Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We described the theory versus current practice of defense requirements, acquisition and budgeting in Slides 28-32. is still using a McNamara-era requirements and acquisition system designed by financial managers from Ford and imposed on the DOD in the early 1960s. And they’re even making an end-around to a broken acquisition system.

Technology 436

Technology China Russia Silicon Valley 436

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, The COGS (costs of goods sold) tells me about how big your customer acquisition costs will be. There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0

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Business Plan AJAX Venture Capital Technical Review 334

The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 21, 2014

Following Google’s acquisition of Nest last week Venturebeat published the following list of Google’s top ten acquisitions by value: Motorola Mobility – $12.5 billion, 2006. billion, 2012. Nest Labs – $3.2 billion, 2014. DoubleClick – $3.1 billion, 2007. YouTube – $1.7 Waze – $966 million, 2013.

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Acquisition IPO Mobile Internet 103

The Equity Kicker

APRIL 1, 2014

Over the weekend the FT wrote that the value of TMT M&A deals in Q1 was $174bn, the highest level since 2006 and up 65% on the year ago period. Hence stock markets reward growth and companies pay more for acquisitions which give them the growth that stock markets desire. The market is hot right now. No doubt about it.

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Acquisition Stock Valuation Global 91

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

Wessel measures a 39% acquisition advantage to being in-state. Since 2006, the number of startups founded and funded outside of California, Massachusetts, and New York, has grown by almost 65%. That extra two months spent traveling to fundraise is two months falling behind. It decreases your odds of being bought.

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Las Vegas Silicon Valley Phoenix Montana 120

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2019

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock. There just aren’t enough angel investors and VCs to go around.

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Merger OTC IPO Due Diligence 303

SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 9, 2007 Map of VC Investments Found this Map of 2006 VC Investments post. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

Technical Cofounder 150

Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2019

At the same time, despite some realizations in recent years through M&A, PE acquisitions, and IPOs, the general sense I get from LPs is that the level of distributions don’t quite line up with the unrealized performance. In looking at the data, it’s interesting to note that the TVPI for funds from 2002-2006 is pretty weak.

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LP IRR Distribution Portfolio 256

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

By 2006 he had received proper authorization to move back to the US to join a company in the town I grew up in: Sacramento, California. In 2006 we sold the company to a French services company. They wanted to employ our entire team post acquisition. He spent a bunch of this time in Canada. But TWTFelipe is an entrepreneur.

Technical Review 282

Technical Review Canada Green South Carolina 282

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. paying for travel data from ITA or others (customers acquisition spend is not included in COGS). extension round closed April 2006. round closed May 2006.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We described the theory versus current practice of defense requirements, acquisition and budgeting in Slides 28-32. is still using a McNamara-era requirements and acquisition system designed by financial managers from Ford and imposed on the DOD in the early 1960s. And they’re even making an end-around to a broken acquisition system.

Technology 228

Technology China Russia Silicon Valley 228

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 21, 2011

There’s also an interesting integration of acquisition TalkBin , a tool that makes it very easy for people send SMS messages to any registered business. Business owners are invited to claim their pages, create special offers and try out ad products such as Boost right from the city home page.

Small Business 66

Small Business Marketing Software Review Portland 66

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2018

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock. There just aren’t enough angel investors and VCs to go around.

Merger 198

Merger OTC IPO Due Diligence 198

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Although it has been difficult for various multinational telecom companies to do acquisition in Iraq, this industry has been enormously growing. It completed the AOL acquisition in 2015. It has been having various acquisitions in the past years where it acquired BellSouth in 2006 and DirectTV in mid-2015. And GTE Corp.

United Kingdom 113

United Kingdom United States China France 113

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?

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2014

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock. There just aren’t enough Angel investors and VCs to go around.

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Merger OTC IPO Stock 246

Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

Or maybe dip into the 2006 and 2007 time frame when Rally was in an award cycle with my posts Rally’s New Financing and the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year Award and Boulder 2007 Esprit Entrepreneur Awards. Get Agile with Rally Release 5.

Software 70

Software Technology Agile SCRUM 70

Up and Running

AUGUST 29, 2014

A study co-sponsored by Crawford International and HR.com in Palo Alto, California in 2006 found that “companies that create adaptive corporate cultures outperform companies with non-adaptive cultures by a factor of 900 to 1 as measured by long term net income and stock price growth.” The most successful businesses have an adaptive culture.

Small Business 87

Small Business CPA Government North America 87

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

The sales productivity ratio (measured with the Customer Acquisition Cost or CAC ratio) are also fairly similar for the two groups (except for a small cap dip in Q4 09) and therefore do not explain the difference Why is scale so much rewarded by public markets? . ► 2006. (7). ► 02/11 - 02/18. (2). ► 01/07 - 01/14. (1).

