www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2020

Should they focus on increasing revenues and profitability, or entice more and more users with “free” services, to increase their valuation. Startup productivity is embodied in key ratios, including low cost of customer acquisition, high retention, and high revenue per employee. Traditionally, it was simple.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

When you see startups like SpaceX and Pinterest grow from a low valuation to a billion dollars in just a few years, it’s easy to assume that if you just keep doing what you are doing, you can get there as well. Working with the media is required, both social as well as the press, through public relations and internal channels.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 9, 2016

For a young entrepreneur, the mergers and acquisitions process can be exciting and potentially lucrative but it can also be the source of considerable stress. Here are four areas to look at in your assessment that can help you to determine if a particular advisor is right for your deal: Valuations Expertise. Fee Transparency.

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Transformify

MARCH 4, 2020

Unlike Zatarra, FT is a reputable media and this time the analysts started asking themselves if there might be something they have missed. From an investor’s point of view, the acquisition of Hermes iTickets in 2015 is a clear red flag. billion valuation. Although the valuation of $5.5

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Also during this time, the underlying metrics in that business can change positively, potentially trapping companies to accept the initially-agreed upon valuation. Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. by a mile, continued to soar in volume and valuation.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

As a testament to the growing power of “the creator economy,” visual content creation app development startup Lightricks has secured an impressive $130 million investment round, at a valuation of $1.8 To begin, we are planning between three to five acquisitions, each with a budget of tens of millions of dollars.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I think everybody heard about this acquisition. billion valuation. They only recently raised $30 million at around a $300 million valuation and THAT raised eyebrows. On the founder’s side it’s about taking money off of the table and / or having strategic reserves for big acquisitions. M&A Discussion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

In today’s world of information overload, everyone relies on marketing and social media to find solutions to match their needs. Patents can raise startup valuation by investors by as much as a million dollars, and will attract acquisitions rather than copycats. Marketing is a necessary evil to mask poor technology.

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Up and Running

MAY 17, 2017

The sad reality is that many business acquisitions do not work out as hoped. To make your business ripe for acquisition, make your business appealing to potential buyers. To break this down, think about every acquisition or purchase you make in daily life. With business acquisitions, the primary focus of the ROI is money.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

A sponsorship strategy should cover five areas: Assets Audience data Asset valuation Activations Market identification. Therefore, it’s important to dig deeper to provide information on: How your audience interacts with your brand (social media, newsletters, podcasts, YouTube videos, etc.) Asset valuation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Since 2015, her company, Barney, has guided over 150 media, marketing & tech companies through acquisitions. 10:25] Are you seeing anybody selling parts of their companies rather than an entire acquisition? [11:19] All those things go into, you know, setting what that, that valuation is outside of just the financials.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

the people who buy companies) in Q2 of this year of technology & media companies. Pure Digital to Cisco) but that even the 2nd largest will get much lover valuations. Strategic investors are looking to consolidate their positions : The top 6 buyers in tech & media account for 27% of all purchases.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

Jobseekers, therefore, need help cleaning up their social media profiles so that objectionable material does not find its way to these background check scenarios, disrupting their chances of getting hired. The discussion today was around Social Media financing and go-to-market strategy.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

The sales productivity ratio (measured with the Customer Acquisition Cost or CAC ratio) are also fairly similar for the two groups (except for a small cap dip in Q4 09) and therefore do not explain the difference Why is scale so much rewarded by public markets? Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). My Investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

Did raising money at a $500 million valuation help secure the $1 billion deal? “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.”

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. Valuation caps can come into play in settings other than seed-stage convertible note financing rounds. These options were granted shortly after MySpace, Inc.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 29, 2014

Listen with an open mind to employees, suppliers, customers, the media and members of the community. What is being said about the company in public, on social media and in the hallways of the business? Ask what the firm’s specialties are (tax, audit, business valuation, etc.). Look for common employee behaviors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2019

With the real data from that surge, you need to take a hard look at business model realities, cost of customer acquisition, inventory costs, and other key metrics. Even huge valuation increases will evaporate overnight when profitability is nowhere in sight, and you run out of money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

Is your customer-acquisition rate accelerating? If the ongoing acquisition rate is slow, and not trending upward, it may be time for a pivot or a reality check for your targets. Is customer acquisition cost going down? Are you reviewed positively by online media and industry analysts? Margins should be increasing.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 5, 2019

