Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

Patents and the threat of patent infringement lawsuits provide maximum leverage against a competitor when they’re in the middle of a strategic inflection point… a major financing, acquisition, or large product launch. property over the years, but certainly frequented not just search but also News, Yahoo! Mail, Sports, etc.

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Agile VC

AUGUST 22, 2011

Salesforce is trying to create a platform both through internal efforts on Force.com and acquisitions (e.g. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC Syndicate 10 July 2012, 5:13 pm What A VC Orders for Breakfast Says 27 June 2012, 10:16 am To Leave or Not to Leave as Your Startup Grows 12 June 2012, 12:21 pm. Google of course has Android.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

My partners and I wanted to peel back the curtain slightly for those of you who’ve been following our progress, and also acknowledge the help and support numerous folks have provided as we got this new VC firm off the ground. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

IMO Bessemer is perhaps the most emblematic firm of thematic investing… all the investment professionals in the firm from senior partners to more junior staff team up in small groups to construct “ roadmaps ” of the themes in which they intend to pursue investments, which are then articulated more broadly within the firm.

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Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Syndicate 124

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

. • Manage a marketing budget that will drive the most qualified leads through paid programs such as content syndication, pay-per-click, and events. Closely partner with other marketing team members and the sales organization.”. Measure, analyze, and report on campaign performance and provide strategic direction based on analysis.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

My partner Rob also wondered if Facebook is the next Yahoo! , These companies report gross ad revenue but then subtract out “TAC” (Traffic Acquisition Costs) which is basically accounting-speak for the revenue share they pay to the partner sites where the ads actually appear. or the next Google. link] leehower.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 21, 2010

Interestingly enough, I thought more people started taking part in the conversation who weren’t on Hot Potato because they now knew their thoughts were being syndicated to an app where more people were talking about the event. This is something that founders should pay a lot of attention to when choosing a partner.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. 1) Manage the firm

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

And finally margins matter… a $50-100M software company can go public given it’s 80-90% gross margins, an e-commerce company with 20-30% gross margins and high customer acquisition costs needs to be much bigger (probably 5-10x at least). My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. Previous Entries.

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IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

From Microsoft she went on to Netscape, where she was responsible for marketing of the Netscape Browser, and then LoudCloud, and now I’m happy to say she’s been my partner at SVPG for over a decade, and she also teaches marketing at UC Berkeley. Some were just plain uncomfortable with advertising.

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Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Agile VC

JUNE 25, 2012

CRM) but it’s rarely easy to browse or search all of this contact information from a single interface. And in it’s raw format, just searching for a contact may not provide much value. His co-founder/CMO Alex Cote has run customer acquisition programs that have attracted millions of users via a range of channels.

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Cofounder Stealth Silicon Valley Mobile 140

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Attenti’s two principal investors, Francisco Partners and the Israeli branch of the U.S. Attenti was initially founded as a software venture in 1990 by three ex-air force pilots, but after three years the partners decided that a change of business model was in order, and moved to hardware. Diversified U.S. in August 2010.

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Agile VC

AUGUST 12, 2011

3) Repeatable, cost effective customer acquisition – Nothing whets a Series A investor’s appetite like a startup that’s shown $1 of incremental marketing spend will yield $2-3 of gross margin. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. What’s Your Favorite Future? Previous Entries.

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Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Acquisition 113

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

Also all the big anchor companies that a startup might want to partner with at that time (eBay, Google, Oracle, Yahoo!, Here in Boston both Microsoft and Google have made significant expansions in recent years in Cambridge, and PayPal/eBay is poised to do the same in downtown Boston through acquisition and organic growth.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Some angel investors join together in syndicates. Its thesame with acquisitions. The fund managers, who are called"general partners," get about 2% of the fund annually as a managementfee, plus about 20% of the funds gains. Not all the people who work at VC firms are partners. In Boston thebiggest is the CommonAngels.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

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. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

The search giant’s VP of Corporate Development, along with CEO Larry Page, signs off on the dozens of acquisitions and acqui-hires made every year, large and small. The 10 Most Expensive Google Acquisitions. Google integrated Admeld with its additional DoubleClick and Invite Media acquisitions. ITA Software.

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San Francisco Acquisition Social Media Mobile 104

Transformify

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Although the concept to build a hiring tool around popular G Suite solutions like Gmail, calendar, Docs, Hangouts, Search seemed to be a viable business model, it appears that it was not enough to compete and sustain. Are the job listings syndicated with external job boards? Total cost per month= USD 3500.

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Hiring Syndicate Syndication Social Media 95

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. DataSift is one of only two companies today that has the rights to re-syndicate the way it does. Or how about Google?

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