Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Photo by Vanna Phon on Unsplash Customer acquisition is the lifeblood of many startups from e-commerce to gaming to marketplace companies, among others. But if you ask anyone in the ecosystem of customer acquisition?—?founders, and you’ll hear the same thing: customer acquisition (CAC) is getting harder and more expensive.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing empire run by Richard Rosenblatt, said Tuesday afternoon that it has acquired two companies, plus renewed a deal with Google. Financial details of the two acquisition was not disclosed. IndieClick was headed by Peter Luttrell, and RSS Graffiti by Ryan Hoffman.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Zadara said that the acquisition will help boost its edge cloud services offering. Simon Grinberg, the CEO of NeoKarm, and former head of product for Stratoscale, will join Zadara as Head of Product via the acquisition.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. According to Whiplash, the deal will give it a foothold in the Intermountain region, and help expand its U.S. coverage as it sees accelerated demand for direct-to-consumer (D2C) ecommerce and omnichannel services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2016

The author outlines eight necessary steps for every business and entrepreneur to capitalize on this movement to on-demand project teams, versus permanent hires. Conventional hiring strategies usually follow a vanilla approach to talent acquisition. Build an on-demand team of strategic do-ers. It’s here to stay.

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JANUARY 26, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media surged in its IPO debut Wednesday morning on the NYSE, rising as high as $25.00 Demand Media, which is headed by Richard Rosenblatt, operates a network of content focused sites, including LiveStrong.com and eHow. Demand Media is now trading on the NYSE as DMD. in morning trading. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 22, 2018

Sherman Oaks-based Serviz , the on-demand home services company founded by serial entrepreneurs Zorik Gordon and Michael Kline, has been acquired by Porch , another online marketplace for home services. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Gordon and Kline previously founded ReachLocal. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Los Angeles-based Heal , which provides on-demand, in-home doctor's house calls, has acquired Doctors on Call (DOC), a New York-based medical house call service for the elderly. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. According to Heal, the acquisition will help it expand its services to New York City.

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socalTECH

MAY 20, 2019

Los Angeles-based on-demand storage service Clutter has acquired the storage business of another, on-demand storage startup, Omni , in an expansion of Clutter's service, which lets users request storage of items via an app. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Marketing is a science devised to help drive customers to your door. Use all the techniques you learn in marketing classes to drive demand. Higher demand results in higher prices – if there is limited supply. Existing customers have low acquisition costs, addressing the “D” in the equation.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 5, 2020

The Scoot Moped — an electric moped born out of Bird’s acquisition of Scoot — will launch in Austin five months after unveiling the shared micromobility vehicle. Bird first unveiled the Scoot Moped in October following its acquisition of Scoot. Initially the mopeds were piloted in Los Angeles, according to Bird. ”

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socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2019

Calabasas-based PlanetArt , a provider of print-on-demand and personalized products, says it has acquired personalized gift company Personal Creations , from FTD Companies , in a deal worth $18.1M PlanetArt--which says it now has reached roughly $200M in revenues--said the acquisition came as part of FTD's court-supervised restructuring.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The author outlines eight necessary steps for every business and entrepreneur to capitalize on this movement to on-demand project teams, versus permanent hires. Conventional hiring strategies usually follow a vanilla approach to talent acquisition. Build an on-demand team of strategic do-ers. It’s here to stay.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2016

Los Angeles-based movie ticketing site Fandango said Friday that it has acquired M-GO , the on-demand, movie release service which is a joint venture between Technicolor and DreamWorks Animation. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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MAY 28, 2015

Los Angeles-based HelloTech (www.hellotech.com) wants to be the service that you refer all of your friends and family to, instead--by offering up low cost, on-demand, in-home technical support. First and foremost, it's an on-demand, in -home technical support service. I think the big challenge is going to be customer acquisition.

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MAY 4, 2017

Zayo said the buy adds more than 100,000 square feet of space and 2 megawatts (MW) of power capability, and will help bolsters its growth on the West Coast. Zayo said the acquisition was due to accelerated demand for data center and interconnection services in San Diego, fueled by customers in IT, healthcare and professional services.

