Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

One of the themes that we’ve been most interested in at NextView over the last 12+ months has been the impact of consumer web trends on business software. I’m not the first person to describe this trend, and my prior background has been primarily as a consumer web guy more than in B2B companies.

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Agile VC

MAY 13, 2013

While our portfolio at NextView is roughly equally weighted to consumer facing and B2B companies, it seems that for consumer companies in particular being first mover confers little benefit and the drawbacks probably outweigh whatever weak advantage might exist. We sometimes think of being a fast follower in pejorative terms.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. Customer Acquisition. If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? Those two things together would lower your acquisition costs nearly in half to $6.11. lowering $1.50

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

acquisition. Mr. Fralic was also one of the early employees and VP of Business Development at Half.com starting in 1999, and after the eBay acquisition, spent six years with eBay in a variety of entertainment, business development, and media roles. Christopher Fralic, Managing Partner, First Round Capital. through the Yahoo!

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. What Do VC’s Do? And some companies didn’t even have to go public to get liquid. billion.)

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

As more investors have more touch points with a “Softbank round” in their portfolio, a picture emerges — rounds here often take a long time to close. Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. The fear of them investing in a competitor is real.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. So I started introducing him to portfolio companies. One of his biggest accomplishments there was championing the acquisition of StubHub.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Years later Clavier's name now comes up all the time when one of his portfolio companies finds success; his exits include Mint, Tapulous, and UserPlane, other investments include Mashery (a ReadWriteWeb sponsor), Rapleaf, Fitbit, bitly, GroupOn, Twitter and many more. The next stage is seed funding, and you should raise $500k-$1.5m

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Kumar was the Founder, President and CEO of SneakerLabs, a company which developed software and services for web-based customer interaction. After the acquisition of SneakerLabs, he served as the Vice-President of Interactive Technologies for E.piphany. in Computer Science with a Distinction in Teaching from Stanford University.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2022

For additional growth, most companies expand the product portfolio to cater to more customers, and sell more to existing customers. This is the end game for an industry, and many companies, characterized by mergers and acquisitions to a few dominant players. You need the global outlook, even though digitalization and Web 2.0

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 2, 2018

Not only are they amplifying the data behind why this is a smart business move, but also driving that forward with their portfolio. Workshops included topics of price-setting, customer acquisition and legal considerations when starting a business. The conference was held on a Saturday, and it was packed?—?validation

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 2, 2013

But it turns out Google Analytics, just like SiteCatalyst, WebTrends, and other web analytics tools, already has plenty of pretty valuable deeply insightful stuff in it. But in case you want to win big rather than just win, I encourage to read the six tips outlined in this post: The Biggest Mistake Web Analysts Make… And How To Avoid It!

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Today one of our portfolio companies BigDoor announced the acquisition of San Francisco-based OneTrueFan , a community and web check-in company. When there is a great fit, I love seeing our portfolio companies make acquisitions.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Rick Perreault of my portfolio company Unbounce recently called my attention to an interesting comparison between two SaaS models: Hubspot & Moz – A Tale of Two (Very Different) SaaS Business Models. Its customer acquisition costs are roughly 85 times that of Moz (if Krager’s figures are accurately comparing apples to apples).

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 27, 2011

In that role, he championed the acquisition of a little known company named Weblogic. When Alfred presented the acquisition to BEA’s board of directors, one prominent board member said: “if you think that this company is going to pay $150M for a company with $150K in revenue, you are out of your f&%! That’s what a CEO’s CEO does.

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Our firm has a portfolio of companies across a broad range of markets and the way we look at it is pretty simple – the deals fall into two types: those with customer/market risk and those with invention risk.” The real risk in markets like Web 2.0 Personally, I think that customer acquisition, brand, reputation, etc.,

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

VC’s invested their limited partners’ “risk capital” in a portfolio of startups in exchange for illiquid stock. The size of the red bars (IPO’s) versus blue (mergers and acquisitions) illustrates that while venture-backed startups did get acquired, the IPO market was booming. Software startups are most likely to exit as an acquisition.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 11, 2011

com) that let you find almost any song available on the web in MP3 format. This acquisition also made me think more about how threads and networks cross and connect. I would highly encourage you to check out Diego’s blog post [In]dexTank: LinkedIn Acquires IndexTank , which talks about the company’s acquisition by LinkedIn.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 11, 2011

com) that let you find almost any song available on the web in MP3 format. This acquisition also made me think more about how threads and networks cross and connect. I would highly encourage you to check out Diego’s blog post [In]dexTank: LinkedIn Acquires IndexTank , which talks about the company’s acquisition by LinkedIn.

