Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

Maxwell Wessel, in a classic article in the Harvard Business Review on this subject, points out the exception successes of Zappos in Las Vegas, Sendgrid’s massive growth in Colorado, and RightNow’s $1.5 Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. Energy is still the domain of Houston and Dubai.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. But does Larry hate cloud computing that much or is he hiding a potential future acquisition of Salesforce.com? Labels: SaaS , software , Venture Capital. software. (10).

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Software Review Cloud Technical Review Venture Capital 48

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. The acquisition of Omniture by Adobe for $1.8B and the second SaaS public transaction in history behind the acquisition of Webex by Cisco in 2007 for $3.2B. software. (10).

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review IPO Cloud 48

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. =. Kayak Software Corporation. paying for travel data from ITA or others (customers acquisition spend is not included in COGS). round closed May 2006.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Up and Running

AUGUST 29, 2014

A major cause of business failure is not having enough cash available to cover all startup costs and operate for at least a year. Review corporate mission, vision, values and goals to make sure the company culture you are inventing is supportive of them. As a licensed professional, a CPA has to adhere to a code of professional ethics.

Small Business 87

Small Business CPA Government North America 87

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Business Software. Last spring, Dave Graham , founder of software consulting firm Arizona Bay, learned that a major client, Jumpstart Automotive Media, had been acquired for more than $80 million. Like a venture capitalist reviewing business plans, he now weighs the potential of every company Arizona Bay works with. Advertising.

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Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It’s one of many ecommerce software platforms on the market but only the fifth most popular by market share. Since its launch in 2006, Shopify has positioned itself as the best solution for small-end and startup entrepreneurs. It’s the reason that 69% of people buy from a brand they know over one that gets better reviews.

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Equity Marketing Social Media Software Review 94

ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

The SiriusDecisions Demand Waterfall (2006). This is the model my customers referenced when I was selling them demand-gen software in 2014. I also liked the DemandGen Framework because it considered customer expansion revenue in addition to the acquisition side , which is covered by the SiriusDecisions models. Image source ).

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ConversionXL

APRIL 11, 2014

Way back in 2006, Amazon reported that 35% of it’s revenues were as a direct result of it’s cross sales and upselling efforts. It also analyzes various price-points, factoring in risk/cost conditions and shows profit increases up to nearly 40%.

eCommerce 118

eCommerce Revenue Software Review Technical Review 118

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

He has been granted two software patents, and has multiple patents pending. He was named among the World’s Top 100 Young Innovators by MIT Technology Review and received the TR100 award in 2002. which was acquired by Microsoft Corporation in May 2006. Moderator: Robert Savage, CEO, Track.com. Tuesday, Jan 17th, 2012.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software. at 11:09 AM.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Since 2006 I have been lamenting what I see as “the Facebook problem&# – they are trying to lump me into one big social network.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Innoviz Technologies (2016)- High Definition Solid State LiDAR (HD-SSL), enables smart and advanced 3D remote sensing for fully autonomous vehicles, while significantly reducing both cost and size. YouAppi (2011)- YouAppi creates adtech to streamline mobile user acquisition. All key technologies for autonomous driving.

Artificial Inteligence 122

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Computer Software. Media & Marketing. Small Business. More Industries. Accounting. Advertising. Broadcasting & Entertainment. Computer Hardware. Consumer Products. Defense & Aerospace. Financial Services & Insurance. Food & Tobacco. Hospitality. Industrial Goods & Services. Marketing & Strategy. Media Agencies. Metals & Mining. NAME Comcast.

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

Cracking the Code

MARCH 10, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Lets call this ratio the Customer Acquisition Cost ratio or CAC ratio. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software. Cracking The Code on Facebook. at 8:58 PM.

Sales 79

Sales Software Review Marketing Technical Review 79

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

or just present your crappy, first-run code to investors then pay someone to re-write the entire thing. The contract work burn out is totally where I’m coming from… chip WAAIIITTT… wasn’t the coding of the first version of Digg outsourced to some guy on Elance? What did you do again? Who knows.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. A few times per year, Bessemer organizes a CxO event for our portfolio companies and we decided to focus our first session of 2008 on Software-as-a-service (SaaS). Monday, February 04, 2008.

Software Review 48

Software Review South Korea IPO Portfolio 48

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

My first blog post on the topic of CIA was on 14th Aug 2006! Note to NSA reviewer of this blog post: I'm a harmless digital marketer, totally not worth your attention.]. Both at improving your digital engagement and acquisition effectiveness, and at weaning your leadership away from the shiny hollow demo/psycho obsession.

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Non-Compete Search 60