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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. The Rise of Mergers and Acquisitions -– March 2003 -2008 After the dot.com bubble collapsed, the IPO market (and most tech M&A deals) shutdown for technology companies. And some companies didn’t even have to go public to get liquid. So what’s left?

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). 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). A lot has changed. link] leehower.

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The 4 Phases For Developing A Customer Retention Strategy

ConversionXL

In “ Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World’s Most Inspiring Online Design Community ” it’s documented that the company’s revenue jumped from $1.5 million in 2004 to $6.5 But for as successful as their acquisition strategies were, they found that it was too easy for customers to cancel & they were losing ?

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How To Develop Your Customer Retention Strategy

ConversionXL

In “ Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World’s Most Inspiring Online Design Community ” it’s documented that the company’s revenue jumped from $1.5 million in 2004 to $6.5 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
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The 4 Phases For Developing A Customer Retention Strategy

ConversionXL

In “ Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World’s Most Inspiring Online Design Community ” it’s documented that the company’s revenue jumped from $1.5 million in 2004 to $6.5 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
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The 4 Phases For Developing A Customer Retention Strategy

ConversionXL

In “ Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World’s Most Inspiring Online Design Community ” it’s documented that the company’s revenue jumped from $1.5 million in 2004 to $6.5 But for as successful as their acquisition strategies were, they found that it was too easy for customers to cancel & they were losing ?

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From Loyalty Programs To Fan Clubs, A Paradigm Shift

YoungUpstarts

My company won the ROI of The Year award from The Banker magazine in 2004, something I was very proud of. After a while, people were able to think about automobiles in a new way, which finally paved the way for massive improvements in design and manufacturing. We are in this in-between stage right now. Early results are exciting.