TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

In June 2004, eight months later, Salesforce went public. Loan originators, propelled by cheap credit and lax mortgage policies, enabled the fast growth of subprime loans. The EV/revenue multiple of IGV — a measurement that shows how much every $1 of revenue translated into valuation — dropped by 57%. What happened?

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

Musk, whose 2004 bet on electric cars looked risky at the time and now seems prophetic. H2Pro is developing production technology to enable the wide scale adoption of sustainable hydrogen fuel. It is not by chance that governments and corporations that grew wealthy from carbon are looking to a fossil-fuel free future. Just ask Elon.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 8, 2015

The business was founded in 2004, but hit its stride 2009 and went public in 2012. Impressively, the company is investing more and more into engineering - exceeding 20% of revenues last year - likely developing broader feature set to enable additional up and cross sells. ServiceNow has recorded a better than 1.0 at $93M in revenue.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 6, 2014

Founded in 2004, GoPro is about 10 years old and during the past few years has witnessed spectacular growth. SaaS companies have been telling the market that the long lifetime values of subscription customers enables higher spending to achieve higher growth. First, to understand GoPro’s business better.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. These tools might enable online booking, provide the ability for more frequent customer-provider communication, facilitate surveys and feedback, automate follow-up correspondence, and anticipate customer needs.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 24, 2017

Founded in 2004, Fleetmatics employs about 1150 employees. This symbiotic relationship enables Geotab to acquire customers and generate revenue with greater capital efficiency than inside sales team. Based in Massachussetts, the company generated $320M in revenue in 2016. An unusual SaaS company, Fleetmatics generated profits: 6.5

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strategy SaaS finance financing 74

Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 18, 2015

Meanwhile, all of the companies requiring longer than 8 years were founded before 2004. While the increasing supply of venture dollars may enable larger cash requirements for faster growing companies to fuel their growth, the data shows that newer SaaS companies can be far more efficient growth engines than their forbears.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A cloud native engine will enable creation of 3D experiences using any device from anywhere via a browser. Community modding enabled out of the box A next gen engine should be designed to enable a first-class modding environment out of the box that developers can choose to extend to end user creators.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 30, 2023

I initially worked as an analyst at a stock-broking firm until 2004 before embarking on my venture capital and private equity journey, where I made my first investments in Greater China before exiting via the London Stock Exchange later between 2005 and 2006. What qualities do you seek in start-up founders whose companies you would invest in?

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OurCrowd

MARCH 6, 2021

The patented technology allows the surgeon to control tiny, human-like robotic arms that enables procedures currently considered unfeasible, and reduces scarring. In 2004, PayPal co-founder Elon Musk took what appeared to be a huge and perhaps reckless gamble. ” Memic’s strong management team is led by Chairman Maurice R.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 17, 2021

I started posting in February of 2004 and by the time 2007 rolled around, it seemed like everyone had a blog. Each new social media platform enables users to do slightly different things, with the various features, limitations, etc. Why do so many people drop off of “the next big thing that everyone is going to be on"?

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