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MARCH 1, 2007

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MARCH 20, 2007

He tells us: If you’re starting a new internet company, its important to know who your audience is, and to make sure that you don’t let your own experience and that of other Time Poor people guide you wrong. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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MARCH 12, 2007

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FEBRUARY 28, 2007

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

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MARCH 5, 2007

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

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FEBRUARY 27, 2007

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

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FEBRUARY 20, 2007

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FEBRUARY 23, 2007

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Third-party cookies are the new Flash. Decisions that affect Chrome—with a nearly two-thirds market share —are decisions that affect the Internet, especially paid advertising. Decisions that affect Chrome—with a nearly two-thirds market share —are decisions that affect the Internet, especially paid advertising.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2022

Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less. This is the end game for an industry, and many companies, characterized by mergers and acquisitions to a few dominant players. Consolidation.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

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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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Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2018

Using SEO best practices is like putting a bright, flashing neon sign on your storefront. If they’re like most people today, they turn to Google and start to browse the internet for shoelaces. Customer acquisition cost (CAC): Tow much it costs to acquire a new customer. So, how do you become more visible online? That’s great!

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 18, 2012

As a firm, we focus our investments around key concepts or themes that we think will disrupt markets, create new ones and significantly improve the ways we live and work – themes like Flash Storage , Social Commerce and Big Data. Meanwhile businesses struggle to reach consumers with mounting customer acquisition costs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2019

Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less. This is the end game for an industry, and many companies, characterized by mergers and acquisitions to a few dominant players. Consolidation.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

I had read somewhere that Apple’s cash pile was equivalent to Hungary’s GDP so I tweeted out the suggestion that perhaps an activist shareholder should push an acquisition of Hungary rather than thinking small (e.g. Semi, flash memory company Anobit, and security hardware – Authentec) to be integrated in various iStuff.

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cdixon.org

AUGUST 15, 2012

Phrases like flash sales, social commerce, and subscription commerce have entered the startup lexicon. As Josh Kopelman points out , the list of the top 15 e-commerce companies has barely changed over the past decade, in sharp contrast to the list of overall top internet companies. This can be interpreted in one of two ways.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

I suspect Ryan is keener on building a consumer Internet play, but my business experience says this would do better as an add-on residing on the sites of other retailers. Jeff also described a compelling in-game offer-based customer acquisition model that is proving quite effective for him. Brainscape. Note, I said, validated.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less. This is the end game for an industry, and many companies, characterized by mergers and acquisitions to a few dominant players. Consolidation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less. This is the end game for an industry, and many companies, characterized by mergers and acquisitions to a few dominant players. Consolidation.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Adtech: Less speculative, good teams are easier to identify, monetizeable, many acquisitions. A lot of investors lost their shorts investing in mobile applications 10 years ago because of the dominance of the carriers as well as the limited proliferation of internet connected phones. Hard/expensive to acquire customers at scale.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 25, 2011

Gratuitous use of Flash. It is not Adobe's fault, it is your fault for using Flash for the most pathetic things mankind has known. Remember every time you use flash on your website, a cute puppy dies. Have a balance in your spend between acquisition and website. You deliberately want to stink? Take, bad, shortcuts.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 17, 2013

DirecTV has supported this feature for some time, initially on the Internet via the browser and more recently via their smartphone application. For each and every Internet company out there, mobile is rising as a percentage of all user visits. Likewise Priceline and Expedia rule travel, not some travel company that exited pre-Internet.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Hyper-local, flash marketing platform connecting consumers with local business offers; super majority of offers are restaurant and personal services; competitor to Groupon. It seems like M&A ebbs and flows through periods of rapid acquisition followed by years of divestitures. Segment Three: “VC Deals Funded this Week”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2015

Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less. This is the end game for an industry, and many companies, characterized by mergers and acquisitions to a few dominant players. Consolidation.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Any big changes in your marketing/customer acquisition strategy over the last time period (more money doing Search, less money in Email, elimination Facebook as it does not work, etc., And you also have, perhaps more useful, the industry wide acquisition strategy distribution. Direct Traffic (I get a lot of it!)

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 9, 2013

I know it’s not what it used to be, but news flash – it’s still a million dollars! They told me that we had a chance to build the next great Internet company. Make sure the acquisition is still on target. How can you wake up every day and process that decision. Five million? Upside scenarios. I would self talk.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

From Deadpool to Acquisition: Lessons From Sprouter’s Almost Fail – [link]. Not encouraging…teens have trouble communicating without the Internet – [link]. Steve’s Last Laugh: Adobe Killing Off Flash For Mobile Devices – [link]. Zynga Leans On Some Workers to Surrender Pre-IPO Shares – [link].

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VC Cafe

MARCH 28, 2011

We rarely hear of such a large round amongst Internet startups in Israel, which is why Wix’s founding round is particularly interesting. Wix , the Israel-based flash website platform, has announced a D round of $40 million. Wix, the Israel-based flash website platform, has announced a D round of $40 million.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

If you want to do churn analysis, as defined above, then you don't want GA as much as you want your back-end ERP / "Orders" database that has your customer history, and just a couple of acquisition signals (campaign and source come to mind). There very well could be hundreds of companies that have done this and are thriving.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Use my Acquisition, Behavior and Outcomes framework to ensure an end-to-end view of important activity and 2. Acquisition: Clicks? Cost Per Acquisition. Cost Per Acquisition. But because you are running a bigger and more complex business you'll also measure… Acquisition: CPA. But not to worry.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 1, 2010

Internet Marketing. You'll experience missing calls to action, rambling text, and waterboarding through Adobe Flash. Trust me nothing hurts like that raw view of massive failure of your online marketing on the single best acquisition channel on the web today. Solutions. __. CMA President's Dinner Keynote. Good evening.

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