Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

If you’re thinking about building an online video network today you need to think about: Producing your own content (not just aggregating). Selling at smaller retailers will net you fewer customers and higher margins. If you think of yourself as a middleman I agree with you – this is a crappy business.

Networking 366

Networking Media Distribution Video 366

ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

How did Outreach grow in just a few years to 50,000 monthly active users , $10 million in new bookings, and net revenue retention (NRR) of more than 140%? This number can grow, but if all your new MAUs are free users, you’re not achieving your conversion and paid customer acquisition goals. Customer acquisition cost (CAC).

Metrics 120

Metrics Acquisition Revenue .Net 120

Venture Chronicles

APRIL 20, 2014

When you combine inbound marketing with account-based scoring, you get a very potent combination of predictable opportunity funnel that also benefits from lower customer acquisition costs. We know from this data that there are tipping points that occur in the opportunity (account) scoring that should and do cause additional sales activity.

B2B 45

B2B Marketing SEM Bandwidth 45

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Any big changes in your marketing/customer acquisition strategy over the last time period (more money doing Search, less money in Email, elimination Facebook as it does not work, etc., … You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data. Exhaust those first.

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 26, 2012

Under the crowdfunding provisions, the aggregate dollar amount of securities that an issuer can sell in a crowdfunding transaction is limited to $1 million (less the aggregate amount of securities sold under other exemptions) over a 12-month period. Seventh, companies will need to choose intermediaries carefully.

SEC 58

SEC Securities and Exchange Commission Accredited Investor Private Placement 58

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2022

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. These may be aggregated by an angel group up to about $1M for an angel round. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

Liquidity Event 300

Liquidity Event Angel Investor SEC Accredited Investor 300

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

No other metric so holistically captures as many critical aspects of a web site – user design, usability, performance, convenience, ad effectiveness, net promoter score, customer satisfaction – all in a single measurement. Nearly every Internet company on the planet has invested in some form of the first activity, customer acquisition.

Metrics 93

Metrics Conversion Internet Acquisition 93

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. These may be aggregated by an angel group up to about $1M for an angel round. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

Liquidity Event 224

Liquidity Event SEC Entrepreneur Accredited Investor 224

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Creativity in our business lives – The average tech startup these days spends time talking with colleagues & investors about a multitude of things: customer acquisition, viral adoption, raising capital, hiring / firing employees, product features, technology trends, marketing / branding, and on and on. So I thought I would.

Technical Review 356

Technical Review Framework Audience Media 356

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Some notable metrics are revenue growth rates, free cashflow, leverage ratios, historical financing amounts, returns on marketing spend, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of customers, customer churn rates, and team social scores. Other firms are using Talent Relationship Management tools, e.g., Thrive. .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

” Users tend to aggregate around platforms and content they identify with (organized around demographics, topics like movies or restaurants, shopping, etc.) rather than aggregating on one common platform and hoping to wade through a morass of content to catch a piece that might be relevant to their own personal interests, etc.

Social Media 47

Social Media Vertical Advertising Distribution 47

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. These may be aggregated by an angel group up to about $1M for an angel round. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

Liquidity Event 184

Liquidity Event SEC Accredited Investor Angel Investor 184

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

The most noteworthy M&A deals of 2009 were Siemens’ $418 million acquisition of Solel; Medtronic’s acquisition of Ventor, estimated at $325 million; and IBM’s $225 million acquisition of Guardium. The British mobile payments and messaging aggregator will become part of Amdocs’ OpenMarket US mobile transactions hub.

OTC 68

OTC Brazil Paraguay 68

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

Accredited Investor 219

Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC Stock 219

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

This way GA will show you both keywords while the aggregate for visits will not be skewed – as technically it is just one session. ]. What's the best way to aggregate to understand clearly how to improve? IMPORTANT: This type of behavior is rare so you should not see 0 visits often. My advice would be this: 1.

Analytics 94

Analytics Web Non-Compete Metrics 94

Occam's Razor

MAY 18, 2010

I have said: All data in aggregate is "crap" Because it is. You can imagine then how absolutely heartbreaking it is for me to note that nearly all reporting that I see is data in aggregate. Tons of data "puking", all just aggregates. Acquisition. Segment Category #1: Acquisition. All visits.

