Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

It also puts another chink in the armor of the meme that monster internet companies can only be built in Silicon Valley (LivingSocial, Kayak, Gilt Groupe, CSN Stores, et al doing damage here too). The company is currently unprofitable, though generating meaningful free cash flow. In Q1 2011 Groupon was acquiring new subscribers for $5.53

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 15, 2020

acquisition of Plaid by Visa, in a highly competitive deal, shows how even the largest incumbents are feeling pressure to innovate and need to think outside of their current business models. Along those lines, I have been spending time thinking of the the continued digitization of the financial services sector. The recently announced $5.3B

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

. … Due to the relatively small potential contract values in restaurants, startups serving these customer segments have to build very efficient sales teams or online customer acquisition tools to aggregate many of them inexpensively.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. While the group sentiment for 2010 did not improve significantly vs. November 2009, the projections for 2011 are now a lot more optimistic - 42% higher 2011 aggregated EBITDA announced in March 2010 vs. the November 09!

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

The SEC’s proposed rules (mandated by the JOBS Act of 2012) amend the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to allow the offer and sale of securities through an internet crowdfunding campaign, similar in some respects to donation crowdfunding campaigns conducted on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Set a Fundraising Goal.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

If YouTube really cares about dominating the future of Internet video it should take less because at 45% it will only encourage video producers to seek alternate distribution and will make it easier for competitors to emerge. I agree with YouTube (that they provide more (hosting, ad sales, etc.) But the best MCNs are so much more.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

Marketers should also be looking at acquisition (visits, unique visitors, pageviews), behavior (pages per visit, time on site, bounce rate), and revenue (if you’re eCommerce). There are 3 steps marketers can follow to start connecting specific users’ mobile and desktop behavior: Aggregate audience data. Aggregate Audience Data.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” The key thesis was this: if an Internet company could obsess about only one metric, it should be conversion. As such, it is time to pound the table again – conversion is by far the most powerful Internet metric of all.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

Others, like Def Jam, have been transformed through mergers and acquisitions. The story of Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg, or at least Hollywood’s version of it, should be familiar to anyone who’s seen The Social Network or spends more than five minutes each week surfing the Internet.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

They had previously all worked together at a very successful company in the “telecoms meets Internet&# space, CallWave, which IPO’d 5 years ago or so. Internet consumption is obviously growing massively on mobile devices. This no doubt led to the acquisition of AdMob by Google and Quattro by Apple.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

I remember when it was a rare, extraordinary thing for a software/internet startup to even file an S-1. If you look at newly public companies in the software & internet sector you see a wide spread. Now there are filings virtually every week and quite a few of these companies have already gone public. So now what? Author howerl.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Any big changes in your marketing/customer acquisition strategy over the last time period (more money doing Search, less money in Email, elimination Facebook as it does not work, etc., … You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data. or Weightwatchers.co.uk

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Do you have any thoughts on scalable customer acquisition in cases where a decent bit of knowledge work has to be invested into each customer? This unit of progress is remarkable in several ways. April 15, 2009 3:48 PM Knowist said.

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Austin Startup

JULY 5, 2017

This may increase transportation use in aggregate, but it will accelerate the percentage of trips made using electric rather than internal combustion engines. This was the basis of Tesla’s recent acquisition of Grohmann Engineering. Amazon is leveraging that to try to take a slice of every online transaction on the Internet.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

.” Some members of HN proceeded to question the value of the give-away, including by interpreting the positioning for it as “a PDF file full of content that was published years ago to the Internet.” Statistically speaking, you’re probably reading it either through a feedreader or on an aggregator like Hacker News.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 26, 2012

The Internet has made it easier for individuals and organizations to raise money for charitable purposes, political campaigns, artists seeking support from fans and various other projects. In addition, if an issuer is the target of an acquisition, having a large number of stockholders may complicate securities law compliance.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

Part of the reason is that even if you work for a multi-channel company you are likely in the "web," "interactive," "internet," or "digital" division. Digital advertising and marketing is a key part of ZQI's multi-channel acquisition portfolio. The answer is simple: Aggregators.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. Today, many of these businesses are suffering because the ecosystem no longer balances thanks to the Internet. If you are building a large, viral, ad-support consumer internet property, you just want to go big!

