2009 Acquisition Aggregator Operations 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. And some companies didn’t even have to go public to get liquid.
Agile VC
JUNE 5, 2011
Founding Date: 2009. Revenue Growth: 2241% YoY (2010 vs 2009), 1357% YOY (Q1 2011 vs Q1 2010). Gross Profit Margins: 42% (Q1 2011), 39% (2010), 36% (2009) –> i.e. for every $1 of Groupons sold, the company currently keeps $0.42 Cumulative customers (unique buyers of Groupons): 15.8M (Q1 2011), 9.0M (2010), 0.4M (2009).
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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).
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
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? Compared to the million-dollar startup, they are operating at micro-scale. April 14, 2009 3:09 PM Eric Santos said. April 14, 2009 4:03 PM Dave McClure said.
ConversionXL
AUGUST 19, 2016
This “gap” first came to fruition in 2009 when retailers decided that the best way to attract mobile users was to create a mobile application. Marketers should also be looking at acquisition (visits, unique visitors, pageviews), behavior (pages per visit, time on site, bounce rate), and revenue (if you’re eCommerce). Image Source.
betashop.com
OCTOBER 8, 2012
At Fab, our virtual product is our website & apps, our physical products are the merchandise we sell, and our experience product is our operations and service. If it’s done right, feedback and postmortems are regular activities and reviews are just the official aggregation of such feedback.?. All the rest is noise. Fab Culture.
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