Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. And the numbers were staggering. Microsoft paid $9.00 per registered user for Hotmail. AOL paid $40.00

Metrics 296

Metrics Sites Advertising Web 296

socalTECH

JULY 14, 2017

Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. According to EDF RE, the Switch Station 1 and Switch Station 2 Solar Projects, currently under construction, will supply power to NV Energy under three Power Purchase Agreements.

San Diego 113

San Diego Metrics Acquisition Help 113

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Curby develops software for valet parking operators, including reporting, metrics, and other enterprise features. CurbStand said the acquisition will help it expand into new customer categories, including lodging chains, healthcare institutions and municipalities. READ MORE>>.

Metrics 100

Metrics Acquisition Mobile Los Angeles 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

Pick a single metric that is the focus for all growth. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price. For many companies, the long game is choosing the right strategic partners and acquisitions. Less is more. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 144

Startup Social Media Metrics Customer 144

Berkonomics

AUGUST 7, 2014

The title of this insight helps us find a formula: LALA. Create metrics for customer acquisition, retention, conversion, reach, or anything that helps you to better understand the effects of your changes to the program. Let’s focus not upon the process of marketing and positioning, but on you. There’s an answer for that.

Marketing 176

Marketing Metrics Education Resource 176

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2023

As a mentor to many entrepreneurs, I also encourage an entrepreneur exit focus early, and I really like the specific steps outlined in the classic book, “ Exit Signs ,” by Pamela Dennis, who has helped companies through this critical transition for decades. New startup founders keep all the operating metrics they need in their head.

Startup 99

Startup Entrepreneur Metrics Acquisition 99

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 17, 2018

." Revenue doesn't pay your bills, GM does  —  @msuster 2/ Founders obsess with revenue as a vanity metric. Payback periods on customer acquisition way more important to you in the near-term. