startups creation stages remained steady and in line with the rest of the year, with 13.1% in Concept Stage, 43.2% in Development Stage, 34.5% in Product Ready Stage and 9.2% The trend noticed last month of Product Ready companies declining appears to have dissipated as all stages regained their balance.

India 171

India United States Startup Restful 171

Gust

JANUARY 31, 2013

Hastings in the era of social media : On July 3, 2012, he posted to his Facebook page , which had more than 200,000 subscribers, the fact that Netflix had streamed a billion hours of video in the preceding month.

SEC 158

SEC Prospectus United States Technical Review 158

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

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 20, 2016

in 2012, its first step was gauging the local market’s wants and needs. In December 2012, the Council of the District of Columbia and the mayor shut down the District of Columbia Taxicab Commission’s efforts to block Uber. Manager – Dell for Entrepreneurs. When Uber launched in Washington, D.C. ,

District of Columbia 100

District of Columbia Harvest Revenue Washington 100

Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Laura Weidman Powers: Tristan Walker and I started CODE2040 after working in tech and recognizing 1) how much opportunity there is in this space but 2) how little diversity there is – this was particularly true when we started the organization in early 2012. HW: How do you structure CODE2040’s funding base?

Programming 48

Programming Term Sheet Revenue United States 48

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The ongoing pandemic has prompted state and local governments to look for new revenues in the midst of historic budget shortfalls. In many markets across the nation, tourism is big business bringing significant revenue into various regions. Pam joined Avalara in 2012.

Hosting 290

Hosting Government Channel Revenue 290

www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Posted on May 31, 2012. Email Helps Get Marginal Revenue Out Of Existing Customers For Almost Nothing. This is enormously motivational for SaaS businesses because they typically have godawful terrible cash-flow issues with customer acquisition costs front-loaded and revenue dripped out at a mostly steady pace for years.

Email 54

Email Software Review Software Campaign 54

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

His superiors weren’t all happy with this atypical approach to news and asked him to leave in September 2012. In December 2012 he met up with the founders of Momkai , a creative agency with clients such as Red Bull and Nike. The ultimate goal is to improve journalism, not to fill the pockets of shareholders.

Netherlands 158

Netherlands Campaign Europe Advertising 158

deal architect

JANUARY 23, 2013

The numbers are in SAP’s Total 2012 Non-IFRS Revenue EU 16.3 billion Revenue from “New” products introduced in last 5 years HANA 392 Mobile 222 Cloud 456 (incl Ariba) NEW 1070 So, roughly 6.5% of revenues from “new” products. Compare.

Cloud 239

Cloud Revenue Mobile Product 239

deal architect

AUGUST 31, 2012

For the 37 months ending January 31, 2012, total revenues were $ 227 million, accelerating year on year, so let’s round off to lifetime revenues of. Workday has filed its S-1 with the SEC as part of its IPO process.

SEC 262

SEC IPO Revenue Cloud 262

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

At today's roundtable, we discussed three major trends and opportunities for 2012 and also worked with an entrepreneur from Europe. In 2012, finally, we will see the first major crop of Indian entrepreneurs playing on the global stage. Social Contacts. Our audience of readers is full of entrepreneurs. And what do entrepreneurs do?

Greece 116

Greece Entrepreneur India Silicon Valley 116

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2012

Chamber of Commerce has announced the seven regional finalists for the DREAM BIG Small Business of the Year Award 2012. The seven finalists for the DREAM BIG Small Business of the Year Award 2012 are: Ski Butlers (Western). Boasting revenues of up to $1.5 Chamber of Commerce. Young entrepreneurs take note.

Small Business 140

Small Business New York Denmark America 140

www.clickz.com

JANUARY 7, 2013

Heidi Cohen | December 24, 2012. To get your 2013 marketing plans on track to increase revenues, here are seven social media tactics based on solid research that you need now. Editors note: This column was originally published on August 20, 2012, and was the seventh most popular column of the year on ClickZ in 2012.

Social Media 86

Social Media Media B2C New York 86