Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policymaking, corporate finance, and planning. Where are the charitable foundations, business schools, and hospitals named after the founder of GM? Sloan had each of the divisions start systematic strategic planning. Yet, you never hear who built GM to that size. What happened to him?

Michigan 291

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

7- I was the victim of a horrible acquisition. I started my business because I was the victim of a horrible acquisition (can you name a good one?). In addition, this horrible acquisition took place while my wife and I were 3 months into our first pregnancy. Thanks to Omid Semino, Diamond Mansion ! #7- Photo Credit: ????Jay

Entrepreneur 144

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

I challenge any entrepreneur, for example, to define the difference between "seed-stage" and "early-stage" financing. Ron Conway , of SV Angels, and Reid Hoffman , LinkedIn's founder, are names often mentioned in this category. Yet, knowing this distinction is important. A micro venture capital firm.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Product should be your main channel for customer acquisition, retention and expansion. Marketing should collaborate as a business function with sales, finance and ops, but you shouldn’t replace any of their tasks as a manager. Daniel Layfield, Growth Product Manager at Codecademy. The ROI on relationships is truly incalculable.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 17, 2023

The acquisition will help Sheela Foam enter the fast-growing branded furniture market and expand its presence in the furniture industry. The platform has raised over $225 million through equity and debt financing to date. With this acquisition, Sheela Foam will be able to offer a wider range of products and services to its customers.

India 104

India Acquisition Merger Curation 104

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

Until recently it was headquartered 2 blocks from our offices in Santa Monica so we literally saw it emerge under our feet and we proudly invested in the last 3 rounds of financing. name your city]? Today the company officially announced its most recent round of capital ?—?having having raised $300 million?—?less

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Since 2015, her company, Barney, has guided over 150 media, marketing & tech companies through acquisitions. Questions I ask Amanda Dixon: [1:14] What’s the story behind your company name? [1:57] 10:25] Are you seeing anybody selling parts of their companies rather than an entire acquisition? [11:19] This is great.

Entrepreneur 78

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Voyager’s cognitive-computing, deep-insights platform assesses billions of publicly available, unstructured data points to provide insights for its clients in finance, retail and consulting. YouAppi (2011)- YouAppi creates adtech to streamline mobile user acquisition. This interview with Ami sheds more light on the company.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Think partners coming together to tap their own networks for your follow-on rounds of financing. The Clarity of the Terms : how will your company be financed? Every accelerator also finances its cohort companies differently. Complicated agreements with MFN clauses and confusing future financing obligations are opaque at best.

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Programming Sacramento San Francisco Founder 156

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Compared to Accounting, Finance is ruthlessly forward looking. The basic lesson that founders can learn about asset valuation is that Accounting is past and Finance is future. From this, founders can learn that Goodwill impacts acquisition pricing in conjunction with current revenue rates and profits. Asset valuation.

Founder 148

Founder Valuation Dividend Startup 148

Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

The teams are beginning to understand that beneficiaries mean “Not the name of an organization but all the stakeholders in an organization (users, program managers, saboteurs, legal, finance, etc.)” The team made progress understanding the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) acquisitions process in slides 3-5 and mocked-up an MVP.

Afghanistan 120

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Steve Blank

APRIL 25, 2016

The teams are beginning to understand that beneficiaries mean “Not the name of an organization but all the stakeholders in an organization (users, program managers, saboteurs, legal, finance, etc.)” The team made progress understanding the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) acquisitions process in slides 3-5 and mocked-up an MVP.

Afghanistan 120

Afghanistan Iraq Technical Review Social Media 120

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

First is that there are, perhaps, a thousand people in the world of entrepreneurship who know what they are doing when it comes to dealing with issues like financing, positioning, market sizing, customer validation, customer acquisition and other seemingly obvious topics that all entrepreneurs need to deal with.

Silicon Valley 114

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 26, 2017

Offering too little in an acquisition to satisfy the seller? Satisfy the seller’s need to claim a higher sales price victory by moving a substantial part of the price into a future earn–out, or using the target company’s own cash to pay part of the price, or asking the seller to finance a significant piece of the sale. What power!

Naming 48

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

As an agenda for each meeting, I suggest: – How can we most add value, in addition to helping with financing? In-house, brand-name guru. Once you have assembled the right core team, I recommend prioritizing as follows: First, meet with your portfolio company management. – What are your fundraising goals? Advantages.

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

In our case, some of the niche publications who reviewed us resulted in more tracked sales than big name tech publications like CNET. When evaluating which outlets to engage, consider looking at each publication’s unique views per month, so you can evaluate their audience size and audience demographics.

Campaign 145

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Up and Running

JANUARY 15, 2018

Once you’ve decided that you’re ready to start a small web design firm, you’ll need to develop a host of skills to help you run a successful business, including time management, sales and promotional strategies, and client acquisition. Create a Lean Business Plan. The first step to running your own business is creating a solid plan.

Web 86

Web Design Software Review Elevator Pitch 86

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. The Exit Problem. And buy people are doing en masse.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

They are slow to grasp new opportunities to rethink customer relationships, to revolutionize products and services, marketing, advertising, acquisition, and to deliver delight and make people happy. Customer acquisition. Re-think Customer Acquisition, Brand Engagement. Why not rethink acquisition? Celebrate a little.