Are you fresh out of Y Combinator with $1 million in funding at a $10 million valuation? These stories get posted and shared to generate the social media love a lonely entrepreneur craves. But flattering media attention too easily shifts focus away from the metrics that matter. They’re ripe for acquisition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2016

Should they focus on increasing revenues and profitability, or entice more and more users with “free” services, to increase their valuation. It’s only been in the last ten years that social media companies, like Facebook and Twitter, have achieved market valuations in billions of dollars, while clearly sacrificing revenue to gain users.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 15, 2015

For those in the bubble camp, Domo is “ Tech Unicorn ,” a recent start-up worth, either through a financing, an acquisition or IPO, more than $1 billion usually without any meaningful profits to speak of and thus instead valued via reasonings and justifications far outside of the pale of traditional finance and accounting.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

The value ascribed by subsequent investors (in a secondary); buyers (acquisition); or the public markets (IPO). Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. Yes, typically preferred equity. 15-20% sold per round. Volatile, uncapped. Flexible VC: Revenue -based.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2014

Should they focus on increasing revenues and profitability, or entice more and more users with free services to increase their valuation. Startup productivity is embodied in key ratios, including low cost of customer acquisition, high retention and high revenue per employee. Traditionally, it was simple.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 30, 2019

A new kind of company, built to leverage new technologies, new media channels, new working practices and new consumer markets, Crowdify is agile, adaptive, responsive and forward thinking — but also grounded and focused on product and brand strategy and return on marketing investment.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Examples include – Roam Research – the note taking app that recently raised a seed round at $200M valuation Superhuman – the email productivity tool Masterclass – video classes from subject matter experts. That’s how Slack got started.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2011

billion acquisition by Google. In the official press release Bob Nye, Vice President at JMI Equity, said: “DoubleVerify created the online media verification category, and has successfully grown to become the leader in that category. billion acquisition by Google. To date, DoubleVerify has raised $16.5

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Private Equity Valuation Equity Acquisition 87

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Today’s guest on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is business broker, owner of Peterson Acquisitions , and fellow Kansas City resident Chad Peterson. Key takeaways from the episode and more about Chad Peterson: Learn more about Chad Peterson and Peterson Acquisitions. Marketing Podcast with Chad Peterson. Podcast Transcript.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

Welcome to the latest passionate debate over the ‘valuation bubble or not?’ This time, the debate centers on the “favored few” Social Media venture backed companies that have brought tremendous windfalls to a select group of venture funds and management teams, both pre- and post-IPO. question in venture capital. It is intentional.

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Agile VC

MAY 21, 2012

On the consumer facing side, the number of companies doing multiple acquisitions of $100M+ was extremely short… Google, eBay/PayPal, Amazon, and Microsoft are at the top of the list. <$100M) acquisitions for several years now, but they’ve mainly been acquihires. IAC and Yahoo! Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 18, 2018

As technology takes on a bigger role in businesses of all types, tech acquisitions become both short- and long-term investments. That means the next year or two will likely bring some blockbuster mergers and acquisitions as companies determine how they can mesh their services and products with others’.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

While poised with a limited number of transactions this year, the world of public Cloud Computing and SaaS companies has been marked by two events in the past few months: the acquisition of Omniture by Adobe and the high profile IPO of LogMeIn, a leading provider of PC remote access and support with a very interesting freemium model.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2018

by Walker Deibel , Managing Director of Centra and author of “ Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game “ If I asked you to name a business success story, what would you think of? Lately, we’ve seen startups able to reach a billion-dollar valuation, so-called “unicorn” companies, in the limelight.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2016

Build outside relationships with media and analysts. It’s never too early to build relationships with industry analysts, influential bloggers and the media, and show how these have grown over time. Traction is the measure of how many of these have been validated, and their projection to your business valuation.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

The SaaS growth recovery does not seem to take a "V" shape 2) Sales productivity is ramping up: bottom was hit in the first half of 2009 However, the sales and productivity of the group, measured by the median "Customer Acquisition Cost ratio" or "CAC ratio", seems to be recovering more steeply. SaaS 13 Index Valuation. My Investments.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Last spring, Dave Graham , founder of software consulting firm Arizona Bay, learned that a major client, Jumpstart Automotive Media, had been acquired for more than $80 million. In the past few years, hundreds of small companies have been snatched up by private equity firms willing to agree to ever-rising valuations.

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