Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2017

ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW ), the Santa Clara, CA-based giant that provides cloud-based IT services, is boosting its emphasis on human-centered design with its acquisition of Telepathy , a San Diego specialist in customer experience and design. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. ServiceNow likewise emphasized.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

As a business consultant and angel investor, I often ask for your own assessment of marketing ROI , or customer acquisition cost (CAC). In my experience, your biggest challenge will be to rationalize the disparate input from your sales and marketing organizations, who each want more resources and more credit for ROI.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 30, 2019

Shell, which is making the acquisition through its Shell New Energies US subsidiary, snatched the company from Energy Impact Partners, a cleantech-focused investment firm. “As Electrification will enable a more connected, autonomous and personalized experience.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Earbits near-death experience occurred last year, as the company failed to find funding, and the founders were all but ready to turn out the lights; You42 apparently stepped up and has been funding operations since the shutdown, with the acquisition finally closing recently.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 30, 2011

But it is within the range of experience by many who have acted as brokers, serial purchasers or consultants for acquisitions. The answer is that the most sophisticated buyers have experience in integrating an acquisition successfully into an enterprise and those successes are the most visible models for others to follow.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

According to Markinson, Sole Society spun out of a skunkworks project at HauteLook, which the company had started before its $270M acquisition by Nordstrom. Sole Society announced a line of footwear which will be available at Nordstrom retail locations in September.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

He is very hands-on and helpful – especially for any company looking into customer acquisition. o CPM model gave him control over the information in the acquisition cycle so he focused on that. - if you don't have experience with venture debt you might want to listen to this bit in the video - we talked a lot about how it works].

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

If experiences are the best tools to foster entrepreneurial edification, a natural corollary question is, “How can you get the most out of your startup experiences?”. Journal or Blog – Writing about your experiences will force you to be contemplative and thoughtful. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Photo by Vanna Phon on Unsplash Customer acquisition is the lifeblood of many startups from e-commerce to gaming to marketplace companies, among others. But if you ask anyone in the ecosystem of customer acquisition?—?founders, and you’ll hear the same thing: customer acquisition (CAC) is getting harder and more expensive.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2014

The vision early on was about fundamentally changing the restaurant ordering experience, by developing a more engaging experience on a kiosk. If you opt in, we can track your identity and your transaction history, and we apply analytics so that we can deliver a much more personalized experience for guests. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 14, 2021

Aliso Viejo-based Indie Semiconductor, a developer of automotive semiconductors and software focused on edge sensors for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems including LiDAR, connected car, user experience and other areas, has gone public via an acquisition via a special purpose acquisition company( SPAC).

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Irvine-based NextGen Healthcare , a provider of software for the medical, behavioral and dental provider market, has acquired Medfusion , a developer of "patient experience" software, in a deal worth $43M in cash, the company announced this morning. NextGen Healthcare said it expects the acquisition to close in early December 2019.

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socalTECH

JULY 19, 2021

The company said the app allows users to "become part of FF's user ecosystem" and "experience the benefits and excitement of the FF community, products and technologies that FF offers". Faraday Future is in the midst of an acquisition by a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), Property Solutions Acquisition Corp.,

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2021

San Luis Obispo-based software developer Mindbody said on Wednesday that it has raised $500M in a strategic investment, and acquired ClassPass, a monthly subscription service which provides access to fitness and wellness experiences. According to Mindbody, the $500M investment came from an investment group led by Sixth Street.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Aliso Viejo-based semidconductor company indie Semiconductor says it expects its combination with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), Thunder Bridge Acquisition II, to close sometime early this spring.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In one of the biggest acquisitions out of Southern California's technology startup industry in recent years, Los Angeles-based Honey Science Corporation , which develops a savings discovery and price tracking tool, has been acquired by PayPal , in a deal worth approximately $4 billion. Honey was founded in 2012 by George Ruan and Ryan Hudson.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2020

Los Angeles-based Spaces , which had been developing in-person locations to experience virtual reality, has reportedly been acquired by Apple. A report, from Protocol, said the acquisition came after Spaces announced a shutdown of its services last week.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

According to UNest, the acquisition will help it expand its product offerings. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Littlefund founders Mimi Chan and Isaac Dressman will join as Head of Experience and Head of Research and Development. UNest says the buy will double its user base to over 60,000 users.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

YouMail CEO Alex Quilici said in a statement that the acquisition might not be the last, saying "We are actively exploring similar acquisitions where our platform can support and run communication services more efficiently and provide users with a better, more secure communication experience."

