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Internet Brands Brisco: Deal Will Allow More Focus On Long Term Growth

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The firm was originally known as CarsDirect, the automotive buying site of Idealab, and was headed by Scott Painter--who is now head of both Zag Automotive and TrueCar. Tags: internet brands growth merger acquisition private. The firm's stock had held its own, having recovered so far from last year's market downturn. READ MORE>>.

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Reflections on 2019: Kelly Perdew, Moonshots Capital

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The exit through acquisition by ReliaQuest is the first of what we expect will be many exits for our Fund 1 portfolio. Due to this, seed rounds have become more competitive, with more expensive valuations and more oversubscribed rounds. We also had our first exit for Moonshots Capital Fund 1 --Threatcare. Since 2010, $6.3B

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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Customer Acquisition. Those two things together would lower your acquisition costs nearly in half to $6.11. Ironically, there are times where it may actually pay to INCREASE your customer acquisition costs. Measuring customer acquisition is clearly not enough because not all customers stick around. lowering $1.50

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