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JANUARY 11, 2014

It’s why some companies are testing whether building applications on KIK might lead to better customers acquisition. Assigning technically savvy marketers to not only help find new growth channels for the business but to be deeply embedded into the design of your product, testing features, usage, referrals and retention.

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MARCH 5, 2010

They walked through 4 minutes of PowerPoint garble (of a 5 minute pitch) before unveiling a beautifully designed UI. Still, I think that to succeed they really need to focus on vertical niches where they can differentiate and have more focus on content quality and user acquisition. As I’m sure Pip.io

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San Francisco Technical Review Los Angeles Software Review 254

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

When they look at buying your company they often think in terms of “how long will it take until I earn back the profits to pay for my acquisition price?” Income statements are designed according to accounting standards that are designed to “match revenues & costs in the period for which they should be attributed.”

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

My partner Greg Bettinelli is an avid sports fan who throughout his career has developed an expert understanding in online ticketing (at eBay has was a champion of the StubHub acquisition) and online marketing. Draft is a Fantasy Sports app designed for the mobile world and the busy lifestyle founded by Jeremy Levine.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

better than anybody we had spoke with and she had the marketing chops to know how to communicate this to her market once she designed & built her products. and a differentiated feel in terms of fabric, design, sustainability, etc. companies that have to spend too heavily on customer acquisition). Get Physical!

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APRIL 5, 2010

In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. They wanted to employ our entire team post acquisition. He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. He spent a bunch of this time in Canada.

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Technical Review Canada Green South Carolina 282

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MARCH 12, 2013

One of his biggest accomplishments there was championing the acquisition of StubHub. ” After PayPal, StubHub is widely seen as eBay’s second most profitable acquisition. I made some reference calls. They were effusive. Especially from those that had worked with Greg over his many years at eBay. He was stubborn.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. In fact, 1 in 7 or nearly 15% of Angelinos are employed in a creative field.

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JULY 10, 2010

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. This is often in the 5-7% range.

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MARCH 25, 2016

Storage is what’s known as “highly fragmented,” meaning easier for a new entrant to get traction if it could design a better product / service / experience. The top 5 players combined control less than 25% of the market. The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product.

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OCTOBER 26, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about The Silent Benefits of PR in which I pointed out that most young companies I encounter don’t fully grasp the benefits of PR because they are less measurable than product milestones or customer acquisition analyses (like CAC/LTV).

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JANUARY 3, 2016

Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. Other firms like Google bring massive resources to design or engineering and as as corporate VC can offer things normal VC firms can’t offer. Partner Leverage.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. I took a job in corporate finance as an intern my junior year at First Interstate Bank and I did system design on the side, as my main job was corporate planning.

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JANUARY 28, 2011

“Imagine you were a Phd wireless chip designer out of UCSD and then Qualcomm. Are you looking for a Phd wireless chip designer?&#. What results must you have in order to raise venture capital or garner good press coverage that helps drive customer acquisition (and also more funding!)? I love the design of your product.

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MARCH 11, 2011

IdeaLab has created 75 companies, leading to 8 IPOs, 35 or so acquisitions and more than 5 companies worth in excess of $1 billion. His first “real&# business came in college where he designed audio speakers. And when I say this I don’t mean they funded billion dollar companies – they literally created them.

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JANUARY 17, 2011

The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. Yet most startups seem to constrain creativity to product design. Despite the importance of creativity, there seems to be almost no focus on teaching it, encouraging it, training at it & incorporating it into our daily routines. Many people are visual thinkers.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million.

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

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AUGUST 18, 2015

Or that marketing is simply about online customer acquisition. He enjoys life, becomes a master in all of the pursuits that interest him, hosts dinner parties that are designed to introduce people to each other and he believes in truly win-win negotiating. He was a marketing genius.

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