Genuine VC

MARCH 26, 2012

Many of formerly rich acquirers like AOL and Yahoo have long since faded past their heyday, and their appetite for acquisitions has subsided along with it. And last week’s $200M OMGPOP acquisition by Zynga is the starting-gun fire for deals that aren’t just “acquihires,” but real meaningful ones.

Acquisition 128

Acquisition Internet IPO Venture Capital 128

Genuine VC

MARCH 26, 2012

Many of formerly rich acquirers like AOL and Yahoo have long since faded past their heyday, and their appetite for acquisitions has subsided along with it. And last week’s $200M OMGPOP acquisition by Zynga is the starting-gun fire for deals that aren’t just “acquihires,” but real meaningful ones.

Acquisition 100

Acquisition Internet IPO Venture Capital 100

Genuine VC

JANUARY 7, 2010

In a decade in which we saw the web become increasingly distributed with a proliferation websites and content, this acquisition served as a foundation to empower Google to move beyond their core search Adwords product. Like with Google’s acquisition of Applied Semantics, this deal adds a fundamentally new business model to the company.

Acquisition 115

Acquisition Semantic Distribution Advertising 115

Genuine VC

JANUARY 7, 2010

In a decade in which we saw the web become increasingly distributed with a proliferation websites and content, this acquisition served as a foundation to empower Google to move beyond their core search Adwords product. Like with Google’s acquisition of Applied Semantics, this deal adds a fundamentally new business model to the company.

Acquisition 100

Acquisition Semantic Distribution Advertising 100

Genuine VC

MARCH 24, 2014

The five conditions for a Series A financing which he enumerated are: a core team ready to scale, demonstrable market size, repeatable cost effective customer acquisition, metric momentum, and plausible monetization. But unfortunately these are neither necessary nor sufficient for raising that round, and are instead merely guideposts.

Seed Capital 212

Seed Capital Metrics Cofounder Revenue 212

Genuine VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Both are online marketing gurus with a rich background in multi-category customer acquisition at BuyerZone, TripAdvisor, and Cayan. Eric and Brian are the perfect duo to make this company a success.

Syndicate 100

Syndicate Syndication Lead Generation Acquisition 100

Genuine VC

MAY 5, 2015

Rather, we’ve heard time and again just how difficult it is to find exceptional operators — those all-important “doers” that are integral to making things really happen — a senior front-end engineer, a tactical online acquisition marketer, a phenomenal designer, and so on. These great people are in our network.

Portfolio 100

Portfolio Startup Boston Seed Stage 100