Software By Rob

MAY 23, 2010

The site uses a custom Flash UI that allows you to navigate and select clips to include. You ship the VHS tapes to them, and within a few weeks your video is available through an online portal where you can choose which snippets to include on the finished DVDs.

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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. The key equation driving e-commerce is: profit = lifetime customer value minus customer acquisition costs. Very few successful e-commerce companies were started in the 2000s.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2023

08:52] Number 8: Sales funnel. [09:32] HubSpot's AI powered content assistant helps you brainstorm, create, and share content in a flash, and it's all inside a super easy to use c r m now chats spott automates all the manual tasks inside HubSpot to help you arrange more customers close more deals and scale your business faster.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 5, 2016

In a flash, Batman and Robin would dawn their superhero suits and speed off in the Batmobile to take on the enemy, rescue the citizens of Gotham and save the day.On In a flash, Batman and Robin would dawn their superhero suits and speed off in the Batmobile to take on the enemy, rescue the citizens of Gotham and save the day.On

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

For a more elaborate explanation of the deal, please read my blog post 1M/1M: Alternative Financing For Startups Using A Sales Channel Partner. Jeff also described a compelling in-game offer-based customer acquisition model that is proving quite effective for him. Brainscape. The answer to the question is neither. Safarclick.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2023

08:52] Number 8: Sales funnel. [09:32] HubSpot's AI powered content assistant helps you brainstorm, create, and share content in a flash, and it's all inside a super easy to use c r m now chats spott automates all the manual tasks inside HubSpot to help you arrange more customers close more deals and scale your business faster.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

Q lipso, an Israeli startup funded by JVP (see previous VC Cafe post ), has announced the acquisition of the assets of Veoh , a user generated video site, on the virge of its declaration of bankruptcy. Qlipso’s product enables users to simultaneously watch flash-nased contents including video and casual games.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Adtech: Less speculative, good teams are easier to identify, monetizeable, many acquisitions. very low margin, longer sales cycle, few very big exits, hard to differentiate. SMB SaaS: Shorter sales cycle than enterprise, less speculative than consumer. Capital intensive, long sales cycle.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

However, in hindsight, and especially in light of all of the recent acquisitions of the aforementioned, I believe we had a core advantage to really plug into the “second wave” of social, which has the potential to be even more disruptive than the first. Some potential investors told us we were late to the party.

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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? Embrace economic value.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

However, in hindsight, and especially in light of all of the recent acquisitions of the aforementioned, I believe we had a core advantage to really plug into the “second wave” of social, which has the potential to be even more disruptive than the first. Some potential investors told us we were late to the party.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Develop, test, and continually optimize effective direct landing pages that will build your audience, increase sales, and foster awareness in the marketplace and across social media. 500, Forbes Most Promising Companies list, and Entrepreneur Magazine’s Hot 100 or 500 as acquisition prospect lists. Buyers use lists like the Inc.

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BeyondVC

MAY 12, 2006

He made it very clear that the pace of acquisitions has increased, rising from 9 the prior year to 22 this past year. For those who care, the sweet spot for Microsoft is to buy a more engineering and technology focused company versus a sales and marketing oriented one.

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Up and Running

APRIL 5, 2021

The biggest pro, and probably the only one you will care about, is that pop-ups are one of the best lead acquisition tools out there. A 9% conversion rate means that you could get 90 new subscribers or sales for every 1,000 users. More commonly, navigation-oriented pop-ups are used to highlight a new page or item for sale.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Studies show that loss aversion is twice as powerful psychologically as the acquisition of something. ” “Flash Sale! This is typical, for example, with retail sales. If you constantly offer “limited time only” sales, people will catch on and only purchase during sales. Today Only!”

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2014

Search Contribution: Acquisition, Behavior, Outcomes! The problem is they over-indexed in acquisition (the first five metrics), only had one outcome metric, and no behavior metric. Pimpy Flash thingys (remember… every time you use flash on your website, a puppy dies). Always focus on the complete journey!

