ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Paywalls, by default, are a barrier to organic acquisition—they stop some users from accessing some content. At the same time, organic traffic, for many news sites, isn’t the primary acquisition source, in part because most news-related queries are new and never searched before. Metering vs. lead-in. Metering. “As

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% return cap.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

CEO Scott Thompson alluded to their plan a couple weeks ago but the IP lawsuit itself was only official late afternoon yesterday (and now public). ’s claims of IP infringement or offer a litigator’s perspective of Yahoo! Thompson reportedly dealt with this IP lawsuit personally along with Yahoo!’s link] Harry.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 6, 2021

Waze is the $1 billion-plus acquisition that people, well, forgot about despite its size and growth. You should read it all but let me share a specific paragraph here: I took the acquisition as a personal challenge. We made acquisitions. As Bardin says , “I am confident that the Waze acquisition was a success.

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China Chad Acquisition Cofounder 135

K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

On future occasions, whenever I expressed an interest to invest, the founders came back and told me that they had an acquisition offer on the table! Starting from the overburdened PTO that issues these software patents all the way to the complexity of IP litigation which makes it prohibitively expensive to defend against unwarranted lawsuits.

Software Review 134

Software Review Technical Review IP Finance 134

Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. companies, more sensitivity around technology IP and security. That will take a long time to settle. In the meantime, we have what we have today. 3/ Crypto Hibernation.

Technical Review 165

Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2017

John Imlay of MSA occasionally took me on road shows with analysts to talk about his new acquisition Peachtree Software. Two of them made some major product directional changes based on the founder’s judgment and the feedback he was getting from partners and customers. I got the message.

Silicon Valley 48

Silicon Valley Atlanta Software Review Early Stage 48

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Team – higher requirements for caliber of team members Product – focus on truly differentiated and not me-too Market – is it really big enough to provide investor returns** Traction – need more users, partners, patents, etc Timing – are you building for yesterday or 2 yrs from now? Business - how are you actually going to make money?

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Business Model SEM IP Syndicate 150

Up and Running

JANUARY 5, 2018

acquisition of Jet.com in August 2016 transformed the company beyond the addition of the Jet platform. Jet.com founder Marc Lore ascended to CEO of Walmart’s US e-commerce operations, and since joining has taken the company on an e-commerce/apparel acquisition spree. POTENTIAL ACQUISITION TARGETS. Walmart’s $3.3B

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Acquisition Hawaii Partner Non-Compete 94

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

These corporate VC activities go hand in hand with other strategies of large companies including internal R&D, IP licensing, M&A, etc. . The round was heavily oversubscribed so the founders could choose their investment partners, but the founders decided to include NVIDIA a strategic investor.

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Strategic Investors Post-Money Valuation Seed Stage Cofounder 120

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 12, 2018

This kind of trust is an intellectual weighing of the evidence out of which a buyer makes an informed judgement, predicting a partner’s future behavior. When clients hear and feel this in their consulting and professional services partners, they are reassured that the firm they are hiring will act in the clients’ interests.

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Virginia Dallas Merger DC 157

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Jonathan is a speaker and advisor managing director of Resilient Growth Partners and a board member at Frost & Sullivan. He's a speaker and advisor managing director of resilient growth partners and a board at frost and Sullivan. That the life of the, in which you can monetize, uh, a new piece of IP shrinking.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Networking United States Artificial Inteligence 62

David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Kevin Barhydt, Head of Acquisitions, RPX. Kevin Barhydt, Head of Acquisitions, RPX. Prior to joining RPX, Kevin Barhydt was the Vice President of Acquisitions at Intellectual Ventures (IV) where he oversaw the completion of hundreds of patent acquisitions and launched key strategic initiatives to advance the Acquisitions program.

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Naming Government Intellectual Property LLC 122

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

If you own the IP on a particular technology or information product, then you can create licensing agreements for other businesses to sell your product for you. 3 Mergers, Partnerships and Acquisitions. 2 License Your Product. Using licensees is an excellent way to boost your revenue without the need to hire and external sales force.

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LBO Merger Social Media Startup 65

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Along with Greycroft Partners we were the first investors in Maker Studios 3 years ago when the company had no revenue and limited infrastructure. It is the world’s best customer acquisition for video consumers to get them to come to your O&O where you can make your $25 CPMs. Except for 2 things: 1.

Networking 366

Networking Media Distribution Video 366

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 19, 2017

This kind of trust is an intellectual weighing of the evidence out of which a buyer makes an informed judgement, predicting a partner’s future behavior. When clients hear and feel this in their consulting and professional services partners, they are reassured that the firm they are hiring will act in the clients’ interests.

Virginia 113

Virginia Dallas Merger DC 113

Scott Edward Walker

DECEMBER 13, 2018

An acquihire is essentially the acquisition of a startup for its talent/team (rather than for its products or services). The deal is typically structured as an asset purchase (as opposed to a stock purchase or merger) — though the acquirer often does not actually want the startup’s IP and/or other assets. What is an Acquihire?

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Founder Merger IP Liquidation Preference 45

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

The main B2C benchmarks have to do with traction: growth in user acquisition, user retention/churn, monetisation, as well as the effectiveness of consumer marketing + virality. Example of Baremetrics revenue per user benchmarks. Consumer apps and services. 500 Startups created a helpful primer on key B2C metrics.

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B2C Technical Review Startup Retention 141

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Students will start by mapping their assumptions (their business model) and then each week test these hypotheses with customers and partners outside in the field (customer development) and use an iterative and incremental development methodology (agile development) to build the product. Action : What partners will you need?

