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. =. paying for travel data from ITA or others (customers acquisition spend is not included in COGS). This was the large round to fund the acquisition of Sidestep.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 21, 2014

Following Google’s acquisition of Nest last week Venturebeat published the following list of Google’s top ten acquisitions by value: Motorola Mobility – $12.5 billion, 2012. Wildfire – $450 million, 2012. Nest Labs – $3.2 billion, 2014. DoubleClick – $3.1 billion, 2007. YouTube – $1.7 billion, 2006.

Acquisition 103

Acquisition IPO Mobile Internet 103

Haystack

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

2/ Consolidating Hardware And Time – Another watch-enthusiast brand — Pebble — was unceremoniously folded into Fitbit after launching in 2012 to rabid fanfare. For Fitbit to even maintain that percentage in the face of the Apple freight train is remarkable.

Acquisition 100

Acquisition Venture Capital Aggregator Mobile 100

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets? A lot has changed. link] leehower.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The consumerisation of enterprise was a big investment trend in 2011-2012. In this Techcrunch article written by Aaron Levie of Box, he refers to it as the rise of enterprise ‘to ys’, citing the acquisition of Yammer by Microsoft for $1.3 The rise of enterprise “toys” – Techcrunch, 2012.

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B2B Sales Cycle Software Mobile 167

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2014

They should also consider launching online B2C or B2B platforms incorporating mobile and social-commerce. This is supported by the East’s dispersed and young populations, high mobile penetration rates, growth of 2nd and 3rd tier inner cities (particularly in China), and traffic congestion. A “China + 1″ Strategy.

Technical Review 171

Technical Review United Arab Emirates Saudi Arabia China 171

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

3) Groupon’s Business is Like An ATM: Groupon is currently unprofitable on a GAAP basis thanks to acquisition related expenses in 2010 as well as ongoing marketing spend to acquire customers. If Groupon’s growth rate drops by 80% they’ll still be nearly tripling top line sales in 2012. Author howerl.

North America 100

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

March 13, 2012. only notified them of potential IP infringement two weeks ago on February 27, 2012 (as described in the lawsuit) and Facebook heard about it through the media rather than in private. Leader on Mar 5 2012. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets? How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 1, 2012

In its quarterly filing yesterday Facebook disclosed that it spent $24m on ‘talent focused acquisitions’ in the first half of 2012. Three of the four are mobile companies (which rises to five of the six acquisitions Facebook made in total in H1 2012 if you include the bigger deals Instagram and Face.com ).

San Francisco 110

San Francisco Hiring Liquidation Preference Aggregator 110

ConversionXL

MARCH 13, 2019

By 2014, almost half of B2B buyers were millennials , nearly double the number from 2012. Even for major retailers, like uniform supplier Cintas, their online buying portal is a dated, non-mobile-friendly microsite on a separate domain (www6.cintasvip.com): The impact of the changing B2B ecommerce landscape. Why do millennials matter?

B2B 130

B2B eCommerce B2C Sales Cycle 130

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 11, 2012

That didn't quite work out--while Zynga does represent over 10% of Facebook's revenue, Zynga continued to grew, went public at a multi-billion dollar valuation, and just bought a significant mobile foothold with OMGPOP. Facebook's Mobile Dilemma: While there's a ton of usage of Facebook on mobile, their app has serious issues.

Acquisition 131

Acquisition Curation Mobile Valuation 131

Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 27, 2014

billion in credit last year, a 3x increase over 2012. China''s Alipay reports that they processed $150 billion in mobile transactions in 2013 - nearly 6x the $27 billion PayPal reported (not including the Venmo acquisition, which is bound to accelerate growth in 2014).

Software Review 55

Software Review Software China Technical Review 55

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 2, 2013

Multi-channel attribution was the flavor of the month for every month in 2012. And just as in 2012 magic pills will be scarce, FUD will be plentiful, and vendors will promise the moon. Mobile Devices Report. Mobile is all the rage. You'll find the report in Audience > Mobile > Devices. Very handy.

