Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works. More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement. Identify the smallest segments possible of your constituents. The best communities then become your advocate.

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Xconomy

JUNE 14, 2019

Is one of the bigger biopharma acquisitions of the year in trouble? The US Federal Trade Commission wants yet more information about the buyout, and overseas, the UK Competition and Markets Authority opened a separate investigation. This past week, antitrust regulators once again delayed Roche’s planned $4.8

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Culver City-based Bestofmedia Group, publisher of gadget and electronics blog site Tom's Guide, has acquired Computing.net, a provider of high tech information and technical support. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. According to Bestofmedia, Computing.Net is now part of Tom's Guide.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 17, 2019

The Chicago-based tech company, which has long sold narrow-band radios to law enforcement, has been building its arsenal of software and camera technologies through a series of acquisitions. Whereas the public might still think of phones when it comes to. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works. More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement. Identify the smallest segments possible of your constituents. The best communities then become your advocate.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 13, 2018

But it will likely grow as the company launches scooter and bike sharing in more cities and as it forms partnerships with transit authorities through its Nearby Transit feature, which includes route information and schedules for buses and trains. ” Lyft is also pushing to improve bike safety.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In my home we have a network of Alexas that provide news, information and music but have also become our de facto home intercom system. Just as entrepreneurs need to have thoughtful answers about business models and customer acquisition, I think they now will also need to be prepared to address issues on community impacts and equity.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2012

Jobscience says on their blog that it was built on salesforce.com’s Force.com platform and gives social entreprises recruiting and talent management solutions. The Atomkeep acquisition makes it a step further into its goal as the firm says the employers believe in validated social information before taking up talent.

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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). But be willing to have an informed view about your industry.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

What are some of the top things you've published online, e.g., blog posts? I’d love to get your thoughts at some point about writing for these publications vs. on your own blog. Vince: In addition to my management writing I’ve interview many CEOs and innovators.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works. More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement. Identify the smallest segments possible of your constituents. The best communities then become your advocate.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 16, 2011

5) Twitter’s recent $40M acquisition of TweetDeck is an interesting development. TweetDeck is a very natural acquisition, it certainly brings talent that knows how to build Twitter applications. If you follow the tech blogs, that’s a very vocal community, but it is a tiny community.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. And of course the big question is whether Salesforce.com can out innovate these startups (especially after their acquisition of InStranet ). Expect great things from Assistly. But the honeypot of information in companies is still in email. 2.2mm in Series A.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works. More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement. Identify the smallest segments possible of your constituents. The best communities then become your advocate.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

I will talk about these strategies in my next blog post. It is the world’s best customer acquisition for video consumers to get them to come to your O&O where you can make your $25 CPMs. Building direct customer relationships with viewers (who want to tune into your channels). ” Don’t. Except for 2 things: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

In the technology world there are a few websites that most startups track to keep up with the latest financings, acquisitions, product announcements and gossip: BusinessInsider, TechCrunch, Mashable, GigaOm, etc. But this gets all the space on prominent blogs because it’s what bloggers like to cover.&# It’s self selecting.

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Eric Greenspan

OCTOBER 29, 2009

It’s a fun company, but customer acquisition is the biggest challenge we face. We need to tie our tweets, FB posts and emails into a blog. Our customers seem to like the info we send them, so now we will make it easier to find the history of every message we send in the blog. I’m the CEO of Make It Work, Inc.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I can be found on LinkedIn , have a blog Holocognics and my firm’s website is www.SolutionsLLP.com. That way when I meet someone who says “I need X,” I can say “I know exactly the person you should talk to,” and I flip through the folder and give the contact information. What are some good posts that I should check out on your blog?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2015

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. The big three, which have 90 percent of everything you need, include blogging (Wordpress or Blogger), microblogging (Twitter), and social networks (Facebook or LinkedIn).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2012

Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works. More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement. Identify the smallest segments possible of your constituents. The best communities then become your advocate.

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Social Media Media Metrics SEO 91

Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

In addition, every business has operating costs, like customer acquisition, fulfillment, inventory, and customer service. The site must have more and better content (information presented) than your competitor. Search engines like Google are still the primary method for finding information on the Internet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

High on my list is the joy and satisfaction of having helped many entrepreneurs face-to-face this year, and hopefully many more by my blog reaching out over the Internet. Mergers and acquisitions pace improving. From my perspective, this has been a great year, for my business and my blog. Venture capitalists invested $4.8

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

As I’ve highlighted I believe we’re in a unique period similar to 2005-08 where the biggest tech firms of Silicon Valley (and some media companies) are scooping up small software companies as “talent acquisitions&# versus accretive revenue / profit generators. This is actually the norm.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

However, savvy startups can leverage LinkedIn to create a customer acquisition and a churn reduction tool. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. Businesses typically use LinkedIn to recruit employees. Not knowing about a paper they have published, a talk they have given, or a job change they’ve made is just laziness.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. The big three, which have 90 percent of everything you need, include blogging (Wordpress or Blogger), microblogging (Twitter), and social networks (Facebook or LinkedIn).

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2009

As shown at left, pour your money into a customer acquisition funnel, apply a bit of gentle stirring to generate a steady flow of mo money, mo money, mo money. Although the P&S formula is clear-cut, it presupposes that you have insight into your customer acquisition costs, as well the revenue generated by each customer.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Even though I have raised significant venture capital as an entrepreneur and have participated in dozens of transactions as an investor, I still found the book to be informative, especially with regard to the dilutive impact of some of the more onerous deal terms that we avoid at Rincon Ventures. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Capsule, founded in 1997 and acquired by Qualcomm in 2015, sells hospitals software to connect medical devices with clinical information systems. The “Capsule” name is not new: It’s one of Qualcomm Life’s two business segments. Capsule’s products are. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2017

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. The big three, which have 90 percent of everything you need, include blogging (Wordpress or Blogger), microblogging (Twitter), and social networks (Facebook or LinkedIn).

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? Hmmm, I actually don’t read other entrepreneurial books or blogs – except infoChachkie of course [Editor’s Note: Kevin is clearly full of it here!]. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 1, 2007 Entreprenuer Network Great post by Ben Kuo - The Importance of the “Network&# to Entrepreneurs - the informal connections between people in the technology industry here who have a vested interest in helping entrepreneurs take their companies to the next level.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2017

After taking over roughly six months ago, StockTwits CEO Ian Rosen made one of his first strategic moves with last week’s acquisition of SparkFin , a San Diego-based fintech app that provides novices with information on investing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Cost of customer acquisition. Customer acquisition cost is calculated by dividing total acquisition expenses by total new customers over a given period. Over time, you cost of acquisition should go down as growth and your brand image go up. Operating productivity. annual review business entrepreneur metrics startup'

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. And did I really just try to drop an SAT word into my blog post? In reading the comments on Bijan’s blog and having discussed this so many times, I know some entrepreneurs only want to talk with VCs that think that Powerpoint causes leprosy. Mobile app? Bijan is right.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. The big three, which have 90 percent of everything you need, include blogging (Wordpress or Blogger), microblogging (Twitter), and social networks (Facebook or LinkedIn).

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Xconomy

JULY 30, 2019

On Monday, Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN ) informed the markets that it had overshot the mark with its 2019 estimates. It exceeded that goal, with revenue rising 21 percent to $3.33 billion by the end of 2018. It’s a different financial story this summer.

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