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We have incurred significant losses in each period since our inception in 2005. We incurred net losses of $50.3 million in our fiscal year ended December 31, 20
by marccuban 13y ago
We have incurred significant losses in each period since our inception in 2005. We incurred net losses of $50.3 million in our fiscal year ended December 31, 2011, $112.6 million in our fiscal year ended January 31, 2013, and $168.6 million in our fiscal year ended January 31, 2014. As of January 31, 2014, we had an accumulated deficit of $361.2 million. These losses and accumulated deficit reflect the substantial investments we made to acquire new customers and develop our services. We intend to continue scaling our business to increase our number of users and paying organizations and to meet the increasingly complex needs of our customers. We have invested, and expect to continue to invest, in our sales and marketing organizations to sell our services around the world and in our development organization to deliver additional features and capabilities of our cloud services to address our customers’ evolving needs. We also expect to continue to make significant investments in our datacenter infrastructure and in our professional service organization as we focus on customer success. As a result of our continuing investments to scale our business in each of these areas, we do not expect to be profitable for the foreseeable future. Furthermore, to the extent we are successful in increasing our customer base, we will also incur increased losses due to upfront costs associated with acquiring new customers, particularly as a result of the limited free trial version of our service and the nature of subscription revenue, which is generally recognized ratably over the term of the subscription period, which is typically one year, although we also offer our services for terms ranging between one month to three years or more. We cannot assure you that we will achieve profitability in the future or that, if we do become profitable, we will sustain profitability.
- eaurouge 13y agoProbably a fake account, but apparently Mark Cuban was an early investor but had his investment returned over a disagreement on strategy.
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- 001sky 13y agostory>http://pando.com/2014/01/31/box-is-the-unicorn-that-mark-cuban-let-get-away/ http://pando.com/2014/01/31/box-is-the-unicorn-that-mark-cub...
- adventured 13y agoIt's a pretty silly story. To keep even 10% ownership of Box through their massive dilution would have been extremely expensive. Cuban owned a small position in it. Very understandable how that would not have been worth it for a guy like Cuban (who has demonstrated he's content with a couple billion, and never puts even a small % of his fortunate at risk, having stated over the years that his biggest fear is losing it all).
- 001sky 13y ago"DFJ got in early, contributing the whole $1.5 million Series A round in 2006, and participated in every round after to build its 25.5% position. The Wall Street Journal says the latest $100 million round was at a $2 billion valuation, which implies Box will likely be valued higher than that at IPO." Cuban invested $350K in the seed, so it was just his call.
- adventured 13y agoThat was understood when I commented. Not sure what your point is.
- 001sky 13y ago"Cuban owned a small position in it" No, not if he invested $350k in the seed round (in 2005). Take a look at the capital raises.# _________________ # "DFJ got in early, contributing the whole $1.5 million Series A round in 2006"