Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. we had no revenue. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again. As a result, we knew that our pitch would need to steer into investors’ biggest concern: the lack of revenue.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

We would have gladly followed Jamie (and Josh Roth, the CTO who is phenomenal and we’ve also known for a decade) right through an IPO if we could have. Having recurring revenue allows you to keep the original purchase price down, which in turn increases sales. Jamie is truly a visionary and a focused executioner. so he went on.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The big enterprise software companies almost all bootstrapped their way to profitability before they got their first external investors (typically via an IPO). He started in online publishing before the Internet (with Prestel in 1980!). On the other hand, the failure rate of VC funded enterprise software ventures is high.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. Today, many of these businesses are suffering because the ecosystem no longer balances thanks to the Internet. Let’s look at a viral growth company, like Facebook. They’re off to cross the chasm. Sorry about that.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

These are companies that generate revenue by offering a free product with an upsell or premium version. At a high level, anything that drives virality should be free. To take your specific example about virality - why do we want to have more users sign up? January 28, 2009 1:54 AM startupcfo said.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 25, 2010

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Labels: design , internet , sales and marketing. 5 comments: Radu Prisacaru - UK Internet Marketer. ipo process. Tuesday, May 25, 2010. "10 Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 5:39 PM. Super-Duper site! 4:45 AM.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

I I of course, it's so cliche now, but you know, I like to tell even 30 year olds, you know, about uh, dial up, um, internet and, uh, Yeah. Then I want to talk to you about adding a new revenue stream to your business that will completely change how you work with clients. John Jantsch (06:24): Yeah. Things of that nature.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Revenue is always my preferred measure, but you can use anything that is important to your business: retention, activation, viral invites, or even customer satisfaction in the form of something like net promoter score. If an optimization has an effect at the micro level that doesnt translate into the macro level - who cares?

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 10, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. From our private investor experience, a breakeven in 1-2 year seems reasonable and if we look at Salesforce.com CAC ratio since its IPO, it is indeed within this 0.5-1 Cracking The Code. Monday, March 10, 2008.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

Should you charge from day one, testing the revenue model first? Or should you focus on user engagement or virality? Their speed should be measured in validated learning about customers, not milestones, features, revenue, or even beautiful design. Should you charge from day one, testing the revenue model first?

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. Cracking The Code. Friday, October 10, 2008. The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. because all your costs are up front, and your revenue is over a five year period, the more you sell, the more you lose. internet. (6). How the use of internet is transform. Cracking The Code. for Lawson?

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 7, 2015

If you are post launch, it might involve a viral coefficient discussion or a cohort analysis. If you are post-revenue, it should unquestionably include a financial statement and forward forecast. It may simply be an expense analysis, or a detailed pricing model, or a TAM (total available market) analysis.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. 2007 was a turning point for the SaaS industry with the successful IPOs of NetSuite, SuccessFactors, DemandTec, Salary.com, Aprimo and Constant Contact. or What do I need to do to get ready for an IPO.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 6, 2007

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. I was surprised today when I went through the NetSuite IPO filling (S1) to see that it looked very much like any Enterprise software document - not a single mention of churn or % of recurring revenues.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Paypal famously offered customers $5 to invite a friend, who would then also get $5 as part of a highly successful viral marketing campaign (they actually started at $20, and then reduced it to $10 and then ended at $5). If somehow Sofi could obtain allocation to these so called “hot IPOs” clearly it would be a powerful marketing tool.

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