Cracking the Code
FEBRUARY 23, 2011
The sales productivity ratio (measured with the Customer Acquisition Cost or CAC ratio) are also fairly similar for the two groups (except for a small cap dip in Q4 09) and therefore do not explain the difference Why is scale so much rewarded by public markets? Europe Consumer. (1). In search of Europe's next tech stars.
Cracking the Code
NOVEMBER 10, 2009
While poised with a limited number of transactions this year, the world of public Cloud Computing and SaaS companies has been marked by two events in the past few months: the acquisition of Omniture by Adobe and the high profile IPO of LogMeIn, a leading provider of PC remote access and support with a very interesting freemium model.
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Cracking the Code
MARCH 12, 2010
The SaaS growth recovery does not seem to take a "V" shape 2) Sales productivity is ramping up: bottom was hit in the first half of 2009 However, the sales and productivity of the group, measured by the median "Customer Acquisition Cost ratio" or "CAC ratio", seems to be recovering more steeply. Europe Consumer. (1). My Investments.
Cracking the Code
OCTOBER 8, 2009
But does Larry hate cloud computing that much or is he hiding a potential future acquisition of Salesforce.com? Europe Consumer. (1). In search of Europe's next tech stars. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. A funny video of Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle on Cloud Computing. SaaS 13 Index Valuation.
Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 9, 2019
and today Bazaarvoice has a broad Conversations platform, network solutions (like Bazaarvoice Connections), analytics (Bazaarvoice Intelligence), and now advertising for the network with the acquisition of Longboard Media. And we laugh now about how I was right. He lives in Los Angeles now and is pursuing his dream of being a producer.
View from Seed
JANUARY 11, 2017
I was an early employee at PayPal and back in the 2000-2001 timeframe, and we ended up taking a fairly significant amount of strategic investment (tens of millions of $) from various banks in the US, Europe, and Asia. It doesn’t mean it can’t be done, but having say Google as an investor can make it tricky to work with say Apple.
Occam's Razor
SEPTEMBER 24, 2012
Increased investment in Facebook as an engagement/acquisition channel has translated into requests from CEOs, CMOs and other CxOs about the return on that investment. It is always so cool to run marketing campaigns in large homogenous markets (like Europe, Asia, or large chunks of the US). Time to dive deeper. I don't know.
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