Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Typically in M&A, all-cash offers are more common when the acquirer dwarfs the target in terms of market cap; otherwise, M&A usually involves stock in the mix, which leads us to believe Cylance wouldn’t have accepted anything but cash — which makes sense given the company was reportedly booking $130M/year with 3,500 customers.

Acquisition 62

Acquisition Artificial Inteligence Balance Sheet Cofounder 62

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). link] leehower.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

We are also one of the stickiest sites on the internet. Our revenues have increased every quarter for the past two years. A position where that will call on strategic and tactical execution, this person will design and execute a broad range of campaigns to facilitate customer acquisition.

San Francisco 92

San Francisco CTO Hire Developer EC2 92

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Internet and Online Business. Why Arizona Bay started taking stock from its customers instead of cash. Even with the turmoil in the capital markets in the second half of 2007, it was another record year for merger and acquisition activity. Leadership. Strategy and Planning. Human Resources (HR). Employee Benefits. Advertising.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

He says that you should never consider a public offering unless you are confident that the company will deliver increasing profits and revenue after the offering, so that the public buyer can anticipate a gain. Usually a small company can sell about 20 percent of its stock in an IPO. Do you need the IPO for your acquisitions strategy?

IPO 223

IPO Social Media Media Exit Strategy 223

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

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. internet. (6). How the use of internet is transform.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review IPO Cloud 48

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. But for as successful as their acquisition strategies were, they found that it was too easy for customers to cancel & they were losing ?

Retention 115

Retention Customer Developer Programming 115

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. But for as successful as their acquisition strategies were, they found that it was too easy for customers to cancel & they were losing ?

Retention 112

Retention Developer Customer Programming 112

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. But for as successful as their acquisition strategies were, they found that it was too easy for customers to cancel & they were losing ?

Retention 105

Retention Customer Developer Programming 105

Up and Running

JULY 6, 2021

Research published by Statista in March 2021 showed revenue from eCommerce in the United States reached $431.6 It’s a business type that minimizes risk and allows you to operate a business remotely without needing to manage stock. billion in 2020 and is expected to reach $563.4 billion by 2025. . Work remotely. Short-term marketing.

eCommerce 163

eCommerce Startup Business Model Demand 163

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. But for as successful as their acquisition strategies were, they found that it was too easy for customers to cancel & they were losing ?

Retention 98

Retention Customer Developer Programming 98

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

— Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. Typically, this caliber of bankers wouldn’t talk to you unless your company had five profitable quarters of increasing revenue.

Founder 252

Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 252

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. increasing dividends or issuing preferred stock). If you add up all the content, software, and services (e.g.

Hungary 168

Hungary Dividend Vertical Preferred Stock 168

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

“it’s smart to use an impending investment valuation to drive a higher acquisition valuation” I would like to amend her statement slightly to read, “it’s smart to use an impending investment valuation to drive an higher acquisition.” You are either bought for stock or for equity.

Valuation 316

Valuation Balance Sheet Dilution Term Sheet 316

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. So first, we were much more sort of with a high growth rate, and we did not even care about how we got the revenue when we got it. And now we are much more careful about revenue quality revenues. The theme of this episode is how to scale unicorns.

Partner 132

Partner Cofounder Retention Acquisition 132

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

How They Make Money : Facebook’s primary revenue stream is of course selling advertising on Facebook.com, which in total accounts for 85% of revenue. The next chunk comes from Facebook’s platform, in essence “taxing” the revenues of app developers like Zynga, which represents 15% of revenue.

IPO 100

IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 18, 2012

2) Facebook will be hungry for growth in its ad business, and since it is running out of internet connected humans to connect to, it will need tools to make more out of each person. 3) It will get much harder for Facebook to recruit talent, since the promise of the pre-IPO stock pop is gone. Bigger acquisitions?

IPO 115

IPO Seed Stage Early Stage Green 115

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 25, 2015

We funded the business with $10 (for ten shares of stock) and my dad personally guaranteed a $20,000 line of credit with his bank. Imagine being an investor and being approached by a business SaaS company that has raised $5 million, has $100k / month of revenue, has been growing at about 5% per month, and is doing a $10 million round.

Finance 70

Finance Bootstrapping Acquisition Revenue 70

BeyondVC

JULY 23, 2007

The Wall Street Journal announced another Nokia mobile internet purchase today of a company called Twango which allows users to share photos, video, and media. What is at stake is a bigger opportunity that will bring Apple, Nokia, RIM and others head-to-head with the large Internet players like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft.

Internet 60

Internet Acquisition Vertical Software 60

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. Read on for a fuller explanation.

Valuation 98

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

It wouldn’t exist were it not for the internet empowering buyers to do their own research and make informed decisions. And they put a lot of stock in them. It’s an issue that costs businesses more than $1 trillion a year, and it’s the number one reason revenues stagnate or decline.

