ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

and SEO as two of the most effective and affordable customer acquisition strategies. and an affiliate program would also help with customer acquisition. At last week's roundtable, we had five entrepreneurs pitching. One recurring theme that kept coming up is that entrepreneurs are finding guerrilla p.r. Guerrilla p.r.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The result was that in May 1940 five panzer divisions crossed through the Ardennes and France fell to the Germans. And we need to do all of this with a finite defense budget, most of which is being spent on legacy systems in 88 major defense acquisition programs. Slides 3-9. Slides 10-13). Institutional inertia is a social problem.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

On July 17, Ultimate Software, a $10B HR software gorilla, announced the acquisition of Peopledoc for $300m - the largest software exit in France since the acquisition of Neolane by Adobe in 2013. Sometimes companies get to the point of acquisition in a straight line; most of the time, however, they don’t.

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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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Austin Startup

JANUARY 20, 2021

Over the following 463 days, the US, the UK, and France flew 277,000 flights with 300 aircraft to deliver the supplies required to support 2.2 The Berlin Airlift. On 24 June 1948, the Soviet Union initiated a blockade of Berlin. Two days later, the Berlin Airlift commenced. million Berlin residents. How can this be executed in practice?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

Its the same with acquisitions. If an investor knows you have other investors lined up, hell be a lot more eager to close-- and not just because hell worry about losing the deal, but because if other investors are interested, you must be worth investing in. The key to closing deals is never to stop pursuing alternatives.

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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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techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Three major acquisitions in as many months in this space confirm it is). That would have been a perfectly sensible point at which to bail out, but I was encouraged by the reaction from some of our most enthusiastic users to the product and a deep conviction that this is a problem worth solving. About & Staff. Privacy Policy. startupcto

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

One person who fully understands the need to create many ways to integrate differing skills is Dr. Frances Gilman. Before the acquisition, she points that Blue Marble focused on many different kinds of products across many different industries.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

You need to have identified acquisition channels (SEM, Facebook, offline…) at a reasonable cost with payback typically in less than nine months. For example, in my experience, what works in France tends to also work well in Italy and Spain, but the U.K. This should give you a good idea of what to expect. can be an outlier.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

When I was growing up in France, I was always a tinkerer, and proud of it. You know cost of acquisition at a low scale, so instead of 10 users you decide to test with 100 or 300 users. I’d always be pushing the boundaries of what I could do with my machine. Your company will die. Think about a consumer business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Do you have any thoughts on scalable customer acquisition in cases where a decent bit of knowledge work has to be invested into each customer? Since were offering a complete solution, which involves the development of a new product, there is design, prototyping, etc., involved before we go into production. April 15, 2009 3:48 PM Knowist said.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2016

You put tons of time into creating your product(s), experimenting with acquisition channels, honing your messaging – and here I am, about to tell you about how consumers are often swayed by such a subtle thing as the order in which you present your products. It’s a funny thing, human behavior.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. If your app has incredibly strong retention, you will probably do very well with the current PR/new app system of acquisition. So what can you do?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

A number of investment rounds and acquisitions took place in recent weeks and it’s worth taking note. The round is intended to support Kenshoo’s expansion into France, Germany and Asia. Below is a recap of some of September’s Israeli tech headlines: Investment rounds. The exact details of the deal were not disclosed.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

One of the 2020 giants also left this select club: Zoom, which was impacted by the failed acquisition of Five9 and people’s gradual return to offices. For example, Snyk has recently announced a number of acquisitions. in other major hubs (France, UK, Germany). The Index added another $0.9T

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Cracking the Code

JULY 5, 2016

Among them was a small company of two people in Italy called PostoInAuto (at the time, BlaBlaCar had only launched in France and Spain). While it’s not possible to find strong acquisitions opportunities in every country (the launches in India and Turkey have been organic), it remains a key element of its fast global rollout.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 20, 2016

There are two common acquisition structures: option-A) asset purchase: the preferable option where the acquiring company buys only the assets; option-B) company purchase: acquiring company buys both the assets and liabilities.

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Enternships.com, find your internship in a startup Breaking: Google Italy Country Manager resignes, will bring Silicon Valley to Europe theStartup Weekend Reading (and Watching) #9 Google Italys reactions after Magrinis resignation European Founders Capital, a 20m fund for european tech startups Today Venture Capital Deals in Europe Scoop: Passpack (..)

