Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2021

For example, if you have ever watched the Shark Tank show on TV, they always ask about the cost of customer acquisition. Thus investors are investing in you and your team, so you need to highlight the skills you have mastered, past accomplishments, and the connections you have established in your industry.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. The exit through acquisition by ReliaQuest is the first of what we expect will be many exits for our Fund 1 portfolio. Since 2010, $6.3B

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2012

We thought it would be insightful for our readerswho are usually looking to get acquired by other companieson what the thought process of those large companies making those acquisitions are. For a company like yours, what goes into your acquisition strategy and what thoughts went behind the Anue acquisition?

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Of course it’s a competitive market so MCNs competing for top talent not only compete on rev share to talent but also to services that they provide talent. 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. Except for 2 things: 1.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 24, 2018

Over the past decade, startups that have been part of the Startup of the Year programs have made new partnerships, grown into household names, and collectively raised billions of dollars in funding. Many have exited via successful acquisitions, while others have IPO’ed with the same impressive result. A Strong Alumni Network.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 21, 2023

Keeping up with the competition: You’re a market leader in a fast-growing field. We check out the team’s makeup, skill sets, and past work to ensure they align with what your business needs. It’s important to ensure that they’re on a strong footing as significant changes occur. We also assess the makeup of your dev team.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In today’s highly competitive ad environment, both content and data are kings. We’ve worked with lots of startups at different points in the funnel, starting from the ground up and working with them through various rounds of funding, all the way through acquisitions, including two by unicorns. The key takeaway?

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JUNE 20, 2014

Last year at this time I spoke at VidCon and gave this presentation in which I said YouTube was “the Walmart of Online Video” but I also commented that I felt YouTube was vulnerable to competition because their rev share to MCNs wasn’t high enough to allow MCNs to build a profitable business inside of YouTube.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2015

Include your sustainable competitive advantage. Patents or other intellectual property are a real competitive advantage for a startup, but first to market and working harder are not sustainable. Current and past titles don’t convey this information. Focus on a specific market segment to match your solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

This strategy is called “organic growth,” yet it alone may yield only a fraction of the potential you could achieve, unless you add the additional strategies of partnerships and M&A (mergers and acquisitions). Actively pursue mergers and acquisitions. Overreliance on acquisitions drains resources and de-motivates internal teams.

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MAY 13, 2013

For the past 5 years or so Google, Facebook and a handful of tech industry giants have been quietly buying scores of early-stage startups for their talent. But the press (and I suspect many of the senior execs of these companies) don’t really explore the corrosive downside of these acquisition. has now employed the same strategy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Opportunity segmentation and competitive environment. List key competitors and alternatives, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantages, such as patents and trademarks. Current and past titles don’t convey this information. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. RedBeacon went on to sell to HomeDepot in what was considered a very successful acquisition on all sides. But Ethan had left by the time of the acquisition. RedBeacon was the 3rd winner (year 1: Yammer, year 2: Mint.com) – not bad company. Nice sweep!

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs? How profitable is my product or service?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

What I want to talk about today is one of the insider baseball discussions of our industry this past week: The odd fact of the $500 million financing round completed just before the company sold for a B. Your $200 million “small acquisition” is a cool 60% of all of their cash. I will weigh in with some thoughts soon.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

However, Savored says it will continue to serve diners and restaurants independently even with the acquisition and is giving a free 30 day trial for new merchants. On the acquisition, Dan Roarty, VP of Groupon Now said, “Savored’s platform nicely complements Groupon’s efforts in yield management, an area we’ve pioneered with Groupon Now!

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JUNE 28, 2018

You can expect some strong competition, but it’s unlikely that there will be 5 great scooter companies. And with such a strong and experienced founder in Travis and great local executives like Paige Craig whom we’ve all known and worked with for the past 10 years, we are confident that this team can out execute. Why scooters?