Analytics 159

Analytics Search Campaign eCommerce 159

The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

If true, and our sources are very well placed, the acquisition helps end a tumultuous period of Color’s existence. Color said that it had six patents pending at the time of its funding, including its ‘elastic’ social. graph and patents related to GPS location and battery saving.

Los Angeles 161

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Media Startup 161

Agile VC

MAY 21, 2012

May 21, 2012. On the consumer facing side, the number of companies doing multiple acquisitions of $100M+ was extremely short… Google, eBay/PayPal, Amazon, and Microsoft are at the top of the list. <$100M) acquisitions for several years now, but they’ve mainly been acquihires. Author howerl. Pingback: this.

Acquisition 162

Acquisition Silicon Valley B2B Seed Stage 162

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2012

The Most Memorable Quotes (I Could Capture) From Startup School 2012 | The Art of Ass-Kicking – [link]. The economic logic behind tech and talent acquisitions – Chris Dixon – [link]. Brands Struggle in Mobile – [link]. The Top 75 ‘Pictures of the Day’ for 2012 – [link].

Social Media 102

Social Media Small Business Design Media 102

The Equity Kicker

APRIL 20, 2012

Looking at the mobile advertising industry over the last few years suggests that tipping point is around 3-5%. It’s an old cliche that for the first ten years of this century every years was supposed to be the year of the mobile, then the iPhone and Apple app store arrived and the mobile internet finally took off.

Advertising 102

Advertising Mobile IPO Marketing 102

gigaom.com

JULY 10, 2012

9, 2012, 3:50pm PT. Lingo licenses Watson’s core speech technology for its language servers (though that relationship will likely end after the Nuance acquisition closes), and Research in Motion’s QNX is working with Watson’s API to develop a conceptual connected car assistant. Monday, July 9 2012. Tuesday, July 10 2012.

API 50

API Technical Review Artificial Inteligence RSS 50

Business Plan Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Mobile is the Rage & VCs are Taking Note. Corporations from banks to fast food to software firms are turning to mobile app developers to build mobile app devices for their customers. Since the beginning of 2012, mobile app development startups have raised $262M across 36 deals. M&A Spurring Growth.

Mobile 49

Mobile Developer Venture Capital Strategic Investors 49

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 9, 2012

Google’s Rules of Acquisition: How to Be an Android, Not an Aardvark – [link]. 14 Best Web Design Trends of 2012 – [link]. A Simple, Responsive, Mobile First Navigation – [link]. Why entrepreneurs don’t sleep well – [link]. Why Startups Should Curate Content – [link]. – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Technical Review 92

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

billion across 283 deals in the first three quarters of 2017, nearly three times that of in 2012. Mergers and acquisitions with tech giants and corporates. Instead of expanding further, this group might be considered by corporates for mergers and acquisitions. Drives development in technology.

Venture Capital 196

Venture Capital Asia Artificial Inteligence Later Stage 196

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 15, 2012

My goal is to get them excited about creating an amazing digital acquisition strategy that delivers noteworthy experiences through their owned digital platforms, and which ultimately delivers bigger profits (usually offline, but online as well). and mobile intent to purchase (I love this data). " Summary: Just do it.

Global 136

Global Czech Republic Russia Norway 136

techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012. It seems learning to code has become a theme in 2012, and the demand is being met by Code Year and others. I meet people all the time who have no technical background whatsoever, and they want to start an online business, perhaps build a mobile app, or launch a SaaS product. Disrupt NY 2012.

Technical Cofounder 49

Technical Cofounder Cofounder San Antonio Europe 49

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. It was perfect timing since in 2012 GRP raised its fourth fund bringing our total assets managed to nearly $1 billion.

Partner 360

Partner Las Vegas Los Angeles San Francisco 360

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. Commerce: What is less known is just how important LA is as a commerce hub.

