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A VC’s take on the Season 5 premier of Sharktank

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Barbara Corcoran passed in the most confusing manner, saying, “Your sales growth is tremendous, you don’t really need my money since you are so successful, so I’m out” That is the equivalent of the “It’s not you, it’s me, I’m not good enough for you” break up line.

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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

Both Sides of the Table

We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. When Salesforce.com decided to buy my company in December 2006 I dropped everything and focused religiously on closure. VC, sales, biz dev, M&A or otherwise. We ended up agreeing a term sheet for $16.5

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How to Curate Sitelinks to Increase Conversions

ConversionXL

Taking good care of them can have a disproportionate impact on your leads and sales compared to optimizations that target non-branded queries. Neglecting those visitors, on the other hand, may cost you easy sales. Google introduced sitelinks in 2006. Make sure you have a coupon or sale page.

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