YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2014

DSO is the average number of days that a company takes to collect revenue after a sale has been made. According to The Economist forecast for 2015, ASEAN will add USD 335 billion and become the fourth largest economy in the world. Atradius, Payment Practices in Asia-Pacific, 2013. Business Services Resource Guide 2012/13.

Singapore 191

Singapore Asia Management China 191

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Fast forward a couple of years and the company is now beyond 8-figure million of recurring revenue, has dozens of sales reps and growing rapidly and is now gearing up for multiple offices, enterprise integrations and relationships with Salesforce.com, HubSpot, Marketo, Marin Software and many others.

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Technical Review Early Stage Software Review Los Angeles 325

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Consider this stark statistic: In 2013, as a group, Fortune 500 companies spent more on health insurance than they earned in profits. Open enrollment in the Marketplace begins on November 15, 2014, and runs until February 15, 2015. companies can no longer afford to provide group health insurance to their employees. We said it.

Software Review 224

Software Review Employee Retention Government 224

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

In 2015 the company expects revenues from new portals in Asia to be equal to that of Europe and Latin America by 2015. Ticketbis closed the first half of 2014 with a turnover of €29 million, more than what was achieved in the whole of 2013.

Spain 159

Spain Asia Europe Germany 159

K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

In June of 2013, as I was putting together my thoughts for the K9 Ventures annual meeting, I decided to sit back and reflect on what I thought was happening in “Venture Land”. A re-jiggering of deal stages and sizes had begun in 2013. In the 80s and 90s a company would go public when it hit $20M in revenue.

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Seed Stage Venture Capital Early Stage Valuation 48

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 11, 2013

According to Gartner, the worldwide video game market, which includes video game console hardware and software, online, mobile and PC games, is forecast to reach US$93 billion in 2013 and US$111 billion by 2015. Specifically for the mobile games, worldwide revenue is forecasted to surge from US$13.2 billion to US$22 billion.

Singapore 145

Singapore Mobile Malaysia Thailand 145

The Startup Magazine

JULY 1, 2020

I could not see a way for a doubling or tripling my revenue unless I changed my business model. When I started the business in 2013, a lot of contractors were installing fluorescent lights, but we were a big pusher of LED lighting as we predicted market conversion to LED lighting early. We have had a full line of products since 2015.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

from Black Friday through to Christmas) rolls around, online revenue for retailers spikes. In fact, they pull in 50-100% more revenue compared to shopping days throughout the rest of the year, according to RJMetrics. Even in the holiday-insensitive industries, online revenue spikes around Black Friday.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review eCommerce Conversion Mobile 48

Feld Thoughts

MAY 11, 2017

As Jason Lemkin says in his post from early 2013: Inevitability in SaaS comes around $10m in ARR, plus or minus. That’s the power of compounding SaaS revenue. There’s a long-standing cliche concerning SaaS companies that once you get to $10m in ARR you are unkillable. Will you get from $10m ARR to $100M ARR? I don’t know.

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IPO Portfolio Channel Revenue 171

The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 17, 2013

Gartner have just released revised mobile advertising projections, showing a total market of $11.4bn for 2013, up 19% from last year. within display web ads will exceed in-app ads from 2015. within display web ads will exceed in-app ads from 2015. inventory is growing faster than mobile ad budgets pushing down yields.

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Mobile Forecast Advertising Revenue 115

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2015

The company is also looking to add over 100 jobs over coming years to “meet the growing demand from its users, partners and advertisers” in Asia Pacific, signalling that it is hedging its bets that continued growth – in terms of users and revenue – is likely to come from this part of the world.

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Singapore Asia Design Japan 100

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Earlier this year, BrandShop released the results of the 2015 Digital Consumer Preferences Survey , which revealed in no uncertain terms that consumers want (and need) buying online directly from brands to be easier. from 2013 to 2014. From Q2 2014 to Q2 2015, that number increased 14.1%. Well, according to the U.S.

eCommerce 48

eCommerce Conversion Mobile Design 48

Agile VC

JANUARY 13, 2016

Looking back at 2015, the standout theme in the VC/startup ecosystem was unicorn hunting. We started the year enraptured by the “Age of Unicorns” with this cover of Fortune in January 2015 : Illustration: Jeremy Enecio. But clearly 2015 saw the bloom come off the rose for this group of companies broadly.

