InfoChachkie

JANUARY 4, 2016

Circa 2001, Yahoo publicly declared that they didn’t do cost per acquisition (CPA) deals. I was writing them multi-seven figure checks each month, because they were generating tens of thousands of customers. Spam – Email spam was an essential marketing tool during the early days of Internet marketing.

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SaaS Yahoo Advertising Customer 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Basically, once a sale is made, that client gets links to profiles on HeyTutor, and based on their preferences it might provide tutors within in 50-mile radius, a 20-mile radius, and the tutors who match up with those preferences will be notified through SMS, email, and our apps. In this industry, customer acquisition costs are super high.

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Startup Venture Capital Beverly Hills Acquisition 113

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while and was going to use AngelList by Nivi & Naval as the basis for my example and the perfect prompt came yesterday when I read Fred Wilson’s blog post on AngelList. Anything requiring lead generation and/or customer acquisition I call Matt Coffin.

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Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Brad and Jason have been exposing venture capitalists’ secrets since 2005, when they began writing a blog series on Term Sheets at AskTheVC. For instance, in a section describing the ramifications of a No-Shop clause, Matt writes, “Insist on spelling out key terms prior to a signed term sheet if it has a no-shop clause in it.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Writing Guide 205

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

For years now, companies have been forced to choose between cumbersome, expensive Virtual Data Rooms and decentralized, unsecure email to manage their complex transactions. 25 Years of Writing Code. Jackson added, “FinTech has traditionally lagged behind the innovation that’s happening in other areas of enterprise software.

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Technical Review Software Review Bertelsmann Technology 88

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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Customer Custom Advertising SEM 164

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We've been quite active, and have had a bunch of acquisitions lately -- including Internet Brands and MySpace -- a total of over 2 billion in acquisition in Southern California. We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund. They can find me on Twitter, email me, find me on Namesake.

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Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

We caught up with co-founder Joey Flores on the story behind the company's brush with death, and its recent acquisition by You42, which was announced last week. Joey Flores: Yeah, we spend the earlier part of 2014 exploring acquisition options, because we had a pretty hard time raising money. Joey, thanks for the time today.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

There’s some stuff here that I even prefer not to put into writing. 5: Q: “What’s the best way to get a VC’s attention in an email&# – I’ve written about this topic so more in depth is here on How to Access a VC as well as I Emailed a VC and Never Heard Back – What Now? they take time!!

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Venture Capital Capital Startup Pricing 282

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

As I was driving home from that meeting, I decided to work from there, and ended up writing a business plan and fundraising from family and friends. What we saw that was really interesting, was in mid-May, we started seeing lots of emails and phone calls for membership. all of the companies in our industry saw a decline in revenues.

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Startup Entrepreneur Southern California Netflix 203

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 19, 2015

Sales people (and website customer acquisition folks) all think in terms of funnels and yet non-sales professionals seldom do. Every night before I went to bed I would say to myself, what one thing could I do to make progress on this hire, which is why people who worked with me on it probably noticed a lot of late-night emails.

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Startup Framework Sales Venture Capital 150

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

They write into their investment documents that they will occupy a seat on the board for as long as they are invested in the company, thinking of this as a protection for their investment and tool for them to influence growth. Email readers continue here.] All other board functions are secondary.

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Class Coach Invest Sales 179

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog. Quigo Lands Overture as Client, Rejects Their Acquisition Offer. After rejecting the offer, Mike had a team of his best people waiting to ‘kill’ him for turning down an acquisition that would have changed their lives forever financially. Thank you, John.

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Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

Your commitments to investors must be significant enough to compel them to write you a check. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. Puffery works in marketing, so I will deploy it when I promote my startup. Fallacy: Yes.

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Entrepreneur Outsource Ideas Technical Review 272

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

This insight follows closely the conclusions from the previous declaration, that professional investors negotiate tough terms, from provisions of control over asset acquisition, eventual sale of the company, future investments, forced co-sale when others attempt to sell their shares and more.

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Resource Startup Invest Entrepreneur 149

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

I plan to write about it early next year when we’re all through. Investor emails. Hell, I send those emails. And it’s why you probably will quit on day 366 after the acquisition. So it is now publicly known that we have closed $150 million in our 4th fund. We have a little more to go until the finish line.

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Blogging Press Entrepreneur Venture Capital 420

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Many people will write the history on why Ring became an enormously successful company and why it became a real-world unicorn in a world when many startups are anointed that merely on paper. He launched a business called Unsubscribe, which helped consumers deal with the deluge of email lists that one gets signed up to and get rid of them all.

