YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2020

Online, always reply to comments, tags, and notifications either thanking customers or providing them with a channel to discuss things further. A common misconception is that companies should prioritize customer acquisition over customer retention. Harnessing the chance to interact with customers (whatever their feedback) is key.

Customer 162

Customer Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Retention 162

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2010

500k had come through the last acquisition. For some reason the industry of bankers who try to buy or sell businesses work in what is called the “M&A (mergers & acquisitions) Industry.&# I’ve never understood this. There’s really no such thing as a merger – only acquisitions. million uniques.

Merger 276

Merger Technical Review Early Stage Dilution 276

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Interestingly, there’s now more than 1,200 unicorns, but with the current state of the market it’s unclear how many will be able to justify yesterday’s price tag at exit. They should also invest in marketing and user acquisition to increase the network effect.

Founder 88

Founder Cofounder Seed Stage Valuation 88

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

The post is written in these six steps: Step 1: Tag every shared link with campaign tracking parameters. Tag your mobile website. Step 1: Tag every shared link with campaign tracking parameters. Always, always, tag every link (owned, earned or paid). Tag your mobile website. Dive into Mobile Reporting and Analysis.

Analytics 141

Analytics Metrics Mobile DC 141

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, The COGS (costs of goods sold) tells me about how big your customer acquisition costs will be. Tags: Startup Advice startup technology vc venture capital. People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. portfolios. Or lower revenue assumptions.

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Business Plan AJAX Venture Capital Technical Review 334

ConversionXL

APRIL 25, 2016

Consider using Google Tag Manager , which will make it 10x easier to add / update tags for tracking. Acquisition and Segmentation. Acquisition Reports. To start, let’s look at acquisition reports… Image Source. Why You Should Use Google Tag Manager. More on this later. AdWords Reports.

Analytics 48

Analytics Mobile Metrics Acquisition 48

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The costs associated with building or buying software go deeper than resources and price tags. When buying, evaluate the development languages your acquisition is built on to understand how complex the integration process will be. In this way, company acquisitions foster growth in all areas.

Software Review 96

Software Review Technical Review Software Acquisition 96

Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2021

Unlike traditional freelance platforms like Upwork, Fiverr, PeoplePerHour, Transformify offers an end-to-end solution to business clients including talent acquisition, project management, global payroll and compliance, billing and payment automation.

Technical Review 89

Technical Review Software Review Search Portfolio 89

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 3, 2010

As I’ve written in the past, I encourage companies I’m an investor in to continually explore small acquisitions when entrepreneurs have created something that is on their roadmap. AgileZen was one such company and the acquisition has been a successful one for everyone.

Founder 122

Founder Acquisition Software Developers Software Development 122

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

I think Twitter made a minor gaffe by announcing their Blackberry app and their acquisition of Atebits (Tweetie) before the Chirp conference. And I saw a lot of this first hand in Salesforce’s acquisition of my company, Koral, which was a content management company. Tags: Social Media Tech Market Analysis.

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Acquisition Developer Management Advertising 287

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

IQ Engines is an image labeling and photo recognition platform that relies partly on technology to identify photos and party on a crowdsourced team of people who review the photos and tag them with the idea of the system learning and automatically becoming better through the process. Tags: Tech Market Analysis VC Industry.

San Francisco 254

San Francisco Technical Review Los Angeles Software Review 254

ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

Paid Acquisition. You’re undoubtedly familiar with paid acquisition, as it’s the digital equivalent of traditional advertising. Here are some resources to learn more about paid acquisition: Customer Acquisition Master Course (includes SEO). When Does Paid Acquisition Work for SaaS Startups?

Channel 118

Channel Marketing Viral SEO 118

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Why ask Aleyda Solis to write a playbook on hreflang tags when a freelancer could get it two-thirds of the way there? If the purpose of the analysis is to identify top traffic sources, a much clearer step is “Identify your top two traffic channels in the Google Analytics ‘Acquisition’ report.”.

Analytics 161

Analytics Acquisition Channel B2C 161

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2010

This has value now, and is critical for maximum value in a merger or acquisition. Tags: startup founder entrepreneur skills investors business. Convincingly presents a patent, trademark, or other “secret sauce” that can create equity value, not just current cash flow for the owners. Not in a heated rush. Marty Zwilling.

Angel Investor 241

Angel Investor Technical Review Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch 241

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

A number of investment rounds and acquisitions took place in recent weeks and it’s worth taking note. Below is a recap of some of September’s Israeli tech headlines: Investment rounds. It is known that the company will play in the IT infrastructure space, in competition with XtremIO , which is backed by JVP and Giza.

Software Review 138

Software Review Venture Capital Technical Review SEM 138

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. The Rise of Mergers and Acquisitions -– March 2003 -2008 After the dot.com bubble collapsed, the IPO market (and most tech M&A deals) shutdown for technology companies. And some companies didn’t even have to go public to get liquid. billion.) So what’s left?

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2014

For Acquisition, we’re primarily asking how do first time visitors & potential customers find you? This feedback can be used to improve your acquisition strategies, your value proposition , and your processes on every level. Acquisition – Getting Visitors At Top Of The Funnel. image source. What do they need?

Software Review 116

Software Review PPC Analytics Search 116

ConversionXL

AUGUST 13, 2019

Chances are you’ve been told to focus on metrics like: Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR); Lifetime Value (LTV); Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). In fact, as many as 90% of MQLs never turn into Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs) because they were tagged as MQLs too early in the buyer’s journey. . Image source).

