David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

The value ascribed by subsequent investors (in a secondary); buyers (acquisition); or the public markets (IPO). Eligible for favorable treatment under Qualified Small Business Stock exemption, if structured as equity. This applies if the investment converts into common stock; details are beyond this essay’s scope.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

Usually a small company can sell about 20 percent of its stock in an IPO. The timing of an IPO is driven heavily by the state of the economy in general and the stock market in particular, in concert with your profitability. Do you need the IPO for your acquisitions strategy? Which stock would you bet on as the leader?

IPO 223

IPO Social Media Media Exit Strategy 223

ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

He says that one is too lonely, two is good and three is a great number if they can combine their skills to cover design, development and distribution. If you like this kind of advice, check out my coverage of a talk by Paul Palmieri, Co-Founder and CEO of mobile advertising service Millennial Media, titled " Investing in Your Influencers. ".

Investment Bankers 153

Investment Bankers Technical Review Cofounder Due Diligence 153

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The launch of the Xbox and Kinect, and the acquisitions of Skype and Yammer happened on his shift. It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The launch of the Xbox and Kinect, and the acquisitions of Skype and Yammer happened on his shift. It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. &# And I’d say sardonically , “no, Mom, you’re not on the Internet.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 18, 2018

Tech stocks blew expectations out of the water in 2017, outpacing the S&P 500 by 21 percentage points. While 2017 certainly marked an exceptional year for tech stocks, it was also a harbinger of things to come. The Internet of Things has already seen some notable acquisitions, including SmartThings , Nest , and Dropcam.

Merger 70

Merger Acquisition Stock Valuation 70

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Why Arizona Bay started taking stock from its customers instead of cash. Last spring, Dave Graham , founder of software consulting firm Arizona Bay, learned that a major client, Jumpstart Automotive Media, had been acquired for more than $80 million. The 2011 Top Lists. 500|5000 Conference. Honorees Resources. Apply. ); Topics >.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. Media & Marketing. Media Agencies. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Stock Quotes. AllThingsDigital. AllThingsDigital. Financial News. SmartMoney.

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Social media drives communication…to drive sales. 5 Social Media Growth Hacks for Small Businesses by Forbes. Peep Laja , ConversionXL : “I see growth hacking as traffic acquisition + conversion optimization.” Would they agree that growth hacking is essentially traffic acquisition plus CRO? via TechCrunch).

Retention 48

Retention Metrics Acquisition Conversion 48

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

“We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook. 11) Exit .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Hate mail started streaming in from everywhere - including emails directly to Bill Gates who would forward them on to the team with messages like "this is depressing MSFT's stock price. Would that be perceived as “better enough” to get them to change their media consumption behavior?

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Up and Running

JANUARY 5, 2018

acquisition of Jet.com in August 2016 transformed the company beyond the addition of the Jet platform. Jet.com founder Marc Lore ascended to CEO of Walmart’s US e-commerce operations, and since joining has taken the company on an e-commerce/apparel acquisition spree. POTENTIAL ACQUISITION TARGETS. Walmart’s $3.3B

Acquisition 94

Acquisition Hawaii Partner Non-Compete 94

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The distribution of investors should mirrorthe distribution of startups, which has the usual power law dropoff.So In a traditional series A round, before the VCs invest theymake the company set aside a block of stock for future hires—usuallybetween 10 and 30% of the company. Ditto for PayPal.

Startup 93

Startup Valuation Non-Compete Deal Flow 93

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Once you have collected the appropriate data, build a profile that includes a stock image as well as a name. Many modern brands make the big mistake of solely advertising their business online, such as on their social media pages and website. In the long run, this profile will help with digital marketing endeavors.

Customer 127

Customer PPC Startup Advertising 127

ConversionXL

MARCH 11, 2020

Some 73% of Millennial workers are involved in B2B purchase decisions, and 85% of that group uses social media to research products and services for their companies. Still, Facebook (91%), Linkedin (80%), and Twitter (67%) are the most popular social media platforms among B2B marketers. Tell your company story. micro-influencers).

B2B 113

B2B Marketing Social Media Pakistan 113

Growthink Blog

JUNE 4, 2012

Why the full future for Facebook and the performance of its stock is yet to be written, as of today it is selling at prices significantly less than at which it traded on popular, private secondary markets like SharesPost and Second Market as recently as three months ago. Compare that to today's financial markets.