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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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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

is a conversational Marketing Service that drives quality web traffic to your blog/web content by engaging with relevant people when they have relevant Tweet conversation. The Digital Marketing Intern must have experience with creating digital content for various marketing functions (email, web, adverts, brochures, blogs etc.),

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

How do you balance traffic acquisition with conversion optimization? Web loading concerns. You can usually tell this is the case when your SEO traffic converts well below other acquisition channels. Finally, a lot depends on execution – how you test and optimize your website matters. CRO and SEO: The Perfect Couple?

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 13, 2015

The 80/20 rule applies to our use of web analytics tools as well. You can simply click on either one of the two above and see the valuable-drilldown view… All the standard Acquisition, Behavior and Outcome metrics you are used to can be leveraged to identify valuable segments. This hurts my feelings!

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

When we create new platform initiatives, our team tries to think about how we can be the most impactful with our portfolio companies. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new program that we hope will help our portfolio companies with two of these bullets. Building a great product. We want to talk to you! by Tapjoy).

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2021

Last week Epic Games announced the acquisition of 3D content marketplace Sketchfab to support the “open and interconnected Metaverse” What exactly do they mean? Another example from our portfolio is Zoog , a interactive entertainment content hub to connect families, starting with books. of the mobile gaming market.

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David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

The ff Venture Capital portfolio is evidence of how much we believe this, e.g., our companies Alerts.com , Gobbler.com , Identified.com , Patents.com , Phone.com , and Plated.com. However, they remain key to your email identity, and fundamental to your marketing and even capital-raising. Facebook paid $8.5

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 28, 2012

IBM has just announced the acquisition of social recruitment business Kenexa for $1.3bn, the latest of a string of ‘social’ enterprise software businesses to be acquired this year. The first major acquisition of a social business was Salesforce’s acquisition of Radian6 for $326m nearly 18 months ago.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. Offers cloud-based web analytics software provider. Providing web abalytics to 2,100+ brands (including: BofA, Office Depot).

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Now that everyone knows the stakes of a Facebook-like outcome, there’s more money looking to fund and fuel web-scale network-effect businesses. They’ll have to back up the truck for their best companies, take acquisitions off the table, and go right after the incumbents head-on. Money has been coming into the U.S.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Rick Perreault of my portfolio company Unbounce recently called my attention to an interesting comparison between two SaaS models: Hubspot & Moz – A Tale of Two (Very Different) SaaS Business Models. Its customer acquisition costs are roughly 85 times that of Moz (if Krager’s figures are accurately comparing apples to apples).

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Initial Public Offering IPO SEC Valuation 78

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 8, 2009

But does Larry hate cloud computing that much or is he hiding a potential future acquisition of Salesforce.com? He thinks as far as he offers an ERP on a monthly basis with a web interface, then he's offering cloud computing. Portfolio. (3). A funny video of Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle on Cloud Computing. Newer Post.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. Klout measures influence on topics across the social web to find the people the world listens to; assigns a Klout score to Twitter members. Segment Two: “Deal of the Week”.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

To name a few: Digital Marketing & Measurement Model | Analytics Ecosystem | Web Analytics 2.0. Analyzing these metrics not only fundamentally changes marketing strategy (think tens of millions of dollars for large companies); their insights can change your company’s product portfolio, your customer engagement strategies and much more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2019

For additional growth, most companies expand the product portfolio to cater to more customers, and sell more to existing customers. This is the end game for an industry, and many companies, characterized by mergers and acquisitions to a few dominant players. You need the global outlook, even though digitalization and Web 2.0

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Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2021

You need to be careful in choosing the website where you’ll build your portfolio because you might end up wasting time, effort, and money without getting any clients. Web Research. SolidGigs offers jobs such as guest blogger, marketing designer, graphic designer, web developer, and media consultant. Teaching and Tutoring.

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David Teten

MARCH 3, 2015

And I definitely am one of those people who regularly advises our portfolio companies at ffVC to think creatively about how to experiment on their operating assumptions. So, I’ve gathered below some of the experiments that our portfolio companies and other startups we know have found most informative. ffVC portfolio company. .

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

For Web and SaaS businesses with smaller transactions at higher volumes, this kind of modeling and tracking is much easier, as web-based lead generation and marketing have easy to implement measurements, and the greater the volume of transactions, the more clearly patterns emerge. But this can be expensive to increase.

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