Cracking the Code

JULY 5, 2016

Among them was a small company of two people in Italy called PostoInAuto (at the time, BlaBlaCar had only launched in France and Spain). Being acqui-hired can be seen as a ‘fundraising++’ because the local team receives money to expand faster (like any fundraising) and a robust and proven product and tech platform.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

and SEO as two of the most effective and affordable customer acquisition strategies. and an affiliate program would also help with customer acquisition. As we peeled the onion, I felt the merchandising strategy is really weak, and the products are relatively undifferentiated. Guerrilla p.r. AskHerFriends.com. Magne Consulting.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

How did you end up heading to Silicon Valley from France to join a startup? BlaBlaCar started in France and became a local phenomenon. Very few startups say they’re building products for California or the US. With competitors in the US often 10 times bigger, they’d become an acquisition target. It becomes too complicated.

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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. The average deal size in 2009 was $40 million, an increase of 21 percent from $33 million in 2008.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Francois Hollande, President of France, led a delegation this week of 260 senior French executives and government officials to Israel for the 2 nd annual France-Israel Innovation Day. Also the subject of rumors this week of an impending acquisition by Apple for $345 million.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

On July 17, Ultimate Software, a $10B HR software gorilla, announced the acquisition of Peopledoc for $300m - the largest software exit in France since the acquisition of Neolane by Adobe in 2013. Sometimes companies get to the point of acquisition in a straight line; most of the time, however, they don’t.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 20, 2021

Over the following 463 days, the US, the UK, and France flew 277,000 flights with 300 aircraft to deliver the supplies required to support 2.2 You are creating something from nothing, a product, a company, a dream. Yes, speed can be an advantage in quickly developing a winning product and beating the competition.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

By Peter Fader, author of “ Wharton Executive Education Customer Centricity Essentials: What It Is, What It Isn’t, and Why It Matters “ I often use the metaphor of fishing as a way to explain new customer acquisition. Increasing the frequency/volume of purchases of current products. ” So how does it work?

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VC Cafe

MARCH 2, 2017

That race for talent, is catalysing acquisitions by corporates interested in adding AI to their products and services. France ranks #2 in Europe with 180 startups and counting. As an example, Ex-Googler Sebastian Thurn estimated that the going rate for self-driving engineering talent is $10 million per person.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

“Carriers are moving rapidly to IP-based mobile backhaul, and Wintegra’s product offering is uniquely positioned to enable this packet transition and breakthrough the bandwidth bottlenecks faced in mobile networks,&# said Greg Lang, president and chief executive officer of PMC-Sierra. is acquiring iSkoot Technologies Inc.,

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

Its the same with acquisitions. If an investor knows you have other investors lined up, hell be a lot more eager to close-- and not just because hell worry about losing the deal, but because if other investors are interested, you must be worth investing in. The key to closing deals is never to stop pursuing alternatives.

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VC Cafe

JULY 2, 2012

This month’s trend continues to be acquisitions of Israeli firms by large US corporates. Facebook’s acquisition of Face.com will enable the social network to embed face recognition software into its photo app. This is Facebook’s second acquisition in Israel, following the acquisition of Snaptu for $70m in March 2011.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Build a truly mainstream product. Build the product in stealth mode to build buzz for the eventual launch. The whole company and board play-tested the product to see its new features first hand. Everyone had fun; the product worked. This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

A growing startup with a well-run product team will have a history of steady progress. In a subscription business, maybe your attrition starts matching your acquisition, balancing like magic. Or your cost of customer acquisition just magically floats up to match your customer lifetime value. How do you plan for it?

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techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

I meet people all the time who have no technical background whatsoever, and they want to start an online business, perhaps build a mobile app, or launch a SaaS product. If you still don’t know what product/market fit is, and why it matters, please read up on it. Three major acquisitions in as many months in this space confirm it is).

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 2, 2015

electronics retail giant has been gradually losing ground in spite of reduced competition and guaranteed lowest prices on high-quality products and services. In today’s open market, with worldwide economic reforms and the digital revolution, customers not only have the ability to connect to infinite product offerings but also to each other.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

These decisions are critical to the success of any high-engagement product, and they take place entirely inside the minds of customers. Its the ultimate high-engagement product. Your product has become part of a customers daily ritual, like Facebook has for a lot of people. Why, we just unified acquisition and engagement!

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

A great product enables customers, developers, partners, and even competitors to exchange their unique currencies in combinations that lead to financial success for the company that organizes them. Let’s look at some examples: In a traditional business, customers pay money for a physical artifact (a product) or a service.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

This may sound crazy, coming as it does from an advocate of c harging customers for your product from day one. Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. In fact, this company hasn’t shipped any new products in months. What’s going on?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

One of my jobs in the past was consulting measures and acquisitions. And you need to look at the data very critically, because the other side of the merger or acquisition is actually trying to frame all the information in a way that is beneficial to that side and against your side. Obviously, I release products at my job.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 31, 2011

Israeli startup acquisitions. A bit old but still very relevant – Questions asked about Groupon’s acquisition of Israel’s Grouper for an estimated $8 to $15 million. Iway founder and Chief Executive Danny Knafou said the first countries to offer the product would likely be France, Russia and China.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Here’s how I advise startups to approach expansion: Nail your MVP (Minimum Viable Product) first. Field test your product with a meaningful amount of customers — typically a few thousands or tens of thousands. Field test your product with a meaningful amount of customers — typically a few thousands or tens of thousands.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2016

You put tons of time into creating your product(s), experimenting with acquisition channels, honing your messaging – and here I am, about to tell you about how consumers are often swayed by such a subtle thing as the order in which you present your products. It’s a funny thing, human behavior. Pricing primacy.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

You’re basically tinkering with everything at this stage – product, marketing, sales, partnerships, etc. Which is a more compelling argument: “give us money to figure out our product and finish our discovery mode” or “train’s leaving the station – are you on board?”. The next considerations are ‘under the hood.’. Your company will die.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Take a look at The App Store after the gold rush - FierceDeveloper : According to a recent BusinessWeek feature , the flood of new games, productivity tools and related iPhone software is making it difficult for the vast majority of apps to crack the consumer consciousness. The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. And yet, we so often loose sight of the fact that startups are not their products, their technological breakthroughs, or even their data. Let’s take each of these pieces in turn.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 16, 2008 Engagement loops: beyond viral Theres a great and growing corpus of writing about viral loops, the step-by-step optimizations you can use to encourage maximum growth of online products by having customers invite each other to join. And what causes them to choose one product over another?

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You created what appears to be a cool product, but without a revenue model, you don’t really have a bootstrap. Oh, my company has grown a bit too much i guess Reply – Quote Steph says: 21 June, 2010 at 19:56 Hi, I hate to ask, but where is the revenue model? From what I can see, you have half a bootstrap.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

Mikhail is now the Associate Director of Product at Merchantry, an e-commerce merchant network, after being introduced to the co-founders by someone he met while at ClickFacts. But even with this acquisition, Loopt remains ahead of the curve. 3 iPhone Apps for Quick, Fun Music Production. Shareables. Social Media. Latin America.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

A/B Tasty is yet another testing tool designed for the masses, this one hailing from France. ” Other Adobe products offer capabilities for marketing automation and email, media optimization, audience insights creating and delivering experiences across digital and television,and social. Most flexibility of any tool out there.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We built 4 products simultaneously to compete with the perceived need to offer end-to-end solutions like our US counterparts. I stayed up late every night after a day of meetings doing email until 3am so that I didn’t feel out of touch with our product and sales pipelines. At least not externally.

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