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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

The browser and thus the WWW and the first Internet businesses were born circa 1994–95 and there was a golden period where anything seemed possible. We had nascent revenues, ridiculous cost structures and unrealistic valuations. There was no money train. It was 1991. There were startups and a software industry but barely.

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The Great Coding School Rollup of 2015

Feld Thoughts

Companies were being bought (and valued) at 10x forward revenue only to be valued at between 0.5x revenue several years later. A few companies got bought before the whole Internet-bubble thing fell apart, and we almost managed to get bought (for around $500 million, but that’s another story for another day.).

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Neil Patel Review: Learning Marketing Entrepreneurship From The Master

YoungUpstarts

Neil launched an internet marketing agency called Advantage Consulting Services, together with his sister’s boyfriend. Neil carried on running an internet marketing consulting business so that he could pay for Crazy Egg’s software development. Neil’s next step was to go back to school. Finally, his luck began to turn.

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

Steve Blank

GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment via the Internet of Things (IoT) and analytical software with a suite of products called the “ Predix Cloud ”. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 At GE the biggest problem in 2017 was major revenue misses in their Power business.) of the company.

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iPhone 6 Fuels Record Growth For Apple: TBR

YoungUpstarts

For the first time, iPhone revenue accounted for more than two-thirds to total revenue – iPhone revenue climbed 57% year-to-year in 4Q14 to $51.2 billion in revenue in 4Q14 – signifying that the iPhone has been cemented at the core of the value propositions of Apple’s entire product and services portfolios.

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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.

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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

Since 2015, the rising interest abroad continues to contribute to steady growth. This generated $16 billion in annual revenues in 2015. Hibernia Atlantics network of subsea cables provides some of the worlds best internet connections. billion in revenue. Global interest in Canadian tech jobs has increased by 58%.

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