Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

The CEOs on the panel were (from left to right): Michael Simon, CEO/founder of LogMeIn (2009 IPO) . Colin Angle, CEO/cofounder of iRobot (2005 IPO). Scott Griffith, CEO ZipCar (2010 IPO). Gail Goodman, CEO Constant Contact (2007 IPO). Niraj Shah, CEO/cofounder of Wayfair ($500m revenue). 3) Create a Culture Based on Integrity.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 3, 2011

Lead generation in this content driven social model is still a metered blend of advertising, public relations and referrals, but social is the mechanism driving the discovery and the conversation surrounding this powerful form of lead acquisition.

Small Business 62

Small Business PPC Social Media Public Relations 62

David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Kevin Barhydt, Head of Acquisitions, RPX. Kupietzky has served as CEO and Director of Oversee.net since 2009. 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.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

His latest book, “ Flip the Funnel: How to use existing customers to gain new ones ,” presents a powerful hypothesis that retention can become the new acquisition through the strategic incorporation and elevation of customer service, customer experience and customer initiated word-of-mouth, content creation and incentive-based referrals.

Small Business 53

Small Business Marketing Social Media Cofounder 53

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

His latest book, “ Flip the Funnel: How to use existing customers to gain new ones ,” presents a powerful hypothesis that retention can become the new acquisition through the strategic incorporation and elevation of customer service, customer experience and customer initiated word-of-mouth, content creation and incentive-based referrals.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 15, 2009

It’s almost like the clock is moving backwards to 2004/2005 when blogs when there was much less noise in the blogosphere, but a smaller audience of commited, early adopters. October 15th, 2009 | Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? Because someone has to continue creating original content and ideas.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 14, 2011

From 2005-2009, Mr. Calvoz and his family lived in Europe, during which time he served as Vice President and Executive Committee Member for Travelocity in its London headquarters and received the Sabre Holdings (parent company of Travelocity), Sam Gilliland CEO Award for Outstanding Leadership.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Migrating…lots of broken stuff Outsourcing For Startups → Switching Costs Posted on September 12, 2010 by admin I wonder if having a high switching cost is the evil twin of the freemium customer acquisition model.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Startups and tagged business plan , customer acquisition , financial model , marketing , strategy. Bookmark the permalink. ← A Squeeze On Boston Venture Valuations Geek Quotes → Comments are closed.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

As a result, the cost per acquisition was cut by 50%, and conversion increased by 4x with a 1.5x In 2009, Burberry launched a new website called “The Art of the Trench,” where users could share and comment on pictures of everyday people wearing products from the brand. increase in click-through rates. The Takeaway.

Social Media 28

Social Media Sweden Audience Advertising 28

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. a 2005 book about new developments in Web 2.0 His passions and hobbies include entrepreneurship, America Economic History, writing, motorcycles, skiing, tennis and golf.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

In looking back at the old financials, at the end of Q2 2005, our cash balance was a whopping $546. offering to invest $75K if we could find another $250K by September 30, 2005. A talent acquisition or bootstrapping are still options, but need to include buy-in from the investors. ► 2009. (7). Do you have a U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. New funding will be applied toward user acquisition and to expand into new product categories (gourmet food, wine and new services).

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

FDI, M&A’s WEIGHED DOWN BY CRISIS IN 2009, UPTURN EXPECTED IN 2010. billion in 2009, compared with $10.8 63 Israeli companies were acquired or merged in 2009, a 28 percent drop from an average of 87 companies in the previous three years. The top ten deals in 2009 yielded 80 percent ($2.02 billion in 2008 and $8.8

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

CrazyEgg decided to drop its free plan in Jan of 2009 and they haven’t looked back. Part of any good marketing plan is customer acquisition costs and knowing when those costs are too high. In early 2005 37signals stated they had 10,000 unique readers, so that works out to maybe 40,000 monthly. 42 Ruben on 08.19.10

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

The search giant’s VP of Corporate Development, along with CEO Larry Page, signs off on the dozens of acquisitions and acqui-hires made every year, large and small. There’s YouTube , of course — well established in its own right, it rewrote the book on how an acquisition can be run delicately, as a company within a company.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

The company was founded in 2009 by Uzi Shmilovici raised the funding from OCA Ventures , I2A Fund and angel investors. Footbo has been running since 2007 and is led by co-founder and CEO Mani Honigstein – full article on Techcrunch. Chicago-based Future Simple raised $1.1 New Product Launches.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tweet View Comments Guest Author Sep 20, 2009 This guest post was written by Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg. the meebo that launched in 2005 was a group effort – the idea primarily came from sandy being a huge IMer and having trouble getting on IM when we were working on earlier ideas in elaine’s apartment! How To Get There.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

rise in 2009, while investment in fixed assets is estimated to grow 6.2% drop in 2009. Shamir Optical reported revenues of $142 million in 2009, generated mainly in Europe and the United States, and has about 1,400 employees. In 2009 it boasted revenue of $4.49 iSkoot is Qualcomm’s first acquisition in Israel.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

What was that, 2009, 2010? I think it was 2009 and 10. EB : Honestly, I wasn't even aware of Silicon Valley or this whole concept of startups and tech companies until 2005. My answer's really it isn't, that is, since 2005, a lot has changed. EB : Yeah. That was, that's a blast from the past. EB : Yeah.

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