Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

But it wasn’t the tank as a technology, by itself, that allowed Nazi Germany to take over Western Europe in a matter of weeks. I’m not going to talk about reforming the acquisition process, which many of your class speakers have mentioned and does need to get done. faces in a global, interconnected system.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2015

and Europe. Lenovo’s global scale and brand strength ensure it will remain a leading influencer in PC and mobile device markets, but the revenue and profit growth it forecasted for both its PC and smartphone businesses after the Motorola acquisitions was completed in October 2014 are out of reach.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

We are also seeing significant companies come out of Europe. The bulk of our discussion today was around scaling and customer acquisition strategies. Then Gerard McDonald from Dublin, Ireland, discussed CustomerDiscovery, a concept-stage venture around online marketing services using social media mechanisms for customer acquisition.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Over the last four years, the coal industry has witnessed an ongoing transformation on a global scale – from decreased demand in the US to growing fuel needs in Asia and rising concerns about climate change. She also serves as an advisor for the sales and acquisition of coal-related assets and develops forecasts of U.S.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

The sales productivity ratio (measured with the Customer Acquisition Cost or CAC ratio) are also fairly similar for the two groups (except for a small cap dip in Q4 09) and therefore do not explain the difference Why is scale so much rewarded by public markets? Europe Consumer. (1). In search of Europe's next tech stars.

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ConversionXL

JULY 28, 2021

Aside from custom events, GA4 can log the majority of relevant events automatically without the need to configure them separately using the global site tag (gtag.js) or Google Tag Manager. With the introduction of GDPR laws in Europe and enhanced privacy online, it’s becoming more difficult to track users with cookies. Image source ).

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2011

We started this week's One Million by One Million roundtable with a discussion of online advertising trends, looking at them from the perspective of cost-effective customer acquisition and brand building, as well as entrepreneurial opportunities. You can find more on the topic on my blog at Top 10 Online Advertising Trends For The Decade.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Mergers and acquisitions with tech giants and corporates. Instead of expanding further, this group might be considered by corporates for mergers and acquisitions. In China, tech giants like Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent Holdings, are going global to build their in-house capabilities.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Media incubator ESPACIO , has announced its acquisition of the tech news publication 150sec – the renowned online magazine focused on entrepreneurship and tech in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The recent acquisition by ESPACIO has both Adrian and Agata hopeful for the future of the publication.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2022

As Brennan and Aaron wrote in the announcement …“T his new round of funding brings us one step closer to our goal of radically scaling unified climate action across the global economy.”. The new equity round will fuel additional growth and provide capital for further acquisitions. Bikky raised a $5.25M seed round led by Equal Ventures.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

While poised with a limited number of transactions this year, the world of public Cloud Computing and SaaS companies has been marked by two events in the past few months: the acquisition of Omniture by Adobe and the high profile IPO of LogMeIn, a leading provider of PC remote access and support with a very interesting freemium model.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2019

It makes learning and skill acquisition effortless and worthwhile. Rotterdam has a frame-mind of openness towards the rest of the world, offering global services hereby making it’s environment safe and ideally suitable for international students?a Rotterdam was given the city right grant by the court of Hollands in 1340.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

The SaaS growth recovery does not seem to take a "V" shape 2) Sales productivity is ramping up: bottom was hit in the first half of 2009 However, the sales and productivity of the group, measured by the median "Customer Acquisition Cost ratio" or "CAC ratio", seems to be recovering more steeply. Europe Consumer. (1). Global Warning!

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2015

muru - d.com/apply/global. The first nine Australian-based startups under its wing have already attracted more than S$3.15 million (A$3 million) in follow-on funding. The first nine Australian-based startups under its wing have already attracted more than S$3.15 million (A$3 million) in follow-on funding.

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The Next Web

JUNE 15, 2015

Take Airbnb’s expansion into Europe as an example, a market that now generates over half of the company’s revenue. According to Airbnb’s Growth Product Manager Rebecca Rosenfelt, the CPA result of these tactics was 5X better than other strategies such as Facebook acquisition costs. Image credit: Shutterstock.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

Back in 2016, Europe and Israel had only four public companies worth less than $9B combined and local cloud companies had raised just $900M throughout 2015. Today, Europe and Israel have generated 23 public companies worth $231B and private cloud financing reached c. of market capitalization. The Index added another $0.9T

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 8, 2009

But does Larry hate cloud computing that much or is he hiding a potential future acquisition of Salesforce.com? Europe Consumer. (1). In search of Europe's next tech stars. Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning! A funny video of Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle on Cloud Computing. anecdotes. (13).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2012

The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” patents can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors, or for M&A exits (merger and acquisition). In Europe, software is already deemed not patentable, and other parts of the world are somewhere in between.