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

From Deadpool to Acquisition: Lessons From Sprouter’s Almost Fail – [link]. Buy it now, for real: eBay to refer sales to nearby stores – [link]. Steve’s Last Laugh: Adobe Killing Off Flash For Mobile Devices – [link]. Zynga Leans On Some Workers to Surrender Pre-IPO Shares – [link]. – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). Business model: Premium brands offer select goods (often excess inventory) for sale at 40%-70% discounts; consumers need to be invited by existing member or via application to participate in private sales; HauteLook collects percentage of gross sale.

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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2018

When we put the words “small business” and “business pitch” together in one sentence, do you have flashes of the famous reality TV show “Shark Tank?”. Nerdy term: Acquisition cost for new customers (sometimes referred to as CAC, or “customer acquisition cost”). Nerdy term: Sales lifecycle. Nerdy Term: Margin.

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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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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

We got a great reference, so the sales cycle was extremely short, maybe one call and one email. Before I started working for myself,” says Noble, “I understood bits about the financial and tax side of running a business, but flashing forward two years, I know so much more than I did previously.”. Financial acumen.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 25, 2010

In cases where Twitter content is the basis (in whole or in part) of the advertising sale, we require you to compensate us (recoupable against any fees payable to Twitter for data licensing). Prior to this acquisition, Twitter didn’t have its own iPhone application.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Nilaye Thakrar: What is the best way to attribute an offline sale to an online assist? 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).

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

You’re now tied to legacy code and design decisions, and you soon realize this isn’t what you signed up for when you had that brilliant flash of insight that people need web-based help locating their keys. It may wind up for sale on SitePoint , or it may be relegated to the bone yard of failed software products. #21

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

But while it was a little less understood outside the payments world, their acquisition of TxVia theoretically gives them some of the plumbing they’d need to create a store of value or couple a Google mobile payments product to existing financial accounts.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

We got a great reference, so the sales cycle was extremely short, maybe one call and one email. Before I started working for myself,” says Noble, “I understood bits about the financial and tax side of running a business, but flashing forward two years, I know so much more than I did previously.”. Financial acumen.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

The top ten of anything rarely changes (except in rare circumstances like a sale or on a pure content – think news – site). You are confident that if you just retain them beyond one page, engage them beyond your 200 mb flash intro, then you know you'll suck them into your business. The problem? everything!

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 31, 2022

According to Insider Intelligence, online retail sales will reach $7.4 trillion by 2025 , making up around one quarter of all retail sales. Find the best mix between sales and brand-focused ads 5. Capture leads for your sales and marketing teams to nurture? Generate sales directly from the ad? Image source ).

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 1, 2010

You'll experience missing calls to action, rambling text, and waterboarding through Adobe Flash. " Or say: "Fine we improved online conversion rate by two percent, but what was the impact on the sales in our retail stores?" And the company, they will reduce acquisition cost and make more money.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Building a scalable, profitable, customer acquisition engine. When I say viable, I mean something that can generate sales. If you can snap together simple web pages and services to get the core idea working, and make sales from that, you have a MVP. Building and managing a technical team. This was another 7k for me.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 22, 2010

CDI Systems ’ NetIS is the first electronic publishing platform that integrates Digital Rights Management, Web Content Management, information retrieval, SEO and e-commerce tools into a single, seamless platform for the secure delivery and sale of digital content (textual, images, rich media etc’).

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Feedbox is a cellular based console that enables retailers, restaurants and other service providers to gather and analyze crucial customer feedback in real time from multiple points of sale/contact. Flash Networks. Logia has the unique combination of being both a content aggregator and a billing aggregator. Mce Systems.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The breakout categories of 2010 are Local Deals (Groupon, Living Social* etc), and Flash Sales (Gilt, RueLaLa, HauteLook, Ideeli etc), and both are squarely aimed at helping consumers save money. The Flash Sales sites and Local Deals sites both make shopping fun by offering deep discounts. You want shopping to be fun.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

great web customer acquisition tutorials. turn customer feedback into sales and relationships. SaaS Sales Team Compensation â?? Flash Networks. Flash Portal. Startups For Sale. mixpanel vs kissmetric vs google analytics review. Analytics blog â?? good analytics tutorials. SEO for Startups â?? good tutorial.

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