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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Self-reported 60mm daily unique as of Dec 2009, games played by 250mm people a month (AppData). Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season. Potentially limits acquisition opportunities for independent ad networks. DST invested $180mm last fall.

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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.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Martin , on March 23, 2009 at 5:10 pm Said: A beautiful example of consilience. Reply Christine , on July 23, 2009 at 11:51 am Said: and how, Mr. Martin. Patrick , on March 23, 2009 at 5:19 pm Said: Great story. what an excellent story, and an excellent mind.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Getting B-52s through the Soviet Air Defense System Posted on March 29, 2009 by steveblank This is post II of how I came to write “ The Secret History of Silicon Valley “ 1974. Reply Calvin Chin , on April 3, 2009 at 4:21 pm Said: Great war stories, Steve. The Vietnam war was winding down. In the Air Force?

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

With the sting of losses so fresh, much of the angel activity dried up in the early 2000s, but it restarted with the launch of Central Texas Angel Network in 2006 and Capital Factory opening its doors in 2009. As the local capital base grows the opportunity to attract non-local funding sources increases.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

What’s the customer acquisition cost? Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto « The Secret History of Silicon Valley 12: The Rise of “Risk Capital” Part 2 Raising Money Using Customer Development » 8 Responses Jake Lumetta , on November 2, 2009 at 10:49 am Said: Great post.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 6, 2010

In addition, software industry veteran Larry Warnock, who led the acquisition of Phurnace Software by BMC Software earlier this year, has joined Gazzang as CEO. A 2009 report from the SANS Institute Report called web application attacks from open source breaches one of the top cyber security risks for companies.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

August 11th, 2009 | Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? 11 Arjan’s World » LINKBLOG for August 11, 2009 on 08.11.09 All of your complaints apply equally to just as many freeware programs and many commercial applications (ever worked on a vertical market app? Check out my book Like this post?

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Conventional wisdom suggests that the most important metrics for a startup - such as unit economics, cost of acquisition, lifetime value, churn rates - typically get better with time. Here are a few other key metrics that are hard to scale: Customer acquisition. Customer acquisition is like drilling for oil. in 2009 to $11.80

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Rocket Science Games | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Early Stage Startup « Rocket Science 4: The Press is Our Best Product Burnout » 7 Responses Steve , on July 16, 2009 at 9:10 am Said: Steve, This is an excellent post. Vision and $1.65

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Outcome: Just sold to PayPal for $4B (PayPal’s largest acquisition to date). We met Ryan Holmes in 2009 as he was just about to spin Hootsuite out of Invoke Media, a development agency. We loved the founders, but didn’t have much conviction around the scalability of a browser plug-in and the fact that this was a bridge round.

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www.rocketwatcher.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

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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.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Reply Crystal Williams , on April 12, 2009 at 10:38 am said: Hi Steve! … Reply Avron Olshewsky , on June 10, 2009 at 11:03 am said: Hi Steve, Read your book “The four steps …&# and have enjoyed it and your blog. It is certaintly a great list to motivate me to get reading again. Keep up the great work! … Thanks!

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