TechCrunch LA

MAY 3, 2022

I also had custody of my 16-year-old sister, so I was managing my course load and taking these trips, and it was during one of the those rides that I thought there has to be a better way to do this. All of the stylists are independent contractors and set their own pricing. The price a consumer pays depends on the stylist chosen.

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Tool Customer Custom Marketing 179

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Almost instantly, via the Internet or on their smartphone in the store, they can find the lowest price alternative or their favorite features, without waiting for push marketing or listening to your best sales person. This is a key moment where your customer acquisition costs go way down, and your profits go way up.

Customer 124

Customer Custom Startup Course 124

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock. What price are you willing and ready to pay for funding? Marty Zwilling.

Funding 104

Funding Summary Entrepreneur Acquisition 104

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

If a consumer will pay a fixed price for a product or service then the battle over who gets the margin in any sale is between the person who merchandises a product and the person who manufactures it. Many of us learned about substitute products in undergrad economics courses. Here are some ideas of what I believe matters.

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Product Course Customer Custom 296

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

Shots on Goal Being great as a startup technology investor of course requires a lot of things to come together: You need to have strong insights into where technology markets are heading and where value in the future will be created and sustained You need be perfect with your market timing. That’s return, not exit price of the company.

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Funding Startup Writing Invest 294

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

“it’s smart to use an impending investment valuation to drive a higher acquisition valuation” I would like to amend her statement slightly to read, “it’s smart to use an impending investment valuation to drive an higher acquisition.” to justify a “strategic” price. Uh… yeah.

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Venture Capital Pricing Social Network Acquisition 316

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

Of course when you think about it it’s kind of obvious but when people make snap judgments about information they hear about companies or read about in the press they often don’t take the time to start to consider the details. The Nature of Revenue Matters Of course revenue alone won’t tell you enough.

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Course 227

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Of course, this path involves some risk, but you never get anywhere unless you take a chance. Good strategic partnerships often lead to strategic investments, or great acquisition relationships. Startup founders are known for their passion for their startup idea, and for their passion to kill every competitor.

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Startup Outsource Development Examples Customer 173

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2019

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock. What price are you willing and ready to pay for funding? Marty Zwilling.

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Summary Startup Entrepreneur Funding 121

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

” Of course I agree with this. Of course by the next quarter if I felt ripped off I could advocate for 7% or maybe ops requirements needed to be upped to 20% for one quarter. Of course we fancy ourselves as the best sales people in the company. And of course the VP of Sales had the ultimate call. ” PR.

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Startup Sales CTO Coach Course 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

Over the course of the first few months I saw a few people out on the street taking Birds and then a steady uptick in riders. Capital of course drives scale advantages and when you have “winner take most” markets it also has a way of scaring away some investors from investing in the 3–5th “me too” competitors. Are the scooters safe?

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Santa Monica Funding Startup Course 256

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

But the press (and I suspect many of the senior execs of these companies) don’t really explore the corrosive downside of these acquisition. If I don’t commit to millions of dollars of acquisitions I will … die? So I thought I would. Chief Vesting Officers)? The Aqui-hire Business.

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Press Startup Yahoo Venture Capital 357

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

If you haven’t read Reed’s explanation of this split make sure you read it (of course, after you’re done with this post ) —> here. So it wouldn’t be a surprise to see price increases in Qwikster in the future. Who says that “all you can eat&# pricing is the right one for a streaming service?

Netflix 329

Netflix Evite Pricing Hulu 329

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

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. In industry this is known as “yield management” and of course it needs to exist. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition.

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CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2015

Almost instantly, via the Internet or on their smartphone in the store, they can find the lowest price alternative or their favorite features, without waiting for push marketing or listening to your best sales person. This is a key moment where your customer acquisition costs go way down, and your profits go way up.

Customer 101

Customer Custom Startup Course 101

InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2010

Although this is a somewhat unusual real estate transaction, it reflects a surprisingly common scenario in the world of mergers and acquisitions, with one important distinction. Even the eccentric King of Pop communicated the price he was willing to pay. Our response was that there was no “price” as our company was not for sale.

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Company Companies Pricing Santa Barbara 160

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

On early-stage problems: “We’ve had acquisitions in the ten figures in recent years where people were coming out of the woodwork at the very last minute saying, ‘Hey, I own a piece of this company.’ Below, you’ll find the rest of the founder reviews, the full interview and more details like their pricing and fee structures.

Technical Review 141

Technical Review Startup Los Angeles Santa Monica 141

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Of course that’s not disputable. 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. To some extent – of course they are.

Entrepreneur 376

Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

My point was that Amazon continues to dominate the web services business because AWS continues to cut prices & margin in the same way a hypermarket does to control market share. And of course they are also focused on the US Hispanic market. I wasn’t. I was trying to be more analytical than critical.

