Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

We want money to make some acquisitions (investors would prefer to fund M&A if they know specific deals – not to encourage bad behavior. So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok. but that’s our firm’s money on your balance sheet.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. companies, more sensitivity around technology IP and security. That will take a long time to settle. In the meantime, we have what we have today. 3/ Crypto Hibernation.

Technical Review 165

Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

How do you balance traffic acquisition with conversion optimization? So, Google (and other search engines) are highly unlikely to penalize for A/B testing. Search engines don’t penalize them because that unique content is only found on their domain and no where else. CRO and SEO: The Perfect Couple?

SEO 48

SEO Technical Review Algorithm Jacksonville 48

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

The value ascribed by subsequent investors (in a secondary); buyers (acquisition); or the public markets (IPO). Early-stage: Cofounder with engineering/ product background from top-tier university or major technology company. Flexible VC offers you this. Yes, typically preferred equity. 15-20% sold per round. Volatile, uncapped.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Africa Travel was established over 25 years ago, so there was no such thing as search engine optimisation back then. However, we have found our name to be a valuable asset in the world of SEO; the name itself is a keyword that our customers search for, making it easy for us to rank in the search engine results.

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Naming LLC Entrepreneur Macedonia 98

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

It’s nice to have protected IP, but that will mostly matter later on in the event of an acquisition. Patents are nice but… in a consumer Internet business, it’s most likely that you aren’t re-inventing the wheel. Mike Butcher has a pretty good list here.

Elevator Pitch 102

Elevator Pitch Incubator Technical Review Startup 102

David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Kevin Barhydt, Head of Acquisitions, RPX. Geleerd acquired the stadium out of highly publicized bankruptcy and turned around its financial position and ultimately engineered the sale back to the Toronto Blue Jays in 2005. Kevin Barhydt, Head of Acquisitions, RPX. Panelists: Jeff Kupietzky MBA 98, CEO, Oversee.net.

Naming 122

Naming Government Intellectual Property LLC 122

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

It is the world’s best customer acquisition for video consumers to get them to come to your O&O where you can make your $25 CPMs. We have a large engineering staff led by the insanely talented Ryan Lissack (who was my co-founder at Koral and with whom I worked for many years before persuading him to leave SF for LA.).

Networking 366

Networking Media Distribution Video 366

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Hire an SEO team to link your site to authorities and improve your search engine rankings. If you own the IP on a particular technology or information product, then you can create licensing agreements for other businesses to sell your product for you. 3 Mergers, Partnerships and Acquisitions. 2 License Your Product.

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LBO Merger Social Media Startup 65

ReadWriteStart

MAY 19, 2011

Mandal was the lead of Apple's mergers and acquisitions team, and Gupta was an IP attorney at a several national firms. You tag your questions with relevant keywords, which helps the site's recommendation engine identify the best lawyers for the job. LawPivot's co-founders, Jay Mandal and Nitin Gupta, are both lawyers.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Although the rendering engines and computer vision are rather mature, we’re still years away in terms of packaging all of this in a sleek glasses-like form factor. It’s been widely reported that Apple has had hundreds of engineers working on AR and VR for some time. But we’re a long way away from this dream.

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Valuation Technical Review Forecast Social Network 48

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Mandal was the lead of Apple's mergers and acquisitions team, and Gupta was an IP attorney at a several national firms. You tag your questions with relevant keywords, which helps the site's recommendation engine identify the best lawyers for the job. The co-founders, Jay Mandal and Nitin Gupta, are both lawyers. How It Works.

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California Merger IP Startup 118

Scott Edward Walker

DECEMBER 13, 2018

An acquihire is essentially the acquisition of a startup for its talent/team (rather than for its products or services). The appeal from the acquirer’s perspective is that – in one fell swoop – it acquires a team of engineers. The appeal from the startup’s perspective is a “soft landing.”. How is the Deal Structured?

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Founder Merger IP Liquidation Preference 45

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

In addition, the social sharing buttons at the top create a built-in growth engine / viral loop. Use a dedicated IP for transactional emails. Identify all of the machines, IP addresses and sending domains you use. Testing starts from your point of email acquisition, so your options are certainly not limited. Preview copy.

Email 48

Email Canada Technical Review Software Review 48

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Here is a simple example: You are the Acquisition manager for a company called Omniture. On behalf of your company you are spending precious budget on acquisition, not ensuring your campaigns are tagged properly is near criminal behavior. You goal is to get people to buy your Discover data warehouse product. Don't be that person.

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Analytics Software Review Campaign Flash 122

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Justin is looking for a more efficient customer acquisition model, and my suggestion to him was to look into using distributors, instead of trying to do all the development and then also all the distribution himself. The IP vendor does about $2 million to $3 million a quarter, but the market leader is EDA giant Synopsys. D-Logic Inc.

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Bootstrapping IP India Silicon Valley 113

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’ve introduced a new class at Stanford to teach engineers, scientists and other professionals how startups really get built. ——————– Engineering 245. What are your hypotheses around customer acquisition costs? Any IP you need to license? Below is the class syllabus.

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Wiki Lean Management Business Model 311

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

For 90% of companies , the top goal for ABM is new business generation— new clients, new contracts, new logo acquisition, etc. For example, if one new acquisition is worth $10K, a pilot win could be 20 new acquisitions for $200K. Tools for IP-targeted ads: MRP ; Terminus. ABM opens the door to many types of opportunities.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 10, 2011

Skype’s founders, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, held an IP claim against Skype. And we believed that Skype’s amazing engineering team, led by the original Eastern European software wizards who created the service, could compete and win against anybody. At the time, people criticized us for two primary reasons: 1.