Analytics 123

Analytics Web Acquisition Metrics 123

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

Portfolio 228

Portfolio Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC 228

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

Accredited Investor 120

Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC Entrepreneur 120

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

There is always one exception to the rule. :) It can be of some value to take aggregated data about your visitors (especially those that converted) and put it into your corporate data warehouse where all other data of your company sits. This allows you to do strategic analysis of you web acquisitions in context of retail, call center, etc.

Analytics 118

Analytics Web Metrics Channel 118

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The IPO market remained closed to IT startups, but there were big acquisitions like Google buying YouTube for $1.65B (Fall 2006) and late stage financing rounds for companies like Facebook (Microsoft round at $15B valuation in Fall 2007). Kevin Rose was on the cover of BusinessWeek. So at a fund level (e.g.

LP 154

LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

The top performing SaaS companies typically achieve annual customer renewal rates above 90% - with most of the churn due to death (bankruptcies) or marriage (acquisitions) - and over 100% renewals on a dollar value basis due to up-sells into this installed base. Cashflow is the other key metric. Philippe Botteri. Bessemer SaaS Law #2.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

We’re going to give you part of it, but then you’re going to have to work for the second half by making sure those customers that you’ve been serving stay through the acquisition,” which is sort of the enemy for most entrepreneurs. Most entrepreneurs want to get their check and leave the next day.

Entrepreneur 50

Entrepreneur Switzerland Revenue Differentiation 50

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

If viewed holistically, this data is just a generalized aggregation of disparate data points. Grouping all these visitors under the same umbrella would be akin to me saying that the average net worth of Warren Buffett and myself is $31.6 One reason this doesn’t happen is that customer acquisition often takes precedent.

eCommerce 78

eCommerce Analytics Revenue Customer 78

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2020

Damn, I’ll admit—I even have a tradition of treating myself with a beautiful new pair after a successful business trip or client acquisition. Another great example of linkable assets are pages that aggregate industry stats, like this one. Owning a new pair of high-end shoes has to be one of those.

B2B 142

B2B Social Media Email Campaign 142

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 5, 2017

I came from an acquisition at Oracle which was an Oracle marketing cloud where I running marketing for a content marketing start-up. And you can start to put that in Excel or whatever and aggregate the most popular responses. And it’s not this formal process, it can just be an email or a phone call, a message on slack.

Email 32

Email Search Engineer Curation 32

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

PMC-Sierra is buying Wintegra for a net purchase price of $213 million and will pay up to an additional $60 million based on growth and performance milestones in 2011. billion net profit. iSkoot is Qualcomm’s first acquisition in Israel. ERNST & YOUNG SEES RISE IN ISRAELI ACQUISITIONS FOR 2010.

Bandwidth 79

Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79

ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

“Umbrella terms” are when you aggregate multiple features and benefits under one vague term, like “powerful” or “easy-to-use.” The most important measure at TransferWise is the net promoter score. Build acquisition into your product (LinkedIn, TransferWise). 7 Basic Plots on Wikipedia ).

PPC 48

PPC Analytics Video Non-Compete 48

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Among others, I would quote the Bladelogic IPO, the acquisition of Postini by Google for $625m, the two largest SaaS deals in history signed by Cornerstone OnDemand (160k and 350k seats), Eloqua almost doubling its revenues and LinkedIn adding more than 10m users.

Software Review 48

Software Review South Korea IPO Portfolio 48

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Logia offers Mobile Operators a range of solution for their Apps Stores starting from Content Aggregation, Billing aggregation to full white labeled Apps Store. Logia has the unique combination of being both a content aggregator and a billing aggregator. Mce Systems. MailVision. Mer Telecom. -

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Would that help retention and NPS (Net Promote Score)? Could we offer a “dial” to issuers and let them (and perhaps their ad agencies) decide? * * For GS.com , EXCLUSIVE access to GS hot deal might be a critical competitive tool to keep customer acquisition costs low and encourage larger clients to more to our site from a competitor’s.

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

It helps you when you’re investing in a marketing program even though what ad spend or what cost of acquisition you’re comfortable with. You don’t want to be in a dynamic where you basically don’t have the capital that you need at the most important time to use it.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

But the angels who’ve staked their funds on spreading bits of money all over the Valley are increasingly anxious that only 20 percent of their deals — in aggregate — will get the chance to keep going. This comes only a few weeks after LivingSocial posted 3rd quarter net losses of around $556 million.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93