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.

Acquisition 162

Acquisition Silicon Valley B2B Seed Stage 162

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.

IP 100

IP IPO Social Network Silicon Valley 100

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.

Silicon Valley 113

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Startup Syndicate 113

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. . • Plan, develop, and execute email marketing campaigns to generate and nurture leads in an effort to build a qualified sales pipeline.

Demand 95

Demand Management B2B Campaign 95

Lightspeed Venture Partners

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

These huge companies put pricing and margin pressure on the category, and about a year from the acquisition, Cisco shut down the Flip business altogether. Two doctor brothers have an alpha version of a mobile app to allow patients and doctors to communicate with each other securely, and for patients to find doctors through search.

Pre-Money Valuation 162

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Dilution Distribution 162

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

The first of these to exit was recently announced, with Groupon’s acquisition of Hyperpublic , though most of the portfolio will continue to build for a long time. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. Just under half our portfolio is B2B in nature, slightly more than half is consumer-facing in some way.

LP 100

LP Seed Stage Silicon Valley Limited Partner 100

Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

Back in 2010 we were observing more and more new B2B startups emulating the product and customer acquisition strategies of existing consumer web companies which my partners & I have long been familiar with. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. What’s Your Favorite Future? Previous Entries.

Seed Stage 124

Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Syndicate 124

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

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. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 4 days ago Search. link] leehower. Great point Steve.

IPO 100

IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100

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. It’s only one data point, but I think it was a big win.

Product 68

Product Hockey Stick Entrepreneur Venture Capital 68

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.

IPO 100

IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

BeyondVC

OCTOBER 11, 2005

Like Nick Denton and David Galbraith , I can’t comment on the acquisition. What I can say is that Moreover was a pioneer in the early use of weblogs via newsblogger, news search, and content syndication via XML and RSS. That is a very big deal for Google.

XML 60

XML Architecture Syndicate Syndication 60

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The parts of digital marketing we can track— email marketing , paid social, content syndication—are the tip of the iceberg. A simple search in a tool like Quora or Answer The Public will give you insight into problems your audience is trying to solve. Word-of-mouth interactions (e.g., text messages, DMs, video calls, etc.) Events (e.g.,

B2B 103

B2B Social Media Channel Audience 103

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

They also did a lot of self-directed research checking all sorts of sources, from social media to syndicated content to category- or industry-specific resources.” – Beth Caplow, VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester [via Forrester ].

Demand 91

Demand Lead Generation PPC Leadership 91

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Between working with the co-founders on the strategy, validating concepts with the users, assessing the analytics, driving features and functionality with the team, and working with finance on the new business model, marketing on acquisition, and the warehouse on fulfillment, you can imagine the workload Kate faced on a daily basis.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc. A number of analysts have particular focus on serving the customers of technology companies, e.g., Gartner and 451 Research , and their work is also relevant for investors.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

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.

Cofounder 140

Cofounder Stealth Silicon Valley Mobile 140

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.

Seed Stage 113

Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Acquisition 113

Occam's Razor

JUNE 15, 2010

Acquisition 2. The "head" of your search terms consists of a few keywords that bring in very large amounts of traffic. If you are running very specific search campaigns whose goal is to attract lots of new visits, then set up a alert for that. Focus: Acquisition. I don't syndicate the content of my blog.

Analytics 105

Analytics Customer Framework Web 105

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

acquired 5min Media, the world’s leading video syndication network with a library of more than 200,000 categorized, tagged and rated videos from more than 1,000 of the world’s largest media companies and professional independent video producers. the New York-based Internet company spun off from Time Warner Inc., in August 2010.

United Kingdom 96

United Kingdom Austria Global 96

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

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. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. What’s Your Favorite Future? Previous Entries.

Silicon Valley 185

Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Startup 185

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.

Mobile 250

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Some angel investors join together in syndicates. Its thesame with acquisitions. Stage 2: Angel Round While writing the prototype, the group has been traversing theirnetwork of friends in search of angel investors. Startups valuations aresupposed to rise over time. In Boston thebiggest is the CommonAngels.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

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.

Acquisition 104

Acquisition San Francisco 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.

Hiring 95

Hiring Syndicate Syndication Social Media 95

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Twitter as a company has encouraged this by granting DataSift “re-syndication rights,” which means that the company can ingest the full Twitter fire hose and resell subsets of it to other parties who want to consume a smaller stream, which is more cost effective in data licenses and in IT resources needed to consume the data.

Viral 307

Viral Las Vegas Syndicate Syndication 307