View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Q: What is going to happen to the cost of capital? Q: What is the opportunity cost of not being in tech? One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). A: Tech is a $5tn industry, and is only a small % of total GDP. Was this a lost decade for venture capital?

Valuation 156

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Distribution Early Stage 156

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

million in 2004 to $6.5 Much of this success can be attributed to their acquisition campaigns that often combine humor with a serious tone that let you know they take pest control very seriously. But for as successful as their acquisition strategies were, they found that it was too easy for customers to cancel & they were losing ?

Retention 115

Retention Customer Developer Programming 115

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

million in 2004 to $6.5 Much of this success can be attributed to their acquisition campaigns that often combine humor with a serious tone that let you know they take pest control very seriously. But for as successful as their acquisition strategies were, they found that it was too easy for customers to cancel & they were losing ?

Retention 112

Retention Developer Customer Programming 112

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

million in 2004 to $6.5 Much of this success can be attributed to their acquisition campaigns that often combine humor with a serious tone that let you know they take pest control very seriously. But for as successful as their acquisition strategies were, they found that it was too easy for customers to cancel & they were losing ?

Retention 105

Retention Customer Developer Programming 105

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

million in 2004 to $6.5 Much of this success can be attributed to their acquisition campaigns that often combine humor with a serious tone that let you know they take pest control very seriously. But for as successful as their acquisition strategies were, they found that it was too easy for customers to cancel & they were losing ?

Retention 98

Retention Customer Developer Programming 98

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. This is often in the 5-7% range.

IPO 242

IPO Venture Capital Private Placement Cofounder 242

David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Kevin Barhydt, Head of Acquisitions, RPX. Kevin Barhydt, Head of Acquisitions, RPX. Prior to joining RPX, Kevin Barhydt was the Vice President of Acquisitions at Intellectual Ventures (IV) where he oversaw the completion of hundreds of patent acquisitions and launched key strategic initiatives to advance the Acquisitions program.

Naming 122

Naming Government Intellectual Property LLC 122

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. These companies report gross ad revenue but then subtract out “TAC” (Traffic Acquisition Costs) which is basically accounting-speak for the revenue share they pay to the partner sites where the ads actually appear. Facebook, Inc. Filing Date : February 1, 2012.

IPO 100

IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. Scott’s first big foray into industry-changing companies came with CarsDirect, an IdeaLab company where he was the initial founder & CEO. Foursquare. -A Competitors: Gowalla. Competitors: Skype.

San Francisco 248

San Francisco Venture Capital Analytics Government 248

ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

Sales reps are also likely to be familiar with Salesforce because it’s the most widely used CRM, reducing onboarding costs for companies that use it. There are five types of moats: Low-cost production; High switching costs; Network effects; Intangible assets; Efficient scale. Low-cost production. High switching costs.

Non-Compete 122

Non-Compete United States Networking Acquisition 122

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Look instead at measuring KPIs like close rate, cost per acquisition, cost per lead, conversion rates, average contract value, and lifetime customer value. Since co-founding Moz in 2004, Rand has continually put himself out there as a public face. Focus your marketing efforts where there’s ready-made demand. The metrics.

Demand 115

Demand Affiliate Audience Leadership 115

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. Dan Burstein, Managing Partner, Millennium Technology Value Partners Dan Burstein founded Millennium Technology Ventures in 2000 and co-founded Millennium Technology Value Partners in 2004.

Private Equity 68

Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

But even during the macroeconomic boom of 2004 to early 2008 (inflated by various credit bubbles – housing, sovereign debt, LBOs) tech IPOs were extremely rare and then the global economic crisis of late 2008 – 2010 only further dampened hopes for a recovery.

IPO 100

IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Quigo Lands Overture as Client, Rejects Their Acquisition Offer. Mike believed that any valuable page was going to be monetizable on a cost-per-click basis in relation to every page on the Internet. Lesson Learned From Rejecting Acquisition Offers. Rejecting a bona fide acquisition offer was an incredible learning experience.

Semantic 302

Semantic Acquisition Valuation Angel Investor 302

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 12, 2012

Isn't there plenty of euphoria and "animal spirits" to go around with the IPO market returning, marquee acquisitions (e.g., In other words, before they had raised a nickel, they had made as much progress as a $10 million funded Series A start-up circa 1999 or even 2004.

IPO 44

IPO Metrics Venture Capital Social Media 44

YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2015

The sheer volume of cost-per-whatever models can be simply overwhelming for some companies. The cost of hiring an agency, of course, can easily be out of reach for smaller businesses and newer vendors without thousands of dollars to spend each month to secure their place in the digital world. Here’s how it works.

Advertising 100

Advertising Application Development SEO Channel 100

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Sure, these phone sells cost time and money. In addition, if price is one of the attributes, and cost information is available, the most profitable combination of features can be identified.”. Freemium isn’t really a revenue strategy, but rather a customer acquisition strategy. Image Source. Does it work with SaaS?

Product 48

Product Retention Revenue Acquisition 48

BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

I have shared many of these thoughts in earlier posts like " The web-based platform " last October and " Web-based businesses circa 2004." Customer acquisition. As you see from Tim’s map and my table above, if it costs less to build and launch a company, then the barriers to entry must be lower as well.

Web 60

Web API Open Source Business Model 60

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

After a few weeks of watching no click throughs, Kaufer executed his second pivot: a cost per click model (now known as CPC). When the company saw that user reviews were getting all the traffic, they adjusted to focus on user reviews, such that fresh, authentic content was always available and didn’t cost the company any money to produce.

Part-Time VPE 54

Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million. Enter Facebook.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

In 2004 I began blogging. The difference here is the entry-level cost to buying web property, not physical property, is much lower than what it is to buy real-world properties. If you decide to follow a blog acquisition strategy, you’re not going to write the blog yourself, not very likely. I like to write, but not that much.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Software Review Prospectus Audience 76

Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

A 354 percent increase in abuse-related issues like spamming, followed by a 245 percent increase in legal costs dealing people trying to game the system.&# at 10:09 am I think support and other ancillary costs are key here. at 6:04 pm The cost of support for free things is the big problem. Where was this info when I needed it?

Software Review 78

Software Review Software Revenue Cofounder 78

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. Comcast Corp.,

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

Kauffman Fellows Report (2020): “Diverse Founding Teams generate higher median realized multiples (RMs) on Acquisitions and IPOs]. Lisa Carmen Wang, Founder, Global League of Women , said, “The “growth at all costs” mentality fueled by the traditional VC model is inherently biased towards unsustainable growth models.”.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Founder Technical Cofounder Technical Review 78

thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

Chris had been working on creating a better desktop search since early 2004, knowing that no existing solutions were any good. While finishing his final two years of his PhD, helping take reddit to acquisition in late 2006 and moving to San Francisco to start a family, Chris had realised that academia was not the road for him. “I

Cofounder 70

Cofounder San Francisco Programming Founder 70

The Equity Kicker

APRIL 15, 2015

This chart (which I saw on Broadstuff and was originally published in the Harvard Business Review ) is from audited company accounts following mergers and acquisitions: …we looked at the value of brands and customer relationships as revealed by M&A data covering over 6,000 mergers and acquisitions worldwide between 2003 and 2013.

Balance Sheet 60

Balance Sheet Merger Customer Product 60