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page; Point Nine Capital uses Recruitee for the same purpose.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

Find campaigns where they are spending most money, lower the bounce rate and reduce acquisition cost. It will put that data in Campaigns section of the Acquisition report. If you have a lot of them, aggregate them up. Fruition Internet Marketing. Earn more affection. Here's an example.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

” Users tend to aggregate around platforms and content they identify with (organized around demographics, topics like movies or restaurants, shopping, etc.) rather than aggregating on one common platform and hoping to wade through a morass of content to catch a piece that might be relevant to their own personal interests, etc.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

This way GA will show you both keywords while the aggregate for visits will not be skewed – as technically it is just one session. ]. What's the best way to aggregate to understand clearly how to improve? Bowser: Does web analytics help the internet field overall or hurt the user and privacy rights? Where's the line?

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Start Up Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

But this thing is as real as the promise of the internet was. The problem of course has always been that while our data isn’t worth much in isolation – a few dollars per user per quarter – it is worth a lot when it gets aggregated by a single firm like Facebook.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 15, 2012

While I was in Iceland a few weeks ago, there was a set of discussions driven by Brad Burnham of Union Square Ventures about trying to make Iceland and “Internet Neutrality Zone” similar to Switzerland and banking. While I have no idea if this is feasible, the need for it seems to be increasing on a regular basis.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Use my Acquisition, Behavior and Outcomes framework to ensure an end-to-end view of important activity and 2. Acquisition: Clicks? Cost Per Acquisition. Cost Per Acquisition. But because you are running a bigger and more complex business you'll also measure… Acquisition: CPA. But not to worry.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. The CLTV is the net present value of the recurring profit streams of a given customer less the acquisition cost. Cracking The Code. Friday, October 10, 2008. The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

We’re going to give you part of it, but then you’re going to have to work for the second half by making sure those customers that you’ve been serving stay through the acquisition,” which is sort of the enemy for most entrepreneurs. Most entrepreneurs want to get their check and leave the next day.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

Pro Tip: Always, always, always let the Acquisition, Behavior and Outcomes framework be your guide. On top of the report you'll see the scorecard, or aggregate performance of the page via metrics like Pageviews, Unique Pageviews, Time on Page, Page Load Time (!) If you don't, you are not showing the end-to-end picture.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 26, 2014

The Service Provider is simply the name of the Internet service providers (ISPs) used by visitors to your site. verizon|communication|isp| comcast|tele|internet|dsl|road runner|pool|service provider|embarq|address| vodafone|sprint|network|cable| alltel|wifi|telkom|bellsouth|. Now you have something much better.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Here’s the rub: in consumer internet (and often enterprise), if your founding team doesn’t have the chops to get a prototype of your product out and in the hands of a blogger to test and write about, you might as well save yourself a lot of pain – you’re not going anywhere. I don’t know any developers. I need money for the servers.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2020

Damn, I’ll admit—I even have a tradition of treating myself with a beautiful new pair after a successful business trip or client acquisition. Another great example of linkable assets are pages that aggregate industry stats, like this one. Owning a new pair of high-end shoes has to be one of those.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

PMC-Sierra, a premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, is purchasing Wintegra Inc. , Internet giant Yahoo is acquiring Israeli display ad optimization technology developer start-up Dapper for $55 million. iSkoot is Qualcomm’s first acquisition in Israel. In 2009 it boasted revenue of $4.49

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

And here some of the other social and tech changes I found myself thinking about over the holiday period: Anonymous Web – It seems that more than ever the internet replicates life, because it is part of where we live. Both 3D printers and Internet of Things infrastructure are cheap. Bring it on. Amazon becoming a movie studio.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

And here some of the other social and tech changes I found myself thinking about over the holiday period: Anonymous Web – It seems that more than ever the internet replicates life, because it is part of where we live. Both 3D printers and Internet of Things infrastructure are cheap. Bring it on. Amazon becoming a movie studio.

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Technical Review Startup Australia Artificial Inteligence 48

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Before I try gazing into my crystal ball to see what 2011 will bring for the consumer internet industry, let me first see how I did on last years predictions: 1. Foursquare and Gowalla have grown too, but off of much lower bases, such that only 4% of internet users currently use a check-in service.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

And while DataSift is a provider of multiple real-time data feeds, I would like to be clear that Twitter is by far the most important and dominant of the real-time publicly available data that exists on the Internet today, which is why today’s bet for me is on the Twitter ecosystem. We didn’t have the resources to do it all.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

ForNova provides a B2B turnkey solution to enable building aggregation solutions for classifieds eCommerce, travel and many other specific content verticals. allows Pay-TV providers (Cable, IPTV & Satellite) to harness the power of Internet advertising by applying it to non-linear TV experiences.

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