Demand 95

Demand Management B2B Campaign 95

ConversionXL

JULY 10, 2014

In the end, they decided not to highlight their 250,000 customers & decided to stick with stock photos of fake customers to keep with the more standard “professional” feel. Set up an alert using Mention that notifies me of any mentions (positive or negative) they might get across the internet.

Software Review 72

Software Review Lead Generation Design Campaign 72

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

I remember when it was a rare, extraordinary thing for a software/internet startup to even file an S-1. For SaaS or other recurring revenue businesses these figures might be on a bookings basis rather than GAAP revenue, but conceptually they’re similar. Zynga – 8x+ trailing revenue. trailing revenue.

IPO 100

IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

The real truth is, since the "Internet bubble" burst in 2001, initial public offerings have not resumed the vitality levels of the late 1980s, let alone the boom years of the '90s. It refers to this specific, new group of young, low-revenue companies for whom some of the SOX reporting regulations will no longer apply. Discuss.

IPO 121

IPO Startup Florida Seed Capital 121

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

It has become so synonymous with Internet companies that the French have invented a disdainful term including Amazon: “les GAFA,” which they refer to as Google-Apple-Facebook-Amazon to talk about American dominance of the Internet. It is a household name. ” Let’s start with some basics. And they have.

Technical Review 150

Technical Review San Diego Dallas Sacramento 150

Software By Rob

MAY 4, 2009

If you want to stock products yourself (I am vehemently against this), you will need a garage or other large space, thousands of dollars in up-front inventory, and you will spend hours packing boxes and running to the post office…this is not work for a Micropreneur. As a result, margins are tight. at 9:58 am [.] 6 Jannik on 05.06.09

Product 35

Product Software Review RSS Software 35

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. And then came AOL.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

ConversionXL

JUNE 27, 2016

Acquisition isn’t exactly our biggest concern as optimizers, but why not kill two birds with one stone? “product out of stock”, “invalid login”, “invalid coupon”). Or you may find out that people can’t physically purchase from your site using Internet Explorer due to a JavaScript error.

Analytics 72

Analytics Web Technical Review Conversion 72

BeyondVC

AUGUST 2, 2007

In a world of shrinking margins on handset hardware sales, finding every valuable cent per user per ad or selling services for monthyl revenue is incredibly important. Google even envisions a phone service one day that is free of monthly subscription charges and supported entirely through ad revenue, people familiar with the matter say.

Boston 60

Boston Mobile Acquisition Stock 60

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike believed that search was an essential part of the Internet experience, and he guessed that it would evolve towards commercial search. Quigo Lands Overture as Client, Rejects Their Acquisition Offer. Mike believed that any valuable page was going to be monetizable on a cost-per-click basis in relation to every page on the Internet.

Semantic 302

Semantic Acquisition Valuation Angel Investor 302

Gust

MAY 24, 2012

This is nothing new; long favored by family-controlled media empires such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation , among Internet firms alone, Google took a dual-class approach when going public in 2004. Options and warrants, when issued, are also typically exercisable for shares of Common Stock.

IPO 159

IPO Equity Common Stock Stock 159

BeyondVC

APRIL 29, 2006

Microsoft released its third quarter numbers the other day and while revenue growth was strong, the stock got hammered and dropped over 10%. Microsoft plans on investing for the long term and putting another $2b into the Internet and other new technologies like the XBox. That only means good news for VCs and entrepreneurs.

Acquisition 60

Acquisition Internet Software Stock 60

Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

I always admired his perspicacity, even if he didn’t like our stock all the time! For purposes of this blog post, I am only focused on companies involving technology, whether software, Internet, health care or energy – which I’ll define as members of the Innovation Economy. 2009 Revenue (mn). Market Value (mn). Genzyme Corp.

IPO 34

IPO Massachusetts New York Silicon Valley 34

ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2014

Customer loyalty expert Fred Reichheld also reports in his book “ The Ultimate Question ” that businesses saw an average of 2x revenue growth by simply increasing their overall brand advocacy by only 12%. If you notice in the examples above, the testimonials are given by directors of growth and customer acquisition.

Software Review 126

Software Review Stock Video Advertising 126

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Hate mail started streaming in from everywhere - including emails directly to Bill Gates who would forward them on to the team with messages like "this is depressing MSFT's stock price. To be specific, AdWords is currently 16 years old, and last year alone it generated well over $50B in revenue. BBC MOBILE – Alex Pressland.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Company did recover, their stock is doing fine. It also has massively delicious implications in your data, acquisition and retention strategies (ignoring the sweet, heavenly, implications on your customers). Revenue Per Human. But, you want people to obsess about Revenue and not Cost. Humans are pavlovian. Or… PPH.

Metrics 60

Metrics Analytics Acquisition Naming 60