1999 Acquisition Community Metrics 
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million.
Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). We’re a how-to site and community for small business on marketing. . A lot has changed.
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ConversionXL
MARCH 19, 2020
At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. But your community does matter. The questions that clients ask in the coming months are going to be more focused on business results and less on trends and vanity metrics.
ReadWriteStart
AUGUST 26, 2022
It’s almost like the venture community is almost like an influencer bubble. . The vast majority of their customer acquisition is word of mouth. When you put those two things together, you get high-quality customers, high LTV, and acquisition at super low costs. Sequoia sent out this deck. David Zhang. David Zhang.
Cracking the Code
JUNE 24, 2021
Throughout the pandemic, the company’s community-based model showed strong resilience while the importance of its culture and values shone through. Today, more than 90 million BlaBlaCar community members travel by carpool of long-distance buses across 22 markets. When would you go for an acquisition versus an organic launch?
Seeing Both Sides
APRIL 12, 2012
Simply put, the collective bar of the investment community to fund young companies has recently gotten higher - much higher. . When they get customers, they are told to show engagement metrics. When they show engagement metrics, they are told to run some monetization experiments. I'll wait.).
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
JUNE 19, 2010
In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. If you decide to follow a blog acquisition strategy, you’re not going to write the blog yourself, not very likely. In 2004 I began blogging.
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