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Google VP: Here's How to Get Bought By Us

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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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Cracking The Code: State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment

Cracking the Code

So, here is the first edition, including the recent Q4 2009 earnings and the updated 2010 forecast. However, despite healthy Q4 results (most companies were at or above plans) few have increased their 2010 guidance and the median moved only from 15% (same as 2009) to 17%. Finance Dissertation Help. I was looking for such post.I

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Cracking The Code: SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble?

Cracking the Code

The sales productivity ratio (measured with the Customer Acquisition Cost or CAC ratio) are also fairly similar for the two groups (except for a small cap dip in Q4 09) and therefore do not explain the difference Why is scale so much rewarded by public markets? . ► 2009. (9). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing.

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Mobile Marketing 2015: Rethink Customer Acquisition, Intent Targeting

Occam's Razor

They are slow to grasp new opportunities to rethink customer relationships, to revolutionize products and services, marketing, advertising, acquisition, and to deliver delight and make people happy. Customer acquisition. 2009 was the year of mobile. Re-think Customer Acquisition, Brand Engagement. Celebrate a little.

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Cracking The Code: New SaaS 13 Index: Welcome to LogMeIn.

Cracking the Code

Tuesday, November 10, 2009. The acquisition of Omniture by Adobe for $1.8B and the second SaaS public transaction in history behind the acquisition of Webex by Cisco in 2007 for $3.2B. On the IPO front, LogMeIn made the news, being one of the few tech IPO on the NASDAAQ in 2009. ▼ 2009. (9). Yahoo Finance.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. Great post!

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Cracking The Code: Laughing Out (c)Loud

Cracking the Code

Thursday, October 08, 2009. But does Larry hate cloud computing that much or is he hiding a potential future acquisition of Salesforce.com? ▼ 2009. (9). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Yahoo Finance. Laughing Out (c)Loud. A funny video of Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle on Cloud Computing.