Hearpreneur

JUNE 16, 2023

What is important to note however is the industry must stay at the forefront of changes to support their clients as it impacts their own growth, client acquisition, and client results. Thanks to Roman Milyushkevich, Scrape it Cloud ! Thanks to Shannon Stone ! #3- What's the economic outlook of your industry?

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

They already have several customers including some telcos, and are at about $350,000 in revenues. Gio expects to get to about $500,000 by the end of this year and asked me for advice on venture funding. Her main questions were around customer acquisition and financing. Very encouraging!

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www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

MARCH 26, 2014

The Enterprise Architect building an Agile Enterprise Home MDD PaaS Startup Presentations About The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared October 12, 2013 Johan Den Haan 10 comments “I work for a PaaS company” I answered him. It was a cold winter day on a hipster cloud conference. cloud applicationsâ??

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Agile VC

MAY 13, 2013

When we meet with entrepreneurs and ask about their competitive advantage or special sauce, one of the common responses is first mover advantage. ”We’re the first company to do X in an rapidly growing market” or similar. Dropbox (cloud storage). Netflix (video streaming). Google (search… lots of predecessors).

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Austin Startup

MAY 24, 2021

I’m going to talk about the market dynamics for Intelligent Process Automation, but first let’s take a moment to understand why this software is valuable for the companies that buy them. if we can say that digital transformation isn’t just about how it looks (the UI, the website), but also how it works ?—?then

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 25, 2012

This acquisition is a long story, but if you have a few minutes let me tell you the best parts. If you’re interested you can read about one of my acquisitions from a few years back in a post titled The Inside Story of a Small Software Acquisition. My Background. So I scrambled. Step 2: The Funnel.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Our conversation also had me thinking about our other clients, potential clients and the firms that decided to go a different direction. We weren’t winning or losing business to other developers, rather it generally came down to three options: Buy – the client saw the value in our platform and they subscribed to our cloud.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Yet, even though our team had experience with several previous successful acquisitions, after the initial rush of excitement, the hard reality of bringing together two separate entities set in. Integrating an acquisition is difficult in the best of circumstances and can often fail to meet stakeholders’ expectations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

I’m not talking here about a small pivot. I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Unfortunately, the mainstream customers who can really drive revenue care more about price.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Practically all consumer companies fall into the “sell to many” category, but what about on the enterprise side? The SaaS model, with its inherent low customer acquisition costs (CAC) and ease of deployment, makes it possible for companies to be successful when focusing on the SMB market, as well as niche verticals.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 18, 2020

It is the answer for most of the doctors’ concerns about remote patient monitoring, instructing patients on how to conduct self-assessment, screening patients with symptoms of the Coronavirus, managing patients’ data, and staying in touch with other hospitals.

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The Next Web

MAY 10, 2014

It’s no secret that most new industries consolidate as they mature, and the enterprise cloud market is no exception. In the last few years, mergers and acquisitions have made headlines as cloud vendors battle it out for a top spot in the relatively new and rapidly growing enterprise cloud market.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I know how it feels to be passionate about an idea and watch it struggle to take off. Think about it – when you hear the name “Apple” or “Google,” what comes to mind? However, developing a brand identity isn’t just about creating a logo or picking out some colors. How to design SaaS UX?

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Design Product Churn Rate Architecture 105

Up and Running

MAY 10, 2021

In this article, we will talk about the trends and the cost of mobile app development with a forecast for 2021. Google is about to introduce a new AR feature for Google Maps. Does this number tell anything to you about app development? We will see an increase in cloud platforms and a reduction in the cost of sensors.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 24, 2020

That means businesses can plan their social media a week or month out, and not worry about interrupting their weekends, holidays and busy work days to post on socials. Chad Ruff serves as chief technology officer at Swiftpage , provider of leading cloud-enabled CRM and marketing automation platform Act! www.act.com ).

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

We all woke up to the news that Microsoft is buying Nokia for ~$7B (ok, not the carrier infrastructure biz but the main part of Nokia that anybody cares about). And Microsoft’s Azure strategy has given it a strong position in public and private cloud computing. Want names?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2013

Caldwell received a lot of press about his campaign to raise over $750,000 this past August, but has been relatively quiet in the consumer area of the web since that time. The join.app.net campaign of the summer was designed to get developers excited about the platform and to get them to build applications for it.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The launch of the Xbox and Kinect, and the acquisitions of Skype and Yammer happened on his shift. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud.