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Acquisition Mobile Customer Marketing 144

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 19, 2020

Laura is a costume designer and stylist with many movie and film credits to her name and has an Emmy nomination for her work on Mad Men. Wilhoite has over 20 years of experience in business and revenue acquisition, while Glorioso offers an extensive history in finance, programs, and products.

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Cofounder .Net Advertising Video 279

ConversionXL

JULY 8, 2020

Campaign name. It’s important to name your campaigns sensibly, especially if you’ll be running a large number of campaigns within your account. Here’s an excellent guide that covers best practices for naming your campaigns. The next step is to name your ad group and choose the right keywords for your ads. Campaign budget.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 20, 2011

That’s where acquisition comes in — if you can’t make it, buy it! Sometimes it ends up improving the big company — Whole Foods in particular is known for incorporating good ideas from the stores they purchase, and in fact sometimes don’t change the names and branding of the existing stores.

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Sales Channel Cofounder Valuation 260

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

For example, instead of bidding on the same terms as rival platform Asana, which will probably be more expensive, monday.com bids on its competitor’s name: Because of lower competition, competitor brand names tend to be cheaper. Putting more constraints on your creativity are two significant challenges: 1.

Advertising 131

Advertising Cost Customer PR 131

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

It’s meant to support and grow a business until an “exit” in the form of an IPO, a merger or acquisition, or in less than ideal scenarios, a company shutdown. Learning everything you can about VC first is important for that reason, but also to ensure it’s the right form of financing for your business. No need to name names.

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Lean Venture Capital Conversion IPO 108

Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

For example, from a post in 2008 about Rally’s $16.85m financing , I riffed on the origins of the company. About a year after he got started, he was ready to raise a venture financing. Ryan was encouraged to team up with Tim and shortly after that happened we co-led the first round VC financing with Boulder Ventures.

Software 70

Software Technology Agile SCRUM 70

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The new equity round will fuel additional growth and provide capital for further acquisitions. Lolli was honoured by Fast Company as one of the best-designed finance apps of 2022, as chosen by Fast Company editors and an expert jury of design professionals as part of Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Awards. Boston, and Philly.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2018

by Walker Deibel , Managing Director of Centra and author of “ Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game “ If I asked you to name a business success story, what would you think of? But the large majority of these companies still never make it to sustainability. It’s where the growth is.

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Startup Acquisition Portfolio Venture Capital 182

The Next Web

OCTOBER 7, 2013

As stated earlier, investors will dilute ownership upon nearly every round of financing. Are they especially acquisitive? For many, financial incentives are not the driver for such a role; there are the rewards from building product from ideas, learning and iterating, and working with people you love, to name a few.

Engineer 129

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 24, 2010

Your EULA will be examined with the same fervor as a billion dollar acquisition. Editor's Note: Incorporating isn't enough because usually lawsuits with small companies name the primary owners as well as the company. Tags: Guest Posts How-To finance pricing sales. It helps if it is fair and well balanced at the start.

Software Review 233

Software Review Technical Review Sales Software 233

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. It’s not accident we have so many great startups targeting commerce including Tradesy, DailyLook, NastyGal, Honest Co & JustFab just to name a few.

Los Angeles 376

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Seattle 376

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

<< we then discussed the need to do trademarks on your company and your key brand names. Most importantly we talked about my good friends at Okta who were financed by Andreesen Horowitz. We covered the week’s M&A deals : Playdom and Kongregate and why Disney and GameStop made the acquisitions.

Venture Capital 282

Venture Capital Term Sheet Valuation Stock Options 282

Early Growth Financial Services

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Rapidly growing companies have a lot to deal with—product development, customer acquisition, raising financing, user scaling issues—just to name a few. HR and finance can seem like daunting tasks that you know are important, but just never have time for.

Finance 57

Finance Early Stage Startup Acquisition 57

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

Especially during challenging times, retention is significantly more crucial than acquisition. To beef up our finances during the pandemic, we pivoted from being exclusively focused on the rankings and performance of our own portfolio sites to doing it for others as a service. Learning to pivot is the name of the game right now.

Entrepreneur 120

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

The search giant’s VP of Corporate Development, along with CEO Larry Page, signs off on the dozens of acquisitions and acqui-hires made every year, large and small. There’s YouTube , of course — well established in its own right, it rewrote the book on how an acquisition can be run delicately, as a company within a company.

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San Francisco Acquisition Social Media Mobile 104

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

IdeaLab has created 75 companies, leading to 8 IPOs, 35 or so acquisitions and more than 5 companies worth in excess of $1 billion. Some IdeaLab successes / brand names aside from Overture & CitySearch? It also is how they financed their entry into the United Nations. Shopping.com. The Wedding Channel.

Product 350

Product Tuvalu Dilution Incubator 350

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. The Rise of Mergers and Acquisitions -– March 2003 -2008 After the dot.com bubble collapsed, the IPO market (and most tech M&A deals) shutdown for technology companies. And some companies didn’t even have to go public to get liquid. billion.) So what’s left?

Silicon Valley 233

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 233

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

17:07] I’m seeing more and more agencies talk about growth through acquisition – is that a good way to grow? I, you know, if it doesn't okay, you know, it doesn't work, but I'm gonna give somebody my life and my finances and, you know, trust is gonna be a big deal. So acquisitions are they're, they're tricky. powered by.

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CPA Technical Review Revenue Forecast 72