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. A Facebook employee (FBe) gave a talk about measuring ROI/Value of Facebook campaigns. But not, ever, in aggregate.]. What can you measure to show value: Do.

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Scott Edward Walker

APRIL 16, 2014

A well-drafted confidentiality agreement will also prohibit the potential buyer from hiring and/or soliciting the company’s employees. (I Indeed, this is the first of many transaction documents that will need to be negotiated, with the letter of intent and the acquisition agreement to follow. on a need-to-know basis.

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Agile VC

JUNE 13, 2019

I know some of the investors in Chewy prior to the PetSmart acquisition, but I am not a shareholder nor do I intend to purchase shares in the IPO. Chewy helpfully provides some cohort data on both aggregate $ revenue, active customer spend, and LTV/CAC basis. spent by new customers in 2015, that same group (in aggregate) bought $1.65

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 3, 2011

Recent data from daily deal aggregator Yipit , shows there are now over 480. Dr. Dholakia tested 3 hypotheses for attributes that would increase the likelihood of a profitable Groupon: "A) New customer acquisition efficacy, (B) spending beyond the Groupon's face value, and (C) repeat full-price purchase." Future Investigations.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 31, 2016

Speed of product development, of brand-building, of customer acquisition, of team-building and talent aggregation. When it comes to how that "Collection of Humans" that make up how a modern business is organized, long gone and never to return are the days of all a companies' people being W-2 employees working under a common roof.

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SCRUM Finance Aggregator Acquisition 48

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. In response to the problem of worthless common stock, some companies have implemented employee retention plans, which are also referred to as M&A carveout plans. Participation.

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Retention Liquidation Preference Employee Common Stock 31

ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

Revenue is quite far removed from most employees’ daily jobs, and big numbers (in the millions) are hard to grasp compared to a metric like monthly active users (MAU). This number can grow, but if all your new MAUs are free users, you’re not achieving your conversion and paid customer acquisition goals. Customer acquisition cost (CAC).

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 5, 2014

If they want their employees to change the world, they need to support their physical well being. How has technology played a role in customer acquisition? What I need most is a product that aggregates all my contacts, emails, and sales pipelines that’s also super simple and elegantly designed. Giving RelateIQ a shot.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 30, 2020

The hiring process has many flaws, even though strategic talent acquisition is central to most businesses. Improving Employee Engagement and Retention. Even though employee engagement is vital in businesses, about 85% of the employees are actively disengaged or not engaged at work. Enhancing the Hiring Process.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. This is why companies often get out-competed by former employees (Palm vs Handspring to name just one), even though the upstart lacks all of the familiar resources, tools, processes, and support they used to have.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Statistically speaking, you’re probably reading it either through a feedreader or on an aggregator like Hacker News. 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.

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Email Software Review Software Campaign 54

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I use a more restrictive definition: A growth team is a product tech team that’s focused on acquisition instead of core product features. I joined as employee 14 and spent a few years at this analytics startup, which was founded by Hiten Shah and Neil Patel. But in aggregate, they can make a big difference.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Point Nine Capital uses 15Five for continuous employee feedback. Some notable metrics are revenue growth rates, free cashflow, leverage ratios, historical financing amounts, returns on marketing spend, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of customers, customer churn rates, and team social scores.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

Using an aggregated set of over 15 billion actions analyzed by Mixpanel each month during August, September, and October 2013, they were able to establish new, industry specific benchmarks for retention. Make changes to your acquisition, onboarding, support, and more to drive that score up for each and every customer. The Research.

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Retention Churn Rate Metrics Software Review 106

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Creativity in our business lives – The average tech startup these days spends time talking with colleagues & investors about a multitude of things: customer acquisition, viral adoption, raising capital, hiring / firing employees, product features, technology trends, marketing / branding, and on and on.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

You may meet with your employees and managers to make sure they’re prepared for opening night, or give your business plan another glance to see if there are any glaring issues you have overlooked. Modern point of sale systems offer a simple ordering process for restaurant employees. Employee scheduling software.

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Technology Aggregator Software Programming 60

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.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

If we don’t enjoy working with someone - an employee, a partner, whomever - we’re just not going to do it. Sure, we employee lots of amazing people whom we trust to help us make it great, but as Founders we still own and control the final product. Don’t work with people you don’t love. It’s that important. It’s that important.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

In small organizations there is a lot more end-to-end ownership amongst the few employees, and if something is going awry things hit the fan pretty fast. There are many good acquisition metrics including impressions, clicks, delivery rate, share of voice, and on and on. This is a great behavior correcting mechanism.).

