Ben's Blog

APRIL 27, 2011

In that role, he championed the acquisition of a little known company named Weblogic. When Alfred presented the acquisition to BEA’s board of directors, one prominent board member said: “if you think that this company is going to pay $150M for a company with $150K in revenue, you are out of your f&%! That’s what a CEO’s CEO does.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Navin Chaddha and Tim Chang are Managing Directors at Mayfield. Many of the newer service marketplaces feel more like “movements” rather than “businesses,” and actually require very careful architecture of the end-to-end experience both online and offline, including areas such as culture and workflow.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

And they plan for a distributed fleet architecture, including 321 to 372 manned ships and 77 to 140 large, unmanned vehicles. The Navy has world-class engineering and acquisition processes to deal with hardware. The Navy has aircraft carriers, submarines, surface combatants, and many types of aircraft.

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Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2018

Plan your website architecture. For more information about website architecture, check out this article from Matrix Marketing Group. Customer acquisition cost (CAC): Tow much it costs to acquire a new customer. This is called internal linking. This helps to keep your website organized and user-friendly. That’s great!

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Honeywell CEO Dave Cote also cautions against shortsightedness during economic downturns: I’ve been a leader during three recessions and I’ve never heard a management team talk about how the choices they make during a downturn will affect performance during a recovery. Managing the means of production to fit the circumstances.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 16, 2020

Data collection or acquisition is the first step in a Data Science project. Data Architecture. This type of analysis is mainly used in determining customer purchases and responses, helping businesses to retain attract and grow profitable clients and manage inventories. Data Science Life Cycle. So, how is data captured?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Email has four main technical prongs: capturing email addresses, managing lists and campaigns, “designing” your campaign, and delivering your campaign–all of which are usually included in your Email Service Provider plan. The management interface provided by most ESPs is more than adequate.

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 19, 2011

Types of Acquisitions. For the purpose of this discussion, it is useful to think about technology acquisitions in 3 categories: Talent and/or Technology— when a company is acquired purely for its technology and or its people. When they were very early, they reportedly received multiple acquisition offers for more than $1B.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

There’s a lot of buzz about the Amazon acquisition of TWITCH this week. The term Content Management System has become mainstream in everything from the Fortune 500 to small businesses. The average website size has also greatly increased, aided by automated rendering systems like Drupal and others.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

After recently acquiring Austin-based NetQoS, CA Technologies announced today a definitive agreement to buy Hyperformix , a leading provider of capacity management software for dynamic physical, virtual, and cloud IT infrastructures. Tags: Enterprise acquisition Hyperformix M&A. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2018

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of the biggest levers that a business can use within their acquisition strategy as part of their Growth goals. You’re likely familiar with the different Growth frameworks like AARRR (Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, Revenue). It all start with Acquisition.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 1, 2011

Provide informed tactical advice —Once following a game, the great baseball manager Tommy LaSorda went on a talk radio show and was second-guessed about one of his on field decisions by a listener. Scott co-founded and ran IronPort, the leader in messaging security appliances, until their acquisition by Cisco for $830M.

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Austin Startup

JULY 27, 2010

Caringo’s CAStor object based software scales from terabytes to petabytes using off-the-shelf, commodity server hardware from providers such as IBM, Dell and HP, and lowers cost of ownership from acquisition through operations.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 9, 2009

But specifically do you mean design, information architecture, user registration, etc.? In a future post, I’d love for you to elaborate more on this sentence: “Especially with a completely un-optimized sales website, which is the easiest kind to improve.&# What exactly does un-optimized mean? 2 Rob on 12.09.09

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In commercial tech you call that an integrated product team, It’s acquisition with software engineering with UI/UX. And the backend requires things in addition to a common foundation, a data management platform, open API, is all the T&E tools, everything should be available to everybody in the Department of Defense.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

But you don't have any lords and masters to answer to and the pay out goes entirely to the founders and management team. The architecture has to deal with the constant pivots and directional changes to adapt to the market needs. It is equally true for the brilliant developer who has to migrate to becoming a leader of managers.

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ConversionXL

JULY 16, 2021

The key elements of technical SEO include: Crawling Indexing Rendering Site architecture. Website architectures. Flat website architectures where web pages are clearly linked to each other helps avoid this outcome: . Site managers should avoid these because they’re vulnerable to not being crawled and indexed by search engines.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

In some cases, this kind of debt can be incurred unknowingly, for example, your company might acquire a company that has accumulated significant technical debt that you don’t identify until after the acquisition. By the way, to mitigate this problem, there's already a discipline called “Information Architecture&#.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

You have lots of sign ups, you’ve smashed your acquisition targets and the first slide of your pitch deck looks great! Managing your cash position when forecasted sales aren’t being achieved is tough, and if you are spending more than you are generating and cash piles are dwindling, now is the time to address your financial position.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

The information in this post was provided and fact checked by AWS managers Moran Nir and Jonno Southam. Amazon Corporate Development – Notable acquisitions include Whole Foods ($13.7B), smart doorbell system Ring ($1.2B, 2018) and autonomous mobility technology Zoox ($1.2bn).

