Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2010

If you’re in the minority that succeed it’s possible that even when you sell you’ve raised too much money and taken too much dilution and your exit price isn’t high enough to warrant a big return for yourself. The moment you sell, somebody else controls the exit timing, exit price, capital raising, etc.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

So what you can do is you add a group or a tag to the meeting, general management. Jason: All you just described is that things are tagged and I can look at things by tag instead of by meeting. I get that, but that’s kind of any to-do or project management system has tags and you can view it that way. Edwin: Yeah?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

At some point, this breaks if their isn’t an exit or IPO. So by this point I hadn’t had an exit. They had their nice salaries and I was approaching 40 and still living on a modest salary with good savings over many years but no big exit yet. I think it breaks for most people after 3-4 years.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 25, 2016

Consider using Google Tag Manager , which will make it 10x easier to add / update tags for tracking. Screens Report: Shows the performance of each screen within your app, including: screen views, unique screen views, average time on screen, percent of users who exit on the screen, etc. Why You Should Use Google Tag Manager.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2015

Inventors focus on building a product, which investors often tag as a “solution looking for a problem.” As such, they bring some balance to the entrepreneur who wants everything done tomorrow, leading to a quick business exit. They know you can’t schedule invention costs or the number of iterations required.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

And without revenue how do we know if we achieved product/market fit to exit Customer Validation?” Your choice of Business Model affects the metrics you use in discovery and validation and the exit criteria for each step. Set your exit criteria for Discovery and Validation. Eric and I will be working on others. Does this help?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Planning for valuation growth and investor exit should begin prior to the investment. Tags: entrepreneur investor angel successful funding business. Participation. Main Street members consider our involvement in our portfolio companies as important as our investment. You can contact him directly at jbockerstette@me.com.

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Intellectual Property Balance Sheet Phoenix Arizona 265

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

When you translate these ideas to your marketing content, you realize that you need to treat the buyer’s journey like a playground: People can enter and exit as they please, can go in any order, and can never use content the “wrong way.”. Are they using the playground the wrong way? Of course not!

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Agile Social Media Audience Software Review 139

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 13, 2011

Of course it’s only fair to also point out some of the many instructive counter-examples: Hipmunk is the same thing as Orbitz or Travelocity — the only difference is amazing design, not just because it looks good but because it’s so useable.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Mostly by early stage investors talking about getting smaller exits. So NEVER talk about early exits, quick flips, tuck-in acquisitions, previous interest shown by acquirers, etc., Tags: Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice. If you haven’t read my post on the bio slide before here it is. during your meeting.

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ConversionXL

MAY 30, 2017

As we can see, 1,287 prospects directly exited the funnel. However, 871 prospects exited the funnel to sign in, and this indicates a possible problem that can be solved to reduce dropout rates. In this scenario, the customer already knows the final price tag, delivery time, and other potential qualifiers.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

Which brings me to my third difference and that is that we are working with more modest capital – both in terms of our fund buy-in, the amount to be invested and ultimately the exits we are expecting. With the current level and frequency of exits, there are hard questions for the venture asset class in Israel as a whole.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

And we all worked on the exit together. That VC who saw me stick through hard times at my first company and get an exit at both companies is the firm where I’m now a partner. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. He’s family and he knows it. We were in the trenches together.

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Venture Capital Hiring Software Review Stock Options 285

VC Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2021

It’s especially fun when I can tag people I’m directly connected to, but regardless, it’s simply astonishing how there’s consistently great news to celebrate. It can be a new job/hire, fundraising news, an exit, award, landing a big client or launching a new product.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

Ten years ago, having the whole world exit offices and connect from home would have yielded a very different result. Supporting this trend is a recent Gartner survey that revealed that: 74 percent of CFOs expect some of their employees who worked from home because of the COVID-19 will continue working remotely after the pandemic ends.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2024

They need to either raise, become profitable (default alive) or exit (M&A or IPO). M&A/ Exits – This situation is compounded by a narrowing window for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and initial public offerings (IPOs). Many avoided fundraising over the past two years to not risk losing their unicorn status.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Bad times are when M&A halts to a trickle and this is when many businesses are rushing to get exits. Even people who haven’t had good exits, gained experience in their careers or have enough deep pockets to last a market downturn fancy themselves as angels. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. Same with VCs.

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Florida Technical Review San Antonio Los Angeles 299

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

It should answer every question an investor or associate might ask, including current valuation, funding needed, and exit strategy. Tags: entrepreneur startup funding angel investors. As a founder, you may think that everyone understands your vision and plan from your passion and words, but it doesn’t work that way. Marty Zwilling.

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Up and Running

JULY 22, 2020

But sometimes, pop-ups can be particularly irksome especially if they appear on multiple pages or are difficult to exit away from. And if a half-page ad continues to disrupt their session, you can bet they’ll be quickly looking for an exit. Everyone finds it annoying when you’re navigating through a site and a pop-up appears.

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eCommerce Conversion Caching Technical Review 98

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2010

Some non-profit entrepreneurs think they can skip the whole plan, rather than just the sections on valuation, equity offered, and exit strategy. Tags: entrepreneur startup angel investors business. You still start the process with a business plan, but then you look for a philanthropist rather than an investor. That’s a higher calling.

