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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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. Fulfillment.

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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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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

The company addresses a widely-experienced pain: employers are now using social networks for background check on issues such as comments about prior employers, substance-usage, and general image issues that may come across as red-flags to a prospective employer. The discussion today was around Social Media financing and go-to-market strategy.

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Illinois Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Chicago 114

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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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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Silicon Valley Bankruptcy Metrics Valuation 215

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. They’re ripe for acquisition. You must be the man (or woman)! Did the former head of the SEC just join your board of directors?

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Valuation Cofounder Metrics SEC 162

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.

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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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Revenue Valuation Startup Viral 145

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.). Are sales growing or shrinking?

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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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Revenue Entrepreneur Valuation Viral 246

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. Read on for a fuller explanation. by February 2006).

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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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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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The Startup Magazine

MAY 30, 2019

Crowdify also has its own Start-Up Incubator and is uniquely positioned to advise the next generation of potential UK Unicorns (start-ups which reach a market valuation of $1bn). And that’s what Crowdify is all about,” says James Rix, the 36-year old entrepreneur and CEO of Crowdify.

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Marketing Agile Social Network Valuation 76

ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

For example, for a company that has been reliant solely on paid acquisition the growth team should experiment with developing organic channels such as search engine optimization, content marketing, or social media marketing to complement the paid efforts. Open Up the Ideation Process.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Facebook and Google are the second and twelfth most valuable companies in the US (accurate at 22/6/15 see here ), they both rose to prominence extremely quickly setting records for rapid valuation growth on the way, and as a result they are both very aware that their shelf life could be limited.

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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? RecRoom, another VR social app, raised $100M back in March at a $1.25 billion valuation. 4) Augmented Reality in eCommerce/ Social.

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Cofounder Mobile Revenue Cloud 183

Up and Running

JULY 22, 2019

Well Health Technologies, for instance, was able to continue expanding through a scalable acquisition model. If you take less money at a lower valuation, you can then prove the execution of your business and raise additional rounds at sequentially higher valuations. People love to “average up” by doubling down on winners.

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Canada Early Stage Valuation Finance 78

Lightspeed Venture Partners

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

to fund the company at a $6M post money valuation from a number of investors including Selena Gomez. pre money valuation and planned to use the money to market the app. pre money valuation). pre money valuation. pre money valuation and a $2.7M The smartphone app that enables this is free but it costs $2.49

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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Dilution Distribution 167

Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Not just from a startup / social media or tech point of view but from an economic one. 68 Million in acquisitions: In the past year Facebook invested $68 million in purchasing other companies. They have an appetite for acquisition. Both companies which have established and growing revenue streams.

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IPO Valuation Acquisition Stock 76

Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

With high levels of public market volatility — the first we’ve seen in the age of social media and true real-time information — it feels like everyone and their grandmom is expecting a downturn. ” “Multiples and valuations are out of control!” I am expecting a downturn at some point.

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IPO Private Equity Valuation Acquisition 76

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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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Understand Your Business’s Value: Additionally, you must set your business’s strategic funding goals in conjunction with your business’s valuation and share price. Beware—detailing plans to engage in mergers or acquisitions with unspecified companies disqualifies your business from offering or selling crowdfunding securities.

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Equity SEC Technical Review Security 125

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

It was 2011 when we started building a platform for social media. By then, Buddy Media had already raised over $90 million, Wildfire announced that they had over 10,000 customers, and companies like Vitrue and Involver were the industry titans. Some potential investors told us we were late to the party. Revisit Past Failures.

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Social Media Flash Business Model Startup 152

Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Not just from a startup / social media or tech point of view but from an economic one. 68 Million in acquisitions: In the past year Facebook invested $68 million in purchasing other companies. They have an appetite for acquisition. Both companies which have established and growing revenue streams.

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IPO Valuation Acquisition Stock 48

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

“We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Facebook’s ~$20 billion acquisition of WhatsApp, a 5-year-old startup that had $10 million in revenue, made no sense until you realized that Facebook was paying to acquire 300 million new users.). Before social media connected billions of people, bad behavior stayed behind closed doors. 2. Information is everywhere.

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Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 245

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

It was 2011 when we started building a platform for social media. By then, Buddy Media had already raised over $90 million, Wildfire announced that they had over 10,000 customers, and companies like Vitrue and Involver were the industry titans. Some potential investors told us we were late to the party. Revisit Past Failures.

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Social Media Flash Business Model Startup 103

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

At this point, Greg is in the process of bringing in two additional investors, and the primary topics of our discussion were valuation and ROI issues around the new investors. We discussed a numbers of customer acquisition methods to do so. Social Pulse. We also discussed Dan's options vis-à-vis channel partners.

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San Jose Entrepreneur United States Washington 115

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

” This past September, the company raised $130 million in their Series D round , which skyrocketed Lightricks’s valuation to $1.8 The capital boost is intended to be used to fund acquisitions as well as launch new products. This round was led by the prestigious global funds of Insight Partners and Hanaco Venture Capital.

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Venture Capital Bootstrapping Valuation Social Media 168

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We had a chance to invest in a $500K round at a $12M valuation in 2015. Outcome: Just sold to PayPal for $4B (PayPal’s largest acquisition to date). We met Ryan Holmes in 2009 as he was just about to spin Hootsuite out of Invoke Media, a development agency. And yeah, $12M felt kind of high :-). Eight years and $49.9B

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Portfolio Cap Table Early Stage Valuation 202

Up and Running

JANUARY 14, 2022

Our major challenge was how do we compete with companies that have billion-dollar valuations, millions in investor funding, and millions in revenue? The stringent regulatory environment and a new brand with no social capital such as a social media following, reviews, customer case studies, etc. Established competitors.

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SEO Software Review Search Acquisition 104

www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

In the case of social media companies like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and Tumblr, the root activity on the site is the sharing of content. Much of the valuations around the consumer web are rationalizing, and because of that, investors are once again focused on understanding business models. social media.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. They had mail, IM, groups, answers, etc.

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 26, 2021

One common mistake is for entrepreneurs to simply select whichever venture capital firm is offering the highest valuation. But it could also be a non-financial challenge, like being a social media company and facing attacks from multiple points of the political spectrum. Maybe it’s an economic challenge.

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Startup Equity Early Stage Green 36

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Ad-driven businesses – like most of the media and social media platforms like Meta, Snap or Pinterest, focus on engagement as their north star. DAUs, WAUs or MAUs, are a good indication of how valuable is their audience for advertisers.

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Metrics Revenue B2C Portfolio 179