YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 2, 2017
Named or Concurrent Users. Do you have the choice to obtain licenses as “Named Users,” where a user license is assigned to an individual, or “Concurrent Users,” where a license can be shared by multiple users? Some software providers offer the flexibility for a combination of both named and concurrent users. .
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 5, 2010
He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. They wanted to employ our entire team post acquisition. The world had just gone into crisis and I was in a period of reflection reminiscent of September 2001. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story.
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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 29, 2010
The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). << we then discussed the need to do trademarks on your company and your key brand names. We covered the week’s M&A deals : Playdom and Kongregate and why Disney and GameStop made the acquisitions.
Ben's Blog
APRIL 27, 2011
In that role, he championed the acquisition of a little known company named Weblogic. When Alfred presented the acquisition to BEA’s board of directors, one prominent board member said: “if you think that this company is going to pay $150M for a company with $150K in revenue, you are out of your f&%!
ConversionXL
MARCH 19, 2020
“Value brands can also effectively reach out to pained-but-patient consumers who previously bought higher-end brands, a strategy Wal-Mart aggressively used with its ‘everyday low prices’ policy in the 2001 recession.” You’re no longer in a growth and acquisition position, so KPIs based on revenue targets, etc., recession in 2009.”.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 28, 2015
I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. For example, from a post in 2008 about Rally’s $16.85m financing , I riffed on the origins of the company. Get Agile with Rally Release 5.
Austin Startup
APRIL 27, 2019
Instead of crying in their beers about it, Cotter and Tom Ball at Austin Ventures decided what to do next and came up with Small Ponds, which later became Whale Shark Media and then RetailMeNot (named after its largest digital property). No matter the name?—?the billion as the juggernaut it is today.
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