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Invest Content Media Networking 291

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

When they look at buying your company they often think in terms of “how long will it take until I earn back the profits to pay for my acquisition price?” of course there are MUCH more sophisticated financial tools than either of these, but PEG is a short-hand many people use]. Investors value growth.

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Learning experience includes: on-demand online video tutorial courses, live video-conference workshops, as well as individual online consultations, live workshops, and group programs. Mike’s work in sales, marketing, distribution, and business development is essential to customer acquisition, growth, and scalability. How does it work?

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Web USC Course Guide 93

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2015

“the ecommerce company gained fauxmentum by raising artificially high amounts of venture capital and spent lavishly on customer acquisition despite long payback periods and questionable LTV” __. In the ecommerce arena I see some great companies spending heavily on customer acquisition. __. faux·men·tum.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Customer Custom 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2014

Almost instantly, via the Internet or on their smartphone in the store, they can find the lowest price alternative or their favorite features, without waiting for push marketing or listening to your best sales person. This is a key moment where your customer acquisition costs go way down, and your profits go way up.

Customer 98

Customer Custom Entrepreneur Startup 98

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2018

Of course the VC is looking to have specificity in how you plan to spend the money you’re going to raise and plans that show a pie chart that says, “25% on marketing, 30% on technology and R&D, 20% on infrastructure, 25% on G&A” do not get funded. It’s the amount of money you’re raising. A VC is looking for reasonableness.

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Venture Capital Capital Funding Demand 247

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. Like any firm we of course invest in the San Francisco Bay Area where 33% of my personal boards are. I made some reference calls.

Venture Capital 360

Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Almost instantly, via the Internet or on their smartphone in the store, they can find the lowest price alternative or their favorite features, without waiting for push marketing or listening to your best sales person. This is a key moment where your customer acquisition costs go way down, and your profits go way up.

Customer 52

Customer Custom Startup Course 52

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. But I’m investing on the assumption you will be successful, of course. If you’re not successful then who cares.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

Of course, nothing is totally free, and I have heard the horror stories of relatively small companies finding thirty or more employees spending most of their time scanning and using social media for promotions, or engaging high-priced consultants who never seem to be able to show any real return for all of their efforts.

Social Media 99

Social Media Media Tool Startup 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2018

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock. What price are you willing and ready to pay for funding? Marty Zwilling.

Summary 79

Summary Startup Entrepreneur Funding 79

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Premium startup-acquisition targets usually at least double revenues every year, so conservative 20 percent yearly-growth projections will not win accolades. Five-year revenues, based on your volumes and prices, should penetrate at least 10 percent of the target market segment. Neither extreme is good.

Startup 107

Startup Equity Invest Acquisition 107

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2015

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock. What price are you willing and ready to pay for funding? Marty Zwilling.

Funding 102

Funding Summary Startup Entrepreneur 102

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2014

Projecting the financials should be the last step of your business plan preparation, since it assumes you already know the opportunity size, customer buying habits, pricing, costs, and competition. The only path to any return for equity investments is a liquidity event, like a merger or acquisition (M&A), or IPO.

Equity 99

Equity Venture Capital Invest Pricing 99

Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

At the gathering, Biden took verbal shots at scofflaw cancer researchers and at drug prices, while the FDA said it would take a shot at restructuring the way it evaluates oncology products. Gilead Sciences has been a target of drug-price criticism for its hepatitis C treatments, but it dialed back the price of its new one.

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Buzzfeed News Pricing IBM 59

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

as his "retail" price. Of course, to be able to use this kind of formula, you will need to be able to determine how much impact the person will have and figure out a valuation. Of course, all of that assumes that the early employee does make an impact. So subtract a third from 16.7% and we have 11.1%

Equity 391

Equity CTO Hire Startup Examples 391

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The company was approached by a Big Dumb Company (BDC) who made a nominal acquisition offer within months of the company’s founding. Earn Out – The Earn Out aspect of an acquisition is a mechanism entrepreneurs can use to increase their company’s ultimate acquisition price. The Answer Is? John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Acquisition Pricing .Net 124

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The company was approached by a Big Dumb Company (BDC) who made a nominal acquisition offer within months of the company’s founding. Earn Out – The Earn Out aspect of an acquisition is a mechanism entrepreneurs can use to increase their company’s ultimate acquisition price. The Answer Is? John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Acquisition Pricing 124

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Of course, everyone is happy when the numbers keep going up, but the data needs to be mined constantly for deeper meanings and trends. Sales data needs to be correlated to advertising campaigns, price changes, seasonal forces, competitive actions, and other cost of sales. Cost of customer acquisition. Operating productivity.

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Metrics Startup Sales Statistics 106