YoungUpstarts
JUNE 18, 2012
The startup will then look outwards in the region to expand into, either organically or via a partnership, joint venture or acquisition. As a startup in Asia, the top 2 markets to start from are China , and India. For e.g. platforms, market places, aggregators, advertising networks… chances are you are a B2B2C company.
crowdSPRING Blog
NOVEMBER 27, 2012
. … Due to the relatively small potential contract values in restaurants, startups serving these customer segments have to build very efficient sales teams or online customer acquisition tools to aggregate many of them inexpensively. Who is correct? And how does this impact your new company?
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Occam's Razor
SEPTEMBER 24, 2012
Increased investment in Facebook as an engagement/acquisition channel has translated into requests from CEOs, CMOs and other CxOs about the return on that investment. It is always so cool to run marketing campaigns in large homogenous markets (like Europe, Asia, or large chunks of the US). But not, ever, in aggregate.].
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 British mobile payments and messaging aggregator will become part of Amdocs’ OpenMarket US mobile transactions hub.
Cracking the Code
OCTOBER 10, 2008
Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. The CLTV is the net present value of the recurring profit streams of a given customer less the acquisition cost. Cashflow is the other key metric. Philippe Botteri. Bessemer SaaS Law #2.
VC Cafe
NOVEMBER 3, 2010
Posco, today the world’s second largest steel producer and ranked 272nd in the Fortune 500, is both the first Korean firm as well as the first company from Asia to join the Israeli framework. iSkoot is Qualcomm’s first acquisition in Israel. ERNST & YOUNG SEES RISE IN ISRAELI ACQUISITIONS FOR 2010.
Cracking the Code
FEBRUARY 4, 2008
Among others, I would quote the Bladelogic IPO, the acquisition of Postini by Google for $625m, the two largest SaaS deals in history signed by Cornerstone OnDemand (160k and 350k seats), Eloqua almost doubling its revenues and LinkedIn adding more than 10m users. Save Asia for post-IPO. You will need to sell directly for a long time.
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