$1B annual run rate, 1,000+ vBlocks sold (cumulative?), with $1.3B investment, founded 2011.
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$1B annual run rate, 1,000+ vBlocks sold (cumulative?), with $1.3B investment, founded 2011.
More: How’s VCE been doin’?
three years ago 65-70 percent of Spiceworks users were from companies that had fewer than 100 employees. In the last 24 months, however, that has completely turned on its head, and now 75 percent of usage comes from companies with 100 employees or more. Specifically the two fastest growing segments are companies with 500-1,000 employees and companies with 1,000 employees and above. As of last month there were 13,000 installations with more than 1,000 devices, implying that 60-65 percent of enterprises in the world use Spiceworks for something.
via Spiceworks CEO sets sights on the enterprise – Interview – Techworld.com.
If there was a common thread among everyone The Verge spoke with for this story, it was Samsung’s brutal dominance: the Korean giant’s own-sourced display and processor combined with an enormous marketing war chest make competing in Android extraordinarily difficult.
It’s all true, and yet it seems like a good idea still.
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I love it when companies let you pay to stop showing ads: it gives you a good sense for how much each customer (each pair of "eyeballs") is worth. Here, $50/year.
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