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Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2021

Social Media Coordinator and Community Manager. Human Resource Management. Architecture Services. These platforms provide employers with an advantage in terms of hiring and managing employees, while ensuring that all payments due are transparent, accurate, and on time. Software Testing. Transcription. Photography.

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2012

In this guest post, Alan Gleeson, General Manager of Palo Alto Software, Ltd., Business planning entails goal setting and milestones, managing cash flow and prioritizing work streams. Internet entrepreneurs in the UK need to push managing metrics right to the front of their to-do lists. gives a U.K. But they don’t.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The use of color and architecture grabs attention from the start encouraging viewers to watch on to learn more. Get to know TikTok Ad Manager to learn how to gauge success and spot improvement opportunities. Everything you need to know about ad performance is located in TikTok Ads Manager. Branded Hashtag Challenge 5.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

One of the 2020 giants also left this select club: Zoom, which was impacted by the failed acquisition of Five9 and people’s gradual return to offices. For example, Snyk has recently announced a number of acquisitions. Beyond the giants, the momentum continues for the public companies in our global cloud Index.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 19, 2011

What Startups Can Learn About PR and Crisis Management - [link]. My thoughts on how to “upgrade&# ones mind …Mindset Architecture – [link]. My thoughts on how to “upgrade&# ones mind …Mindset Architecture – [link]. The New Rules of Getting Press for Your Start-up - [link].

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Advertising on the site is a Micro Conversion (the SavvyMoney ad above with the link Manage Your Debt). If you are a regular reader of this blog you know how deeply fond I am of the Acquisition, Behavior, Outcomes framework. Now it's time for acquisition. Now, I better understand visitor acquisition. Good context.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

He also shared his perspective on M&A (including Uber’s recent acquisitions of Postmates and Drizly), autonomous vehicles, the complexities of working in highly regulated industries, and how his personal and professional background shaped the way he approaches leadership today. Dara, thank you so much for being here. This is awesome.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

AMP for acquisition, PWAs for engagement. The service worker can override standard browser caching management with custom rules, and cache storage is independent of the remote server. PWA analytics are difficult to set up and manage. Fluent with PWA architecture for linking all the components together (e.g.,

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View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

It wasn’t until the early 20th-century that electricity reshaped industrial processes, home automation (electric appliances), and even architecture (electric elevators enabled taller buildings). Managed marketplaces , robotics , and on -demand delivery networks are changing how we experience the simple pleasure of eating a meal.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 3, 2009

My name is Ruben Gamez and I’m a 32 year old web development manager living in south FL. In my day job I manage a web development department; nights and weekends are spent working on my own product called Bidsketch. And then after that, managing developers that manage developers (which is where I’m at now).

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ConversionXL

MARCH 3, 2021

Many PPC managers agree that one of the best optimization practices is single keyword ad groups. SEO has a wonderful way of drastically lowering cost-per-acquisition over time. In-depth content, breadcrumbs, external links, information architecture, rich media, etc.). 2) Use single keyword ad groups.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

In the age of “big data”, enterprises will need to contend not only the sheer volume of data they generate (ranging from hundreds to thousands of terabytes), but also to manage the velocity and variety of these new data streams. (1) Webcasting will also be available.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Adobe’s recent acquisition of Comscore’s Digital Analytix business adds another product integration to their future roadmap. Account managers can tier customers. Part of larger Adobe Suite and can take part of other tools such as Adobe Tag Management, AEM, Analytics, and 360 profile. Great salemanship is to be expected at Adobe.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

The top performing SaaS companies typically achieve annual customer renewal rates above 90% - with most of the churn due to death (bankruptcies) or marriage (acquisitions) - and over 100% renewals on a dollar value basis due to up-sells into this installed base. upfront acquisition cost, making the CLTV equal to $2.5-$0.7= means a $0.7

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Software By Rob

JULY 14, 2009

Outsource your product architecture? Just for kicks I’m going to spit out an incomplete list of tasks needed to take a web-based product from idea to your first week after launch. These are the tasks that will be easiest to outsource – the tasks that require a technical or common skill that’s not specific to your product.

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Transformify

MARCH 5, 2020

He leads multiple facets of Parabol’s growth and success by overseeing new talent acquisition, funding and product development. Typically, full-time employees don’t have access to, and regular dialogue with management, and are often left feeling unsure about what they're accountable for.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

When it comes to proving which campaigns are better and which numbers to report to the management what will you do? This allows you to do strategic analysis of you web acquisitions in context of retail, call center, etc. How will you make sure you are in every meeting where people b h and fight about getting credit? Embarrass Them!

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