Lightspeed Venture Partners

JULY 23, 2012

With their acquisition of Nicira today, VMware is making a brilliant strategic move that gives them not only the leading network virtualization technology but also a world-class of team of executives and engineers. On a more personal note, I’ve known Nicira’s co-founder Martin Casado since 2004 when we were both studying at Stanford.

Networking 108

Networking Cofounder Acquisition Restful 108

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Africa Travel was established over 25 years ago, so there was no such thing as search engine optimisation back then. However, we have found our name to be a valuable asset in the world of SEO; the name itself is a keyword that our customers search for, making it easy for us to rank in the search engine results.

Naming 96

Naming LLC Entrepreneur Macedonia 96

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004. A former engineer, Rob was a great writer and a thoughtful student of management. In his note to users, Rob talked of a good future for their combined effort: "In most acquisitions, technology gets neglected, falls behind, or worse, gets shut down.

Louisville 102

Louisville Term Sheet Kentucky Ukraine 102

David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Kevin Barhydt, Head of Acquisitions, RPX. Geleerd acquired the stadium out of highly publicized bankruptcy and turned around its financial position and ultimately engineered the sale back to the Toronto Blue Jays in 2005. Kevin Barhydt, Head of Acquisitions, RPX. Panelists: Jeff Kupietzky MBA 98, CEO, Oversee.net.

Naming 122

Naming Government Intellectual Property LLC 122

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 3, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. While initial social media initiatives were focused primarily on building and engaging in organic ways, smart marketers are now adding paid campaign support to the social mix very much like search engine marketing relies on PPC ad support.

Small Business 62

Small Business PPC Social Media Public Relations 62

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. Spread through word-of-mouth as the company has no sales team, all engineers. Foursquare. -A A location based service which incorporates social and gaming elements. Competitors: Gowalla.

San Francisco 248

San Francisco Venture Capital Analytics Government 248

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. His popular blog and audio podcast, “ Jaffe Juice ”, provides daily and weekly commentary respectively on all things new marketing. Business owners and marketers don’t necessarily need.

Small Business 53

Small Business Marketing Social Media Cofounder 53

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. You are addicted to acquisition as you cast out that wide net, which just happens to be full of holes. His popular blog and audio podcast, “ Jaffe Juice ”, provides daily and weekly commentary respectively on all things new marketing.

Social Media 32

Social Media Retention Acquisition LLC 32

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Quigo Lands Overture as Client, Rejects Their Acquisition Offer. Around 2003, Quigo was doing tens of millions of dollars in revenue with two main products: a ready-to-use, search engine marketing solution for advertisers called FeedPoint and a contextual advertising platform for publishers called AdSonar.

Semantic 302

Semantic Acquisition Valuation Angel Investor 302

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

I first met Steve when he was VP of Engineering at Centerline software, a software development tools startup, and I was a junior in college. In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.

Part-Time VPE 54

Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2015

From cost-per-click to cost-per-mille, cost-per-acquisition, and so on, it’s difficult for businesses to determine which pricing models are best-suited for their needs, let alone how much advertising spend to dedicate to the various digital marketing channels that exist in the modern landscape. Here’s a broad example.

Advertising 100

Advertising Application Development SEO Channel 100

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. rose to prominence by offering a free, ad-supported alternative to all of the crap your mom got on AOL for a fee.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

In 2004 I began blogging. I discovered blogging because I was told it was great for search engine rankings. If you decide to follow a blog acquisition strategy, you’re not going to write the blog yourself, not very likely. I’ll talk about that later, because it has to do with one of the website deals I did.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Software Review Prospectus Audience 76

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

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

allthingsd.com

AUGUST 24, 2012

Still, it is the highest amount increase since Fenwick began compiling the numbers in 2004. CCIE - Senior Sales Support Engineering. ATDacquisitions (Acquisitions). Two big-ticket financings upped the Q2 number, which would have been 70 percent if they were removed. ” The report, co-authored by Fenwick partners Barry J.

Valuation 45

Valuation Technical Review Silicon Valley Software Review 45