Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

In 2010 I deconstructed the filings for GameFly and Quinstreet. GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. What They Do: Travel search engine.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." The spread between your LTV and blended CPA determines either your profitability or your rate of growth, and a high valuation depends on balancing these two factors.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire 167

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

And yet… since 2010, it's generated a lot of curiosity about what we do. Our company is called Regex SEO, where regex stands for regular expression and SEO obviously for search engine optimization. We picked up this name because I, as the founder, consider myself a nerd. Thanks to Andrew Griffith, Andrew Griffith CPA ! #30-

Naming 99

Naming SEO Entrepreneur CPA 99

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

A business that strives for something like this should absolutely be charging money from day one, in order to establish baselines for their two key metrics: CPA (the cost to acquire a new customer) and LTV (the lifetime value of each acquired customer). The level of engineering quality will vary. Founders struggle with this question.

Customer 156

Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

I think this idea is particularly appealing to those of us from an engineering background. Luckily, we also discovered that certain other metrics, like LTV and CPA were much better than we initially projected. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

San Francisco 102

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

With a baby on the way, me and my wife bought our first home in 2010. When I decided to leave my mobile data start-up in 2013, I remembered my mortgage experience from 2010, and found that nothing had changed – the model was broken, antiquated and inefficient. Image Credit: Nick Stamos. Thanks to Michael Harris, Uproar PR ! #15

Naming 48

Naming Entrepreneur Haiti Nigeria 48