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The huge importance of this is that when you have a high-level of loyal customers you get repeat purchases that are significantly more profitable because you’re not spending new acquisition dollars acquiring them. companies that have to spend too heavily on customer acquisition). I don’t use the word ‘spectacular’ lightly.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The teams have accomplished an incredible amount in the past four months. Divshot, a tool for web designers and developers, won a national pitch competition and one of it’s founders Michael Bleigh created a popular open source library now included in Ruby on Rails. This is class four for Launchpad LA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2015

The advertiser sees it as cost per acquisition (CPA) or pay per performance (PPP). It’s also important to know that advertising delivery technology has come a long way in the past few years. This is called pay per action (PPA) or pay per lead (PPL). This model arose a few years ago to mitigate the risks of click fraud.

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

Google Fiber plans to acquire Webpass in a deal that trims the ranks of independent Internet service providers—an industry already maligned for its lack of competition—but ultimately could boost consumer access to high-speed Internet. The terms of the deal, which Barr wrote is expected to close this summer, weren’t disclosed.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

There's real competition in this area. There are lots of transaction costs which occur both on acquisition of customers and on returns, and those costs are real, and must be considered in how we price the products. That's not 100%, but we do offer other options like subscriptions, which Honda Finance wouldn't have offered in the past.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Similar to VoiceXML, the standard for the past 5-yrs. Although larger VC firms routinely invest in competitive offerings, it is less prudent for a small firm to do so, as it can be difficult to avoid inadvertent information transfers within an intimate partnership. Painful Past - We are all also victims of our past.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Pull Quote: “If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do you will have the best experience of your life. If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do you will have the best experience of your life. I also read them “my speech” which goes something like this: . ‘If

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2010

As such, you are likely better off allowing your competition to hire the Reggie Jacksons of the startup world and focus your efforts on recruiting high performing, low maintenance teammates, like Cal Ripkin. _. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School. Get real world advice from John Greathouse, Subscribe Today. —.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. Who do you view as your biggest competition? You’re right.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 25, 2016

However, we have seen pre-money valuations more than double in the past year. Shortly thereafter, the company received an acquisition offer which would have put over $15 million into the Founder’s pocket. At Rincon Venture Partners , we continue to be disciplined, seed-stage investors. If you fail, their downside is minimal.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

If the data held up in wider testing, it could mean that hepatitis C could be cured someday with a short course of pills, without the flu-like symptoms that dogged regimens of the past. “It But the drugs aren’t cures, and competition looms. Has Vertex has learned from its past missteps?

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

In fact, for the past 27-years, he has specialized in bringing exotic travel destinations to those of us who are healthy and active but whose competitive sporting days are long behind us. How has this reality impacted your customer acquisition strategies? Ever fantasized about climbing Mt. but we don''t.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2015

The company recently moved into brand new, 50,000 square foot headquarters in Westwood, so we thought it would be great to catch up with Boingo CEO, Dave Hagan , to learn a little bit more about the company's journey from startup to publicly traded company over the past 14 years. They were really a thriving, early market.

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JANUARY 3, 2016

In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. And there is often competition over marketing activities, fund raising ownership and the like. We also run internal events often where we connect entrepreneurs to share knowledge. Partner Leverage.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

In most instances, small companies do not have the financial wherewithal to bludgeon the competition and establish market share through brute force. As such, Fulton’s market offered consumers fewer competitive substitutes. Thus, it often pays to develop points of differentiation which are not based on product features.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 26, 2010

Entrepreneurs can emulate de la Guerra’s strategy and make their adVenture appear far larger than reality and thus increasing its influence and market reach while discouraging competitive threats by creating an industry alliance. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2012

One of the toughest and yet most important questions you will be asked by savvy potential startup investors is “What is your sustainable competitive advantage?” Yet many entrepreneurs, maybe in their passion for their new product, gloss over this one, or even announce that they have no competition. Strong focus and differentiation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2011

One of the toughest and yet most important questions you will be asked by savvy potential startup investors is “What is your sustainable competitive advantage?” Yet many entrepreneurs, maybe in their passion for their new product, gloss over this one, or even announce that they have no competition. Strong focus and differentiation.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Shortly thereafter, the company received an acquisition offer which would have put over $15 million into the Founder’s pocket. An investor looking for a career-making deal might encourage you to take imprudent chances in the hopes you are the sole winner in a highly competitive and capricious market. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do, you will have the best experience of your life. Of course, there was so little competition back then so it easier to find uncharted territory. “I’ve always looked for “smart athletes” – people who have a native high IQ and hate to lose.

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