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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. If you can break this down by channel that you’ve acquired them from this is obviously better. Nobody likes to raise money then look like a loser.

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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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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. The average deal size in 2009 was $40 million, an increase of 21 percent from $33 million in 2008.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. Distribution channels, brand loyalty, etc. The hard part in a company is not getting a demo or setting up an internal accelerator, it’s getting something delivered all the way through your existing sales channel.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 3: Frank Rimalovski and Frank Sculli

Steve Blank

Those were the messages from the two latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. Clips from their interviews are below, but first a word about the show: Entrepreneurs are Everywhere airs Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern on Sirius XM Channel 111. Giving help and getting help.

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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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Invest in Israel Newsletter: July 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

Following the acquisition S1 shareholders will own about 55 percent of the combined company and Fundtech shareholders the rest. Dotomi, which was founded in 2003, raised $17 million in funding since its inception from Globespan Capital, US Venture Partners, Investor Capital and Velocity. S1 CORP BUYS ISRAEL’S FUNDTECH.

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