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Chewy S-1: Category Leadership + Conveyor Belt Into Consumers’ Homes

View from Seed

Chewy sells tens of thousands of products from many 3rd party brands, as well as its own private label brands (though latter remains <10% of sales). I know some of the investors in Chewy prior to the PetSmart acquisition, but I am not a shareholder nor do I intend to purchase shares in the IPO. Annual Net Sales By Customer Cohort.

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Chewy S-1: Category Leadership + Conveyor Belt Into Consumers’ Homes

Agile VC

Chewy sells tens of thousands of products from many 3rd party brands, as well as its own private label brands (though latter remains <10% of sales). I know some of the investors in Chewy prior to the PetSmart acquisition, but I am not a shareholder nor do I intend to purchase shares in the IPO. Annual Net Sales By Customer Cohort.

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On Funding?—?Shots on Goal

Both Sides of the Table

We’ve had two companies where we had to bridge finance them several times before they eventually IPO’d We had a portfolio company turn-down a $350 million acquisition because they wanted at least $400 million. the sale of the company for $1 billion. You need shots on goal as not every one will go in the back of the net.

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Conversion: The Most Important Internet Metric of All (Revisited)

abovethecrowd.com

No other metric so holistically captures as many critical aspects of a web site – user design, usability, performance, convenience, ad effectiveness, net promoter score, customer satisfaction – all in a single measurement. Nearly every Internet company on the planet has invested in some form of the first activity, customer acquisition.

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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Make Money: Groupon keeps a share of the coupon value (typically 40-50%) as its net revenue (1). in net revenue and passes $0.58 2010 Net Income: -$389M (net loss) (2). Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $713M. Run Rate Revenue: $2.6B (Q1 2011 annualized). 2010 Gross Profit: $280M. to the merchant.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

The most noteworthy M&A deals of 2009 were Siemens’ $418 million acquisition of Solel; Medtronic’s acquisition of Ventor, estimated at $325 million; and IBM’s $225 million acquisition of Guardium. Ratiopharm, a privately-owned subsidiary of German holding company VEM, was founded in 1973 and has annual sales of about $8.6

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Facebook Advertising / Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value

Occam's Razor

Increased investment in Facebook as an engagement/acquisition channel has translated into requests from CEOs, CMOs and other CxOs about the return on that investment. I can see the correlation, but the conclusion implies a causality that may or may not be there ("the product sales exceeded all internal projections!").

Metrics 165