Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Remember, we’re on the Internet right now, and the Internet is owned by cats. When the decision was made to rebrand during the acquisition, I called on my team to determine what our new identity was going to be going forward. It was 2004 and my wife and I were in New York. And it just sounded really cool to me.

Naming 102

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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

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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

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Software By Rob

JULY 13, 2010

The internet has created an unprecedented opportunity for solo technologists known as micropreneurs to conceptualize, create, and launch products that make a difference. Background The idea for ChangeThis came from Seth Godin, and the site was built by a group of talented developers in 2004. You don’t even need to register.

Software Review 44

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. Read on for a fuller explanation. Redpoint, led by Geoff Yang , invested $11.5

Valuation 98

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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

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

They raised around $350 million to try and sell cars direct over the Internet. Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. And it carries no inventory.

San Francisco 248

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Kevin Barhydt, Head of Acquisitions, RPX. He then led the growth of the domain services division, expanded into the aftermarket business and built Oversee’s owned and operated portfolio of domain names into one of the worlds largest, firmly establishing the company as a leader in Internet real estate.

Naming 122

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Would you be surprised to know that almost half of the dot com companies founded when the boom started in 1996 were still around in 2004--four years after the peak of the NASDAQ? Most internet opportunities were of modest scale – often worth pursuing – but not usually worth taking public.

Hockey Stick 60

Hockey Stick Valuation Startup Maryland 60

Software By Rob

OCTOBER 15, 2009

The masses have grown weary of the blog “fad” just as they grew weary of the “email” fad in the late 90s, the “internet” fad in 2000, MySpace and Friendster in 2007/2008, and how they’ll grow tired of the Facebook and Twitter fads in 2010 and move on to something else. And that’s why now is a fantastic time to start a blog.

Software Review 49

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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

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. Zynga – 8x+ trailing revenue. Carbonite – 3.4x

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Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Since its launch in 2004, Facebook was the clear winner of social networking with 3.6 To date they’ve made a massive investment including a $2 billion acquisition of the Oculus company and more than $70 billion in developing Metaverse hardware and applications. Both in terms of revenue and profit. Hype or Reality?

Social Network 48

Social Network Government Valuation Advertising 48

Life Beyond Code

JANUARY 17, 2012

I have been a Dell customer since 2004. Dell, like many big companies today, trolls the Internet to find out what’s being said about them so they can reach out and help as well as implement corrective action. PR firms are also on the lookout for their clients and troll the Internet. How did this come to be?

Social Media 94

Social Media Media PR San Francisco 94

Life Beyond Code

JANUARY 17, 2012

I have been a Dell customer since 2004. Dell, like many big companies today, trolls the Internet to find out what’s being said about them so they can reach out and help as well as implement corrective action. PR firms are also on the lookout for their clients and troll the Internet. How did this come to be?

Social Media 78

Social Media Media PR San Francisco 78

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. And then came AOL.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

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

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike believed that search was an essential part of the Internet experience, and he guessed that it would evolve towards commercial search. 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.

Semantic 302

Semantic Acquisition Valuation Angel Investor 302

BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

This is a nice graphical representation of what is happening in this next wave of the Internet. As an add-on to this, I thought I would compare and contrast some differences, all quite obvious, with the first euphoric Internet wave. Customer acquisition. " Web 1999/2000. Release early and release often. Tech platform.

Web 60

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Magical, really. TripAdvisor’s History: Two Big Pivots. I’m not sure the Mafia could do better.

Part-Time VPE 54

Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

Gust

MAY 24, 2012

This is nothing new; long favored by family-controlled media empires such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation , among Internet firms alone, Google took a dual-class approach when going public in 2004. In the case of an acquisition, the shares are tendered for cash and/or stock in the acquiring company.).

IPO 159

IPO Equity Common Stock Stock 159

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I had a lot of fun learning what the internet could do for me. In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. In 2004 I began blogging. It was a little bit geeky, but I really enjoyed it.

Technical Review 76

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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

OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

At work, where the Internet 1.0 meltdown was still in process, we were in the middle of negotiating a life-saving financing and acquisition of Veripost with Eric Kirby and George. The prevalence of national guardsmen and NYPD patrols toting machine guns made it feel like a war zone.

New Hampshire 74

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

The front page of the Internet. To have been responsible for funding and nuturing something that legitimately calls itself the “front page of the Internet”, the Y Combinator program has to have done something right. But even with this acquisition, Loopt remains ahead of the curve. It all depends on how you define that word.

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. Internet/digital media and software was the biggest beneficiary of the rise. AllThingsD.com is a Web site devoted to news, analysis and opinion on technology, the Internet and media. ATDacquisitions (Acquisitions). Tricia Duryee.

Valuation 45

Valuation Technical Review Silicon Valley Software Review 45