Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

In enterprises, performance objectives are usually tied to internal processes, rather than beating competitors, customer acquisition, and revenue growth. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/24/2016. Measurements set on internal objectives, rather than market traction. I still enjoy the journey as well as the destination.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

They are painfully aware that tenure on the list of S&P companies is shrinking – from thirty-three years back in 1964, down to twenty-four in 2016, and predicted to be just twelve by 2027. Because fostering entrepreneurship internally is hard, many companies have now shifted their innovation focus to acquisitions and partnerships.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 22, 2016

2016 has been quite a year, and has spared no one its many, many surprises. Acquisitions can tell us a lot about the state of the startup world. So too in tech we’ve seen some pretty surprising deals take place. The ultimate goal of any startup is an exit. Exit strategies fall mainly into two camps: IPO, or get acquired.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

In 2016 alone, 300+ “machine intelligence” (AI + ML) startups in Europe raised over €1.4 Venture Capital investments in AI, Europe 2016 (Source: Dealroom ). Raised $8M in series B in September 2016. YouAppi (2011)- YouAppi creates adtech to streamline mobile user acquisition. Billion in VC funding.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2020

He was also responsible for leading the production, negotiation, and passage of the 2016-19 National Defense Authorization Acts. Changing Acquisition. Then write requirements to what we think it’s going to look like and then throw a lot of money at industry to deliver that future on very long timelines.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

If nothing else, for its simplicity (back of the napkin) but also for the fund’s commitment to keep updating the metrics since 2016. The main B2C benchmarks have to do with traction: growth in user acquisition, user retention/churn, monetisation, as well as the effectiveness of consumer marketing + virality.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 27, 2015

So that’s why we are excited about 2016 because there will be more and more entrepreneurs and businesses. This includes a “Learning and Leading in Manufacturing” forum for small manufacturers in my region and the hosting of the “Leadercast”in May of 2016. For us at CEO Blog Nation, we get it. 2 – Rewards.

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View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

Most impressively, there seems to be a thriving startup of every flavor, with many more joining the list of Pillar Startups on the Guide in 2016 compared to 2015. Put all that together, and consider that this is a company that thinks in decades or even centuries, and we’re bound to see both more jobs and more acquisitions.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 2, 2017

Largely yes, but the pot of gold might be more modest than some of 2016’s notable transactions suggest (Jet, Cruise, Dollar Shave Club). We had our first taste of this trend playing out early in 2016 when GM acquired self-driving tech startup Cruise for north of $1b. So, is it true? ” Next Level – Buying Product.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

Back in 2016, Europe and Israel had only four public companies worth less than $9B combined and local cloud companies had raised just $900M throughout 2015. One of the 2020 giants also left this select club: Zoom, which was impacted by the failed acquisition of Five9 and people’s gradual return to offices.

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Agile VC

JUNE 13, 2019

I know some of the investors in Chewy prior to the PetSmart acquisition, but I am not a shareholder nor do I intend to purchase shares in the IPO. In 2016 they generated an operating cash profit of $7M, in a year where the company was still spending significantly on growth and grew revenue >100% YoY. in 2016, to 17.5%

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The data suggests half as much funding in 2018-19 than in the peak time of 2016-17 (Alex McCauley, CEO, StartupAUS, 2019). While capital to large tech companies is increasing, smaller rounds for early-stage companies is drying up. Yet, founders bet their company’s success in finding small investment rounds in these unfavourable conditions.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2018

In 2016, SMBs used an average of 4.8 Predictive analytics help determine the most effective markets for adspend, suggesting areas where the product is being well-received and those where the cost of customer acquisition is unreasonably high. Previously, this was a popular option among SMB owners.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

We’ve come a long way from switching this blog to WordPress in 2009, my systematic vetting of the business idea in 2009 (after needing it myself due to the success of this blog crashing my dedicated server every time I got on Hackernews), the “ coming soon ” pre-launch in April 2010, our Series A 3-minute pitch in 2011, our incredible CEO Heather Brunner (..)

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

In 2016, brainstorming with Pete Newell of BMNT and Joe Felter at Stanford, we observed that students in our research universities had little connection to the problems their government was trying to solve or the larger issues civil society was grappling with. Team Silknet – Detecting Ground Base Threats. Origins Of Hacking For Defense.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2017

The stock went up 70% in 2016 and the company’s growth is expected to become gradual after the recent uptick in subscriptions. This would be useful for personalization and cross-user acquisition. Yet the future prospects of the stock look as promising as they’ve ever been.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In fact, the 2016 Kaufman Index on Startup Activity reported that 550,000 new businesses are started every month in America. If you’re looking at the acquisition path to entrepreneurship, what do you need to know? Acquisition entrepreneurship means you’ll hit the ground running. Entrepreneurship. Are you ready to be in charge?