Private Equity 72

Private Equity Stock IPO Equity 72

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

#tearsofpain One way of removing silos and focusing on the entire business is to leverage Acquisition, Behavior and Outcome metrics. A small change I’ll make in this post is that when I recommend the metrics, I’ll follow the Outcomes | Behavior | Acquisition structure throughout this post. Hence that’s the macro-outcome.

Metrics 141

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

Effectively analyzing and acting on Bounce Rates requires the following: * A deep understanding of owned, earned and paid media strategies. * VPs have a higher altitude, they are paid a ton more in salary, bonus and stock, because they carry the responsibility for making super strategic decisions – impacting tens of millions of dollars.

Analytics 93

Analytics Framework Metrics Algorithm 93

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Think; custom stock photography. The only difference is, our high-quality content is shot by the leading social media creators, crowd-sourced from around the globe, at a fraction of the cost a client would traditionally pay. This is a paid media buy on Facebook or Instagram through the influencers’ accounts vs. a brand’s account.

Software 49

Software Marketing Entrepreneur North America 49

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

As you can see from the chart their data suggests there are about $25 billion of VC distributions per year in the US. They believe that stock picking is the most important function they can play. This happens at acquisition time, too. I use social media. The top 2% do not drive 98% of the returns. And for a good reason.

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LP Later Stage IRR Term Sheet 374

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. Before connecting with them, promote one of their recent posts on your social media accounts. Owning a new pair of high-end shoes has to be one of those. Don’t forget to tag them!) Cons of HARO.

B2B 142

B2B Social Media Email Campaign 142

ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2019

The value of the marketing changes throughout different phases: Impressions: for display and social media. Don’t use cost per acquisition— use the cost to acquire a customer and the retention cost to keep that customer coming back to buy again. We took a look at dataLayer variables and used stock values. What’s the price range?

Agile 90

Agile Analytics Algorithm Software Review 90

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? I’ve done everything from creating content to social media outreach and it’s driving okay traffic but nothing crazy.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

This enabled consolidation among the brokerage houses and banks, which led to the loss of multiple distribution channels for securities and reduced the ability for small players to survive. This is a good example of technology driven market change being accelerated by new securities regulations). cents or 6.25

Equity 31

Equity Securities and Exchange Commission IPO Marketing 31

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. Twitter is an excellent distribution channel for us. (B) would love your thoughts on our startup (well its well started) imorial.com [link] Be a social media star: a menu board of 5 competences « flowing motion [.]

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Media Temple. Social Media Tracking/Marketing. great web customer acquisition tutorials. analytics for social media and online. social media and email marketing. free, distributed source code control management system. Catch Media. Email Integration. Domains.Co. Text Editor. Macromates. Sublime Text.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

ConversionXL

JULY 12, 2017

In the pursuit of sustainable and consistent ecommerce growth , we look to many places: content, SEO, Facebook, Instagram, paid acquisition, new channels, growth hacking. Investing in user experience instead of further ad spend, promotion, or distribution. Reduced customer acquisition cost. Increased word of mouth referrals.

eCommerce 100

eCommerce Mobile Conversion Design 100

ConversionXL

JULY 12, 2017

In the pursuit of sustainable and consistent ecommerce growth , we look to many places: content, SEO, Facebook, Instagram, paid acquisition, new channels, growth hacking. Investing in user experience instead of further ad spend, promotion, or distribution. Reduced customer acquisition cost. Increased word of mouth referrals.

eCommerce 95

eCommerce Mobile Conversion Design 95

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Or in utility speak, they are transmission and we are last-mile distribution. Some will cite my investment two years ago in social-media advertising company Ad.ly Or the ability of the Center for Disease Control to be able to track pandemic distribution of viruses. What does that mean?

Viral 307

Viral Las Vegas Tunisia Syndicate 307

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Today, HealthTab announced the acquisition of Q&A site Avvo Health specifically to increase the number of doctors within its network, doubling it to 30,000. The acquisition also brings a database of :hundreds of thousands of doctors and dentists across the country,” information that HealthTap previously licensed.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

So when a fractured world where the media is as politicized as it has ever been, who managed to get this message out? He wasn't a media star. So I think the most interesting aspect of this article is how just mind-blowing that distribution is. So I think it's good to take stock of what has happened. You knew actually.

South Korea 114

South Korea Silicon Valley Sweden Italy 114