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Metrics SQL Retention Churn Rate 117

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

As I’ve highlighted I believe we’re in a unique period similar to 2005-08 where the biggest tech firms of Silicon Valley (and some media companies) are scooping up small software companies as “talent acquisitions&# versus accretive revenue / profit generators. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry.

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Cap Table Angel Investor Liquidation Preference Deal Flow 283

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Max Ventilla took Aardvark from startup to Google acquisition, a case study Eric described in The Lean Startup. Cory Nelson will talk with Eric about how GE has applied the MVP method to its development of very large diesel engines. Now Max is reinventing education through AltSchool , which creates local microschools.

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Lean Fractional CTO Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 165

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

ABM teams then began curating content and tagging it by use case, industry, and persona. For 90% of companies , the top goal for ABM is new business generation— new clients, new contracts, new logo acquisition, etc. For example, if one new acquisition is worth $10K, a pilot win could be 20 new acquisitions for $200K.

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Customer Marketing Channel Acquisition 98

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The Face recognition space has recently gotten interesting, following the acquisition of Swedish startup Polar Rose by Apple, estimated at $22-$29 million. Tag photos with your facebook or twitter friends- The Tagger app uses the face.com tagging widget to add a face tagging interface on top of any image in the page.

Finder 94

Finder CTO Hire Widget 94

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

According to ProfitWell , customer acquisition costs (CAC) have increased by over 55% in the last 5 years: At the same time, customer willingness to pay for features has dropped by 30% during that same period: So, on one hand, we have rising costs; on the other, we have a lower willingness to pay. customer acquisition process and channels).

Marketing 289

Marketing Sales Cycle Acquisition Sales 289

ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

Buffett, when thinking of low-cost production moats, uses GEICO (another Berkshire Hathaway acquisition) as an example. The primary goal is user acquisition. When geography is the determining factor, efficient scale relies on mergers and acquisitions. If you can make it for less, you can sell it for less. Image source ).

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Non-Compete United States Networking Acquisition 122

Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

For everything you do it is important to measure your effectiveness of all three phases of your effort: Acquisition. Optimal Acquisition Email Metrics. here are the metrics I’d recommend to analyze your acquisition greatness: Delivery rate = (# of emails sent – # of bounce backs) / # of emails sent. But there is more….

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Metrics Campaign Email Marketing 137

NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In deep tech companies value creation milestones are more likely to be tagged to validating the technology and IP creation. Agenda items will focus on key metrics illustrating value creation, particularly in software as a service companies.

Technical Review 88

Technical Review Software Review New Zealand Due Diligence 88

ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2020

Rising customer acquisition costs—especially on ad platforms—have also put weaker brands with lower conversion rates out of business. If you have a wide product catalog and complex tagging, you may see value in personalizing content for your audience. Only the best are surviving, thus perpetuating a rise in conversion rates.

eCommerce 110

eCommerce Sales Software Review Development Team Review 110

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

If you were really smart you would use campaign tagged vanity url so you can segment them!]. Most website tag and campaign tracking implementations are poor (to put it charitably). Here is a simple example: You are the Acquisition manager for a company called Omniture. Missing web analytics tag from landing pages.

Analytics 122

Analytics Software Review Campaign Flash 122

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

If we can’t determine where the traffic comes from, we can neither attribute conversions to their original sources of traffic, nor can we find out the true cost per acquisition (CPA) or return on ad spend (ROAS) for each marketing activity. Take the time to build a strategy for your UTM parameters that ensures consistent tagging.

Analytics 118

Analytics Campaign Email Channel 118

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

"Analysts" spewing data out left right and center, after spending so much time tagging and re-tagging and Google Tag Managering. Hence, analytics framework to represent end-to-end business measurement is called Acquisition – Behavior – Outcomes. Not Acquisition – Behavior – Conversions.

Analytics 60

Analytics eCommerce Metrics Acquisition 60

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

In the technology world there are a few websites that most startups track to keep up with the latest financings, acquisitions, product announcements and gossip: BusinessInsider, TechCrunch, Mashable, GigaOm, etc. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. That’s thanks to Dan Primack , founding editor. Minutes 36- 38. Minutes 41-56.

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Seed Stage Valuation Private Equity Venture Capital 232

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2010

It can be more complex if you find the your target customer or users need to change or the feature set is wrong or you need to “repackage” a monolithic product into a family of products or you chose the wrong sales channel or your customer acquisition programs were ineffective.

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Business Model Agile Customer Development Startup 332

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The biggest ones I see are focusing on keywords for search optimization, tags, and descriptions. So, tags and descriptions might help with the first hour or two of views, but, beyond that, YouTube knows what your content is about. Don’t use more than 10 tags, and really focus on the most relevant one.

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Channel Metrics Algorithm Video 129

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.

Acquisition 103

Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

ConversionXL

AUGUST 20, 2019

Work on your title tags. But some people don’t realize that the title tag (i.e. Choose from the optimizations above to boost your overall content performance in an essential, albeit fickle, acquisition channel. This is a no-brainer, which is why I’m not listing it first, even though it’s vital. It’s a win-win.

Search 128

Search Software Review Semantic Naming 128

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. There’s YouTube , of course — well established in its own right, it rewrote the book on how an acquisition can be run delicately, as a company within a company.

San Francisco 104

San Francisco Acquisition Social Media Mobile 104

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

First is that there are, perhaps, a thousand people in the world of entrepreneurship who know what they are doing when it comes to dealing with issues like financing, positioning, market sizing, customer validation, customer acquisition and other seemingly obvious topics that all entrepreneurs need to deal with. Tags: StartUp 101.

Silicon Valley 114

Silicon Valley Technical Review Startup Early Stage 114