Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

If a consumer will pay a fixed price for a product or service then the battle over who gets the margin in any sale is between the person who merchandises a product and the person who manufactures it. companies that have to spend too heavily on customer acquisition). I’ll give you some of Parachute’s repeat rates later in the post.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

It took a while for me and my partner Dave Jilk to decide to do it, but we closed the sale in November 1993. From 1996 to 2001, I spent a lot of time with Len in New York, where Interliant was headquartered. Soon after, Len called me and asked if I’d be interested in selling Feld Technologies to Sage Alerting.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Kevin Barhydt, Head of Acquisitions, RPX. Joe Chernesky, Vice President and General Manager of Global Licensing Sales, Intellectual Ventures. Geleerd acquired the stadium out of highly publicized bankruptcy and turned around its financial position and ultimately engineered the sale back to the Toronto Blue Jays in 2005.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

The startup didn’t work out, but I found ways to be around it, whether it was on the sales side in Goldman for a few years. So this has always been our most significant focus area, whether in 2022, 2021, or 2001. . The vast majority of their customer acquisition is word of mouth. Jonathan Siddharth. Sounds great.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 25, 2015

Sure, every now and then something magical happens (very high price point, very low cost of customer acquisition, zero churn), but that’s a serious edge case. You decide you need to add a direct sales force to augment the self-service / low-touch sales model you’ve been using. Yup – that’ll be more money.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Car sales in China went from 1 million in 2001 to 14 million in 2011. there are almost no mergers or acquisitions in this market segment. on NASDAQ or the NYSE or on ChiNext, China’s equivalent of NASDAQ) compared to the 90% of exits in US via mergers or acquisitions. In the U.S. Unlike the U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

IPOs by year, 1980-2011, with pre-IPO last 12-month sales less than (small firms) or greater than (large firms) $50 million (2009 purchasing power). The real truth is, since the "Internet bubble" burst in 2001, initial public offerings have not resumed the vitality levels of the late 1980s, let alone the boom years of the '90s.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Car sales in China went from 1 million in 2001 to 14 million in 2011. there are almost no mergers or acquisitions in this market segment. on NASDAQ or the NYSE or on ChiNext, China’s equivalent of NASDAQ) compared to the 90% of exits in US via mergers or acquisitions. In the U.S. Unlike the U.S.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 22, 2009

The 7 hours of driving (round-trip) was tough to justify simply for tech content, but the bonus of the day was connecting with several developers including a guy I worked with in 2001, a developer of a former client, someone I had never met, and of course, Mr. Atwood.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Back in 2001 I worked with a consultant who was a developer when times were really good, and a trainer when times were really bad. Because they are venture capital funded so they don’t depend on sales profit to sustain them. Become a Trainer It’s generally accepted that recessions boost college enrollment.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Of course, Excite also went bankrupt in 2001, so maybe five is a terrible number? Since we bootstrapped Backblaze, early on we would have months when the company did not have enough cash from sales to buy the additional servers it needed. Excite became the fourth most popular website in the late 90’s, so maybe five is a great number.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 25, 2011

Have a balance in your spend between acquisition and website. Spend loads on acquisition, but also spend loads on creating websites that deliver on your promises. Your website was created in 1996, updated slightly in 2001, and left to rot ever since. Would you treat your mother like that? Embrace economic value. That's it.

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Startup Company Lawyer

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Due to aggregate liquidation preferences that may exceed the acquisition price in an M&A deal, common stock may be rendered worthless. This was particularly common from 2001 to 2003, after the dot-com crash when companies had raised a large amount of venture financing at high valuations. Junior Preferred Stock.

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ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2017

Here’s how they explained it : “Leaving shoppers’ questions unanswered can derail a sale or even worse, make shoppers abandon not just the purchase, but the site as well. This is useful if, like most startups, you rely heavily on word-of-mouth distribution for customer acquisition. Research backs this up.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I stayed up late every night after a day of meetings doing email until 3am so that I didn’t feel out of touch with our product and sales pipelines. Then I got engaged to be married in late 2001 and had the motivation to get really serious. Dinners were consumed with customers or in hotels and often past 10pm.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

There are a number of trends concerning IPOs and capital formation to note: First, the raw number of IPOs has declined significantly: From 1980-2000, the US averaged roughly 300 IPOs per year; from 2001-2016, the average fell to 108 per year. 44% 2001-2019 13.7% In the first quarter of 2021 alone, SPACs raised $87.9 1990-1998 13.3%

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ConversionXL

APRIL 12, 2012

Is it cause it’s really boosting sales? A study on sex in the movies - that examined more than 900 films released between 2001 and 2005 - concluded that nudity and explicit sex scenes don’t translate to success for major motion pictures. Most big companies have used sex to advertise. Why are there so many ads using sex?

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