Cracking the Code

JULY 5, 2016

Olivier went on to lead the company’s launch in Germany given his dual German/Italian background, and currently leads the business in both countries. 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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Transformify

MARCH 4, 2020

From an investor’s point of view, the acquisition of Hermes iTickets in 2015 is a clear red flag. At the time, Wirecard had a choice of acquisition targets and could approach Hermes iTickets directly had it been on the top of their list. Last year, N26, which just like Wirecard is based in Germany, raised $170 million at $3.5

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Gilt Groupe from France and Xing from Germany are good examples. The bulk of our discussion today was around scaling and customer acquisition strategies. Chicago has even produced one of the most talked about companies in recent times: Groupon. We are also seeing significant companies come out of Europe. CustomerDiscovery.

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The Next Web

JULY 18, 2017

One such example is the recent acquisition of Souq, an ecommerce player that got acquired by Amazon for close to $800 million. Another notable exit from this region is Talabat which was acquired by Delivery Hero based out of Germany. Startups from the region have shown great promise with big exists.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Upon successful completion of the acquisition I was asked to initiate a major turnaround or business restructuring, since the current course had led to bankruptcy proceedings. The organization both within Germany and other countries was quickly streamlined, in line with customer feedback. Negotiate changes with the company union.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Worklight is IBM’s 11th acquisition in Israel. Once the acquisition has been completed, Worklight’s operations will be merged with IBM’s software laboratory in Israel, which is headed by Dr. Daniel Yellin. IBM BUYS ISRAELI START-UP WORKLIGHT. ATX BUYS ISRAELI TRANSMISSIONS SOLUTIONS START-UP. “THE

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

He also worked in mergers and acquisitions at Veronis, Suhler & Company and Cowles Media Company and held various operations positions at The Black Book. Mr. Vukajlovic was born in Germany, grew up in Serbia and studied in the US and London.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Worklight is IBM’s 11th acquisition in Israel. Once the acquisition has been completed, Worklight’s operations will be merged with IBM’s software laboratory in Israel, which is headed by Dr. Daniel Yellin. IBM BUYS ISRAELI START-UP WORKLIGHT. ATX BUYS ISRAELI TRANSMISSIONS SOLUTIONS START-UP. “THE

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

After running a culturally relevant marketing campaign, Indeed rose to number one in traffic and sales in Germany. Indeed’s German branch was struggling to close sales because they had no awareness in that market.

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SVPG

AUGUST 30, 2013

first develop six references for the US, then six for Germany, then six for Brazil, etc.). Our job in the product organization is to create products that can sustain a business. Make no mistake about it: everything depends on strong products. Another is to expand geographically in this manner (e.g.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 25, 2010

Put in Your Time During the two years from 1960 to 1962 The Beatles played countless all-night sets at clubs in Hamburg, Germany. Instead they played back and forth between Liverpool, England and Hamburg, Germany for two years building a fan base. So get out of the basement and talk to potential customers. Or their look.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 8, 2011

Techcrunch broke the news on the acquisition of Poland-based Bliscy.pl Bliscy will help MH increase reach as the acquisition brings MyHeritage family network to 56 million registered users and approximately 762 million profiles, 18 million family trees and 116 million photos. by Israel-based MyHeritage.com.

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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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VC Cafe

MARCH 2, 2017

That race for talent, is catalysing acquisitions by corporates interested in adding AI to their products and services. Montreal in Canada is quickly forming cluster of AI companies, with the acquisition of Maluuba by Microsoft and Google’s Montreal institute for Learning Algorithms , the Institute of Data Valorization (IVADO) and others.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

My Web Design Company As a part of my masters degree, I did research for two summers in Germany. While in Germany, I decided to start a site advertising website design for $500 per website. I was able to design 2 or 3 websites while in Germany (with one being a more advanced $1,300 website) and was able to eat.

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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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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Dave McClure’s AARRR metrics and Andrew Chen ‘s specifics on freemium models, viral marketing, user acquisition and engagement both offer examples of exit criteria for Customer Discovery and Validation for startups on the web. Eric and I will be working on others. So please, go on! Don’t all companies sell a product in the end?

