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Rally Acquires AgileZen

Feld Thoughts

Today, Rally Software – a company I’ve been an investor in since 2003 – announced that they have acquired AgileZen. This is the second acquisition Rally has made – the other was 6th Sense Analytics which they acquired at the beginning of 2009. Tags: My Investments acquisition agile agilezen kanban rally.

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The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 1)

Software By Rob

This acquisition is a long story, but if you have a few minutes let me tell you the best parts. If you’re interested you can read about one of my acquisitions from a few years back in a post titled The Inside Story of a Small Software Acquisition. My Background. The site was once great; marketed by a high-end NYC PR firm.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

I ran my first marathon in London this way in 2003 raising $3,000 for Parkinson’s disease (and finishing in under 4 hours – my publicly stated goal). Customer Acquisition. Those two things together would lower your acquisition costs nearly in half to $6.11. Nobody likes to raise money then look like a loser. lowering $1.50

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

Between working with the co-founders on the strategy, validating concepts with the users, assessing the analytics, driving features and functionality with the team, and working with finance on the new business model, marketing on acquisition, and the warehouse on fulfillment, you can imagine the workload Kate faced on a daily basis.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

It was 2003 or right about then, and I was walking across the Green Street Mall in Brisbane, thinking that I was no longer interested in Magic the Gathering as a card game. If you decide to follow a blog acquisition strategy, you’re not going to write the blog yourself, not very likely. That website gave me money to play with.

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Google VP: Here's How to Get Bought By Us

mashable.com

The search giant’s VP of Corporate Development, along with CEO Larry Page, signs off on the dozens of acquisitions and acqui-hires made every year, large and small. There’s YouTube , of course — well established in its own right, it rewrote the book on how an acquisition can be run delicately, as a company within a company.

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5 Content Marketing Strategies for Niche B2B Industries

ConversionXL

Set up in 2003, the website has a strong network-effect moat that makes it harder for other blogs and publications to compete. Articles, case studies, and eGuides, like this analytics whitepaper written by, you guessed it, a company offering call-center analytics software.

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