TechCrunch LA

MAY 24, 2022

With the help of Niantic’s recent 8th Wall acquisition , these features will also be available in mobile web browsers. Of course, GPS shows you where you are and what’s around you, but VPS adds another layer, showing you user-generated experiences designed to enhance your real-world experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

Perhaps the most misused terms I see these days from entrepreneurs involve CAC (customer acquisition costs) and LTV (life time value) and a lack of understanding these critical components is driving many companies to premature failure. CAC is often measured incorrectly and doesn’t often doesn’t capture the true costs of acquisition.

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socalTECH

MAY 12, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Mindflash.com , a provider of online training software for small businesses, said today that it has named Donna Wells as its new President and CEO. The firm--which offers self-driven, online employee training courses--also said that it has launched into private beta. Wells was most recently CMO of Mint.com.

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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. Not necessarily.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Of course, this path involves some risk, but you never get anywhere unless you take a chance. For example, I once worked for a small software company selling a sophisticated enterprise workflow solution. Good strategic partnerships often lead to strategic investments, or great acquisition relationships.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. Of course that’s not disputable. To some extent – of course they are. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 Structural.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

Of course, there are always exceptions, but how much added risk do you need for your startup? Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. Wessel measures a 39% acquisition advantage to being in-state. You need to move to right location and get connected before you ask for help.

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Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2017

TakeLessons also acquired Chicago-based Betterfly, which offered online vocational classes, DIY projects, and self-improvement courses like public speaking and personal life coaching. Now TakeLessons has completed another acquisition, buying Chromatik, a Santa Monica, CA-based provider of digital sheet music.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? Of course, Id like to believe the important community building work well be doing at the Alliance will be transformational to SoCal.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

For our Friday interview, we thought we'd catch up with Los Angeles-based MarketShare , the Elevation Partners-backed software provider, to hear where the firm is nowadays. You mentioned that you've been growing the company recently, and made a recent acquisition? We also just made an acquisition of Jovian over the summer.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2010

I’ve talked before about initial conversations with founders and the questions I’m likely going to ask Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything. Part of those questions are around Startup Metrics.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Today, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund which just raised a new fund, and has had some great success in the market. Jeb Spencer: For TVC, closing on our new $115 million software focused growth equity fund at the end of last year made for an exciting 2015.

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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.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

Now, Frost has set up shop buildling out a whole series of companies in the industry, and we caught up with him to learn more about the companies (Predixion Software, Cirro, Lineage, Kumo, etc.) What's the secret of getting traction in the enterprise space--it seems like that's one of the hardest areas for software startups?

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

For this morning's interview, we caught up with Elizabeth Cholawsky , the new CEO of Santa Barbara-based HG Data (www.hgdata.com), which develops software which helps marketers and salespeople understand the "technology stack" of their potential customers and prospects. That took quite a bit of investment in organic growth and acquisitions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2015

And of course it’s true in personal productivity apps, SMB apps, B2B software and so forth.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2019

Among Degreed’s goals is to help businesses keep up with technological change by offering workers easy access to online courses and other materials that can fill knowledge gaps or add new areas of. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Jim Semick: I’ve been launching and managing software products for 15 years now, going back to when you and I worked together at Expertcity before it was acquired by Citrix. We build product roadmap software – it’s a SaaS company based here in Santa Barbara, California. Who is Mr. Semick and what is ProductPlan all about?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Throughout the course of last year I never had more than $8,000 in my account. . People seldom understand that when enterprise customers choose your software it isn’t just a purchase order. He has staked his reputation on a project to use the software of some shitty 2-year-old startup company because he believes!

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Of course, there are always exceptions, but how much added risk do you need for your startup? Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. Wessel measures a 39% acquisition advantage to being in-state. You need to move to right location and get connected before you ask for help.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). Sam did all this analysis before even deciding to build V1 of his software and before we put serious money behind him launching.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. I then worked in a computer store called Software Centre in high school and college (UCSD). The carve-outs were people who got executive MBAs (e.g.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

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!]. You can build software a lot quicker and cheaper as well. Of course, there was so little competition back then so it easier to find uncharted territory. from the Wharton School.

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Entrepreneur Competition Software Review Course 232

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

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!]. You can build software a lot quicker and cheaper as well. Of course, there was so little competition back then so it easier to find uncharted territory. from the Wharton School.

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Blogging Entrepreneur Software Review Course 219

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. Of course I’d like to make good returns.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 10, 2010

This acquisition resolved the surgical robotic IP landscape and allowed Intuitive to dominate the market. This is especially important when your patent addresses an emerging technology that significantly changes during the course of the typical, multi-year review. . This was the case when Intuitive Surgical purchased Computer Motion.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

We want money to make some acquisitions (investors would prefer to fund M&A if they know specific deals – not to encourage bad behavior. This is why investors really like SaaS software companies where you have recurring revenue and your largest customer accounts for < 5% of your revenue and your renewals rates are > 90%.

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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. Not necessarily.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : Lynda.com is: “The best, new, online way to learn how to use your software. We have programs for companies where they can add and subtract employees, track employee’s learning progress, or offer company-wide access to get everyone up to speed on all the latest software and technologies.”. Hello Kitty!”.

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Entrepreneur Training Startup Web 245

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : Lynda.com is: “The best, new, online way to learn how to use your software. We have programs for companies where they can add and subtract employees, track employee’s learning progress, or offer company-wide access to get everyone up to speed on all the latest software and technologies.”. Hello Kitty!”.

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Entrepreneur Training Startup Web 245

Xconomy

AUGUST 8, 2016

Of course, as Xconomy noted last year , there also were precious few examples of mobile games or ads that became a runaway success because of the way they used augmented technology. Prior to the acquisition, we focused primarily on computer vision. But now there is an exceptional example. Jay Wright. Wright said.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 9, 2014

No offense to SONOS of course. From huge acquisitions to fast moving VC deals and product development (hardware + software), it appears as if we’re at the starting line of a connected home future. Android Apps & Software iPhone Audio Internet of Things Kickstarter rocki' Music, Anywhere in Your Home.

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Startup Software Product Venture Capital 96

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

Of course, there are always exceptions, but how much added risk do you need for your startup? Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. Wessel measures a 39% acquisition advantage to being in-state. You need to move to right location and get connected before you ask for help.

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Startup Technical Review Oracle Software Review 109

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Decreasing Your Customer Acquisition Costs. Ultimately, your overall customer acquisition costs should calculated as an average of a variety of marketing channels. Thus, include these unattributed customers in your overall calculation of customer acquisition costs. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2014

Of course, this path involves some risk, but you never get anywhere unless you take a chance. For example, I once worked for a small software company selling a sophisticated enterprise workflow solution. Good strategic partnerships often lead to strategic investments, or great acquisition relationships.

Startup 103

Startup Outsource Development Examples Customer 103

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Of course, there are always exceptions, but how much added risk do you need for your startup? Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. Wessel measures a 39% acquisition advantage to being in-state. You need to move to right location and get connected before you ask for help.

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Sites Startup Technical Review Oracle 59

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

The transaction is considered the largest public acquisition in Bitcoin history with both companies exhibiting impressive growth numbers since their respective beginnings. Dan, now named as Product Manager for the Blockchain acquired Zeroblock apps, tells the audience about life after acquisition. Be sure to visit them for more info.

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