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

With competitors in the US often 10 times bigger, they’d become an acquisition target. In several countries, you went through small acquisitions, in others it was larger acquisitions, and in others you started from scratch. When would you go for an acquisition versus an organic launch? Shifting gears.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 2, 2013

Did you realize your acquisition was distinct on mobile? It took me 110k impressions to get 10k clicks in the UK and 60k impressions to get 10k clicks in Germany. Second, equally quickly, you know the main sources of traffic via mobile are. [If Does your mobile marketing reflect that?]. Time to dial up SEO awesomeness in the UK!

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Potentially limits acquisition opportunities for independent ad networks.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 18, 2021

Germany buys more board games per capita than any other country in the world! The result was a new genre of games, focusing on economics and resource acquisition, with multiple paths to victory. In addition, post-World War II German culture’s aversion to direct conflict and warfare led German families to shun traditional wargames.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 2, 2015

Apple’s superior products and knowledgeable, friendly employees account for long-lasting relationships with customers and the continual acquisition of new ones—despite premium prices for their products and services. A willingness to spend more for great service and value extends far beyond the borders of the U.S.

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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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ConversionXL

APRIL 14, 2021

That way, a young male member of your audience living in Wisconsin won’t get the same video as a senior executive in a digital marketing agency in Germany. Demographics: Once you’ve collected demographic data, you can use it to segment your audience into groups of people with the same characteristics.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Besides the natural fit with eBay, he wanted the buyer to feel good following the acquisition and certainly the investors in StubHub were happy. Prior to founding the brewery, Dan spent five years studying beer in Germany and not the way most college students partake in this particular study. Heres another bonus lesson.

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Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Rocket Internet, the startup factory run by Germany’s Samwer brothers, raised $90 million and hired 400 people to rapidly scale up an “Airbnb of Europe.” One final advantage that established players have is the ability to use acquisitions to drive blitzscaling. Indeed, Homeaway’s scale was actually a disadvantage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

One of my jobs in the past was consulting measures and acquisitions. And you need to look at the data very critically, because the other side of the merger or acquisition is actually trying to frame all the information in a way that is beneficial to that side and against your side.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 5, 2016

I used one of my simpler acquisition custom report, and after I apply the segment, this is what it looks like… Roughly 14% is the answer. Acquisition, behavior, outcomes! I would have expected Europe or Germany to have way, way higher than ad blocking then I saw in my blog's data. Nice report right?

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

So the acquisition came toa screeching halt while we tried to sort this out. 5] A friend who started a company in Germany told me they do care about the paperwork there, and that theres more of it. Which helpsexplain why there are not more startups in Germany. [6] Now we needed to raise more to keep going.

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Pascal's View

APRIL 5, 2016

In America, Silicon Valley’s cycles of creative destruction and renewal continuously spawn many new challengers– by funding multiple startups that compete relentlessly until they reach dominant self-sustainability, acquisition by a competitor, or bankruptcy. He published the book Zero to One in 2014.

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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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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

The true challenge with FPI and/or Process Improvement initiatives as they relate to Recruiting and Talent Acquisition is the following: We get so focused on ‘Output’ that we forget about what really matters — ‘Outcome.’ Joshua Letourneau. May 11, 2010 at 9:59 am. Keith Halperin. May 11, 2010 at 4:31 pm.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Living in the country, it wasn’t long before she found out about 4H, which led to the acquisition of some muscovey ducks, then some chicks, and more rabbits, and so on. 12 Questions: Meet Ana Grigoriu (Germany). Then when I went to the feed store for duck food, I saw that they had a rabbit for sale, so I got her that too.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

We also bought a bunch of swag from DT and T-Mobile, and Team Lemonade got decked out in “their” pink, emblazoned with their mission statement: “Life Is For Sharing.” Who can argue with that?”.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

great web customer acquisition tutorials. Demo Germany. mixpanel vs kissmetric vs google analytics review. Analytics blog â?? good analytics tutorials. SEO for Startups â?? good tutorial. Andrew Chenâ??s s Essays â?? Analytics Tools. Google Analytics â?? web analytics from the borg. Kissmetrics â?? actionable analytics. GetClicky â??

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