Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. The Rise of Mergers and Acquisitions -– March 2003 -2008 After the dot.com bubble collapsed, the IPO market (and most tech M&A deals) shutdown for technology companies. And some companies didn’t even have to go public to get liquid. billion.) So what’s left?

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

View from Seed

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. Chewy helpfully provides some cohort data on both aggregate $ revenue, active customer spend, and LTV/CAC basis. spent by new customers in 2015, that same group (in aggregate) bought $1.65

Leadership 214

Leadership .Net Revenue Acquisition 214

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Notably I said: You have to have owned & operated websites (O&O) to drive traffic to. You have to have some of your own content formats and not just be an aggregator of talent. Summary : YouTube as a customer acquisition tool to building great online businesses is unrivaled today. You must invest in technology.

SEM 150

SEM Los Angeles Silicon Valley Acquisition 150

Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Had Facebook not purchased Instagram, Facebook’s aggregate numbers likely would have dipped as millennials have largely abandoned Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat. To capture any material part of the $400B that Cook is forecasting, Snap will need to control the underlying operating system on which the glasses function.

Valuation 48

Valuation Technical Review Forecast Social Network 48

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

And I think that we need to start thinking much more about these seemingly unlikely events and how they'll change our companies, because it turns out that well, any one of these might be unlikely and aggregate. And they fit into four buckets, financial, operational, external change and strategic change. Are strategic change.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Networking United States Artificial Inteligence 62

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.

Mobile 48

Mobile Technical Review Software Review Metrics 48

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

The proposed equity crowdfunding rules allow your business to fundraise up to $1 million per 12 month period in its aggregate equity crowdfunding campaigns. Beware—detailing plans to engage in mergers or acquisitions with unspecified companies disqualifies your business from offering or selling crowdfunding securities.

Equity 125

Equity SEC Technical Review Security 125

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. Chewy helpfully provides some cohort data on both aggregate $ revenue, active customer spend, and LTV/CAC basis. spent by new customers in 2015, that same group (in aggregate) bought $1.65

Leadership 100

Leadership .Net Revenue Acquisition 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

If you’re thinking about building an online video network today you need to think about: Producing your own content (not just aggregating). Developing O&O (owned & operated) businesses (outside of YouTube). Building direct customer relationships with viewers (who want to tune into your channels). Except for 2 things: 1.

Networking 366

Networking Media Distribution Video 366

Genuine VC

MAY 5, 2015

One of my first mentors in venture capital explained to me that the key role of a VC is to “aggregate talent.” ” This led to us asking, “What if we deliberately operated our firm to have a true pulse on the hiring plans of both our portfolio companies and exceptional operators in town?

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Portfolio Startup Boston Seed Stage 100

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The very best analysts are comfortable operating with ambiguity and incompleteness, while all others chase perfection in implementation / processing / reports. tearsofpain One way of removing silos and focusing on the entire business is to leverage Acquisition, Behavior and Outcome metrics. We have to really get good at this.

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Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

Agile VC

JUNE 24, 2013

I started jotting this down about a month ago but Google’s acquisition of Waze was a good prompt to finish off this post. In a world where a human isn’t the primary operator, you will have more visually impaired or physically handicapped persons driving themselves or more elderly persons or even children.

Internet 153

Internet Caching Aggregator Audio 153

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

Others, like Def Jam, have been transformed through mergers and acquisitions. Some of the entrepreneurs below stayed in school while developing and operating their business, while others dropped out in order to give their venture their full attention. The story of each business is as unique as the products they created.

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Intellectual Property New York City Pennsylvania Cofounder 118

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 27, 2020

There's no "index" of passages that operates separately from our index of web pages. In aggregate, long-tail queries can drive a ton of traffic. We're not indexing passages independently of web pages. As we said. Hope that clears things up. — Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) October 20, 2020. Image source ).

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Algorithm Search Matching SEO 174

Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2016

Automated data aggregation (i.e. They discovered that drones are best used with teams with vehicles or for short ranged dismounted operations. I’ve had several critique our presentations and offer suggestions on the nuanced parts of the IC mission and acquisition system I didn’t understand. incorporate open source data).

Social Media 134

Social Media Networking Naming Aggregator 134

Venture Chronicles

APRIL 20, 2014

When you combine inbound marketing with account-based scoring, you get a very potent combination of predictable opportunity funnel that also benefits from lower customer acquisition costs.

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B2B Marketing SEM Bandwidth 45

Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2016

Automated data aggregation (i.e. They discovered that drones are best used with teams with vehicles or for short ranged dismounted operations. I’ve had several critique our presentations and offer suggestions on the nuanced parts of the IC mission and acquisition system I didn’t understand. incorporate open source data).

Social Media 120

Social Media Networking Naming Aggregator 120

Hunter Walker

JUNE 5, 2014

How has technology played a role in customer acquisition? They’ll see changes start to happen in the way their friend looks and operates in the world, and say “Ok, what are you doing? What I need most is a product that aggregates all my contacts, emails, and sales pipelines that’s also super simple and elegantly designed.

