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FEBRUARY 28, 2007

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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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. =. Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008). paying for travel data from ITA or others (customers acquisition spend is not included in COGS).

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

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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? 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 ► 2009. (9). Hard times.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

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FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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MARCH 20, 2007

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

So, here is the first edition, including the recent Q4 2009 earnings and the updated 2010 forecast. However, despite healthy Q4 results (most companies were at or above plans) few have increased their 2010 guidance and the median moved only from 15% (same as 2009) to 17%. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 Add RSS feed.

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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.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

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FEBRUARY 20, 2007

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

They wanted to employ our entire team post acquisition. So I was intrigued when I read Thomas Friedmans’s Op Ed in December 2008 about the need to Reboot America. He covered the topic again in June 2009 titled Invent, Invent, Invent. In 2007 Salesforce.com wanted to buy Koral. You can imagine the complexities. Crazy, huh?

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

First Click Free (2008). In 2009, Google allowed publishers to cap FCF views at five articles per day ; in 2015, the cap tightened to three articles. Paywalls, by default, are a barrier to organic acquisition—they stop some users from accessing some content. For publishers, the policy didn’t work. Metering vs. lead-in.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

2009 has been the worst year for M&A in a decade. Projected IPOs for 2009 are an embarrassing 10 total deals, down from 86 just 2 years ago (it was 265 in the go-go years of 99-00) but at least up from 6 in 2008. A recent example would be Compuware’s $295 million acquisition of Gomez , a networking monitoring company.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Tuesday, November 10, 2009. 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. On the IPO front, LogMeIn made the news, being one of the few tech IPO on the NASDAAQ in 2009. on January 1st 2008. ▼ 2009.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. They need to get a handle on the customer acquisition strategy and I advised Ram Kumar to utilize the Positioning and Customer Acquisition modules of the 1M/1M premium curriculum to work on it further.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 18, 2012

I wouldn’t argue with that, but the interesting thing is that the landmark mobile adtech acquisitions happened three years ago when Google acquired Admob for $750m in Nov 2009 and Apple followed with the acquisition of Quattro Wireless for $275m in Jan 2010. The earlier eMarketer data is here and here.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2018

by Walker Deibel , Managing Director of Centra and author of “ Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game “ If I asked you to name a business success story, what would you think of? This is why, as of 2008, the average VC fund is $350 million. The VC game is one of portfolio management.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 2, 2008 Paul Graham on fundraising I have found no better primer on the current realities of starting a new technology company in a startup hub like Silicon Valley than Paul Grahams essays. Its the same with acquisitions. but rest assured they would be.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

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Jason Ball

JANUARY 18, 2009

I guess the difference this year is that everyone knows 2008 was simply awful across the board… Icon Corporate Finance has provided the data points though, demonstrating that 2008 looked very grim: You’ll notice the vast majority of exits were sub $100M last year, while valuations outside of this band are falling fast.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Thursday, October 08, 2009. But does Larry hate cloud computing that much or is he hiding a potential future acquisition of Salesforce.com? 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 ▼ 2009. (9). ► 2008. (11). The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends.

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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? A 59% increase in bobs since January 2009? 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.

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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? A 59% increase in bobs since January 2009? 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.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

In April 2008, I was introduced to Ugmode, Inc. On future occasions, whenever I expressed an interest to invest, the founders came back and told me that they had an acquisition offer on the table! One occurrence of this was in Q1/Q2 2009. thanks to my advisor Terry Winograd ). This happened not just once, but multiple times.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

And congrats to Alex Le, cofounder of a prior investment, Serious Business, whose first game since the Zynga acquisition is CityVille.]. Although the industry is in much better shape than the dark days of 2008 and 2009, many CEOs have fully embraced the continue to internalize the lean startup principles that came out of those years.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? April 14, 2009 3:09 PM Eric Santos said. April 14, 2009 4:03 PM Dave McClure said. thats SNL Jan 1976: [link] April 15, 2009 2:00 AM Matt Prados said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Not crossing the chasm What does life feel like in the chasm ? In a subscription business, maybe your attrition starts matching your acquisition, balancing like magic. Or your cost of customer acquisition just magically floats up to match your customer lifetime value.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 20, 2010

Another TechStars Boulder company – this time DailyBurn from the class of 2008 – has been acquired by IAC. This is now TechStars fifth meaningful acquisition and the first from the 2008 class. I’m super proud of Andy Smith, Stephen Blankenship, and the whole DailyBurn team. The TechStars Boulder 2010 class has begun.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

When Amazon came knocking in 2009, they had been modestly profitable for only two years. eBay was ultimately unable to generate sufficient profits and synergies from the acquisition. They devalued the company and sold 70% of the business to private investors in 2009. Also not surprisingly, they didn’t make much money.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Surphace is a reincarnation of Sphere, a startup founded by Martin Remy and Steve Nieker in 2006 as a related content plugin and was later acquired by AOL in April 2008 for a rumored sum of $25 million. In October 2009, AOL re-branded the service to Surphace and launched a self served solution for related content called S4.

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