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

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Computer Security. But with the help of Grahams company, which specializes in creating tech systems for start-ups, Jumpstart grew to more than $50 million in revenue--enough to make it an attractive acquisition for media conglomerate Hachette Filipacchi. By 2006, he was still only dabbling in the occasional work-for-equity deal.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

Lightspeed Venture Partners

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

The product was introduced in 2006 and created a whole new category of easy to use video cameras. These huge companies put pricing and margin pressure on the category, and about a year from the acquisition, Cisco shut down the Flip business altogether. One example of this was the Flip video camera.

Pre-Money Valuation 167

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Dilution Distribution 167

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2010

Your product team is pissed off because they’re making $120,000 / year and some hot-shot 25 year-olds just made millions from the acquisition of XYZ company that we could have built here! And more recently they have begun to pressure players like Zynga to use their payments platform and have pushed the security model to be more open.

Entrepreneur 330

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley United States Technical Review 330

Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 26, 2012

” Title III enables “crowdfunding,” or the ability to sell securities in small amounts to a large number of investors. This lending model was further refined, and peer-to-peer lending companies like Prosper emerged in 2006 and Lending Club emerged in 2007. Crowdfunding Prior to the JOBS Act.

SEC 58

SEC Securities and Exchange Commission Accredited Investor Private Placement 58

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Panel 1 – How Social Investing is Disrupting Traditional Investing in Public Securities. As well as twenty-three years at Goldman Sachs, Mr. Savage worked as the head of New York Foreign Exchange trading for Lehman Brothers and as a Director of Proprietary Trading at Bank of America Securities.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta.

Artificial Inteligence 122

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

Acquisition. Dylan’s Desk: New security threats target intellectual property, infrastructure. Additionally, he’s looking for companies that have a long-term potential to be Microsoft partners or acquisitions. From $1.5B to half a trillion dollars: PayPal celebrates a 10th anniversary. Editor’s picks.

Detroit 69

Detroit Incubator Technical Review Venture Capital 69

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. It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million. Friendster was DOA.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

Find campaigns where they are spending most money, lower the bounce rate and reduce acquisition cost. I'll share the same advice with you I'd shared about choosing a web analytics tool in Sept 2006… Get the nicest free tag management tool you can find. Earn more affection. How should you choose one?

Analytics 131

Analytics Marketing Campaign Metrics 131

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Then I started looking around at the people around me who’s mission in life seemed to be able to get financial security through a job, and I started noticing that there were so many people out there who reached that goal and were miserable. This was the first real experience I had with making money online.

Internet 75

Internet Affiliate Marketing Germany 75

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.

San Francisco 104

San Francisco Acquisition Social Media Mobile 104

thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

ClickFacts itself is now based in San Francisco, and continues to work hard to help advertisers and ad-networks manage their risk and security, exactly as it set out to do seven years ago. But even with this acquisition, Loopt remains ahead of the curve. Turns out there were, and Kiko was sold to Tucows in 2006 for $258,100.

Cofounder 70

Cofounder San Francisco Programming Founder 70

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

The top performing SaaS companies typically achieve annual customer renewal rates above 90% - with most of the churn due to death (bankruptcies) or marriage (acquisitions) - and over 100% renewals on a dollar value basis due to up-sells into this installed base. upfront acquisition cost, making the CLTV equal to $2.5-$0.7= means a $0.7

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

Gigya was founded in 2006 and has raised close to $30 million to date. Last Friday 888 announced that because the results of Wink Bingo’s acquisition were above and beyond expectations the value of the purchase will be at the maximum threshold set in the original agreement – full article. New Product Launches.

Venture Capital 87

Venture Capital Startup Denmark 87

VC Cafe

MARCH 8, 2010

a pioneer and dominant market player in the development and delivery of intelligent security solutions over IP networks, is buying ioimage, a leader in intelligent video appliances. Though Iscar’s results were down significantly from 2008, the company regularly reported profits, even while it was integrating Japanese acquisition Tungaloy.

IP 68

IP Analytics Portfolio 68

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Discretix offers embedded security and Multi-Scheme DRM Client Client supporting all major DRM schemes in use (OMA DRM, CPRM, Microsoft PlayReady) and the flexibility to add new schemes as they become available. Selling the Deal – Skilled traders initiate secure deals providing financial solutions to qualifying companies.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

My first blog post on the topic of CIA was on 14th Aug 2006! Site-centric analysis is primarily focused on looking at direct competitors, or adjacent ones, and learning from what is happening with Acquisition, Behavior and Outcomes on their website (desktop and/or mobile). In our scenario there are two types of CI analysis.

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Non-Compete Search 60