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Wiki Lean Management Business Model 311

Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

And when we do make bets, they’re small bets on incremental products or acquisitions that simply add to the bottom line.”. So we end up in “paralysis by analysis” – moving slowly to ensure we don’t make mistakes and that everyone signs off on every idea (so we can spread the collective blame if it fails). and how to price the product.

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Widget Lean Business Model Metrics 120

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

It’s nice to have protected IP, but that will mostly matter later on in the event of an acquisition. I’ve written a post about the need to “Always be closing&# whether it is fundraising, employee/partner recruitment and new customer sales.

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Elevator Pitch Incubator Technical Review Startup 102

Venture Chronicles

AUGUST 15, 2011

I’m with Larry… this is about IP and what Google is doing is acquiring a massive IP war chest that they can use as currency for access to other people’s IP as well as protect their hardware partners with.

Mobile 36

Mobile IP Acquisition Channel 36

Up and Running

JULY 25, 2016

Even from the outset, Pied Piper had problems related to IP, with the founder having to beg a local irrigation company for the rights to the company name. Given that Pied Piper is both a startup and a tech company, the frequency with which IP comes up isn’t surprising—over 90 percent of a startup’s value is in its intangible assets.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Non-disclosure Agreement Intellectual Property NDA 60

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

For 90% of companies , the top goal for ABM is new business generation— new clients, new contracts, new logo acquisition, etc. For example, if one new acquisition is worth $10K, a pilot win could be 20 new acquisitions for $200K. In the long term, you might move from being a vendor for the account into a partner and advisor.

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Customer Marketing Channel Acquisition 98

ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2020

useful The mail server confirms that you are who you say you are by checking that the IP address you’re sending from is registered to your domain. This is calculated based on how trustworthy your emails are to subscribers and a number of factors, including whether your IP has been blacklisted or reported as spam. Domain Keys (DKIM).

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Email IP Reputation Campaign 121

Ben's Blog

MAY 10, 2011

Shortly after we started Andreessen Horowitz in mid-2009, we, along with our partners at Silver Lake Partners and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, bought majority ownership of Skype from eBay for slightly more than $2B. Skype’s founders, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, held an IP claim against Skype.

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IP Intellectual Property Canada Angel Investor 78

Venture Chronicles

APRIL 20, 2014

When you combine inbound marketing with account-based scoring, you get a very potent combination of predictable opportunity funnel that also benefits from lower customer acquisition costs. We know from this data that there are tipping points that occur in the opportunity (account) scoring that should and do cause additional sales activity.

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B2B Marketing SEM Bandwidth 45

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

At the beginning this was weird for me as at least in Eastern Europe to meet a VC partner you need to know a guy who knows a girl who met the person that can make the connection. And here I hear about writing them a message on LinkedIn and some of them will respond.

Austin 48

Austin Founder Silicon Valley Texas 48

The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Jenny Lee, a partner at venture capital firm GGV Capital which has a presence in both the US and China, also observes that in the US, the willingness to pay for an app is pretty high — especially for a utility tool, which is what CooTek’s TouchPal X Keyboard essentially is. billion acquisition of app store 91 Wireless is a classic example.

China 122

China Developer Intellectual Property Mobile 122

Venture Chronicles

AUGUST 19, 2011

Watch for two main arguments being presented, the first by the tech pundit community and the second by HP itself in an effort to salvage whatever dignity remains after spending a lot of money on an acquisition that many people, including myself, said makes sense but then completely failing on the follow through. That’s the strategy?

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IP Valuation Acquisition Community 53

Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

25 questions that DTC entrepreneurs should ask themselves before scaling customer acquisition So you run a direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand. You just spent a few thousand dollars on advertising and your paid customer acquisition cost (CAC) numbers tested well relative to your best guess for customer lifetime value (LTV).

Technical Review 49

Technical Review Software Review China Acquisition 49

infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Basing a consultant’s compensation on the incremental revenue they generate is a great example of a deal that is on The Fringe (for other creative approaches to partnering, see Agreements on The Fringe). IP) is an ugly thing at a startup. Performance-based deals are healthy for all parties. Get A Company on The Fringe.

Equity 40

Equity Silicon Valley Cofounder Technical Review 40

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Everyone has their own definition of momentum (user numbers, revenue, channel partners, biz dev deals, whatever). So NEVER talk about early exits, quick flips, tuck-in acquisitions, previous interest shown by acquirers, etc., What about Product / IP? But almost all VCs care about investing in big markets with ambitious teams.

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Early Stage Startup Venture Capital Seed Stage 360

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2022

With little to show for its investments and acquisitions thus far, it is increasingly less likely that the online retailer will front the cash necessary to catch up to legacy platforms like Microsoft and Sony. Amazon is having an equally bad time with cloud gaming. Joost Van Dreunen. But Arcade hasn’t been a runaway success.

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Cloud Bandwidth IP Global 198

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta.

Artificial Inteligence 122

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Startups are developing IP relevant to the disruption. Acquiring a growth-stage private startup can provide a faster ROI at lower risk than the acquisition of an early- stage startup. (We’ll cover “ corporate moonshots ” in a subsequent post.). W hat would be the charter for our Innovation Outpost?

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Acquisition Boston Early Stage 120

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Sure, we kept bits of information private like our negotiations with future partners or plans for the next version, but it really didnt matter that much. flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. Now I work in the defense industry. It was yet another Web 2.0

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Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41