Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

GM’s acquisition of Cruise Automation for $1 billion about 3 months ago has been a sort of Sputnik moment for self-driving cars. Collision avoidance systems (warning / automatic braking) –> demonstrated by Mercedes in 2003 as well as by Honda for Japanese market and Acura brand.

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Virginia Acquisition California Global 100

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 21, 2011

There’s also an interesting integration of acquisition TalkBin , a tool that makes it very easy for people send SMS messages to any registered business. Business owners are invited to claim their pages, create special offers and try out ad products such as Boost right from the city home page.

Small Business 66

Small Business Marketing Software Review Portland 66

Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004). All the other stuff Yahoo!

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IP IPO Social Network Silicon Valley 100

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Over a 25 year career, Baughman has gained experience in leading worldwide sales organizations, brings expertise in full life cycle product management, proven revenue creation and growth management including taking a start up from zero to $1.6B, and shepherding companies through all phases from start up launch to IPO to acquisition.

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Naming Hiring Technical Review Virginia 59

Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

In 2003 – while Agile was known – it was largely limited to ISVs and a few leading IT organizations. It has been a rocket ship from there. Tim, Ryan, and team have created a phenomenal company that is built on two trends that have picked up massive speed in the past few years: (1) Agile and (2) SaaS.

Software 70

Software Technology Agile SCRUM 70

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2013

For me, the biggest challenge has been the long stretches of time (weeks) between major feature builds or consumer acquisition spikes. min magazine named her one of the “Most Intriguing People” of 2004, Gotham magazine named her one of its “40 under 40” in 2003, and Advertising Age named her a “Woman to Watch” in 2003.

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Cofounder Leadership Startup Founder 160

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 1, 2017

I found myself pushed into entrepreneurship after being laid off from a Marketing Director position with a San Diego based high tech company in 2003. This is invaluable when dealing with acquisitions, hiring new employees, even purchasing something for your closet. You can inherently feel quality. (4)

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San Diego Entrepreneur Marketing Technical Review 48

www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? Copyright © 2003-2010 James Governor, RedMonk. That is- if its in production, its “dead&#. When a commentator says Technology A is dead, they generally just mean its not an Apple or Google product.

Java 43

Java Demand Web Framework 43

www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? Copyright © 2003-2010 James Governor, RedMonk. That is- if its in production, its “dead&#. When a commentator says Technology A is dead, they generally just mean its not an Apple or Google product.

Java 43

Java Demand Web Framework 43

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. Read on for a fuller explanation. Intermix and its advisors weren’t fools.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

When the decision was made to rebrand during the acquisition, I called on my team to determine what our new identity was going to be going forward. I lost my husband Rob to depression in 2003, when he was just 42 years old. I had served as P+B’s West Coast Director for 3 1/2 years, acquiring the company at the end of 2016.

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Naming LLC Entrepreneur Macedonia 98

BeyondVC

DECEMBER 16, 2003

Zone is expected to do around $28mm of revenue in 2003 and $42mm in 2004. The revenue multiple is 7x for 2003 and 5x for 2004. The more significant point is that Checkpoint made its first, meaningful acquisition. The post Check Point makes first meaningful acquisition appeared first on BeyondVC.

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Acquisition Security Revenue Networking 60

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 3, 2011

Lead generation in this content driven social model is still a metered blend of advertising, public relations and referrals, but social is the mechanism driving the discovery and the conversation surrounding this powerful form of lead acquisition.

Small Business 62

Small Business PPC Social Media Public Relations 62

Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

My Experience Back in 2002/2003 I spent hours writing a sales letter and emailing it to 15 local design firms, offering my services as an outsourced development staff (I coded in PHP,NET and Java at the time).

Software Review 53

Software Review Developer RSS Software Developers 53

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. They can come from inside the company, outside as acquisitions, universities, etc. Building an entrepreneurship ecosystem. How can corporations work more closely with universities? which we call problem curation. “Is

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Incubator Lean Programming Government 331

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

His latest book, “ Flip the Funnel: How to use existing customers to gain new ones ,” presents a powerful hypothesis that retention can become the new acquisition through the strategic incorporation and elevation of customer service, customer experience and customer initiated word-of-mouth, content creation and incentive-based referrals.

Small Business 53

Small Business Marketing Social Media Cofounder 53

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

2003 – 2012 was the climb to Enlightenment. It spans the time frame from 1985 – 2015 which you can just lay down on the Gartner Hype Cycle. 1985 – 1994 was the initial entrepreneurial Grind. 1995 – 2000 was the climb up to the Peak. 2001 – 2002 was the collapse to the Trough.

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Merger Stock Internet America 70

Software By Rob

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Since 2003, my thoughts have often manifested in a blog post. .] #7 Matt Watson : DragonDrop.org » on 09.15.10 at 5:53 pm I was thinking the same though*. I googled “is facebook killing the blogosphere&# and this came up #1. You beat me to it. Semi colon, close bracket.

Software Review 49

Software Review RSS Software Developers Software Development 49

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

His latest book, “ Flip the Funnel: How to use existing customers to gain new ones ,” presents a powerful hypothesis that retention can become the new acquisition through the strategic incorporation and elevation of customer service, customer experience and customer initiated word-of-mouth, content creation and incentive-based referrals.

