Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. But does Larry hate cloud computing that much or is he hiding a potential future acquisition of Salesforce.com? Labels: SaaS , software , Venture Capital. Europe Consumer. (1).

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. The acquisition of Omniture by Adobe for $1.8B and the second SaaS public transaction in history behind the acquisition of Webex by Cisco in 2007 for $3.2B. Europe Consumer. (1).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. While he was waiting for the paperwork to be reviewed he moved to Boulder, Colorado and took a job with a local tech company there. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over. They wanted to employ our entire team post acquisition.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software. at 11:09 AM.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 10, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Measuring sales and marketing effectiveness of SaaS companies. Lets call this ratio the Customer Acquisition Cost ratio or CAC ratio. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Computer Software. Ran gold Resources Ltd. View All Search Results » Subscribe. América Latina. 中文-简体 (China). Deutschland. 日本 (Japan). » More. » More. Loading… U.S. » More. » More. Loading… Asia. Management. Media & Marketing. Small Business.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). The US market is worth more than $25 billion and Europe is the same. billion in sales and thus controls less than 10% of the market.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2014

of businesses are actively seeking & collecting customer reviews on an ongoing basis. According to an article in Econsultancy , when a site has customer reviews, 63% of visitors are more likely to make a purchase & reviews produce an average of 18% uplift in sales. when influencing purchasing decisions.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 6, 2009

This episode’s Micropreneur is Thomas Kjeldahl Nilsson who recently launched his online mind mapping software ThoughtMuse. == Rob: Hi Thomas. I’m a 31 year old Norwegian software developer. By day I work in a small startup specializing in mobile software. Thanks for taking the time to appear in the Spotlight.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 2, 2015

The Acquisition. With patience as one of my least prominent traits I didn’t want to spend 6 months coding, and 12 months launching/learning/trying to find product/market fit. So I took a page out of my playbook and went on a search for an acquisition larger than any I had previously attempted. ” moment.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 2, 2015

The Acquisition. With patience as one of my least prominent traits I didn’t want to spend 6 months coding, and 12 months launching/learning/trying to find product/market fit. So I took a page out of my playbook and went on a search for an acquisition larger than any I had previously attempted. ” moment.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 2, 2015

The Acquisition. With patience as one of my least prominent traits I didn’t want to spend 6 months coding, and 12 months launching/learning/trying to find product/market fit. So I took a page out of my playbook and went on a search for an acquisition larger than any I had previously attempted. Another Next Thing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

I’m looking for somebody who can sell, but not better than our head of sales. You want somebody who can do handset deals in the US, Europe & Asia. You want somebody who can raise $15 million to build out your R&D, business development and sales organizations. You have beautifully executed software.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

The most noteworthy M&A deals of 2009 were Siemens’ $418 million acquisition of Solel; Medtronic’s acquisition of Ventor, estimated at $325 million; and IBM’s $225 million acquisition of Guardium. Ratiopharm, a privately-owned subsidiary of German holding company VEM, was founded in 1973 and has annual sales of about $8.6

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

Software developer Patrick McKenzie aka @Patio11 (easily one of my favorite marketers to follow and learn from) asserts that 40-60% of users who sign up for a free trial of almost every software or SaaS application will use it once and never come back. Often, however, they’re unable to see the benefit of using the software.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all! Code Igniter. Code Hosting and Version Control. code spaces (svn). WorkingPoint.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2017

In the course of this post, we’ll specifically talk about the cases when you should build a mobile app —a product that is specifically designed to run on smartphone, tablets, and wearables and requires installation; or a web app —a client-server software application that runs in the browser (both desktop and mobile).

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

Computing and software came a few years later for me as access to computers wasn’t as easy or affordable. Software is awesome as it gives you instant gratification. It requires a higher level of discipline than software does. Occipital — makers of the Structure Sensor for 3-D data acquisition.

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conversionxl.com

APRIL 29, 2014

Website Reviews. Of all of those free ebooks, courses & discount codes, how many of those companies did you ever actually become a customer of? But it was never “free months” that kept me from using the software. For example , lets say you sell landing page software & I’m a registered lead, but not yet a paying customer.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Their code base had diverged and it was extremely slow and costly for Microsoft to be implementing Word separately for each platform: Windows, DOS and Mac. It also meant that there was great pressure to get the release out so they could start to gain the efficiencies of a single code base. In 1993, Word 6.0

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 25, 2010

Build a Fan Base, then Go Big The Beatles did not start touring Europe a week after they formed. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. I have yet to see a startup succeed without countless hours of hard work. Finding people who liked their music.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. A few times per year, Bessemer organizes a CxO event for our portfolio companies and we decided to focus our first session of 2008 on Software-as-a-service (SaaS). Monday, February 04, 2008.

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Software By Rob

JULY 15, 2010

Discovery #1 I really don’t need an email notification every time I make a sale. email during my normal workday, my apps make enough individual sales that these emails really pile up. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. at 6:47 am [.]

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

My delusions of coding grandeur quickly subsided and realized that I was not going to hack it. It’s the same process as sales and dating, and I know how to do both, well, at least sales… So, how hard can this be? Acquisition. Consequently, I either needed a tech co-founder or to pay someone to develop the product.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2015

people born in Europe between 1918 and 1939; survivors of an aircrash; truck drivers who smoked between age 30 and 40).”. How does retention differ among different acquisition channels? Acquisition Efficiency. Customers that converted in the last year that had a sales cycle of less than x weeks. Expansion Potential.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

“Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. 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. NCR, a retail technology company, has acquired Retalix, a point of sale provider, for $650 million.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

The biggest deal I’ve ever done was a sale of a $100,000 website. I was still nervous because I hadn’t really invested that kind of money and negotiated a sale before, so I went to bed that night after I made the offer, wondering whether I was going to follow through with it. I saw them for sale and checked out the traffic statistics.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Do that – nothing else but one product / company / focus and get to $1M in sales with atleast $15% net profit. Don’t wait to fill the void before letting him go (but obviously get all the code / usernames / password). Sometimes I use Balsamiq, sometimes I code a prototype, doesn’t matter – just create something, then tell the world.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

TikTok Ads give you the chance to put your products in front of the platform’s highly engaged user base to raise brand awareness , build relationships and increase sales. The Nielsen study also showed that ads are also 67% more effective at driving sales for the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry compared to total paid TikTok.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: From Nothing To Something.

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Transformify

JANUARY 21, 2020

On the contrary, salaried employees may lose their jobs on short notice due to business transformation, cost-cutting or adverse market conditions having a negative impact on the company they work for. Lots of skilled freelancers offer their services online and attract the interest of companies in the US, UK and Europe.

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