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A Crowded Space

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Freelance labor marketplaces don’t have middle layers of managers and other support staff, they have independent contractors rather than employees, and they don’t have the cost of office space and supplies. Being an employee brings benefits and confidence that you know where your next paycheck is coming from.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2015

Twitter announced its acquisition of our competition Gnip almost a year ago. 90% of DataSift customers ingest data from 2 sources (most ingest multiple streams) and select from > 20 large data sources of which Twitter is one. We know directly that many customers don’t want to cede control of how they process data streams to Twitter.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2019

Each chosen obsession is very much in the spirit of my beloved principle of the aggregation of marginal gains. You'll be surprised by the steep drop in Cost per Acquisition. Employees also become smarter when they have to optimize for more than one thing. :). Improve the Bounce Rate of your top 10 landing pages by 50%.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

There’s quite a range of information sources from curated reports to aggregated data. CB Insights regularly produces data-driven reports and analysis on venture capital, private equity, angel investment, mergers & acquisitions, IPOs and emerging high-growth industries. 1) Industry reports. 6) CB Insights. 7) Mattermark.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

And the typical three problem areas for a lot of small businesses are either they’re too dependent on a single employee, to dependent on a single supplier, or as you said in your example, to dependent on a single customer. If a customer wants a deal, if an employee wants a vacation, they have to go into the hub.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Vice versa conversion rate could be down but if you have done a good job of acquisition (relevant traffic) then AOV will save your butt when your boss yells at you ("Please Mr. Brent stop freaking out, look the average basket size went up 75%!"). Company employees b h and moan and complain about how much their websites stink.

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Metrics Web Non-Compete Analytics 124

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

In fact my first job as an early employee of PayPal was as Product Manager responsible for our mobile products (WAP-enabled cell phones and our legacy Palm Pilot IR port product) and the first international version of PayPal. carriers, Google, et al) covet an economic stream they believe they can take a slice of.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Wintegra, founded in 2000, has 165 employees with the majority of its R&D development team located in Ra’anana, Israel, and Austin, Texas. Shamir Optical reported revenues of $142 million in 2009, generated mainly in Europe and the United States, and has about 1,400 employees. is acquiring iSkoot Technologies Inc.,

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. This is the blog post I needed to read. niners.boi Do you think we can ever take [link] mainstream? link] Hazem Awad An excellent and very practical article.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. #10: Leaving people skills and capabilities aside, it is the work the employee does that makes them a Squirrel or a Ninja. 11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. All data in aggregate is crap. Total revenue.

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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. buy wow gold.

Software Review 48

Software Review South Korea IPO Portfolio 48

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Logia offers Mobile Operators a range of solution for their Apps Stores starting from Content Aggregation, Billing aggregation to full white labeled Apps Store. Logia has the unique combination of being both a content aggregator and a billing aggregator. Mce Systems. MailVision. Mer Telecom. -

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

After college, I was a very early employee at a web company called Tumblr. It’s designed for small and mid size companies and it all started based on a focus of the employees. Our slogan is, “We heart employees,” and everything that we do is designed around usability for the employees.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Could we offer a “dial” to issuers and let them (and perhaps their ad agencies) decide? * * For GS.com , EXCLUSIVE access to GS hot deal might be a critical competitive tool to keep customer acquisition costs low and encourage larger clients to more to our site from a competitor’s. of VC-backed companies vs Buyout-backed companies.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

Measuring Visits and Conversions in aggregate first and segmented by keywords (or even key word clusters) will get you on the path to showing real impact. That gives you short term acquisition quality, you can then move to long term quality by focusing on metrics like lifetime value. Don't start with LTV, it is hard. Page views.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 13, 2017

Oh, or your main traffic sources and the visitor acquisition metrics? Hence, in a business context I rarely advocate for initiatives whose only purpose is to allow the broad collection of company employees to go on random fishing expeditions. I’ve said that all data in aggregate is crap. sharply focused 2.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

great web customer acquisition tutorials. BambooHR -Â Employee Records, Benefit Information, Payroll Data, etc. aggregation. mixpanel vs kissmetric vs google analytics review. Analytics blog â?? good analytics tutorials. SEO for Startups â?? good tutorial. Andrew Chenâ??s s Essays â?? Analytics Tools. Google Analytics â??

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Meanwhile, the rash of early liquidity and recent IPOs — unsatisfying as they were — gave liquidity to thousands of employees at large companies, and a subset of those made very real money. This adds to a busy month of dealmaking for Cisco, who already made two other acquisition in just a few weeks — offering $1.2

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