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techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Three major acquisitions in as many months in this space confirm it is). RelayStrategy Developers Smartsourcing Global Services Epsilon Concepts - LA Web Design Company Developers Arul & Associates LLC Accounting The Resumator HR admin. Enterprise. CrunchBase. Hot topics. Editor’s Picks. Disrupt NYC. guest author. Privacy Policy.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

and today Bazaarvoice has a broad Conversations platform, network solutions (like Bazaarvoice Connections), analytics (Bazaarvoice Intelligence), and now advertising for the network with the acquisition of Longboard Media. But I told him that stock would lead to one of the highest paid internships in Austin history. And it worked?—?today

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2011

The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” every patent can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors, or for M&A exits (merger and acquisition). In Europe, software is already deemed not patentable, and other parts of the world are somewhere in between.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 26, 2012

From a European perspective the important point here is that most acquisitions are made by US companies, and after that local job creation generally dwindles. The good news is that we are doing better and better at this in Europe. The good news is that we are doing better and better at this in Europe.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 15, 2018

According to the 2018 Global Startup Ecosystem Report , in 2017, global venture capital investments reached the record of $140 billion, while the total value creation of the world’s startup economy hit astonishing $2.3 Europe Makes Itself Heard. The world’s startup landscape keeps evolving. Conclusions. With the U.S.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

I was an early employee at PayPal and back in the 2000-2001 timeframe, and we ended up taking a fairly significant amount of strategic investment (tens of millions of $) from various banks in the US, Europe, and Asia. It doesn’t mean it can’t be done, but having say Google as an investor can make it tricky to work with say Apple.

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gigaom.com

JULY 10, 2012

Lingo licenses Watson’s core speech technology for its language servers (though that relationship will likely end after the Nuance acquisition closes), and Research in Motion’s QNX is working with Watson’s API to develop a conceptual connected car assistant. Tech News and Analysis. Follow us on Twitter. -->. Speech recognition anyone?

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

(This post was originally published on TechCrunch and has been enriched with a few quotes from the Blablacar founders) International expansion is a challenge any globally ambitious company will face — some sooner than others. and Europe, I often get asked by the venture community about the difference between the two. counterparts.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

image source: [link] If you are a startup co-founder in Central and Eastern Europe, when you hear about about US entrepreneurial communities, you usually hear of course Silicon Valley, but more and more often now east coast as well. We do have money in Europe, but we still believe that investments are about real estate and banking deposits.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

So was the global futurist at HP and over a number of years, as we were restructuring the firm, we had to figure out what are the things we know will happen over the next decade, over the 2020s. I, I think the question to be asking, you know, is whether the goal is acquisition or whether it's shaping, right.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

China is dominated by Android devices, and although Google Play is available globally, hundreds of other Android app stores flood the market — from the larger players including Qihoo and 91 Wireless to smaller ones such as Wandoujia. billion acquisition of app store 91 Wireless is a classic example.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2011

Mike's customer acquisition strategy is weak at this point, and he also has a rather broad strategy in approaching this market. Kelly has a lot of gaps in her customer acquisition strategy, as well as positioning, and she is seeing customers from commercial and residential clients.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2010

The good news is that a patent can scare off, or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” every patent can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors, or for M&A exits (merger and acquisition). In Europe, software is already deemed not patentable, and other parts of the world are somewhere in between.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2012

Today's roundtable was jointly organized by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT KGP) and the 1M/1M program as part of the former's Global Entrepreneurship Summit organized by the student-run e-cell. Clearly, the solution offers some concrete value, and conceivably, OMS can look at the global market later on in their evolution.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

A CMO Council study conducted from 2007 to 2008, “Business Gain From How You Retain,” found that: “Over 50% of global marketers report that they have fair, little, or no knowledge of the customer demographic, behavioral, psychographic and transactional data. Just 6% say they have excellent knowledge of the customer.”.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 14, 2011

From 2005-2009, Mr. Calvoz and his family lived in Europe, during which time he served as Vice President and Executive Committee Member for Travelocity in its London headquarters and received the Sabre Holdings (parent company of Travelocity), Sam Gilliland CEO Award for Outstanding Leadership. Before joining 3M, Mr.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Bernard is based in New York, was born in Berlin, has lived in and started companies in Asia and Europe as well as America; he is comfortable with globalization. The global economy is currently going through a " perfect storm" of change , so we can expect even more creative destruction than normal.

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Jason Ball

MAY 10, 2011

Last April, I posted that: Europe has always had problems gaining start-up momentum – there’s no epicenter, there’s no critical mass- and there are no Heros. Europe *has* a start up scene now – and fortunately for me – most of it revolves around London. What a difference a year makes. Big applause for the Wired team.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Chilean billionaire and entrepreneur Isidoro Quiroga has been called South America’s Warren Buffet for his near-perfect investment portfolio and his ability to transform businesses from small firms to global leaders. Quiroga has invested in companies in North America, South America, Europe, and Australia.

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