SiliconHills

OCTOBER 16, 2020

OJO Labs has acquired Digs, a Chicago-based personal finance app that lets people save for a down payment on a home, manage the equity in their home, and monitor their credit score. It’s OJO’s fourth acquisition since launching in 2015. With the acquisition of Digs, OJO […].

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2014

As in the first part of this series, I’m in good company – I’m joined in Founders School by Noam Wasserman of Harvard teaching Founder’s Dilemmas , Craig Wortmann University of Chicago covering Entrepreneurial Selling , Peter McDermott helping understand Intellectual Property , and Nathan Gold offering how to give Powerful Presentations.

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Intellectual Property Lean Customer Development Acquisition 328

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. Deflationary Economics now favors us. I think it’s the era of the application.

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Los Angeles Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Seattle 376

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 25, 2014

Corporate Acquisitions Of Startups — Why Do They Fail? Chicago is the funniest city in the U.S. (we This Company Makes It Happen – crowdspring.co/1i7ejbt. Don’t F**k Up the Culture – crowdspring.co/RNs9uF. Avoiding common data-interpretation errors – crowdspring.co/RNprpc. – crowdspring.co/1hrlsaI.

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Austin Startup

MAY 10, 2021

Experienced growth-stage executive joins Hologram to continue its rapid growth CHICAGO and AUSTIN, TEXAS ? —? three companies he previously worked for had successful exits including two acquisitions and one IPO. Georgoff has more than 15 years of experience as a growth-stage executive focused on strategy, product and design.

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The Next Web

MARCH 22, 2014

George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures, a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. One of the first things that a venture capitalist looks for in assessing an investment opportunity is the revenue model of the business. Designing a winning, This story continues at The Next Web.

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Revenue Design Chicago Acquisition 138

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2012

The economic logic behind tech and talent acquisitions – Chris Dixon – [link]. Why Chicago is One of the Best Cities for Entrepreneurs | @ Technori – [link]. You Can’t Add Value If You Don’t Have Values | Built In Chicago – [link]. Startup Psychology: Why Awareness Is Awesome | ON Startups – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 102

YoungUpstarts

JULY 6, 2017

He also works in a hands-on capacity, pursuing development opportunities, obtaining financing deals, creating partnerships, and managing acquisitions, among other tasks. This, in turn, led to further land acquisition and the purchase and development of underperforming properties in urban markets from coast to coast.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2016

It ultimately failed because she was focused on engineering the product, but didn’t validate the rest of her business model (product/market fit, distribution channel, customer acquisition, etc.). Instead, I went the Software as a Service route and tried to charge for what was a commodity product. .

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

GRP’s biggest winners over the years have not only come from LA (Overture, CitySearch, TrueCar) but from Chicago (Envestnet, Ulta), Las Vegas (HDI), Baltimore (BillMeLater), New York (DealerTrack), London (LastMinute.com) and other locations. One of his biggest accomplishments there was championing the acquisition of StubHub.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2014

Michelle Joseph is the founder and CEO of PeopleFoundry Inc, and an expert in Human Resources and talent acquisition. Michelle works with Chicago growth companies to build top-tier teams by forming partnerships to find the best people the businesses seek. Professionalisms hiring human resources Michelle Joseph recruitment'

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Hiring Chicago Cofounder Differentiation 200

David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Kevin Barhydt, Head of Acquisitions, RPX. Prior to joining Ocean Tomo, Mr. Geleerd was President and CEO of Terrapin Properties, LLC, one of Chicago’s leading real estate firms as well as one of Chicago’s largest and most active private companies. Kevin Barhydt, Head of Acquisitions, RPX.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

This is precisely why MakeSpace is growing so rapidly in its core markets: New York, Chicago and Washington DC where they can literally come and pick up your furniture and move it away and you never had to visit a facility and they do this at a cheaper price than incumbents by centralizing the location and thus having cheaper infrastructure costs.

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Startup Seed Money DC Software Review 150

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

He lives in Chicago with his wife, daughter, dog, and bike. 7:52] Was there competition that you had to buy up, and/or what type of acquisitions did you feel like you had to make? [9:19] He lives in Chicago with his wife, daughter, dog, and I bet you it's more than one bike if I had the gas. Yeah, that's true.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

That was the topic of my keynote at Seedcon, an event hosted by the University of Chicago, where I am a graduate of the MBA program. And it’s why you probably will quit on day 366 after the acquisition. The left hand side was dinner, terminal 3, Chicago O’Hare. What’s it really like being an entrepreneur?

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Monaco Cofounder Chicago Mexico 420

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

The Next Web

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Drew Myler is Interaction Designer at Signal , a Chicago-based provider of mobile marketing technology. A year ago, we wanted to see more traction with online acquisition. This article is part of Drew’s series, 12 Days of Ideas: Building and Marketing Web Products, published his personal blog. Pricing a product is so.

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Churn Rate Product Chicago Bootstrapping 136

Jeff Hilimire

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

I love many cities, with London and Chicago being at the top, but Atlanta is the place for me. When we were in the process of selling Engauge in 2013, I was asked by a potential acquirer what the percent chance was that I would consider moving to New York post-acquisition. But this post is about Atlanta.

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Atlanta New York Chicago Acquisition 61

VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2011

Yair Goldfinger, co-founder and CTO of Dotomi and a prominent Israeli angel investor, founded Dotomi back in 2000, following the acquisition of ICQ by AOL. Yair Goldfinger’s Dotomi sold to ValueClick for $295 million, of which $162 million are in cash and the rest will be paid in ValueClick equity.