Technical Review 157

Technical Review .Net Revenue Software Review 157

Agile VC

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Software revenue trails hardware slightly and ad revenue always takes a couple years to shift, but even here the results are astounding. Facebook will do $7-8B in revenue this year, essentially none was from mobile ads last year and now >40% of their ad revenue is from mobile ads.

IPO 147

IPO Cloud Valuation Mobile 147

Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

From 2010 through 2015, the industry saw a moderate but steady four percent growth. In 2013, North America accounted for just over 40 percent of the global home health care revenue. Unless you have an unorthodox business model, Medicare and Medicaid will be your primary source of revenue. population. percent by 2030.

North America 95

North America United States Technical Review America 95

gigaom.com

JULY 10, 2012

In 2013 a point-based fee structure will kick in. Mobile Q4: The scramble for spectrum continues Updated: Forecast: global mobile subscribers, 2010–2015 Carrier IQ and the continued erosion of operator trust. I bet AT&T’s legal budget is bigger than Nuance’s entire yearly revenue. Sign up for a free trial.

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API Technical Review Artificial Inteligence RSS 50

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2016

As reported by The Wall Street Journal, a minimum of 110 “open source startups” had raised more than $7 billion from venture capitalists as of 2015, up over 100% since 2013. But even hotter, according to new data from mutual fund filings and Dow Jones VentureSource, are proprietary big data software startups.

Software 60

Software Open Source Valuation Analytics 60

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

It is what Seed used to be from 2009-2013, until the Seed rounds got fat and bloated and the bar for raising a Seed round became a lot higher. The first time I used the words “pre-seed” (yes, the initial use was in all lower-case, but then became upper-case over time) was on June 27, 2013, at the K9 Ventures LP Meeting.

Seed Stage 82

Seed Stage Finance Later Stage Equity 82

Rob Go

APRIL 13, 2015

When Kayak went public, the company had one of the highest revenue/employee ratios of any business. Here’s what Kayak looked like when it went public: Kayak: IPO Market Cap: $1B, Revenue: $225M (2011), Employees: 185 (July 2012), Rev / Employee: $1.2M (Paul has quoted $1.5M, which makes sense given growth of the business in 2012).

Technology 28

Technology IPO Boston Cofounder 28

Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. 5/ The Enduring Allure Of Platform Potential: Revenue is important.

Technical Review 127

Technical Review Open Source Software Review Venture Capital 127

Scalable Startup

APRIL 6, 2015

Skip to 2013… Two years ago in the California startup world there was a lot of buzz, or anti-buzz, about the impending pop of the current hyperactive tech market and unsophisticated spending of. ” She tried to explain but didn’t in fact know what it was. t [at] tomnora dot com.

Angel Investor 20

Angel Investor Technical Review Southern California Startup 20

Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

From the beginning and all along the way, careful planning has guided the business from revenues of $35,000 in 2011, to $400,000 in 2014, and estimates of $700,000 for 2015. In 2013, Red Wagon opened a retail storefront in downtown Eugene and received a wholesale frozen dessert license from the Department of Agriculture.

Oregon 60

Oregon Prospectus Southern California California 60

Bryce Dot VC

APRIL 28, 2016

In Eileen’s 2013 Unicorn report , she uncovered 39 “good deals” defined as companies valued at $1B or more, averaging around 4 per year. As an aside- the discrepancy here is likely due to definitions: Andy defines a “good deal” as one that generates over $100M in revenue, Eileen defines them as companies valued at $1B or more.

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Silicon Valley LP Term Sheet IPO 40

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For this article, we asked 14 SaaS CEOs a simple question: “How much did you spend on your MVP before you had your first dollar of revenue?”. The MVP took around four months to build, during which time the company earned no revenue. They then spent the first year qualifying the product and testing out their revenue model.

Sweat Equity 78

Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 78

Up and Running

APRIL 28, 2016

Also, note the word “discounted”; according to a 2015 Restaurant Industry Forecast, restaurant operators would do well to offer discounts, as 77 percent of adults surveyed (and 85 percent of millennials) said they would visit a restaurant during off-peak hours if they received a discount. Start a loyalty or reward system.

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Customer Hosting Programming Dallas 60

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2015, Eddy Lu and Daishin Sugano launched GOAT , a marketplace for the exchange of sneakers. In November of this year, the company announced that it had achieved “substantially” more than $1B in revenue in the third quarter. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0 Julie Wainwright founded The Real Real in 2011.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For this article, we asked 14 SaaS CEOs a simple question: “How much did you spend on your MVP before you had your first dollar of revenue?”. The MVP took around four months to build, during which time the company earned no revenue. They then spent the first year qualifying the product and testing out their revenue model.

Sweat Equity 50

Sweat Equity Software Review Vesting Cofounder 50

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 31, 2017

the only one the audience can see is $80 mil lost revenue. The so what was $80 million in missed revenue. Great question… This last piece of data, how much video advertising's influence has changed between 2013 and 2015 in the individual making their final choice, is killer.

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Audience Analytics Green Metrics 60

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For much of 2014 and 2015, I banged my head against a plane window flying back and forth between Austin and Silicon Valley while trying to raise institutional VC money for Localeur. Almost immediately, people started to dig what we were doing: Digital Trends named Localeur one of their favorite new apps of SXSW 2013 and other press followed.

Silicon Valley 48

Silicon Valley Technical Review Venture Capital San Francisco 48

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Chorus.ai (2015) – Chorus uses AI to analyze sales calls by joining the conference calls, transcribing the data and extracting important action items. The company’s chairman was the former General Chief of Staff of the IDF 2011-2015. Deep Instinct was named “Cool Vendor in 2016” by the Gartner Research Group.

Artificial Inteligence 122

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 31, 2016

While we launched our first generation iCalmDog in 2013, iCalmDog 3.0 I founded MehtaFor in 2012, and the company received two national bronze awards in 2015 for Startup of the Year. 7 – Over $1M in Gross Revenue. We started in one market and now service 6 states and have done over $1m in gross revenue in 2016.

Entrepreneur 74

Entrepreneur Social Media Haiti Baltimore 74

ConversionXL

JANUARY 26, 2017

The Direct Marketing Association’s (DMA) 2015 National client email report tells , “Email has an average ROI of $38 for each $1 spent.” The revenue implications of a strategically crafted receipt are huge too. Consequently, of course, stores increase their revenues. increase in open rate, a 64.7% billion in sales.

Retention 48

Retention Email eCommerce Software Review 48

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 4, 2015

At his optimal weight, Clever does pretty well for himself, most notably between plays at the Super Bowl – creating millions of fans and generating a ton of revenue for advertisers. In 2013, Copy Hackers released a JCD Repair, a while-you-wait iPhone screen repair service, case study. — Skittles (@Skittles) December 2, 2015.

Viral 48

Viral Social Media Video North America 48

Mucker Lab

MARCH 19, 2015

I took it upon myself this week to at least try to solve the first question (the rest will come in the coming weeks) using publicly available (both “leaked” and “released”) data to reconstruct Uber’s topline revenue. From NYE 2012 to NYE 2013, its day over day revenue grew by 369% (source: Business Insider ). Much better.

DC 60

DC .Net Chicago Revenue 60

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

And like the LITERATI, professionals we work with are educated on how to market their business in order to increase revenue opportunities. I founded ServiceKey in 2013 to mentor other service industry professionals using the lessons of my experience, but after two years decided to change the company’s name to CEO Warrior.

Naming 97

Naming Entrepreneur Green LLC 97

abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Most large healthcare IT systems are chosen based on one primary objective: revenue management. healthcare system is complex and difficult, and most of these large EHR systems’ number one purpose is to deliver revenue. Billing and collection in the U.S. They contribute to the overall problem.

Customer 59

Customer Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 59

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Moreover, several of the Israeli startups that chose a SPAC merger as an exit, are trading at lower valuations than they entered Wall Street with given that the valuations were set on future projections and not current revenues. Israeli unicorns have evolved in recent years.

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Lock-up Period Merger IPO 218