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Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Here are some marketing predictions for your brand success in 2016. Expenditures on marketing analytics are set to rise by 60%, considering how crucial market data will become in any marketing endeavor and acquisition tactics. The post 7 Digital Marketing Trends For Your Brand Success in 2016 appeared first on Brandanew.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 3, 2015

It will be no different for mergers and acquisitions and small business sales. From a basic economic standpoint this means two things for business owners planning on selling in that market after 2016: Sale prices will go down. Competition will increase and it will be harder to sell your business. What does this mean for buyers?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2016

Investors expect to hear annual revenues, average margins, customer acquisition costs and sales pipelines. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 05/18/2016. Founding team has business and domain experience. An entrepreneur needs a depth of business experience on the team, as well as technical expertise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Initiate new strategic partnerships and investigate acquisitions versus in-house changes. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/06/2016. Bringing in some new blood will hasten any change, and moving people out who are resistant to change is the key to success. Define and use market metrics to tune your plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2016

Lagging measures come later, including volumes achieved, cost of customer acquisition, and market penetration. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 04/06/2016. You can’t manage and make rational decisions on things you don’t measure. Insisting on and nurturing total team accountability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2016

These expansions can be lucrative, but may require more complex strategic partner arrangements or even acquisitions. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 06/01/2016. Before you expand into this arena, make sure you have the resources and expertise on the ground, and have done your homework on cost versus return.

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Transformify

MARCH 28, 2020

Transformify has pledged to the Digital Skills & Jobs Coalition of the EU Commission to leverage its proprietary technology to: (i) provide information to businesses about the transferrable skills of people in need; (ii) to enable the entire talent acquisition process including the payment transfers worldwide; and.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

#tearsofpain One way of removing silos and focusing on the entire business is to leverage Acquisition, Behavior and Outcome metrics. A small change I’ll make in this post is that when I recommend the metrics, I’ll follow the Outcomes | Behavior | Acquisition structure throughout this post. Hence that’s the macro-outcome.

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VC Cafe

MAY 4, 2021

This is in addition to their 2019 acquisition of Anchor, LinkedIn launched a new ‘Creator Mode’ and is experimenting with social audio – “We’re doing some early tests to create a unique audio experience connected to your professional identity. Riffr calls itself a social micro podcasting app. like a Twitch, but with audio.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

Kauffman Fellows Report (2020): “Diverse Founding Teams generate higher median realized multiples (RMs) on Acquisitions and IPOs]. In the first three quarters of 2020, there have been 468 fundings of women-led companies; this figure beats 2015, 2016, and nearly 2017 total annual fundings.

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Brandanew

APRIL 8, 2016

Despite the bottom line implications, there are still a lot of companies out there failing to make support a major priority in 2016. Most companies choose to dedicate more attention and resource to customer acquisition, instead of retention. Click To Tweet. This is crazy.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 12, 2017

As recently seen with the impending closure of William Hill’s Israel and Australia operations, large, respected brands are being forced to make tough decisions, either by closing gaming industry operations, or by taking steps to merge with other companies, just as Gala and Coral did back in 2016. The Rise of New Markets.

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Eric Friedman

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I have been thinking about early stage equity and advisor grants for some time, including a post in 2016 , that I rely on and wanted to revisit. Since 2016 I have had people lean on me and my blog post for the talk. Advisor helping a startup – Midjourney. How do you have the “ok lets talk about equity” talk?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2016

What they don’t realize is that about half the investment deals fail to close at this stage, including mergers and acquisitions , during the due-diligence process. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 01/08/2016. The same is true of Dragon’s Den and Shark Tank investments you see on TV.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

In 2016, brainstorming with Pete Newell of BMNT and Joe Felter at Stanford we observed that students in our research universities had little connection to the problems their government was trying to solve or the larger issues civil society were grappling with. If you can’t see the SeaWatch 2-minute video click here.

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deal architect

MARCH 3, 2016

I predicted 2016 will be the year of verticals in the enterprise software space. This morning Jose Duarte, CEO of Unit4 updated us about the Higher Education acquisition they made a few months. We are off to a good start.

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Transformify

MARCH 4, 2020

Similar allegations have been posed back in 2016 by a mysterious research & investigations agency called Zatarra. From an investor’s point of view, the acquisition of Hermes iTickets in 2015 is a clear red flag. The fact that Zatarra was largely unknown to the broad public did not prevent investor’s panic.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Facetune was originally released in 2013, and Facetune 2 was released in 2016. The capital boost is intended to be used to fund acquisitions as well as launch new products. A Lightricks spokesperson confirmed today that Facetune and its successor, Facetune 2, combined for over 30 million downloads in 2021, on iOS alone.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

For example, according to CBInsights nearly 140 machine intelligence have been acquired since 2011, with over 40 being bought so far in 2016. Most often the first acquisitions in a hype cycle are for the “shiny objects” – the technology, the team and the tools. I had all that in mind as we watched our teams present.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2016

Before a quiet acquisition by PCH Innovations for just $15 million, Fab had raised 11 rounds of VC funding at a $900 million valuation. In 2016, there will be another twist in crowdfunding as the Securities and Exchange Commission opens up equity options to unaccredited investors.

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