Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

There’s a couple different forces I see at work: 1) Selling & Customer Acquisition - In the last 5 years, the biggest force in business software was the impact of the cloud as an infrastructure layer and product/service delivery mechanism. companies on user acquisition are increasingly being applied to SaaS companies.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 25, 2021

This plan is your go-to-market (GtM) strategy , which should be informed by: Market conditions and competitive positioning Ideal customers and target audience Product offer and pricing Lead generation and customer acquisition process. These insights will help you choose a GtM strategy that will attract, retain, and grow your customer base.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Voyager Labs (2012) – cognitive computing for understanding human behaviour. Beyond Verbal (2012) – understands people’s moods, attitudes and emotional characteristics (also known as personality) from their raw vocal intonations in real-time, as they speak. Raised $8M in series B in September 2016.

Artificial Inteligence 122

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Also run a search on social media sites like Twitter. Section 179 allows businesses to deduct the cost of qualifying businesses equipment placed in service in 2012 up to $125,000. Describe to the equipment lease financing provider how the equipment acquisition will benefit your business.

Technical Review 98

Technical Review Due Diligence Acquisition Startup 98

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 10, 2012

According to a newly released study from Borrell Associates, small businesses are spending more of their budgets on social media. In fact, small and medium size businesses expect to spend nearly as much on social media as they do on search engine marketing (see table below).

Social Media 96

Social Media Small Business Media Metrics 96

venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

2012 Events. Acquisition. Social media. Social networking. Social games. July 12, 2012 12:01 PM. Additionally, he’s looking for companies that have a long-term potential to be Microsoft partners or acquisitions. July 10, 2012 6:59 PM. July 9, 2012 2:00 PM. what’s hot?

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Outcome: Just sold to PayPal for $4B (PayPal’s largest acquisition to date). We met Ryan Holmes in 2009 as he was just about to spin Hootsuite out of Invoke Media, a development agency. Ryan and his co-founders proved us wrong big time and built one of the largest social media management companies. Eight years and $49.9B

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Portfolio Cap Table Early Stage Valuation 201

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

On November 28, 2012. November 29, 2012. November 29, 2012. November 29, 2012. November 29, 2012. Doctors are in high demand, not just by their patients, but by startups looking to create social networks, marketplaces, and portals around their expertise. November 29, 2012. PandoDigest. By Sarah Lacy.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

” April, 2012 – Andrew Chen writes Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing , which goes viral (2.4K September, 2012 – Andrew Chen, who currently does growth at Uber , writes You don’t need a growth hacker , which encourages companies to really consider whether they have product-market fit before hiring a growth hacker.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

We launched the larger channel back in 2012 and the smaller channel in 2019. Fortunately, YouTube allows you to have a default template for your description, so you can add links to your company, social media properties, and other relevant information. Beardbrand currently has two different YouTube channels, one with 1.6

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 2, 2016

It might have started with Aaron Burr talking at social clubs, but campaigns today include millions dumped into advertising, social media strategy, promotional products, and more. It also seemed exceedingly basic following the somewhat revolutionary logo designs featured by the Obama campaign in 2008 and 2012.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Chronicling the undoing of traditional media. 26 September 2012. To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero. Share this: Tags: consumer web , social media , social web , traffic. 26 September 2012 at 10:10 am. #.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Panel 1 – How Social Investing is Disrupting Traditional Investing in Public Securities. The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Tuesday, Jan 17th, 2012.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

My own experience sending a newsletter has been eye-opening, and while social media garners most of the mainstream headlines these days, email remains as powerful as ever, and it’s well-positioned to be an effective offering into the foreseeable future. The management interface provided by most ESPs is more than adequate.

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Email Technical Review Marketing SEO 49

YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2017

Your business isn’t Facebook, but you certainly can learn from the social-media titan by examining how it operates — when things are going well, and not so well. He struck quickly to acquire Instagram when it had a mere 30 million users in 2012. Turn Your Business Around When You Don’t Have to. billion users respectively.

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Silicon Valley IPO Metrics Global 150

ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2019

The stream of blog visitors generate awareness; the links to those posts support bottom-of-funnel acquisition on product pages. They began posting videos on YouTube in 2012—three years before Joule came to market. billion payday when Petsmart acquired it in 2017—the largest-ever ecommerce acquisition. Nurture emails.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 12, 2016

Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). Customer Acquisition Cost refers to the resources that a business uses in order to acquire an additional customer. Common acquisition expenses are: paid ads, staff salaries, CRM, marketing automation software licenses, sponsorships, content marketing, and social media.

Software Review 48

Software Review Metrics Revenue Acquisition 48

www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

MediaNext 2012. E-Media Summit -->. Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools. 07/25/2012. Social media audiences have effectively become another universe of prospects to tap, which means measurement and tracking is essential to yielding from these visitors both direct and indirect revenue.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 13, 2019

By 2014, almost half of B2B buyers were millennials , nearly double the number from 2012. That limits search-based acquisition, but it also creates friction for new users. Are you gaining traction on social media channels? The impact of the changing B2B ecommerce landscape. The makeup of B2B buyers has shifted.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Posted on May 31, 2012. This is enormously motivational for SaaS businesses because they typically have godawful terrible cash-flow issues with customer acquisition costs front-loaded and revenue dripped out at a mostly steady pace for years. May 31, 2012 at 8:21 am. #. May 31, 2012 at 9:45 am. #. Greatest Hits.

