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The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 1)

Software By Rob

This acquisition is a long story, but if you have a few minutes let me tell you the best parts. If you’re interested you can read about one of my acquisitions from a few years back in a post titled The Inside Story of a Small Software Acquisition. My Background. The site was once great; marketed by a high-end NYC PR firm.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – COO, VP of Business Development, Online Marketing Director

This is going to be BIG.

On top of that throw in a bunch of web servers and SQL databases, cross-platform 3D graphics code and a highly scalable physics engine and you get the idea. A position where that will call on strategic and tactical execution, this person will design and execute a broad range of campaigns to facilitate customer acquisition.

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Looking for your summer internship? Look no further.

Austin Startup

AUTHORS delivers insights and predictive analytics to entertainment companies during the acquisitions process, supporting editors and producers in making smart project decisions. To Apply: Email cover letter and resume to Erik Dahlman at erik.dahlman@albinodragon.com Albino Dragon AUTHORS.me

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The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared

www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

The best-known example of SDN probably is  Nicira , not in the least because of their $1 billion acquisition by VMWare. And finally we have all kinds of middleware that facilitate the storage of data, like database management systems in all their flavors (ranging from relational to document- and key/value-oriented storage).

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Combining All Your Funnel Data into One Sheet

ConversionXL

Instead of measuring Awareness, Appeal, and Ask separately, we combined all marketing acquisition efforts under the Awareness stage, leaving Act to account for conversions in the form of sign-ups. We record this and other usage analytics data as anonymized Events in a Google BigQuery database. The Retention stage.

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Gazzang Banks $3.5M Series A

Austin Startup

In addition, software industry veteran Larry Warnock, who led the acquisition of Phurnace Software by BMC Software earlier this year, has joined Gazzang as CEO. Gazzang’s first product offering, ezNcrypt, is a “set and forget” solution for encrypting MySQL database transactions and data.

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Lottery Avoidance: Require Real Capital

Andrew Payne

When we started Open Market in 1994, a basic Unix server and SQL database cost $100-200k. Note: raising capital for customer acquisition is not enough of a differentiator. See my article on customer acquisition.). Now, anyone with a $500 laptop can start an Internet company (or copy your idea).

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