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Startup Pricing Product Marketing 247

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

<Note: I edited a few comments from Jeff's email, none of which related to our meeting in 2008.> Below is my email to Jim and Kevin, following my debriefing with the VoIP expert, who requested to remain anonymous. > -jeff. Our friend and expert was gracious with his time and spoke with Jeff.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2015

Never mind that Twitter in writing specifically asked us to build this re-syndication product with them and that every step of the way encouraged us to build out the service. Twitter announced its acquisition of our competition Gnip almost a year ago. Some evidence?

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Platform Course Customer Custom 150

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I stayed up late every night after a day of meetings doing email until 3am so that I didn’t feel out of touch with our product and sales pipelines. Except that after the acquisition Salesforce.com required that I commute more than an hour each way from Palo Alto to San Francisco. I was on top of the world again.

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Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Conference 308

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Our Twitter handle has become our identity, on par with an email address. I wrote extensively about this at the time of their first acquisitions , including this passage: “I saw a lot of this first hand in Salesforce’s acquisition of my company, Koral, which was a content management (CMS) company. Let’s look again at Adly.

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Platform News Startup Invest 307

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

We have almost a thousand bloggers who are writing reviews about the products we offer, and we also review them from our own point of view, to help support parents decisions and learning about products in the real world. So, I reached out to this VC I mentioned, who sent him an email. A lot of it is the squeaky wheel gets the grease.

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Software Review Commerce Startup Sites 200

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

However, when one does find its way into my email inbox, I admittedly am more energized to help the person or organization in the future. In writing this essay, I am not hoping for an avalanche of gifts from the many Donees I have helped in the past. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School.

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Entrepreneur Help Networking Startup 210

socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2011

One of the core pieces of that technology was around marketing and customer acquisition. One of the venture capitalists we had met along the way, hearing that we had sold YLighting, asked us what we were doing now, and because they liked the software so much told us to count him in, he'd write a check right now, and that's what we did.

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Startup Marketing Customer Custom 210

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

In the original version of his post, Andy writes. This happens at acquisition time, too. Many don’t return my emails on time. They see how hard she does her job. They know her personally and know she cares about her constituencies even if she has to make tough trade-offs from time-to-time. ” This wrung true with me.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Invest Funding 374

socalTECH

JULY 23, 2012

We caught up with Navid --one of a number of executives to have recently departed Buy.com after its acquisition a couple of years ago by Rakuten--to hear more about his new startup. Describe what Recmnd.me is all about? Navid Nobakht: We are building an online recommendation system that focuses on social recruiting.

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CTO Hire Startup Sites Technical Review 147

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. Many MBAs took marketing courses but have never been on the front line of A/B testing, email campaigns or PR initiatives. It fuels our bonus payments, our quarterly earnings, our growth rate, our value at acquisition time. I had to laugh a bit reading it.

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Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Heres 5 steps to start exploring: View the "Best Of" list with 50+ essays on viral marketing, gaming, and ads » Get introduced: About this blog, why entrepreneurs and marketers recommend it » Receive updates by email or RSS feed or Twitter. Write me an e-mail and let me know what youre up to! Block email. Engagement.

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Startup IP Email Report 29

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. He grabbed all the user email addresses I had collected and started talking to potential customers to find out what they wanted to do. The term ‘cloud computing’ only caught on much later. from the Wharton School.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Start by writing a draft of your reference. It will also reduce the number of errant phone calls and email exchanges your Referencers will have to administer on your behalf. Just like a resume, your recommendations should state why you will be an effective addition to the organization you are attempting to join.

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Startup .Net Organization Networking 113

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. After a year in the market, MakeSpace was growing rapidly and our biggest issue was CAC (customer acquisition costs) relative to payback period (when we get our marketing investment back) and relative to LTV (lifetime value).

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Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

All it takes is an email address to start receiving our exclusive deals for sports tickets to your favorite teams in your city. We write and create our own content for the game. Crowd Seats gets you in the crowd for your favorite games with ticket prices 50-90% off face value!

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

The following day, I again tried asking for access in order to setup everyone’s email. If we successfully execute this company and this happened after launch, during funding or before acquisition, the recourse and options would have been limited at the least, and detrimental at the worst. Again, the answer I got was, “I’m on it.”

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Startup Ideas San Diego Mentor 100

Frank Addante

APRIL 16, 2007

Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. 6 startups = 1 IPO, 2 acquisitions, 1 failure, millions in venture capital $, hundreds of employees in cities worldwide and the building of my latest venture, the Rubicon Project - one of the fastest growing advertising companies in history. Zondigo, Inc.

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Google Advertising Startup Venture Capital 40

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. 6 startups = 1 IPO, 2 acquisitions, 1 failure, millions in venture capital $, hundreds of employees in cities worldwide and the building of my latest venture, the Rubicon Project - one of the fastest growing advertising companies in history. Zondigo, Inc.

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Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Our Best Interviews Via Email: Monthly. There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. Email Address. Idea Mensch. where entrepreneurs share their stories.

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