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Angel Investor Technical Review Exit Strategy Equity 143

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2019

Search engines analyze the amount of time the users spend on each page, how many pages they visit, and whether they exit immediately after clicking in your site. When your website is hard to navigate, the user will most-likely exit fast which will cause an adverse effect on your SEO ranking. You Need Good Content Writing. Conclusion.

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SEO Engineer Search Mobile 147

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

I have too many portfolio companies without exits and I want to see some returns before I put too much more money into this category.&#. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. And these are people with deep pockets. I tell my wife to assume that money is lost.&#.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The formula for exits was a variation of the formula they used in the Internet bubble, morphing into: brand, hype and sell the company. Wouldn’t younger VCs with the incentive to climb the ranks internally be better champions of one’s startup and more likely to want to fuel growth, regardless of the exit strategy?

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 3, 2010

The idea of a big exit might be really appealing, but it’s more important to consider how well the organization’s values fit with your own. Tags: My Investments agilezen Entrepreneurship founders rally. If you don’t agree on where the product is going then an acquisition isn’t going to benefit anyone—least of all your customers.

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Founder Acquisition Software Developers Software Development 122

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Doxo (November 2009 financing, just announced in May 2010 as company exited stealth mode). Tags: Start-up Advice. Paperless billing for consumers. Cloud-based systems is compatible with major existing systems. Senior exec team is ex-QPass (mobile payments platform sold to Amdocs).

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Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

deal architect

JULY 27, 2010

Good friend Ray Wang lays out his 7 tenets of starting a new analyst firm - it’s a nice summary of his own decision process as he exited Forrester and what he has learned since. Tags: Industry analysts (Gartner, Forrester, AMR, others). I would like to contribute.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2010

That establishes that there is a need and that threats are on the rise, but what about potential exits you ask? McAfee (one of the leading computer security companies) estimated that companies worldwide lost more than $1 trillion in 2008 in intellectual property due to data theft and cybercrime.

Cloud 74

Cloud Intellectual Property Software Review 74

ConversionXL

AUGUST 28, 2019

By default, Google Analytics tells you only how much traffic enters and exits a page. the funnel exit pageview). In those cases, Google Tag Manager, which is one of my favorite tools to use alongside Google Analytics , has a solution. To create a micro funnel with Google Tag Manager (GTM), use the Click Listener Trigger. (If

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Analytics AJAX Conversion PPC 129

Haystack

JUNE 25, 2018

exits like that of GitHub to Microsoft make the big waves, acquisitions like that of AT&T buying AppNexus can feel, relatively speaking, small — but that would be a mistake to perceive it that way. Some of the most recent investments in the company were likely done at a price which is not that far off the final price tag.

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Acquisition Mobile Networking Internet 79

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

Pricing high also takes exit options off the table. Tags: Start-up Advice. Down rounds are psychologically really difficult on companies and can make it harder to do later rounds. So don’t raise money at a cheap price, but don’t get too far ahead of yourself either. Let me know if you liked the format of the show.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet Valuation Stock Options 282

ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2019

Exit surveys are good for gauging why people are leaving. Using Google Analytics together with Google Tag Manager makes everything easier. Collect data as variables in Google Tag Manager and send the values to Google Analytics. Common pollution sources include: internal traffic, bots, spam, monitoring, scraping, tag issues.

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Agile Analytics Algorithm Software Review 90

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

How To Start A Software Company This interview is all about how to start a software company while working a full time job, grow it to over 20 employees, then sell it off with a nice exit paycheck. Tags: Entrepreneur Profiles Podcasts Podcasts & Podcasting Podcasts Pillar gotphp michael fountain modernbill plesk software startup.

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Cofounder Software Review Software Founder 79

VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

It’s also an uncertain exit for the entrepreneurs, as they are typically restricted to sell any of their stock in the first 180 days following the IPO, and even then they can sell no more than 1% of stock a month. Tags: Eyeblaster IPO vringo IPO. Can Eyeblaster pull it off this time?

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IPO SEC Initial Public Offering Stock 68

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

They are quite happy with a business that will turn into a profitable $20M company and dont necessarily need an obvious exit strategy. Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

With enterprise customers, this would result in tremendous exit barriers, making sales cycles long and involved, which a small startup will find hard to withstand. Tags: StartUp 101. Now, the Web self-service software market is very crowded with major players like RightNow already deeply entrenched. Photo by brokenarts.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

If I were a number 3-5 players I’d be looking to exit early while there’s still a lot of enthusiasm for this hot market. Tags: Start-up Advice. Dana and I both see this as a “winner takes most” category so we’re guessing that Gilt group is raising money “to get fat” as we discussed early in the show in contrast to the lean startup.

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Partner New York City Cofounder Syndicate 240

VC Cafe

JUNE 11, 2010

Even a few of the large exits such as Dune Networks did little to improve the Israeli VC funds balance. Tags: Calpers Fribiz Jivy Group Matomy Virtual Goods capital raising carmel eType iPhone 4 technion seed. Carmel Ventures I was on the top spot with 6.6% return in 2009, followed by Pitango 4 with 4.2%.

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South Africa Product Incubator 89