Mobile 92

Mobile San Francisco Social Media Aggregator 92

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

You then add up all the numbers and you have an aggregate score. They operate on a binary scoring system, too: Image Source. All organizations operate differently, so it’s naive to think that the same prioritization model is equally effective for everyone. You make decisions off that number. Image Source. Customizability.

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Framework SEO Analytics Aggregator 48

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

Most companies in the IT sector are profitable at least on an operating or cashflow basis, though often not on a GAAP basis when non-cash expenses are taken into account. It’s pretty rare to see smaller scale businesses or wildly unprofitable ones in the IPO pipeline, which is again good for the overall normalization of the market.

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IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 30, 2020

Many financial institutions are leveraging AI-powered chatbots to provide personalized services to their customers and cut down operational costs. The hiring process has many flaws, even though strategic talent acquisition is central to most businesses. AI can deliver businesses remarkable insights into end-to-end CX.

Artificial Inteligence 59

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Retention Aggregator 59

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Here are some example metrics that are important at this overall level: CAC – total cost to acquire a customer (see previous blog post Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition to understand why this is so important.) just.a.guy David -- this is a great article.

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Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

However what is interesting is that Nokia is offering this service through an acquisition they recently made. We also need to figure out if they are doing it with partners or doing it themselves either from an internally built application or through an acquisition. For me, it is pretty clear where Nokia is trying to go. million tracks.

South Africa 60

South Africa Taiwan New Zealand Africa 60

Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 6, 2010

These post level items are aggregated into a dashboard view and measurements of sentiment, trending, and relative status are calculated. Brands of all sizes across every industry operate in a media environment best described as Paid, Earned, and Owned. branded media mentions). Social media monitoring facilitates both objectives.

Social Media 60

Social Media Media Viral Channel 60

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Compared to the million-dollar startup, they are operating at micro-scale. 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?

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

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 operates a marketplace in this regard. In other words, it’s building the factory.

Nevada 66

Nevada Global eCommerce Engineer 66

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Internet analytics can be roughly broken down into two simple activities – customer acquisition and customer optimization. Nearly every Internet company on the planet has invested in some form of the first activity, customer acquisition. Customer acquisition efforts are pervasive in our industry.

Metrics 93

Metrics Conversion Internet Acquisition 93

Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 26, 2012

Under the crowdfunding provisions, the aggregate dollar amount of securities that an issuer can sell in a crowdfunding transaction is limited to $1 million (less the aggregate amount of securities sold under other exemptions) over a 12-month period. such other information as the SEC may prescribe.

SEC 58

SEC Securities and Exchange Commission Accredited Investor Private Placement 58

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Typically, Pre-Seed rounds are less than $1M in aggregate capital raised. 6M-$15M used to scale customer acquisition and revenue). Q: What are some Pre-Seed funds operating today? It is what Seed used to be from 2009-2013, until the Seed rounds got fat and bloated and the bar for raising a Seed round became a lot higher.

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Seed Stage Finance Later Stage Equity 82

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. We are also seeing technology evaluation as an increasingly important part of LP operational due diligence. To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

And you are telling me that the Cost Per Acquisition for my display campaigns is not $201 but rather a lowly $155? Not every day, but at least do an operational review every two weeks and a strategic review (with recommendation for changes) every month. That is so cool. Be less wrong over time. Tag your Social campaigns. You do too. #3.

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Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 161

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

But aside from all the necessary talk about tables, kitchen equipment, food suppliers, menus, employees, and everything else that goes on behind the scenes of your restaurant, there’s one aspect of modern operations that your business cannot afford to ignore: restaurant technology. It’s the hub of products and prices.

Technology 60

Technology Aggregator Software Programming 60

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

At Fab, our virtual product is our website & apps, our physical products are the merchandise we sell, and our experience product is our operations and service. If it’s done right, feedback and postmortems are regular activities and reviews are just the official aggregation of such feedback.?. All the rest is noise. Fab Culture.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

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.

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OTC Brazil Paraguay 68

SVPG

MARCH 10, 2014

We usually look at this data in aggregate, but we can also view individual journeys. Such as the lifetime value of a customer, or the customer churn rate, or the customer acquisition costs across all sources. Most companies aggregate the data from their many key sources into some form of data warehouse. User Analytics.

Analytics 63

Analytics Churn Rate Aggregator Acquisition 63

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Twitter has an advanced search feature, but it also supports a couple of simple search operators that can help you find relevant discussions: Question search. Check aggregator sites that feature tweets. Monitor tweeted questions and sentiment to provide help. This is a great way to build followers and even find some initial leads.

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Conversion Social Media Search Campaign 68

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 15, 2012

The primary implication is that there is a new risk to your data and your operations when you use multi-tenant online services. Such risks have always existed: if you do not have both an offsite backup of your data and a way to use that backup then any number of black swan events could disrupt your operations in dramatic ways.

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Iceland Cloud Switzerland Government 133