SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. The poor guy. What a bad $200M decision.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 28, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

Our co-host for the program was TiE Midwest, based in Chicago. Chris is primarily trying to assess his customer acquisition strategy, which requires that people see the game being played. His customer acquisition strategy, however, needs a lot of work. This pretty much rules out SEO, PPC, affiliate marketing, etc.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Some items from the pod cast: 100,000 - babies born as a result of relationships started on eHarmony 15M registered 1% of marriages in US this year resulting from eHarmony I dont know if these are true, but still, the impact of the vision of the original founders Neil Clark Warren and Greg Forgatch is amazing.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Bob Fabbio was the founder and CEO of eRelevance and he was the man in the arena here?—?and For all of us Austin fans, I’m talking about Cotter Cunningham, the founder and CEO of RetailMeNot. the business was the same and through acquisitions it became to be worth $1.33 But I digress?—?this and I bet he’ll be back. or break?—?the

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. He is also the co-founder of Traction, a community empowering over 100k innovators through connections, content, and capital. He is the co-founder of Boast.ai This is John Jansen.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Launch48 is a new kind of micro-incubator taking place over the course of a weekend, which enables entrepreneurs to pitch their concept in one minute, in order to find team mates who are interested in pursuing the idea. Very cool concept and I want to thank the founder Adil Mohammed for inviting me to take part in it. Be a salesman.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

After a year in the market, MakeSpace was growing rapidly and our biggest issue was CAC (customer acquisition costs) relative to payback period (when we get our marketing investment back) and relative to LTV (lifetime value). Read plenty of “what went wrong” eulogies by founders and see what you can learn. You need a wedge.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

and SEO as two of the most effective and affordable customer acquisition strategies. First up, Raj Sheth from Bangalore, India, presented Recruiterbox , a SaaS recruitment management tool for small businesses, with co-founders Raghu Kancherla and Girish Redekar. and an affiliate program would also help with customer acquisition.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. What are some of the unique benefits and constraints from the point of view of a founder? . However, founders shouldn’t take money from corporate VCs because of an exit expectation. New York Times’ timeSpace is a good example.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

female founders. founder friday. Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. Startup Quote: Wendy Tan White on Building a Successful Startup » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder. Tweet By Elizabeth Knopf (Co-Founder & CEO, Sorced). Conference 2012.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Over breakfast he got me up to date on his life since school (two non-CEO roles in startups,) but he wanted to talk about his third startup – the one he and two co-founders had started. The belief then was that most founders couldn’t acquire the skills rapidly enough to steer the company through this phase.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2016

by Brent Freeman , co-founder and president of Stealth Venture Labs. Brent is also an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Crosscut Ventures , a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, where he advises on customer acquisition, digital marketing, and consumer internet investments.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Why do these founders get to stay around? Because the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. VCs competing for unicorn investments have given founders control of the board. A pre-IPO board usually had two founders, two VCs and one “independent” member. Technology Cycles Measured in Years.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The Institute includes a co-working space and accelerator (the Blackstone LaunchPad at UT Dallas), an incubator, a training group, a seed fund, and much more — all working together under the unifying, umbrella theme of entrepreneurship. I’m also executive director of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2011

Y Combinator is already known as one of the most successful startup incubators in the tech industry. According to co-founder Paul Graham, very successful. But just how successful is YC? And how successful are the 316 companies that have gone through the program?

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. Read on for a fuller explanation. MySpace became its own company, MySpace, Inc.,

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Hippoland

APRIL 3, 2013

It wasn’t going to help you get a $1B acquisition for a photo-sharing app. My co-founder Jennifer will write a cold-email template for me to send. Sales education isn’t taught at startup incubators (though I think they should teach this — hint hint, Dave). So, incubators are NOT the new MBA.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

We now have incubators, accelorators, business plan competitions, and government backed seed programs, but it's not clear to me that this is where the pain is or where the impact is. I had lunch with Cyrus, the founder of ZocDoc, the other day. The answer is top level management talent.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

For a pursuit that largely revolves around silent time spent at a computer by one person then, slowly at first, a few more people, a bit more talking, and on and on until failure, acquisition, or IPO, it may seem inconsequential to consider where it all goes down. As a founder on Day One, you are at zero.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

For a pursuit that largely revolves around silent time spent at a computer by one person then, slowly at first, a few more people, a bit more talking, and on and on until failure, acquisition, or IPO, it may seem inconsequential to consider where it all goes down. As a founder on Day One, you are at zero.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Infochimps , a marketplace to buy, sell and share any list, spreadsheet or dataset in the world, today announced the acquisition of Data Marketplace , a Y Combinator-incubated startup that helps people find, buy and sell data online. What does this acquisition do for you as a company? and other data projects.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

image source: [link] If you are a startup co-founder in Central and Eastern Europe, when you hear about about US entrepreneurial communities, you usually hear of course Silicon Valley, but more and more often now east coast as well. It’s easy to meet a VC.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2011

Mike's customer acquisition strategy is weak at this point, and he also has a rather broad strategy in approaching this market. Kelly has a lot of gaps in her customer acquisition strategy, as well as positioning, and she is seeing customers from commercial and residential clients. You can register for the next roundtable here.

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Hippoland

APRIL 3, 2013

It wasn’t going to help you get a $1B acquisition for a photo-sharing app. My co-founder Jennifer will write a cold-email template for me to send. Sales education isn’t taught at startup incubators (though I think they should teach this — hint hint, Dave). So, incubators are NOT the new MBA.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

But in the end we selected David Lin , a superstar who did 4 years at the technology investment banking firm Montgomery & Co and 4 years as Director of Strategy at the comparison shopping site PriceGrabber where he dealt with many operational issues. Almost all of the finalists were MBAs (Stanford x2, Wharton, Harvard x2, MIT, UCLA).

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

But you don't have any lords and masters to answer to and the pay out goes entirely to the founders and management team. Mixing metaphors, the attempt to accelerate the scaling process is a bit like asking a baby to be incubated in six months (dangerous). He is currently Co-Founder of CapitalMarkets.com and Editor Of SaaSInsights.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2013

There’s been a lot written about the individual characteristics of what makes a great founder , but a lot less about what makes a great founding team and how that’s different from a great founding CEO. In doing so we’ve failed to help founders understand what it takes to build a great founding team. Founders – the idea.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. As founders invest massive amounts of time into their start-up, how critical is it for them to come out of their “hermit caves” and network?

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Chatting with CEO and cofounder Kaufer this week, I was reminded of the fact that the company started with a very different business model in mind. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder. Content is free and supplied by consumers who write reviews voluntarily.

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Type to Add and Search Questions; Search Topics and People Startups Startup Compensation Entrepreneurship Compensation Stock Options Major Internet Companies Silicon Valley Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? The barrier between entrepreneur and money (incubators, angels, etc.) is lowered.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Orcam was created by the founders of Mobileye (NYSE: MBLY and one of Israel’s largest IPOs ), Prof. Co-founders Ami Daniel and Matan Peled both served as naval officers. YouAppi (2011)- YouAppi creates adtech to streamline mobile user acquisition. Amnon Shashua and Ziv Aviram (great interview with them here ).

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