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JULY 16, 2018

The new Quest On Demand Migration product is hosted in Microsoft Azure. The company said the software is specifically aimed at helping companies working through mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures with managing their Microsoft Office 365 accounts. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

JULY 31, 2014

Marketing is a science devised to help drive customers to your door. Use all the techniques you learn in marketing classes to drive demand. Higher demand results in higher prices – if there is limited supply. Existing customers have low acquisition costs, addressing the “D” in the equation. D=Decrease costs.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 13, 2016

There are many factors to consider when your company is ready to embark upon an acquisition. However, it is also helpful to consider long term reach and the strategic impact that the acquisition can have on business overall. Here are the top three tips for getting what you want out of your company: 1. Have A Dedicated Team.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

GrubMarket , which provides software and services that help link up and manage relationships between food suppliers and their customers — which can include wholesalers and other distributors, markets and supermarkets, delivery startups, restaurants, and consumers — has picked up $120 million in a Series E round of funding.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2012

Broadcom said the acquisition will help to offer a "complete, end-to-end solution" for its customers in the broadband access area, and specifically for meeting demand for bandwidth for IPTV services, HDTV broadcasting, and high speed Internet access. BroadLight develops fiber access PON (Passive Optical Network) processors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

The author outlines eight necessary steps for every business and entrepreneur to capitalize on this movement to on-demand project teams, versus permanent hires. Conventional hiring strategies usually follow a vanilla approach to talent acquisition. Build an on-demand team of strategic do-ers. It’s here to stay.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 3, 2022

Obviously, there’s a huge demand for it, and it shouldn’t be this difficult to access high-quality convenient hair solutions.”. The other side of the business is a new monthly subscription service for stylists that helps them market their handcrafted wigs, beauty and other digital products and services. Remember Mary J.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

He has helped many companies with this problem, and as an advisor to startups, I see the same common themes leading to growth slowdowns. Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. An expanding customer base demands better support. In the early days, your product engineers could handle customer support.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

GrubMarket has built itself as a profitable but quiet giant that underpins the fuel that helps companies in all of these categories by becoming one of the critical companies building bridges between food producers and those that interact with customers. Its opportunity comes in the form of disruption and a gap in the market.

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socalTECH

JUNE 14, 2017

the domain name spinoff of Santa Monica-based Demand Media, the company announced on Wednesday. Rightside was advised by Barclays Capital and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in the deal; Donuts' was advised by Perkins Coie LLP, with a credit facility being provided by Silicon Valley Bank to help finance the transaction.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

If you measure success by exits, the Ring acquisition by Amazon and Cylance acquisition by Blackberry, each for $1 billion, were among the biggest stories of 2018. Signal Sciences, a Culver City web application security company, is adding impressive clients and just closed a $30M Series C that will help it continue to scale.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Talati pointed to Millennium Space System’s acquisition by Boeing and the contract that Hermeus received to design a hypersonic Air Force 1 jet. Much of that demand is being driven by the diaspora of SpaceX talent into the broader aerospace and defense and manufacturing ecosystem, said Talati.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Ridesharing giant Uber is considering a major deal to buy either Santa Monica-based on-demand scooter rental service Bird , or possibly, Bird's key rival, Lime , according to a report. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 23, 2020

And today it’s announcing a deal that helps pave the way for a global launch of it. A music streaming app, which TikTok has reportedly been gearing up to launch for some time , is one way that the company could help generate revenue. it says) and even a search for a new US-based CEO.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The tools that it has built include Voyage, its proprietary operating system to manage properties; a concierge app to help its guests with services before, during and after stays; its front-end booking platform; and a recently launched real estate platform. But to be clear, it does not own properties itself.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

No matter how passionately you believe that everyone needs one, and positive feedback from friends and early adopters (false positives), before you invest in scaling the business, make sure you set and meet good metrics in cost of customer acquisition, recurring sales, and margin. Mergers and acquisitions also require new skills.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

To get some insight into how those names are changing--we caught up with Steve Banfield , SVP and GM of Registrar Services over at Rightside (www.rightside.co) -- which is in the midst of spinning out from Santa Monica-based Demand Media. Steve Banfield: What will become Rightside has been part of Demand Media. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

Its primary goal is to focus on identifying what is truly driving demand, analytically, so that our customers can optimize their activities. We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2020

He has helped many companies with this problem, and as an advisor to startups, I see the same common themes leading to growth slowdowns. Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. An expanding customer base demands better support. In the early days, your product engineers could handle customer support.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

We sat down with Scott Morrow President of Curatemedia, to hear more about the firm's strategy and the thinking behind the acquisition and new investment in the firm. Essentially, we're still oriented around social shopping, where our fundamental value proposition is helping consumers figure out what to buy.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Pasadena-based Foodme (www.foodme.com) is one of the first, external startups funded out of Idealab's New Venture Group, and is looking to help connect restaurants with customers using a CPA model. So, we can help them fill that table by allowing them to adjust their pricing. What is Foodme all about? How do users do that?

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