Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2018

On the other end of the spectrum are companies that fell behind the curve and may never recover, including MySpace for social networking, Yahoo with online ads, and Groupon with discounts for group purchasing. Prices begin to decline quickly. The first customers are early adopters who are the least price-sensitive.

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APRIL 8, 2010

We covered the following and much more: - FourSquare ( rumors of both an $80m pre money or a $100 million acquisition ). I also agree with Charlie O’Donnell that they won’t see to Yahoo! Also in the video: - Is it a good idea for VC’s to pay stratospheric prices? - I was asked if I would pay $80 million.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, Good ones don’t care about the granular details in a startup but they do care about how big the market is, what share you’ll get and what assumptions you make about pricing over time and other market factors. Or do you need to raise prices?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 7, 2013

At the time of acquisition, the press primarily asserted that Google bought Motorola to help protect Android’s legal intellectual property in court. Google is concerned that ISPs may begin to price discriminate between websites, allowing ISPs to charge users at different rates for different web services. Google would be in peril.

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socalTECH

JULY 11, 2012

Everywhere else where you can talk about the stock market is anonymous, like Yahoo's message board, or other forums online. Vinny Jindal: There are many different things, but I think it's been a combination of resource acquisition, capital, and engineers. Vinny Jindal: There are a couple of major differences. They all go hand-in-hand.

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JULY 1, 2010

He eventually applied his lessons learned in these experiences when he founded Zag, a company that helps consumers buy cars over the Internet at pre-negotiated prices with nearly 4,000 dealers across the country [disclosure: my firm GRP Partners is an investor in Zag]. Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. He is also an active investor with stakes in companies like Hipmunk, GroupMe, Facebook, Zynga (acquisition stock), and SV Angels. Price: $15 (Early Bird).

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APRIL 15, 2010

billion to Yahoo! I think everybody heard about this acquisition. On the founder’s side it’s about taking money off of the table and / or having strategic reserves for big acquisitions. The question will be “at what price?&# And for investors, “at what valuation did they get in?&#. $10

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 9, 2011

Agree to Bundling Without a Minimum Price. As shown at left, Google’s initial go-to-market strategy included syndication of its search capabilities to third-party sites, including Yahoo and AOL. Forgo Change of Control or Agree to a ROFO or ROFR. Serve up World-wide Distribution. Relinquish Joint Intellectual Property Rights.

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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. acquired Overture for $1.63 billion (Upfront Ventures was an early Overture backer).

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MAY 25, 2013

Nothing was more heart warming than the photo of David Karp hugging Bijan Sabet after the sale to Yahoo! So I prefer to watch what works first and pay a higher price to get in when it’s proven.” This happens at acquisition time, too. After all, many people love their VCs but hate the industry. According to Andy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price. For many companies, the long game is choosing the right strategic partners and acquisitions. A focus on looking good as an acquisition or IPO candidate has undermined many startups.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

By 2008, I was only a couple years away from the brain damage I suffered at CallWave, after the executive team turned down acquisition overtures from Google and Yahoo (I'll write about this colossal mistake in a future confessional article). Painful Past - We are all also victims of our past. Billion Dollar Consolation Prize?

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InfoChachkie

MAY 9, 2011

Agree to Bundling Without a Minimum Price. As shown at left, Google’s initial go-to-market strategy included syndication of its search capabilities to third-party sites, including Yahoo and AOL. Forgo Change of Control or Agree to a ROFO or ROFR. Serve up World-wide Distribution. Relinquish Joint Intellectual Property Rights.

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Outsource Development Entrepreneur Press Technical Review 124

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Yahoo. Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these. Another client, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, just closed on a deal to buy ex- Yahoo. Prices have gone up dramatically on this beachfront strip. Median single-family home price increase, Jan.-Aug. NAME Facebook.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2019

Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price. For many companies, the long game is choosing the right strategic partners and acquisitions. A focus on looking good as an acquisition or IPO candidate has undermined many startups.

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Social Media Metrics Customer Custom 87

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Name Your Price: Influencing Customer's Purchasing Decisions. Understanding the effect of perceived discounts, multiple product levels, price anchoring, and other. Entrepreneurism / Monetization economics, human behaviour, pricing. . Meg Garlinghouse, Yahoo! Abolish The Hourly: How Value Pricing Wins Clients.

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OCTOBER 9, 2013

Now I just have a 3x higher exit price if I want to sell one day. Make sure the acquisition is still on target. How can you wake up every day and process that decision. Five million? Upside scenarios. Downside scenarios. Raise a big VC round – yeah! At least I have more resources. I would self talk. This is your moment.

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MARCH 1, 2011

Instead, they tried to use their search position to offer a portal like Excite and Yahoo! Quigo Lands Overture as Client, Rejects Their Acquisition Offer. We will white label the system, and not only that, we’ll allow you to set your own pricing.” Lesson Learned From Rejecting Acquisition Offers. were doing.

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MARCH 11, 2011

He said it was better than the Yellow Pages because he would provide pricing transparency. GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Overture was sold to Yahoo! If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet? So he launched a company with exclusively paid search.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2017

Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price. For many companies, the long game is choosing the right strategic partners and acquisitions. A focus on looking good as an acquisition or IPO candidate has undermined many startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. History repeats itself. Don’t Stop Believing.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Sizhao “Zao” Yang – COO and Co-founder at BetterWorks.

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