Email 54

Email Software Review Software Campaign 54

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

We at Blue Fountain Media have 5 strategies small businesses can take to take advantage of the holiday shopping opportunity: 1. Ramp up your email acquisition NOW. Promote Your Holiday Sale via Social Media. While it goes without saying, you should absolutely promote your holiday marketing campaigns via social media.

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Sales Social Media Mobile Campaign 164

The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

That’s 43% down on Q3 2011 and 12% down on Q2 2012. The authors blame the decline on the poor macroeconomic environment, saying that in times like these executives are risk averse and reluctant to make large acquisitions. There were 752 deals announced in Q3, of which 153 disclosed the deal value.

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Private Equity Equity Acquisition Early Stage 106

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

About 1/3 of all China’s Venture Capital investment is made in Beijing and the majority of those investments are in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) sector I’ll describe shortly. As vibrant as the China venture business has been, 2012 was a different story. VC’s pulled back and only invested $3.7 In the U.S.

Silicon Valley 271

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 271

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

After some searching, TripAdvisor found a magical business model, representing social media and user-generated content at its best. The chart below shows their financial performance over the last few years, with forecasted 2012 revenue of $767M and EBITDA of $339M. I prefer to keep it separate and give it some CEO love.

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Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

Up and Running

JANUARY 5, 2018

acquisition of Jet.com in August 2016 transformed the company beyond the addition of the Jet platform. Jet.com founder Marc Lore ascended to CEO of Walmart’s US e-commerce operations, and since joining has taken the company on an e-commerce/apparel acquisition spree. POTENTIAL ACQUISITION TARGETS. Walmart’s $3.3B

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

The SEC’s proposed rules (mandated by the JOBS Act of 2012) amend the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to allow the offer and sale of securities through an internet crowdfunding campaign, similar in some respects to donation crowdfunding campaigns conducted on Kickstarter and Indiegogo.

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Equity SEC Technical Review Security 125

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million.

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

On the heels of seeing the 10% influencer base increase the referrals process yielded, the team at Intellifluence pushed to create a brand-to-brand referral program as well, intent on creating user acquisition flywheels wherever possible.

Entrepreneur 119

Entrepreneur Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 119

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 2, 2013

Multi-channel attribution was the flavor of the month for every month in 2012. And just as in 2012 magic pills will be scarce, FUD will be plentiful, and vendors will promise the moon. If you remember from our first report above, direct was #3 in overall and social was #4, but on mobile direct is #1 and social is #3.

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Analytics Search Campaign eCommerce 159

OnlyOnce

APRIL 10, 2014

Although generally business is great at Return Path and by almost any standard in the world has been consistently strong over the years, as everyone internally knows, the second part of 2012 and most of 2013 were not our finest years/quarters. — there were two other key drivers.

Social Media 105

Social Media Acquisition Email Programming 105

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more. acquisition. Thursday, January 12, 2012. Nikhil Kalghatgi, Senior Associate, SoftBank Capital.

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ConversionXL

JULY 5, 2013

According to a survey of over 72 Million customers shopping on 86 retail sites, marketing data company, Custora has learned that Email is the number 3 source of customer acquisition. of total customer acquisition – and CPC with 10% acquisition. This is outpaced only by Organic Search with 15.8%

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

A Harvard senior, Crouch spent his summer shuttling back and forth between Springfield and Cambridge as he collaborated with the police department and state troopers to use social media and pattern recognition software to combat gang violence. They are a part of the Techstars 2012 class. Anna Palmer and Christine Rizk.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 15, 2012

My goal is to get them excited about creating an amazing digital acquisition strategy that delivers noteworthy experiences through their owned digital platforms, and which ultimately delivers bigger profits (usually offline, but online as well). And to think you've been pimping social media on every company you can find. :).

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

About 1/3 of all China’s Venture Capital investment is made in Beijing and the majority of those investments are in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) sector I’ll describe shortly. As vibrant as the China venture business has been, 2012 was a different story. VC’s pulled back and only invested $3.7 In the U.S.

Silicon Valley 163

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 163

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 5, 2013

In January 2012, it was announced by comScore that Pinterest was the fastest website ever to reach 10 million unique visitors. The above screenshot shows the group board results for the search “social media marketing.” Integrate Pinterest With Your Other Social Media Channels. photo credit: seo.com. Google Plus.

Social Media 77

Social Media Social Network Channel HTML 77

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

Some of these businesses are still with us, including Google and the social media behemoth Facebook. Others, like Def Jam, have been transformed through mergers and acquisitions. In June 2012, Fanning and fellow Napster co-founder Sean Parker launched a new live social video mirco-sharing platform called Airtime.

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