Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

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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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

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 115

Retention Customer Developer Programming 115

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

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

Retention Developer Customer Programming 112

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

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

Retention Customer Developer Programming 105

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

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 98

Retention Customer Developer Programming 98

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. Fortunately, on the side, the company had built up TripAdvisor.com as a demo site to show the prospective clients what a vertical search engine could do. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.

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