Remove Acquisition Remove Aggregator Remove Government Remove Management
article thumbnail

Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

Both Sides of the Table

They called themselves a “social OS.&# Essentially I see it as two things: 1) an aggregator of social content from multiple places including Twitter, Facebook and soon even Gmail. The idea of aggregation is powerful in a world where your social communications are fragmented and increasingly hard to manage. Team Pip.io

article thumbnail

100 Startups Join Forces with Air Force Stakeholders at Inaugural Spark Collider Event

Austin Startup

He provided an example from his own life to drive his next topic, which involves the balance of life and business: “The more you get accomplished, the more your life will be managed.” Since most of our lives are governed by maintenance, innovation becomes a form of deviating from the norm and creating constructive conflict.

SBIR 48
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Liquidity for Venture Backed Companies Still Comes Largely in One Flavor—Cash Acquisitions

Pascal's View

Venture capitalists that have an inventory of acquisition-ready companies will do well.”. Recent reports reveal that mergers and acquisitions still account for over 90% of liquidity events for venture-backed companies in 2012, a lamentable condition that has plagued the US innovation ecosystem for close to a decade.

article thumbnail

Search Intent: How to Analyze and Optimize Your Site

ConversionXL

Those informational queries are often the highest volume terms a site targets—key drivers of awareness and acquisition. Aggregators? Government and university sites? Blue links of aggregator sites with “Best Restaurants” lists. displays aggregators when you’re an individual site, or vice versa). Individual sites?

Search 126
article thumbnail

A Marketer’s Guide to Kaggle for Analytics and Data Science

ConversionXL

The competitions were typically sponsored by large companies, governments, and research institutes. After the acquisition, it started branching out into more areas of data science and analytics. It’s not the tool to develop production-level systems or store and manage all of your analysis code and artifacts. What is Kaggle?

article thumbnail

Dear Avinash: Your Digital Marketing + Analytics Challenges Answered

Occam's Razor

Find campaigns where they are spending most money, lower the bounce rate and reduce acquisition cost. Finally, and only lastly, I blame the management teams. Tag Management. First, if you are going to touch the code on your site make sure you get a tag management tool right now. Get a tag management tool.

Analytics 131
article thumbnail

Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

The most noteworthy M&A deals of 2009 were Siemens’ $418 million acquisition of Solel; Medtronic’s acquisition of Ventor, estimated at $325 million; and IBM’s $225 million acquisition of Guardium. The British mobile payments and messaging aggregator will become part of Amdocs’ OpenMarket US mobile transactions hub.

OTC 68