Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Ajax was the new buzzword and many companies went overboard. People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, The COGS (costs of goods sold) tells me about how big your customer acquisition costs will be. portfolios. You get the point.

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Business Plan AJAX Venture Capital Technical Review 334

techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. Software Engineer—PHP—Energy Software for the Smart Grid @ Agentis Energy (Elmhurst, IL) Sr. Software Engineer @ General Electric (Barrington, IL) Sr.

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San Francisco Startup PHP San Diego 44

BeyondVC

MAY 12, 2006

He made it very clear that the pace of acquisitions has increased, rising from 9 the prior year to 22 this past year. For those who care, the sweet spot for Microsoft is to buy a more engineering and technology focused company versus a sales and marketing oriented one. The post Microsoft VC Summit appeared first on BeyondVC.

Flash 60

Flash AJAX Acquisition API 60

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Use my Acquisition, Behavior and Outcomes framework to ensure an end-to-end view of important activity and 2. Acquisition: Clicks? Cost Per Acquisition. Cost Per Acquisition. But because you are running a bigger and more complex business you'll also measure… Acquisition: CPA. Acquisition: CPA.

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Metrics Web Analytics CPA 151

mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

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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San Francisco Acquisition Social Media Mobile 104

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Worklight is IBM’s 11th acquisition in Israel. Worklight’s technology enables application programmers to create, in one single process, an application that will work with a range of devices without having to rewrite the application for each platform. The company was founded in 1985 and is based in Ajax, Canada.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Worklight is IBM’s 11th acquisition in Israel. Worklight’s technology enables application programmers to create, in one single process, an application that will work with a range of devices without having to rewrite the application for each platform. The company was founded in 1985 and is based in Ajax, Canada.

Flash 60

Flash Private Placement Los Angeles 60