Social Media 32

Social Media Retention Acquisition LLC 32

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I grew up in Los Angeles and went to undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 2003 with Honors in Economics. It was a great conversation and I thought it would be a good idea to do some visible networking with Aaron to get to know him better. Tell me a bit about your background.

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Los Angeles Southern California Startup SEO 150

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 9, 2019

She is the founder and CEO of Ruby Receptionists , a company she started back in 2003 and has seen double digit growth every year since it’s inception. Went searching for an off-the-shelf software solution and hodge-podged a phone system together that worked with it and in 2003 launched. Jill, thanks for joining me.

Ruby 56

Ruby Entrepreneur Portland Small Business 56

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Quigo Lands Overture as Client, Rejects Their Acquisition Offer. Around 2003, Quigo was doing tens of millions of dollars in revenue with two main products: a ready-to-use, search engine marketing solution for advertisers called FeedPoint and a contextual advertising platform for publishers called AdSonar.

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Semantic Acquisition Valuation Angel Investor 302

Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

2003: Spitzer’s Global Research Analyst Settlement, which had the unintended effect of depriving small companies from getting research coverage. This enabled consolidation among the brokerage houses and banks, which led to the loss of multiple distribution channels for securities and reduced the ability for small players to survive.

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Equity Securities and Exchange Commission IPO Marketing 31

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

He also worked in mergers and acquisitions at Veronis, Suhler & Company and Cowles Media Company and held various operations positions at The Black Book. Since 2003, Rumson has helped clients invest over $1.0 He holds a Master of Science in Finance from the London Business School and a Bachelor of Arts from Tulane University.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

Startup Company Lawyer

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Due to aggregate liquidation preferences that may exceed the acquisition price in an M&A deal, common stock may be rendered worthless. This was particularly common from 2001 to 2003, after the dot-com crash when companies had raised a large amount of venture financing at high valuations.

Retention 31

Retention Liquidation Preference Employee Common Stock 31

Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

So last year Eileen Lee, did this amazing study where she dug into data going back to 2003. For $100,000 we actually don’t take any equity in your company unless you raise more venture capital, at which point we’ll convert into that round of funding or if you sell the company, we’ll have a small piece of that acquisition.

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Venture Capital Valuation Los Angeles Chicago 40

Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

In 2003 Electronic Arts actually moved their headquarters from Silicon Valley to Playa Vista, an crazy move at the time, and accelerated their growth as a result. Several smaller software groups, vfx studios and creative design labs are now benefitting from the movement south.

California 20

California Southern California San Francisco Silicon Valley 20

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 4, 2010

Optimizing your Customer Acquisition Funnel – [link]. Optimizing your Customer Acquisition Funnel – [link]. “We create as much information in 2 days now as we did from the dawn of man through 2003″ – [link]. Legal risks and dangers of $99 logo stores – [link]. – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

So I decided to run the London Marathon in April 2003, just 3 weeks before my son was born. April 29th, 2003 my first son was born. Except that after the acquisition Salesforce.com required that I commute more than an hour each way from Palo Alto to San Francisco. By the time of my wedding in July 2002 I was super fit.

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Entrepreneur Silicon Valley San Diego Non-Compete 308

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 average deal size in 2009 was $40 million, an increase of 21 percent from $33 million in 2008.

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OTC Brazil Paraguay 68

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Between working with the co-founders on the strategy, validating concepts with the users, assessing the analytics, driving features and functionality with the team, and working with finance on the new business model, marketing on acquisition, and the warehouse on fulfillment, you can imagine the workload Kate faced on a daily basis.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

It was 2003 or right about then, and I was walking across the Green Street Mall in Brisbane, thinking that I was no longer interested in Magic the Gathering as a card game. If you decide to follow a blog acquisition strategy, you’re not going to write the blog yourself, not very likely. That website gave me money to play with.

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Technical Review Software Review Prospectus Audience 76

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

There was a healthy amount of capital ($20-30B annually) invested in VC funds during the 2003-2008 timeframe. Yes, it was less than the $100B+ that came in ’99-00 but that was bubble driven aberration no matter how you look at it. In the mid 2000′s VC’s were largely prospering.

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LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

And going even further back there have been a few random ones have been built before like Salesforce.com and e-tailer RedEnvelope (IPO’d in 2003 though now defunct as a company). Startups in the city of SF are not exactly a new phenomena… a bunch of startups have been founded/built in SF in the last five years or so.

Silicon Valley 185

Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Startup 185

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

— Frank Sculli co-founded of BioDigital , in 2003 to build a kind of flight simulator for doctors that would be used to train them in specific medical procedures. Steve : You’re a change agent with a bag of money inside the university, right? Frank : You can describe it that way. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Cofounder Investment Bankers 120

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Catch Media was founded in 2003 by two brothers, Yaacov and Boaz Ben-Yaacov. Catch Media’s “Play Anywhere&# technology enables users to access media stored in their home computers (digital movies, music, books, etc) through a range of devices, including mobile phones, DVRs and car media players.

Media 88

Media Cloud Acquisition 88

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.

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San Francisco Acquisition Social Media Mobile 104