YoungUpstarts

JUNE 13, 2011

years, and had reached an average revenue level of $60 million with the range being from $5 million to $350 million. Some of them, such as Eyebobs in Minneapolis, Trilogy Health Services in Kentucky, Defender Direct in Indianapolis, SecureWorks in Atlanta, and Mellace Family Brands in California, were well-known companies.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

A finalist in the Social and Culture category , which will pitch at 11 am Saturday, March 9, EnrichHER Funding , based in Atlanta, is fueling the growth of women-led businesses by enabling women founders to secure capital in an affordable and non-dilutive way. The second is a loan via our EnrichHER Funding crowd-funding platform.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2019

As Kabbage customers explain, managing seasonal impact on revenue requires preparation – and if possible, alternate ways to bring money in the door. For Jason Sheetz, owner of Atlanta-area restaurant group Succulent Hospitality , football has the biggest effect on business. Launching new services for traditionally slow seasons.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

billion in revenue and offices in over 100 cities around the globe. Liz is the founder of TransPerfect World's largest language solution company with over $1 billion in revenue and offices in more than 100 cities worldwide. We needed to bring in revenue as quickly as possible. I didn't know they threw this word in there for me.

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A Crowded Space

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Notice the distinct absence of little things like revenue, customers, engagement metrics, or gross margin. We have founders and wonderful portfolio companies in Seattle, San Diego, Chicago, and Atlanta. The thing is, hype is easy to spot and it’s all public info – the things that usually matter most are all private info.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 12, 2021

For too long businesses have focused on short term wins chasing revenue over long term value. As a result VC’s now value businesses based on customer retention rather than multiples of revenue. By looking at the broader experience customers go through, we can create even stronger hypotheses for experimentation and drive higher revenue.

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Jeff Hilimire

AUGUST 30, 2013

Today the Atlanta Business Chronicle ran an article about the new company, Dragon Army , that David Cummings , Ryan Tuttle and I are starting. Dragon Army will be based out of Atlanta Tech Village (freaking pumped about that) and we’ll be focusing on mobile games and apps for consumers. and The Coca-Cola Co.,

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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).

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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. Pre-money Valuation of Pre-revenue Companies.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 7, 2019

As a case in point, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta published a graphic indicating that stock prices plunged 50% from the high to low between October 2007-March 2009. Where there is potential for generating revenue, there are always going to be investors. Not exactly the type of investment you’d want going into retirement.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 14, 2016

A durable, trendsetting presence in the industry since 2001, the Atlanta-based firm sends over a billion emails per day and is the go-to choice for over 14 million organizations and individuals around the world. Monitor stats and campaign reports.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2013

Each month I mentor revenue-positive startups. Pretend you can’t expend all your resources on your great idea because more than likely, that idea is not flawless and it may crumble. Find a Board of Advisors. A new member, whose new business eclipsed over $300,000 in sales in the first six months, recently joined the group.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

It's a three day accelerator that brings owners through how do you grow revenues. And so we just had an event in Atlanta, for example, with in partnership with MasterCard that brought owners together. We have our Boost Camp experience that's coming up in January as an example, which is a mini accelerator.

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 4, 2014

Moira Vetter (CEO of Modo Modo ) recently received the highest honor anyone in marketing in Atlanta can receive. On top of that, she’s written a terrific book on entrepreneurship , was in my Leadership Atlanta class of 2013, and is simply put one of the most talented people I know. Atlanta Entrepreneurship'

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Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 7, 2014

The first was with Raymond King , CEO of Zoo Atlanta; the second was with Devon Wijesinghe , CEO of Insightpool; the third with Mark Feinberg , CEO of Uruut; and the fourth with Simms Jenkins , BrightWave Marketing. . Midtown/Tech Square and Atlanta Tech Village are obviously both here to stay. I love that we build real companies.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 6, 2011

I'm talking plans showing the entrepreneurs generating tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues in just a few years. Clearly these two companies are exceptions to the rule, and both have grown dramatically in terms of customers, revenues and footprint in just a few years. Just look at Groupon or Facebook.

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Bryce Dot VC

JUNE 1, 2015

Those dimensions include: Geography- of the 9 companies 3 are based in the Bay Area, 2 in LA, 1 in Austin, 1 in Atlanta, 1 in Chicago and 1 in NYC. Revenue- the group includes 1 pre-launch company, 6 early revenue generating companies, and 2 companies with revenues in excess of $1M. is a real a thing now. Their thing.

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Jeff Hilimire

MAY 6, 2014

We had finally hit $1 million in revenue and would double our revenue every year after until we would eventually sell in March of 2008. Build more sustainable revenue. I didn’t really start focusing on that until my Leadership Atlanta experience. 10 things I wish I knew 10 years ago. Focus harder on profitability.