Los Angeles 376

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Seattle 376

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

We launched the larger channel back in 2012 and the smaller channel in 2019. Most of YouTube’s traffic is on mobile, and they’ve been highlighting their Stories feature, as well as shorter videos under a minute. Beardbrand currently has two different YouTube channels, one with 1.6 Don’t overthink it. Image source ). New opportunities.

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Channel Metrics Algorithm Video 129

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 31, 2013

The custom Android ROM company that has found favor with hackers and hobbyists is looking to become the next mobile operating system. Snapchat made waves earlier this year when the company reportedly rebuffed a $3 billion acquisition attempt from Facebook and $4 billion from Google. CyanogenMod. Honorable Mentions.

Startup 60

Startup Cofounder San Francisco Software Review 60

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. So it is unsurprising that an over-funding environment and the commensurate returns hangover would have lasted until about – well – 2012.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2014

When Avi Networks founders Umesh Mahajan, Murali Basavaiah, and Ranga Rajagopalan first came to Lightspeed in 2012 with their vision of bringing the benefits of a hyperscale approach to application delivery and layer 4-7 services, it made perfect sense to us.

Architecture 113

Architecture Stealth Agile Distribution 113

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

As vibrant as the China venture business has been, 2012 was a different story. The numbers of mobile subscribers are staggering – 1.18 Chinese Internet companies live in a large closed, self-contained ecosystem with 564 million web users with 420 million having mobile web access. VC’s pulled back and only invested $3.7

Silicon Valley 267

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

Agile VC

AUGUST 9, 2012

Mobile Monetization – as consumer usage shifts from browser/desktop casual games to mobile devices, opportunities for both virtual goods and ad revenue may decrease. Same is true when you look at actual cash in and out the door… Zynga’s operations generated $146M in positive cashflow in 1H 2012.

Stock 160

Stock LBO .Net Valuation 160

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Ramp up your email acquisition NOW. Make sure Your Cyber Monday Experience is Mobile Friendly. Last holiday season, 28% of shoppers used their mobile phones to visit a retailer’s website and, with the rate in which smartphones use is increasing, it will be no surprise when this year’s figure exceeds 2012’s by a wide margin.

Sales 164

Sales Social Media Mobile Campaign 164

The Startup Magazine

JULY 4, 2017

Conduct your research and find what works best, for example many online casinos allow customers to deposit and withdraw via their mobile phone bill using a premium rate SMS service. Currently, credit cards are highly acceptable because they attract customers. Nonetheless do not feel limited. Marketing is everything for an online casino.

Securities and Exchange Commission 60

Securities and Exchange Commission Software Review United Kingdom Affiliate 60

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

February 2, 2012. Filing Date : February 1, 2012. They don’t even run ads in the FB mobile apps. But it’ll be interesting to see how public market investors react when Facebook files an amended S-1 pre-IPO with Q1 2012 numbers, particularly if there’s similar Q1 slowdown in ad revenue. Facebook, Inc.

IPO 100

IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100

Agile VC

AUGUST 22, 2011

Microsoft has two massive platforms in Windows and Xbox, and has been thrashing about for a decade trying to build one in mobile. Salesforce is trying to create a platform both through internal efforts on Force.com and acquisitions (e.g. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets? Google of course has Android.

Silicon Valley 113

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Startup Syndicate 113

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Address acquisition products like Privy and MailMunch make it incredibly easy to tie your website, landing pages, and social campaigns directly to your email lists at your ESP. And an email address is essential to unlock lookalike audiences as an additional paid acquisition channel. About the Author.

Email 49

Email Technical Review Marketing SEO 49

Up and Running

JANUARY 5, 2018

acquisition of Jet.com in August 2016 transformed the company beyond the addition of the Jet platform. Jet.com founder Marc Lore ascended to CEO of Walmart’s US e-commerce operations, and since joining has taken the company on an e-commerce/apparel acquisition spree. POTENTIAL ACQUISITION TARGETS. Walmart’s $3.3B

Acquisition 94

Acquisition Hawaii Partner Non-Compete 94