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Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The launch of the Xbox and Kinect, and the acquisitions of Skype and Yammer happened on his shift. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

I’m not talking here about a small pivot. I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Unfortunately, the mainstream customers who can really drive revenue care more about price.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 26, 2017

Cloud software model will account for 1 dollar for every $4.59 86% of Saas business consider customer acquisition as their highest growth priority. You could remind them that their trial is about to be over. Notifications like ‘Your trial is about to expire. by Pravya Pravin, product marketer at iZooto.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2014

Aircraft acquisitions and resolving engineering issues are also high on the list. The cloud-based videoconferencing like Blue Jeans Network even makes it possible for users to connect across multiple vendors, including Cisco’s WebEx and Google’s Video Chat. Decisions often have to be made on short notice.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2024

For example: Technologies: AI, IOT, Cloud, Blockchain Areas: Vertical SaaS, Crypto, Security, Consumer, Deep Tech There is nothing wrong with this approach, but it has never been native for us. Different innovation waves overlap and compound one another (cloud + mobile for example). Replacement is a great strategy.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2016

Before the advent of cloud technology and the Internet, company files had to be stored away in physical data rooms (PDRs). A 2012 study done by IBISWorld revealed that VDRs experienced a steady growth of about 17 percent annually as a result of technological advancements as well as the growth of global demand for these storage services.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2019

It occurred to me that about 2 years has transpired since that original post and I thought I’d write a follow-up. 12 years into a fund, I think LPs are probably primarily thinking about DPI. One way to think about this is how quickly LPs expect to get their capital back from a VC commitment. So, is this good or bad?

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

How To Think About The Future. The classic delineations of web products for business and consumer (“enterprise” direct selling, on premise vs cloud, etc) are only getting blurrier. But in the next 5 years the web and mobile app stores will increasingly be a force in selling and customer acquisition for busines software.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 17, 2020

Smart or Self Driving Cars, IoT Devices, Smart Homes, Medical chip implants, Bots, and Robots to assist you; in short, everything will be connected to the internet and cloud. One such industry is the Network Marketing, which entirely depends on customer acquisition. Trends that could spur investments in Technology.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

Their most profitable segment is very high-end processors used in data centers in servers and the cloud. Capital is returned to these investors through liquidity events (originally public offerings, but today mostly acquisitions). Its acquisition of Android may have been the biggest bargain in corporate history.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? This is the magic of sales: by learning about each customer in-depth, they can convince each of them that this product would solve serious problems.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

In it I talked about how I believe that Netflix has a very strong lead in the battle for the “head end&# of the digital living room. It’s the most profound book I’ve read on thinking about how the Internet is changing business. And what about streaming? I would like to take the opposite side of that debate.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 27, 2011

When you start a company, the decision about which market to pursue comes early and lasts a very long time. In that role, he championed the acquisition of a little known company named Weblogic. Alfred, a man long on courage, remained steadfast in his position and completed the acquisition. That’s what a CEO’s CEO does.

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Acquisition Cloud Architecture Revenue 78

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

With the explosion of online cybercrimes, cybercrime security is undoubtedly the next lucrative venture any entrepreneur should think about. Also, these services can be focused on the cloud or virtual security data rooms. During business mergers or acquisitions there’s plenty of research and document reviews.

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Software Review Technical Review Intellectual Property Due Diligence 68

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

put this ad on web pages about motorcycles”); General information about the interests of the person who is going to see the ad (e.g., Federated Learning of Cohorts, or FLoC , is all about number two. All the training data remains on your device, and no individual updates are stored in the cloud. How FLoC works.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Three out of every four B2B buyers would rather self-educate than learn about a product from a sales representative, according to Forrester. If you’ve used Slack or Dropbox, you’ve witnessed this first-hand—you didn’t read a lengthy whitepaper on the benefits of strong internal communication or cloud-based file sharing. Tidal Waves.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

What I find exciting about Freshdesk is that they may be able to do the same thing in customer support that Zoho did in CRM: a drastic downshifting of the price-point of a full-functionality, differentiated, cutting edge customer support solution. You can read more about Freshdesk on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar today.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Posted a draft patent application your company was about to file? Crowdsourced a question about a sensitive issue she was handling for a customer? The so-called Facebook generation is conditioned to casually communicate, swapping files and using the Cloud to store and access photos, music, and more.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Alternatives to paid health care benefits, and GE’s public cloud plans – Today in Small Business - crowdspring.co/1pd4XzQ 1pd4XzQ (via @genemarks ). 1sTawss.

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