The seven pioneering newcomers: the music web site Spotify is on the list

Who will be the successor to Groupon, Zynga or Facebook? Which company is the most hopeful to board the best Small Business list and make it bigger? Not long ago, Forbes announced the 2011 list of the top 100 U.S. small-listed companies, the list is a few annual revenue of less than 1 billion U.S. dollars of companies.

In compiling this list, we are also looking at a number of companies that are growing fast but not yet well known, but it is also a matter of time. Who will be the successor to Groupon, Zynga or Facebook? Which company is the most hopeful to board the best Small Business list and make it bigger? We investigated venture capitalists, private-equity investors and secondmarket, an electronic platform for shares traded in unlisted companies, which is itself a hot private sector. Below is everybody acclamation enterprise.

Dropbox

Location: San Francisco

The company makes software and publishes it online, making it easy for users to store and share documents, photos, and videos. For each user to provide 2GB free space, 100GB space for a monthly charge of 20 dollars. The company was founded in 2007 by a 28-year-old programmer, Dru Hauston (Drew Houston), with Arash Firdos (Arash Ferdowsi), who dropped out of MIT. From the accelerated partnership, Sequoia Capital and Greylock Partners to raise 250 million of dollars in venture capital.

SecondMarket

Location: New York

Operating electronic trading market, the listed illiquid assets reached 30 billion U.S. dollars, including listed companies of restricted shares. The company was first founded in 2004 by Barry Silbert (Barry Silbert), the investment bank, the Houlihan Lokey. Hilbert worked in the reorganization group. Last February, SecondMarket raised $7.5 million from Singapore's sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings (Temasek Holdings) and Hong Kong's richest man, Li Ka-shing, respectively.

SurveyMonkey

Location: Palo Alto, CA (PALO ALTO)

In 1999, Ryan Finley, a music company, Ryan Finley to find online research tools to get customer feedback. With nothing, he created one in his own residence. Today, SurveyMonkey has 9.3 million registered users, both free users and a maximum of 65 dollars a month to pay users to get additional features such as adding more problems and company logos. In 2010, SurveyMonkey by issuing premium bonds, from Bank of America, Merrill Lynch and Sun Trust (SunTrust Robinson Humphrey) led the corporate consortium to raise 100 million dollars.

Spotify

Location: London

Founded in 2006, the founder of the music web site is the serial entrepreneur Daniel Ecques (Daniel Ek) and Martin Lorenzon (Martin Lorentzon), who pay a monthly fee of 5 to 10 dollars per month to download millions of songs in their inventory. At present, the site has more than 2 million paid users (the site also provides a free version to be willing to wait to see the ads and then download the users). In June this year, the company gained $100 million in investment from TDF (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers), accelerated Partnership and Digital Sky Digital, based on its 100 million dollar investment.

Chartbeat

Location: New York

The company was established in 2009 to provide real-time data on the monitoring of site traffic. Costs ranged from USD 10 to 10,000 USD per month (the smaller the flow, the lower the cost). Tony Haile, chief executive, Tony Hell that the company is paying customers at 4,500 and has raised 3 million dollars from a handful of risky investors.

Twilio

Location: San Francisco

Evan Cook (Evan Cooke), aren't Matthews (John Wolthius) and stubhub.com (from Jeff Rosen and Amazon) (Jeff Lawson) were founded in 2008. The company sells Web tools for businesses to create voice and SMS programs (that is, when calling a power company call, "Press 1" and "Press 2" for mailing bills). Users receive a call or send and receive text messages each time a penny, each system a single number per month for 1 dollars service charge. The company has attracted 15.7 million of dollars in venture capital funds from Bessemer Investment (Venture) and the Union Square Ventures venture capital firm.

Lookout

Location: San Francisco

Founded in 2007, the development of mobile phone security software. Free version can scan mobile apps to find malicious viruses, back up contacts, and use Google Maps to find lost handsets. Purchase 3 dollars a month of service, you can remotely lock the phone and monitor how the virus program to steal personal information. For more than three years, the software has attracted 12 million of users (both paid and free) and raised $76 million in investment from Khosla (Khosla Ventures).