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

To see proof of this, simply observe the results of the large majorities of corporate acquisitions of startups. To see proof of this, simply observe the results of the large majorities of corporate acquisitions of startups. A startup is greater than the sum of its parts; it is an acutely human enterprise.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

Find campaigns where they are spending most money, lower the bounce rate and reduce acquisition cost. That seems so trivial common sense that I am wondering if France is not in a parallel dimension. Oh, and nothing is weird about France. It will put that data in Campaigns section of the Acquisition report.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 3, 2020

“Around 30% of companies have already frozen or are planning on freezing talent acquisition except for key positions. France has announced a €4.3 For many, including some well capitalised startups like Bird or Airbnb, layoffs are a matter of survival. ” – Viola Venture Blog. million people (as of April 1st).

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Francois Hollande, President of France, led a delegation this week of 260 senior French executives and government officials to Israel for the 2 nd annual France-Israel Innovation Day. Also the subject of rumors this week of an impending acquisition by Apple for $345 million.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Why, we just unified acquisition and engagement! I do think the concept allows us to unify acquisition and engagement, and is important for that reason. helping you balance engagement vs acquisition. March 25, 2009 9:16 AM Jesse Farmer said. March 25, 2009 9:19 AM Eric said. It only makes sense in certain situations.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 2, 2017

That race for talent, is catalysing acquisitions by corporates interested in adding AI to their products and services. France ranks #2 in Europe with 180 startups and counting. As an example, Ex-Googler Sebastian Thurn estimated that the going rate for self-driving engineering talent is $10 million per person.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

The most noteworthy M&A deals of 2009 were Siemens’ $418 million acquisition of Solel; Medtronic’s acquisition of Ventor, estimated at $325 million; and IBM’s $225 million acquisition of Guardium. The average deal size in 2009 was $40 million, an increase of 21 percent from $33 million in 2008.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

If you haven’t figured out the ecosystem, growth is useless – whether it is a acquisition-only viral loop, like Tagged, or an advertising blitz like countless dot-bombs. They get focused solely on growth. This isn’t helpful either, as countless companies have shown. They get focused solely on growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Immediately following the closing of the round I flew out to a big real estate conference in France to meet with prospective customers. Except that after the acquisition Salesforce.com required that I commute more than an hour each way from Palo Alto to San Francisco. I somehow never really felt stressed during all of this.

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VC Cafe

JULY 2, 2012

This month’s trend continues to be acquisitions of Israeli firms by large US corporates. Facebook’s acquisition of Face.com will enable the social network to embed face recognition software into its photo app. This is Facebook’s second acquisition in Israel, following the acquisition of Snaptu for $70m in March 2011.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

A/B Tasty is yet another testing tool designed for the masses, this one hailing from France. Adobe’s recent acquisition of Comscore’s Digital Analytix business adds another product integration to their future roadmap. Cons: Measurement of acquisition channels appears to be a mute point with Clicktale.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Israeli startup Acquisitions. Semiconductor giant Broadcom made its seventh acquisition in Israel a few days ago, acquiring image processing company Sightic Vista. The acquisition was reportedly for $10-20 million, less than Broadcom normally spends and below the threshold requiring notification. [source: Mythings PR].

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 18, 2019

There has been $4 billion of realised exits through 17 mergers and acquisitions, with Datorama (Salesforce, $850 million according to Reuters) and Demisto (Palo Alto Networks, $560 million according to TechCrunch) as the top two. billion collectively. What’s next?

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. Kauffman Fellows Report (2020): “Diverse Founding Teams generate higher median realized multiples (RMs) on Acquisitions and IPOs]. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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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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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

While finishing his final two years of his PhD, helping take reddit to acquisition in late 2006 and moving to San Francisco to start a family, Chris had realised that academia was not the road for him. “I But even with this acquisition, Loopt remains ahead of the curve. Shareables. Social Media. Latin America. Middle East.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

We were trying to broaden the conversation beyond just viral customer acquisition. Today, I was comparing notes with Ed Baker (one of the gurus of viral growth). Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

How did you end up heading to Silicon Valley from France to join a startup? BlaBlaCar started in France and became a local phenomenon. With competitors in the US often 10 times bigger, they’d become an acquisition target. When would you go for an acquisition versus an organic launch? We wanted to be that category leader.

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