socalTECH

JULY 11, 2012

What does the landscape of social media marketing look like, in the wake of Salesforce.com's acquisition of Buddy Media? In the age where digital startups can open with little-to-no cash, and balloon from nothing more than an idea to millions of users overnight, the question becomes whether acquisition as a strategy helps or hurts a product.

Social Media 140

Social Media Startup Media Acquisition 140

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

Financial terms of the acquisition of Associated Content were not disclosed. Associated Content, much like Demand Media, pays users to "crowdsource" articles about various topics which might be of interest to Internet users and web searching. Reports from AdAge place the acquisition of Associated Content at over $100M.

Yahoo 150

Yahoo Demand Content Media 150

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

For today's Insights and Opinions section--where we share useful advice, opinions, and more from the community--we have an article from attorney Jonathan Hodes , of Stubbs Alderton & Markiles LLP. Hodes talks about how you might position your company for a sale, and some of the things you need to do as part of that process.

Sales 124

Sales Company Companies Demand 124

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

He was about to be featured in a major US news magazine as one of their “hot&# picks. A positive news story means NOTHING about the core performance of your business. A good friend of mine was features on the front cover of the LA Times business section with a glowing article. Is that why you called? PR is subtle.

Venture Capital 291

Venture Capital Press News Startup 291

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. My article 5 Time-Tested Success Tips From Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos was so well received, I am sharing five more pearls of wisdom from Mr. Bezos. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles!

Tips 223

Tips Framework Metrics Cloud Computing 223

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Rolf Winkler wrote a piece in the WSJ about A16Z’s returns in which he says they “lag behind Sequoia, Benchmark and Founders Fund.” What about those RETURNS the WSJ article spoke of? So literally the day before the Facebook acquisition Sequoia’s fund could have been significantly less valuable on paper.

Venture Capital 264

Venture Capital Invest Funding Competition 264

InfoChachkie

JULY 15, 2013

A version of this article previously appeared in The Wall Street Journal . If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! Such fit exists when a profitable customer acquisition model can be repeatedly executed with consistent results and without the need of heroic efforts.

RSS 206

RSS Journal Entrepreneur Resource 206

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

It’s more of, ‘This is the way that your business works and how I understand it, and these are the rules that are set out for you to follow and you need to think about how to follow them.’”. Andrew Erskine: I was a summer associate over here in LA and a bunch of outside groups would come talk about what they do. The Interview.

Technical Review 141

Technical Review Startup Los Angeles Santa Monica 141

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about The Silent Benefits of PR in which I pointed out that most young companies I encounter don’t fully grasp the benefits of PR because they are less measurable than product milestones or customer acquisition analyses (like CAC/LTV).

Press 319

Press Startup Writing Training 319

InfoChachkie

JULY 13, 2010

In this video John Greathouse does a small Q&A about building what traits/roles are needed to create a strong start-up team. free weekly Infochachkie articles! Read the post about building Tribes: The Tribe. Click Here to see Full Article. _. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

Startup 150

Startup Course Acquisition 150

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

The last thing a new entrepreneur wants to think about for a new startup is how it will end. Yet one of the first things a potential equity investor asks about is your exit strategy. If you expect investors to help your startup scale, it probably won’t happen, as discussed in the first points of this article.

Technical Review 105

Technical Review Equity Invest Startup 105

socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2010

For today's Insights and Opinions section, we have the third and final article on Southern California IPOs and returns from Jon Funk. A total of 52 companies, or an average of about 9 per year, were able to complete public offerings and provide an eventual exit vehicle for pre-IPO shareholders. READ MORE>>.

Southern California 145

Southern California Allegis Technical Review Acquisition 145

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. However, savvy startups can leverage LinkedIn to create a customer acquisition and a churn reduction tool. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! It’s not about helping them use our software.

Custom 100

Custom Customer Software Review Technical Review 100

Eric Greenspan

JULY 9, 2012

As I write this, the articles and comments about my company’s demise continue. It’s not about exorbitant salaries or failure to follow the advice of shareholders. It was about an industry and an economy that no longer needed the level of support the company provided. You feel sick about it.

IBM 191

IBM IBM .Net Writing 191

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

It has even gone so far that we now have evocative headlines in the tech press such as “ Buy or Die ,” which is what got me thinking about this post. But the press (and I suspect many of the senior execs of these companies) don’t really explore the corrosive downside of these acquisition. So I thought I would.

Press 357

Press Startup Yahoo Venture Capital 357

TechCrunch LA

MAY 25, 2019

Last week, I wrote about an alternative to venture capital called revenue-based financing and before that, I jotted down some notes on one of VCs’ favorite spaces: cannabis tech. Before I tell you about a few other up-and-coming beverage makers, I must beg the question: Does the beverage industry need disrupting? Fundraising.

Startup 223

Startup Venture Capital Newsletter Tips 223

InfoChachkie

JULY 15, 2013

A version of this article previously appeared in The Wall Street Journal . If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! Such fit exists when a profitable customer acquisition model can be repeatedly executed with consistent results and without the need of heroic efforts.

Journal 147

Journal Entrepreneur Resource Advertising 147

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Teaching kids as young as five-years-old about entrepreneurship is silly, right? And if you don’t think this kind of education is a good idea, you’ve probably never sat in a classroom for eight hours learning about fractions. Flatiron School – The Acquisition. Read more about coworking spaces on TechCo.

Education 70

Education Acquisition Class Blogging 70

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 2, 2013

This article originally appeared on Forbes HERE. Mark framed his comments around the culture he built at Citrix, which has been augmented (and complicated) by the significant number of acquisitions the company executed during the past decade. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles!

