VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Provigent is Broadcom’s eighth acquisition in Israel, and brings the value of its acquisitions here to $1 billion. Snaptu, which was founded in 2007, is Facebook’s first ever Israeli acquisition and its second international purchase. Unemployment fell to 6.1% Unemployment had dropped as low as 5.9%

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

Until 1995 startups going public typically had a track record of revenue and profits. Netscape’s 1995 IPO changed the rules. The size of the red bars (IPO’s) versus blue (mergers and acquisitions) illustrates that while venture-backed startups did get acquired, the IPO market was booming. Source: NVCA.). Free At Last.

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SiliconHills

MAY 22, 2016

Genstar Capital, a private equity firm, last week announced its acquisition of Austin-based Accruent, which makes real estate, facilities and asset management software. Accruent, founded in 1995 in California, had raised $32 million from two investors in two rounds, according to its Crunchbase profile.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

In 1995, when Amazon was founded, e-commerce was like the proverbial talking dog. Competition shifts from user acquisition to user retention. Once this happens there will be a market clearing price for new customer acquisition across almost all categories, and smart marketing will no longer be as much of a differentiator.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2014

But we came very close to moving to Homer in 1995. By the end of 1994 I had a staff job, reporting to the co-chairmen of AmeriData where I travelled all over the US helping with acquisitions and generally causing trouble. We moved to Boulder in November 1995 and never looked back – it’s been amazing.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 18, 2021

The result was a new genre of games, focusing on economics and resource acquisition, with multiple paths to victory. Catan, published in 1995, became an international hit, and popularized the German game genre throughout the world, including in America.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

When the decision was made to rebrand during the acquisition, I called on my team to determine what our new identity was going to be going forward. In 1995, had it not been for the internet and the task of shortening our company name to a web address, it would never had happened.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

One could argue that there’s nothing new here, as Internet distibution models started in 1995. But scaling customer acquisition may take the same amount of dollars as a traditional software startup. ). But in reality they only became mainstream ~5-7 years ago. Their capital needs are low at the front end.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

I should make the distinction between partnerships and acquisitions. That’s how I joined the company – when Cisco acquired Grand Junction Networks back in 1995. Grand Junction developed fast Ethernet and low-cost switching, and after Cisco bought my company in 1995 I helped build that segment, within Cisco, into a more than $2.4

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

Over 85% of CEOs said that going public was not as attractive of an option as it was in 1995. Given these concerns, for CEOs of successful companies deciding between pursuing an IPO or positioning themselves for an acquisition, the scaled disclosure and cost flexibility provided by the bill could help make an IPO the more attractive option.".

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

1995 – 2000 was the climb up to the Peak. In addition to looking forward to the future, Steve uses his lessons from the past to explore how things play out. It spans the time frame from 1985 – 2015 which you can just lay down on the Gartner Hype Cycle. 1985 – 1994 was the initial entrepreneurial Grind.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? How do I strengthen my market position through acquisitions and innovation? That’s disappointing for a country with so much potential. We think so.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 17, 2019

But, when Amazon first issued its mission statement in 1995: …to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. As a side effect, your brand will get a boost, too. Trusted since 1901.”

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BeyondVC

APRIL 29, 2006

First, having another big player push the concept of software as a service will only help further educate and soften the market, particularly business customers Secondly, this will mean that Microsoft will be aggressive with hiring and with acquisitions. He would either do huge, billion dollar ones or look at acquisitions less than $20mm.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Daniel Confino, Founder, MergerID Is a qualified lawyer who has 30 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions with a strong international element. His passions and hobbies include entrepreneurship, America Economic History, writing, motorcycles, skiing, tennis and golf. and Goldsmith Agio Helms in the US (now Lazard MM).

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Wikipedia gives the impact on financial bubbles as an example: “The Dot-com bubble, also knowns as Internet bubble, referenced the speculative investment bubble that was created around new internet startup companies between the years 1995-2000. Free trials and freemium products have proven to be effective acquisition tactics.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

So the acquisition came toa screeching halt while we tried to sort this out. Since I couldnt bear the thought of programming in another language (this was 1995,remember, when "another language" meant C++) the only option seemedto be to start a new company using Lisp. Now we needed to raise more to keep going.

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