Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

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. Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. This S-Curve, with no correction, can quickly lead to disaster.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Use cloud infrastructure: The cloud infrastructure is a scalable and reliable way to host your product. There are several different cloud providers to choose from, so you can find one that meets your needs. Use load balancing: Load balancing is a technique for distributing traffic across multiple servers. That’s 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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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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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). These cloud based software programs are connected and operated on extranet. Mergers and Acquisitions. by Gabriel Cabot, digital marketing strategist at Firmex, Inc. VDRs protect stored data.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

In Netflix’s case this is their DVD distribution business. It’s clear that in the future movies & TV will be delivered to our homes from the cloud. It’s hard to imagine somebody else being able to effectively compete with that. Indeed for many this is already the case.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Then he'll describe his cutting-edge platform — cloud-based, scalable, distributed version control, continuous integration, one-click-deploy. Of course it's not that simple, and many business plans I've seen (unintentionally) omit many of the true costs of acquisition. Maybe you'll even get a wobbly demo.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The recent legal battles between Epic Games and Apple on this practice, highlights the tension between the Consumer Subscription apps and the platforms they rely on for distribution. For these businesses to be successful, focusing on engagement and mitigating churn is more important than top line growth and high spend on user acquisition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

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. Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. This S-Curve, with no correction, can quickly lead to disaster.

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Hockey Stick Guerilla Acquisition Revenue 263

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

Our discussion today was around prioritization of the next few critical steps around customer acquisition and validation. The company has distribution through about 50 retailers in Chennai, and is looking for ways to market their product through online channels. As for business model, Jigar wants to sell services like refilling cards.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2018

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. Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. This S-Curve, with no correction, can quickly lead to disaster.

Hockey Stick 130

Hockey Stick Guerilla Acquisition Revenue 130

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Cleargraph (Distributed Systems) joined Coinbase to continue their work on human-friendly decentralized identity. You can read more about the acquisition from Coinbase and on Wired. Sales automation company Outreach was named to Forbes’ Cloud 100 list and made its first acquisition.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2014

We had seen Lightspeed portfolio company Nicira disrupt networking layers 2-3 with an architecture that consisted of highly distributed scale out software elements coupled with centralized control, culminating in an acquisition by VMWare for $1.25B in the summer of 2012.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 9, 2021

The two complementary cloud-based platforms together manage more than $10 billion in customer annual recurring revenue. During this time, Downs also was a key part of the industry’s most successful IPO and played a key M&A role in a highly acquisitive environment.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2019

Drones, augmented reality, wearable tech, modular construction, cloud and mobile technology: the construction site of tomorrow is certainly going to look different. Today, retail is dominated by international giants with powerful supply chains and increasingly digitized distribution systems. by Ramzi Jreidini , CEO of Handiss.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 15, 2015

Headquartered in San Francisco, AppDirect makes it easy for businesses to find, buy, manage, and monitor cloud services from a central location. They also give providers and developers an easy way to distribute, sell, and market cloud services. Well, not always, and the process of managing multiple cloud services can be a mess.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

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. Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. This S-Curve, with no correction, can quickly lead to disaster.

Hockey Stick 120

Hockey Stick Guerilla Startup Acquisition 120

ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

For example, for a company that has been reliant solely on paid acquisition the growth team should experiment with developing organic channels such as search engine optimization, content marketing, or social media marketing to complement the paid efforts.

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Austin-based Epicor Software has bought ShopVisible, which makes cloud-based retail order management software, based in Atlanta. Epicor Software makes software for retail, manufacturing and distribution businesses. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The company has more than 20,000 customers in 150 countries. “We

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The large investment flows into entertainment fuel advanced in technology to produce, to distribute and monetise content that educates us, relax us, entertains us, and so on. Each category represents a large vertical on its own, which together comprise of Entertainment Tech across content creation, consumption, distribution and monetisation.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 18, 2018

As technology takes on a bigger role in businesses of all types, tech acquisitions become both short- and long-term investments. That means the next year or two will likely bring some blockbuster mergers and acquisitions as companies determine how they can mesh their services and products with others’.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2015

In 2013, for example, IBM set out to expand its cloud business. It shopped around for partners and eventually decided to purchase SoftLayer , a successful cloud infrastructure provider. IBM leveraged this acquisition with the Catalyst Startup Program , which offers free technical services and mentorship to startups.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

When the decision was made to rebrand during the acquisition, I called on my team to determine what our new identity was going to be going forward. To date, we have distributed several hundred care packages and over 13,000 i understand tee shirts to show others we are stigma-free. It was about 1AM and the clouds were low.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 5, 2018

acquisition of Jet.com in August 2016 transformed the company beyond the addition of the Jet platform. Jet.com founder Marc Lore ascended to CEO of Walmart’s US e-commerce operations, and since joining has taken the company on an e-commerce/apparel acquisition spree. POTENTIAL ACQUISITION TARGETS. Walmart’s $3.3B

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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Thrillbox Thrillbox is an immersive media analytics platform that provides distribution tools for content generators, advertising agencies, vendors, and networks. AUTHORS delivers insights and predictive analytics to entertainment companies during the acquisitions process, supporting editors and producers in making smart project decisions.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Last month, Google announced it will be shutting down Stadia , its cloud-gaming service and will refund all customers by January 2023. And what does it mean for the future of Cloud Gaming from here on? The premise of Cloud Gaming. The stakes of Cloud Gaming are high. Cloud Gaming Hiccups. Why did it fail?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

In a subscription business, maybe your attrition starts matching your acquisition, balancing like magic. Or your cost of customer acquisition just magically floats up to match your customer lifetime value. Nothing seems to matter. In an eyeballs business, you just cant seem to acquire or activate that next step-up of customers.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats. The evolution of cloud computing has enabled public and private enterprises to track, analyze and adjust processes faster than ever before.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? By Java Developers: Start Your Engines « eXo Blog – Java Middleware for Cloud Services on 07 Sep 2010 at 5:46 pm [.] That is- if its in production, its “dead&#. By ????????????? ?

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? By Java Developers: Start Your Engines « eXo Blog – Java Middleware for Cloud Services on 07 Sep 2010 at 5:46 pm [.] That is- if its in production, its “dead&#. By ????????????? ?

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Home prices are moving in lock-step with higher salaries, to the point where many investors are hunting for deals outside the area, where teams are now starting off distributed or with a plurality of offices to locate some functions outside of the Bay Area costly square footage.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Offers cloud-based web analytics software provider. Potentially limits acquisition opportunities for independent ad networks. DST invested $180mm last fall. 406 Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Provides application performance management (APM) software solution that helps web sites manage distributed applications in high-volume production environments; features include: application mapping, transaction flow monitoring, code-level diagnostics, and cloud orchestration. Jim was really hot on this space. businesses.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 5, 2022

11- Move business data to the cloud. Next year, I plan to move my business's data to the cloud. The cloud, albeit expensive, offers the business better security and multiple backup points. A spike in the amount of data needed to be stored has also necessitated the acquisition of more servers. Photo Credit: Stephen Curry.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

The European and Israeli cloud ecosystem is accelerating as never before. Back in 2016, Europe and Israel had only four public companies worth less than $9B combined and local cloud companies had raised just $900M throughout 2015. The development of Azure and the shift to the cloud has propelled the company to new heights.

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