Software Review 101

Software Review Technical Review Valuation Europe 101

www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? That is- if its in production, its “dead&#. When a commentator says Technology A is dead, they generally just mean its not an Apple or Google product. What role can Java play in a world of dynamic languages?

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Java Demand Web Framework 43

www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? That is- if its in production, its “dead&#. When a commentator says Technology A is dead, they generally just mean its not an Apple or Google product. What role can Java play in a world of dynamic languages?

Java 43

Java Demand Web Framework 43

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2015

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock. There just aren’t enough Angel investors and VCs to go around.

Merger 120

Merger OTC IPO Due Diligence 120

David Cohen

MARCH 14, 2017

Google acquired Sketchup in 2006 (yep, I was blogging about Colorado startups way back then ), and we’ve had the footprint of Google’s presence in Boulder ever since then. Bolstered by the addition of around 1,500 jobs in Boulder , over the years that acquisition has significantly contributed to Boulder’s growth and housing boom.

Colorado 104

Colorado .Net America Community 104

The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Their $1.7bn acquisition of YouTube in 2006 now looks amazingly prescient. Firstly the advertising shift from TV to the internet has started and the trend will only be one way from here. Secondly Google is sitting on a major media asset. Google TV'

Revenue 96

Revenue Forecast Advertising Acquisition 96

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

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

While poised with a limited number of transactions this year, the world of public Cloud Computing and SaaS companies has been marked by two events in the past few months: the acquisition of Omniture by Adobe and the high profile IPO of LogMeIn, a leading provider of PC remote access and support with a very interesting freemium model.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review IPO Cloud 48

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 25, 2011

The more skeptical amongst us, of course, may decry that this CSR initiative by Affle is merely one that is but a user acquisition drive masked by philanthropy. .” “We hope to inspire consumers to come forth and participate in the Pinch A Dollar movement,” he adds. The Problem with Philanthropy.

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Singapore Mobile Asia Campaign 230

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The project started as an extension of our Term Sheet series and Letter of Intent series that we wrote on this blog in 2005 and 2006. It’s evolved into a much broader book covering financings, acquisitions, how VC firms work, and a bunch of other random things we think are important to entrepreneurs.

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 24, 2010

Last Friday, I was talking with @rylanbarnes , @jakemarsh , and @amuse about how I have wanted to obtain craved the startuplawyer.com domain since 2006. I attempted to acquire the domain before launching this blog, but ended up going with thestartuplawyer.com. Well, I acquired startuplawyer.com late last night.

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Acquisition Web Design Startup 40

The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 24, 2010

Last Friday, I was talking with @rylanbarnes , @jakemarsh , and @amuse about how I have wanted to obtain craved the startuplawyer.com domain since 2006. I attempted to acquire the domain before launching this blog, but ended up going with thestartuplawyer.com. Well, I acquired startuplawyer.com late last night.

Acquisition 40

Acquisition Web Design Startup 40

Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

The SaaS growth recovery does not seem to take a "V" shape 2) Sales productivity is ramping up: bottom was hit in the first half of 2009 However, the sales and productivity of the group, measured by the median "Customer Acquisition Cost ratio" or "CAC ratio", seems to be recovering more steeply. ► 2006. (7). VC lifestyle.

Software Review 63

Software Review Technical Review Cloud Forecast 63

SiliconHills

APRIL 20, 2016

In 2006, Bill Morrow founded CSIdentity in San Antonio. “The acquisition of CSID accelerates executive […] The post Experian Buys Austin-based CSIdentity for $360 Million appeared first on SiliconHills. A few years later, he moved the company to Austin, which had a much more developed technology industry.

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San Antonio Austin Acquisition Global 48

SiliconHills

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Innography, founded in 2006, raised $16.5 CPA Global reported that the acquisition […] The post CPA Global Buys Austin-based Innography appeared first on SiliconHills. CPA Global, based in Saint Helier, Jersey, announced it has acquired Austin-based Innography, a patent search and analytics software provider.

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CPA Global Austin Acquisition 48

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

million in 2006 – only one year after implementing the customer feedback forum. 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. million in 2004 to $6.5

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Retention Customer Developer Programming 115

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

million in 2006 – only one year after implementing the customer feedback forum. 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. million in 2004 to $6.5

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Retention Developer Customer Programming 112

SiliconHills

MAY 26, 2015

announced its acquisition of some of the assets of the now defunct technology news site, Gigaom. ” Om Malik founded Gigaom in 2006. An Austin startup, Knowingly Corp. Knowingly acquired the website, Gigaom and its content library. Byron Reese, who founded Knowingly Corp.

Austin 48

Austin Acquisition Technology Startup 48

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

million in 2006 – only one year after implementing the customer feedback forum. 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. million in 2004 to $6.5

Retention 105

Retention Customer Developer Programming 105