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IP Intellectual Property Canada Angel Investor 78

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

His friends at General Electric said he was wasting his time on the gas combustion engine because the world was going electric. -- ErrantX 215 days ago | link. The story of the v-8 engine is a bit different. flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy.

Stealth 41

Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

We all know how a website works—the codebase is stored on a server, and any person can access it via their browser by typing in the domain name or direct IP address. AMP for acquisition, PWAs for engagement. As with any website, PWAs have URLs and can be crawled and indexed by the search engines. Here’s a good explainer video.)

Web 103

Web Caching HTML Marketing 103

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Necessity being the mother of invention, this is where the queue, the ratings system, and the recommendation engine all came from. In three month’s time, the team redesigned the site, introducing the queue, the rating system, and the recommendations engine all in support of Netflix being a subscription service.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

This is done by enriching transaction data points such as name, email address, and billing and shipping address with around 2,000 extra data points, such as an IP latency check to measure the real distance from the user, IP connection type, distance between key strokes, and email name match. Logz.io (2014) – Logz.io

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

www.humbledmba.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

I had taken classes on IP, first-mover advantage, etc. If we werent careful about this, our IP claims would be worthless. flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. I started my first internet company while getting my MBA. So I should be very secretive.

Stealth 90

Stealth NDA Startup IP 90

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You make elaborate plans for a product, hire a team of engineers to develop it (people who do this tend to use the term "engineer" for hackers), and then find after a year that youve spent two milliondollars to develop something no one wants. So the acquisition came toa screeching halt while we tried to sort this out.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Another assumption is that you’ve actually conducted due diligence on your own business, and these are the areas of your team, financials, your competition, your IP, market trends, because the best pitches I’ve ever delivered were when investors were raising their hands and asking me questions about, “How is your IP protected?”

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Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 60

Austin Startup

JUNE 24, 2010

RGB Networks, the leader in network video processing, has taken three screen delivery to the next level with today’s acquisition of RipCode, Inc., a privately held developer of solutions for mobile IP video. Tags: Consumer acquisition austin ripcode. CrunchBase Information. RGB Networks. Information provided by CrunchBase.

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Networking IP Arizona Acquisition 54

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

If you’re looking for a designer, engineer, or biz marketing guy – go to meetups / conferences that those people would go to. With that live, you’ll be able to show other smart engineers and advisors that you’re willing to take some risk and build something. Acquisition / Lifetime Value, etc. A+ engineering talent.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

ConversionXL

APRIL 10, 2019

With account-based content , you’re usually cutting out search engines and proactively reaching out to prospects. A reverse IP lookup (with the help of Clearbit or related tools) can reveal the associated company of site visitors. Ad creative and content for ABM PPC campaigns. is all personalized for singular brands.

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PPC Campaign Marketing Sales Cycle 131

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 12, 2015

New Users are the number of people viewing the site for the first time (or for the first time on their particular IP address) while returning users are returning to view your content again. This is the total number of unique IP Addresses that have accessed your site in the filter window. How do you find your New and Returning Users?

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Metrics PPC Marketing Analytics 28

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Companies are investing in enterprise software not just as a platform to run their business on, but the engine that moves it forward. When buying, evaluate the development languages your acquisition is built on to understand how complex the integration process will be. In this way, company acquisitions foster growth in all areas.

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Software Review Technical Review Software Acquisition 96

ConversionXL

MARCH 26, 2014

Craig Sullivan, @OptimiseOrDie : I’m a performance junkie – because I started life as a network and security engineer with routers, TCP/IP and lots of cool tools for analyzing and fixing problems. Come see Michael speak at Elite Camp, June 13-15. #4: 4: Site Speed Reports.

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Analytics Conversion Metrics Europe 131

ConversionXL

JANUARY 22, 2020

When combined, the two tools are a powerful—and free—personalization engine. Are you running myriad paid acquisition campaigns with different benefits or advertising different products? There are limitations to identifying a visitor’s location based on their IP address. Simo Ahava’s recommendation is IP Geolocation.

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Management IP SEO API 110

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

We have an acquisition arm and Congress is probably going to give us acquisition authority this year. Instead you need to find the patterns, where I can build a single piece of IP or technology and then “sell it” to all the combatant commands and services equally.” Because doing one-offs is never ever going to change the DOD.

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Artificial Inteligence Fractional CTO Technology CTO 388

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Allot is a leading provider of intelligent IP service optimization and revenuegeneration solutions based on Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology, Allot Service Gateway solutions for mobile broadband are compliant with 3G.4G/LTE Dasur’s solution is based on a unique, patented pattern recognition engine. Allot Communications.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

The post outlines eight sources vendors use to collect data: Toolbars, panels, ISP data, search engines, self reported, scraped/indexed, hybrid, and external voc. Both at improving your digital engagement and acquisition effectiveness, and at weaning your leadership away from the shiny hollow demo/psycho obsession. Recommend changes.

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Non-Compete Search 60

Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

When I search for "avinash" on Google I might rank #1 in the search results because I'm logged into my Google account, the engine has my search history, my computer IP address, it also has searches by others in my vicinity, local stories right now, and so many other signals. Don't start with LTV, it is hard.

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Metrics Marketing Search SEO 166