RSS 221

RSS Startup Custom Customer 221

socalTECH

JULY 12, 2012

The article said that Time Warner, Microsoft, Chinese gaming firm Tencent, as well as a number of private equity firms have been approached about the sale. Reuters, citing five sources "close to the situation," said that the firm is looking for bidders on Activision. Vivendi owns 60 percent of Activision Blizzard. READ MORE>>.

Activision 157

Activision Report Equity Los Angeles 157

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Although the response was somewhat rude, it was valuable, as it caused me to think a bit more deeply about this issue. free weekly Infochachkie articles! Although the response was somewhat rude, it was valuable, as it caused me to think a bit more deeply about this issue. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

Entrepreneur 239

Entrepreneur Study Entertainment Course 239

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2020

The last thing a new entrepreneur wants to think about for a new startup is how it will end. Yet one of the first things a potential equity investor asks about is your exit strategy. If you expect investors to help your startup scale, it probably won’t happen, as discussed in the first points of this article.

Startup 150

Startup Technical Review Equity Statistics 150

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. 10 New York City startups we’re crazy about. Acquisition. 5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California. I assumed that the people of Los Angeles were disingenuous attention whores and didn’t know anything about technology.”. Whats Hot Menu.

Southern California 57

Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Popular messaging app Kik is, indeed, “here to stay” following an acquisition by the Los Angeles-based multimedia holding company, MediaLab. The flagship Whisper app let people post short bits of anonymous text and images that other folks could like or comment about. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Social Network 153

Social Network Los Angeles Social Media Blogging 153

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2015

And in international markets they care about Sina Weibo, WeChat, KakaoTalk, Line and many others. If anything you should think about DataSift as a natural successor to products like Autonomy or as a next generation Informatica. This is not about us making money off of Twitter data. Facebook, LinkedIn and increasingly YouTube.

Platform 150

Platform Course Custom Customer 150

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

Maxwell Wessel, in a classic article in the Harvard Business Review on this subject, points out the exception successes of Zappos in Las Vegas, Sendgrid’s massive growth in Colorado, and RightNow’s $1.5 Wessel measures a 39% acquisition advantage to being in-state. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana.

Technical Review 123

Technical Review Oracle Software Review Ideas 123

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! If your business model is predicated on online customer acquisition, do not exclusively rely on consultants to craft and execute your online marketing initiatives.

Technical Review 264

Technical Review Entrepreneur IP RSS 264

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2010

For today's Insights and Opinions piece, we have an article from Michael Terpin of SocialRadius , who asks: Where are all the social media IPOs? Some years there is an excitement about the hot economy, more recently it's been shock and awe over the 2008-09 financial meltdown. Read the rest of Where are the Social Media IPOs?

Social Media 159

Social Media Media San Diego Google 159

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 16, 2019

The bus will travel around New York City before heading west to San Francisco, where it plans to park on the campuses of large employers, catering to tech employees curious about their fertility. With the latest investment, Kindbody will open a second brick-and-mortar clinic in Manhattan and its first permanent clinic in San Francisco.

Mobile 167

Mobile Pricing Social Network Los Angeles 167

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

I plan to write about it early next year when we’re all through. As I’ve written about before, You’d Have to be a Big Baby to Complain about Being a VC. The Truth About Building Starutps from msuster. The Truth About Building Starutps from msuster. You have secret doubts about your co-founder.

Blogging 420

Blogging Press Entrepreneur Venture Capital 420

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2015

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! Geographically, the distance between Spain and the US is about 4,715 miles. One of my top former students, Fredi Fernandez , recently sent me a compelling email.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Startup Santa Barbara Venture Capital 100

InfoChachkie

APRIL 1, 2013

A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! The second major challenged faced by MySQL was the surprise acquisition of one of its key partners, InnoDB, by Oracle. Note: I am a micro-Angel investor in Eucalyptus.

Oracle 229

Oracle Startup News Press 229

InfoChachkie

JUNE 16, 2011

free weekly Infochachkie articles! It became clear that the people with scale are famous people, so we set about building a network of influential people so when a marketer says, ‘I am looking to reach moms on Twitter’, we can match them with a couple of dozen celebrities and say ‘All of these women reach moms on Twitter.’”.

Social Media 252

Social Media Platform Media Networking 252

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

It is an LA-based company that was recently acquired by Amazon, which you can read more about in this incredibly well-researched article. Founder, Founder, Founder At Upfront we talk regularly about how 70% of our investment decision in Seed and A rounds is the quality of the entrepreneur and 30% is the quality of the idea.

Startup 247

Startup Pricing Product Marketing 247

socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2013

We caught up with co-founder and CEO Joey Flores to learn more about the service, plus hear more about the new on-demand service and the challenges it is trying to help musicians and labels deal with in the age of Internet streaming. Can you talk about what the new product is about? What is Earbits?

Demand 166

Demand Startup Platform Sites 166

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

that talked about a recent NY Times article When It Comes to Innovation, Geography Is Destiny. Reading the articles and the comments is probably worth it, but I personally think that the NY Times is overstating the advantage of being in Silicon Valley with a couple of exceptions. eHarmongy) as an acting CTO.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2011

The IPO this week of Santa Monica-based Demand Media has drawn widespread attention, with a number of articles yesterday talking about how the firm's market cap exceeded the New York Times Company after the IPO.

Demand 183

Demand Media ReachLocal Marketing 183