VC Cafe
AUGUST 2, 2022
billion acquisition of Weta Digital, Peter Jackson’s VFX company, gives Unity capabilities in creating hyper realistic virtual environments using RT3D (real-time 3D) technology. Microsoft has recently spent $70 billion in cash to acquire Activision Blizzard, the most expensive gaming acquisition of all time. Also, their $1.6
ConversionXL
MAY 1, 2017
With the pace of innovation increasing, and powerful new tools—such as cloud storage of big data sets and machine learning algorithms for mining that data—now affordable and accessible to even fledgling start-ups, even the most powerful incumbents, such as Walmart and Microsoft, must learn to be more agile in both product development and marketing.
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YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 9, 2018
Robert Tallack is chief executive of a fast-growing e-commerce company, ConversionPoint Technologies, that launched in July 2016, hitting over $70 million in estimated revenues in 2017. The word was coined after a late night, dinner and drinks business meeting between his executive team and that of a possible acquisition candidate.
ConversionXL
JANUARY 24, 2017
With agile development cycles and uncertain monetization models, they live and die by data and experimentation. Similarly, growth marketers, digital analysts, email marketing specialists, and customer acquisition specialists all do some form of conversion optimization. Image Source. Interactive Interfaces. Image Source.
The Startup Magazine
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
. “When we spoke to DataRails customers, including several leading Fortune 500 companies, they were thrilled to be able to continue using a tool they are so accustomed to, with the added capabilities that DataRails has to offer them,” he said in 2017. ” Product Focus.
Agile VC
JUNE 13, 2019
The company launched in 2011 and then was acquired by PetSmart for over $3 billion in 2017 (PetSmart itself owned by PE firm BC Partners), but Chewy is now preparing for life as a standalone public company. in 2017, and 20.2% I’ll break down Chewy’s business based on their recent S-1 filing here. in 2016, to 17.5%
Occam's Razor
MAY 2, 2017
The challenge I want to take on is to be specific in the recommendations make, and to share how we can be very nimble and agile. tearsofpain One way of removing silos and focusing on the entire business is to leverage Acquisition, Behavior and Outcome metrics. You’ll see three consistent patterns in the thinking expressed below.
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