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 14, 2013

Krishna will share his experience on ”What Makes a Startup Attractive for Acquisition” There will be plenty of FREE Pizza & Drinks ! Topic: What Makes a Startup Attractive for Acquisition. Business Entrepreneurship Events Fireside Marketing Startups TechZulu 37Signals acquisition Krishna Gupta Sortfolio'

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Los Angeles-based social video sharing app Triller announced this morning that it has acquired Thuzio, which runs business-to-business premium influencer events and experiences. According to Triller, it will use the acquisition to grow its live event programming. Financial terms of the buy were not announced.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2020

Los Angeles-based Joymode , which had run a consumer focused, rental service to help people rent--rather than buy--all of the things needed for "experiences" such as a backyard movie night, or camping, or virtual reality, has been acquired by New York-based XRC Labs. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2021

Qualcomm said it will use the acquisition of NUVIA to help bolster its Snapdragon technology. The company said the NUVIA has Systems on a Chip (SoC) expertise, experience in high performance processors, and more. Qualcomm said it will pay approximately $1.4 billion before working capital and other adjustments.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2010

Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. Great stuff. This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2018

In what looks to be one of the fastest Series A-to-acquisition deals in recent years, a startup backed by Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand has just been acquired by HR software giant WorkDay. Rallyteam's machine learning software was used to help match their employees to skills, experiences, and interests. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 28, 2017

Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Wink said that it the Wink app and Wink Hub will "continue to operate just as they have" and the acquisition will not change the Wink user experience. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2020

The remarkably long lived Napster brand--which was founded during the Dot Com boom as a peer-to-peer music swapping startup in Los Angeles in 1999--continues on, and has been sold to virtual reality experience company MelodyVR , in a deal worth $70M.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 24, 2022

With the help of Niantic’s recent 8th Wall acquisition , these features will also be available in mobile web browsers. Of course, GPS shows you where you are and what’s around you, but VPS adds another layer, showing you user-generated experiences designed to enhance your real-world experience.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The Los Angeles game development studio Jam City is setting up a shop in Toronto with the acquisition of Bingo Pop from Uken Games. The Bingo Pop acquisition will bring a gambling game into the casual game developer’s stable of titles that pulled in roughly $700,000 in revenue through October, according to data from SensorTower.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. Revenue experiments (and failures). We experimented with subscription-based charges – hoping that ours were indispensable services.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2018

Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. According to EA, the acquisition will help the company with a focus on "new experiences" on different devices. Pasadena-based Industrial Toys , the video game company founded by Alex Seropian, has been acquired by Electronic Arts , EA announced on Monday afternoon.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Enterprise software developer ServiceNow has acquired San Diego-based Telepathy , a developer of software used in the user interface and experience area, according to the two. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Telepathy was founded by Chuck Longanecker in 2001.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Luxury valet and concierge parking startup Luxe , which was backed by Upfront Ventures and which used Los Angeles as one of its launch markets when it started in 2014, has been acquired by Volvo Cars , in an asset acquisition deal. Financial terms of the acquisition wer enot disclosed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Based on my years of experience as a business executive and consultant, I am convinced that most companies gradually lose their ability to be creative as they mature, and over time are overcome by new competitors and market changes. Continuous innovation is a mindset that you cannot outsource, or bring in through acquisition or consultants.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Our new customer acquisition has grown and our costs have plummeted. We are actually getting paid now to obtain customers, so our customer acquisition costs are now negative. A negative customer acquisition cost! I’ll be curious to hear more about your experience with affiliate marketing. Great posts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2022

The buying process is just the beginning of the customer experience, and it has to remain a good one throughout the time that your customer actually uses your product or service. This is a key moment where your customer acquisition costs go way down, and your profits go way up. Sustain the keep-or-lose moment.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 31, 2017

Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. According to Oomba, it will use the buy of GameWorks to bring its vision for location-based e-sports and VR experience to locations across America and beyond. Oomba's CEO is Michael Williams.

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