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Jeff Hilimire

DECEMBER 14, 2016

And to sit at the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce board meetings and see name plates for Atlanta’s great companies (Coca-Cola, Delta Air Lines, The Home Depot…) and then see “Dragon Army” next to them. That’s fun. And we build mobile games in our studio. That’s it.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

It’s based on the premise of rapidly recovering revenue, or “the three R’s.” Look At The Three R’s. McKinsey mentions a strategy for locating business ideas that work in any economic downturn.

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Jeff Hilimire

AUGUST 27, 2015

In August of 2013, Ryan, David, and I founded Dragon Army , then a consumer-focused mobile game and app studio based in the Atlanta Tech Village. Ryan, Richard, and I, on day one at Dragon Army at the Atlanta Tech Village. Two years later, we’re a team of 25, located on the backside of Piedmont Park, and our model is.

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Jeff Hilimire

JUNE 29, 2015

Each house costs $6,000, so in the past month, we’ve done more in revenue than we did in our last 4 previous months combined. 3) become in-kind donors — an example is Atlanta-based film company, Friendly Human (they’re amazing) – who is coming down with us to Haiti on July 15th to shoot a brand video!

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 15, 2014

It took me six years with my first company to hit $1 million in revenue. I’m watching some of the startups in the Atlanta Tech Village that have been plugging away for three or more years just finally start to achieve significant momentum. Six very tough, hard-fought years. Building a business is hard stuff.

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Jeff Hilimire

JUNE 7, 2014

I was recently meeting with an entrepreneur that went through the Advice For Good program (he donated his time at the Atlanta Community Food Bank and blogged about it , then we set up a time to meet) and we went on a nice walk and talked about his young company. What do you want this business to ultimately be?

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You should avoid spending your time here and instead focus on finding a way to generate revenue or to attract investors so that you can afford to hire someone. Sweat equity is also applicable for someone who is very interested in the subject that you are working on. Ycombinator © 2010 Social Matchbox, - WordPress Themes by DBT.

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Jeff Hilimire

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Recently in fact, I helped coordinate a tour / event at the Atlanta Tech Village for a group of C-level executives at a Fortune 1000 company. For established companies, thinking about innovation – how to look for new revenue streams, new ways to produce their products, etc.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

In addition and this is the beautiful thing, we enabled someone who has no job and hard on money in the hood start creating revenue based on value they can offer. So someone who lost their job or need extra income can create prepaid cards that offer services or sell products and distribute these cards among shops as a revenue stream.

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 1, 2010

This week I was on a panel at the Integrated Marketing Summit in Atlanta. Um, so email is a proven revenue generator (among other things) but because the CMO is asking “about the Twitter and Facebook&# email is being murdered by social? I wrote a blog post a few hours ago on why analytics is killing social.

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Jeff Hilimire

OCTOBER 7, 2013

And get this, over 80% of ALL REVENUE generated from mobile devices was via games. I’m hoping Dragon Army can start that process in Atlanta, but its going to take a lot of hard work. Yeah, I’ll bet on that. Zynga has shown us that gaming is huge, but mobile is the future. Games Mobile'

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 17, 2024

Prior to starting MarketMuse in 2015, Jeff was a marketing consultant in Atlanta and led the Traffic, Search and Engagement team for seven years at TechTarget, a leader in B2B technology publishing and lead generation. Visit DTM world slash scale to book your free advisory call and learn more. It's time to transform your approach.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

We are now based in Atlanta, but we started out on a college campus in Jamaica as a team of one: me. In 2016, I celebrated 10 years of business by launching the PR firm in Atlanta, where I now live. The revenue on the darkroom rental was close to what I was making weekly, I was in disbelief. Thanks to Saleem Jaffer, Joblife !

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

What that meant is that six companies a year could achieve a hundred million in revenue or a billion in valuation. That being the case, what if we surrounded our founders with other people who weren’t focused on fundraising and valuation, but focused on revenue and customers? Her revenue is up more that anyone in the group right now.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 22, 2020

This results in a drop in billable hours, which results in a drop in revenue and profit. There are incredibly talented individuals that would prefer to work at home in their pajamas, or want to enjoy the mountains of north Georgia and do not wish to fight the legendary Atlanta traffic every day to be in the office.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

That's why the Corona Initiative is a Public Benefit Corporation--a for-profit company dedicated to the public good that aims to fund its research with its revenues. I've also been spending a lot of time on the phone with my family and my mom in Atlanta. I just thought of it as I just really like revenue. What's that been like?

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Up and Running

APRIL 23, 2013

A rapper, tour manager and talent manager, Cool Nutz has generated a lot of buzz and revenue for himself and other local artists. I’m not getting a mouth full of gold teeth, and rapping like I’m from Atlanta. For 20 years now, Terrance “Cool Nutz” Scott has called music his job. I just make solid music — that’s Cool Nutz.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2019

SimpleShowing , a B2C real estate startup headquartered in Atlanta, GA, is a great example of using Facebook to increase website traffic. These benefits all start with driving high-quality traffic to your website from Facebook. You can generate fantastic results without a lot of money as long as you use the right tactics.

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