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Angel Investor Chicago Retention Cofounder 87

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Example: Thompson Chicago Hotel. This is the email you receive from Thompson Chicago Hotel after you stay with them… Image Source. Testing starts from your point of email acquisition, so your options are certainly not limited. Set expectations about how long the review or survey will take. Subject lines. Preview copy.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 24, 2016

In addition, with giants like Intel, Google, Apple, Facebook in their backyard, Bay Area startups are more visible for acquisition. If you’re not in one of these major metropolises that Graham wrote about (say, Seattle, Toronto, Chicago, Boulder…), what’s your city’s collective drive?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2018

In 2017, Austin was the topped-ranked city by funding amount outside of the Western, Northeast and Chicago regions. And second, a more mature company is better positioned for an acquisition or an IPO, giving the investors an “end in sight.” Last year, nearly $1.2 billion in funding poured into Austin deals.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 22, 2012

These blogs touch on a wide range of business issues, from mergers and acquisitions to executive training. Fascinated by mergers and acquisitions, deal-making, and negotiations? Learn more about the legal aspects of mergers and acquisitions from a collective of business law professors. Yoko Ishikura. Deal Professor.

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South Carolina Merger Acquisition Oregon 157

Growthink Blog

MARCH 28, 2018

These insights served him well in 1987 when he invested in a small Chicago video tape rental chain called Blockbuster. A key to the success of AutoNation was Wayne learning to temper his “grow by super-fast acquisition” spirit that so drove the success of Waste management and Blockbuster. And to delegate.

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Chicago Business Model Acquisition Video 48

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I’m not against MBA’s (I have one myself from University of Chicago and my lovely wife was graduated from Wharton – she loves to remind me that they usually score higher in the rankings than we do). From memory I believe that their study showed only 2 MBA programs had a positive ROI (Harvard and University of Chicago).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

It’s not just big in Dallas but in San Diego, Phoenix and Sacramento but also Boston, Chicago, Washington and of course San Francisco. and Chicago with regional warehouses in each territory and our technology makes it more efficient for them to do their daily pickups with least-cost routing.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 14, 2010

Unicast is a leading interactive technology company with offices in New York City, London, Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco. As a component of the integration activities following the acquisition, the Unicast management team determined that a shift of our corporate headquarters to Austin would benefit our business.

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Seeing Both Sides

JUNE 3, 2011

The company presents two case studies for its two oldest cities, Chicago and Boston, and provides a few datapoints that allows one to infer two of the most important metrics for the business - customer churn and customers per merchant. Let's look at the longest-tenure city - their hometown of Chicago. In Q1'10 it was 81%.

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Chicago Acquisition Boston Metrics 51

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. As usual, then, I worked with three entrepreneurs working on specific businesses.

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Vertical Web San Francisco Entrepreneur 115

Gust

OCTOBER 2, 2014

That was the topic of my keynote at Seedcon, an event hosted by the University of Chicago, where I am a graduate of the MBA program. And it’s why you probably will quit on day 366 after the acquisition. The left hand side was dinner, terminal 3, Chicago O’Hare. What’s it really like being an entrepreneur? Entrepreneurshit.

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Monaco Cofounder Chicago Mexico 122

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 6, 2010

There are 98 links on a travel site I am looking at right now, on the page for a hotel in Chicago. I hope that before you go for massive web analytics glory that your use your wonderful powers first to make sure your site and customer acquisition strategy does not suck. Count the number of links on your main pages. I mean count them.

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Analytics Web Campaign PPC 99

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Dallas at night I would venture to say it is shared by other non-Dallas-ites, as a city whose residents consider themselves more cosmopolitan, a bit more reserved, and a cut above the rest of the Texas social scene, more in the national league of NY, LA, or Chicago. But, they do exist.

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Hippoland

JULY 6, 2018

I also look at the “pan-midwest”: Chicago, Cincy, Indy, et al. Lastly, M&A is also still big here – the tech companies who are doing big acquisitions are in the Bay Area (though this is changing too). Other cities that I like are LA (basically my backyard), Boston (oldie but goodie), and ATL.

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Hippoland

JULY 6, 2018

I also look at the “pan-midwest”: Chicago, Cincy, Indy, et al. Lastly, M&A is also still big here – the tech companies who are doing big acquisitions are in the Bay Area (though this is changing too). Other cities that I like are LA (basically my backyard), Boston (oldie but goodie), and ATL.

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Silicon Valley San Francisco Portugal Ireland 48

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Priorities change, focus shifts to a new market, acquisitions occur, communication falters, etc. Blue Pearl is located in Chicago, IL, and specializes in creating, implementing and maintaining strategies to assist its clients in reaching their stated goals. . Eliminate Waste/Refine the Model.

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Bandwidth Chicago Hiring Operations 171

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2012

A Start-Up Ecosystem Forms in Chicago – [link]. Secrets of the acquisition process from EA and Zynga – [link]. 5 New Spots for Chicago Tech Entrepreneurs – [link]. Twitter’s Secret History As the World’s Worst Tech or Media Business – [link]. Why I left Google – [link]. Name dropping!

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2017

You have to chase Fortune 500 customers in places like Dallas, Atlanta, LA, NY, and Chicago by clever sales and marketing if you want to maintain your base in laid-back Austin. But, it’s not a town to know and gain access to corporate America if that is a key component of your business model.

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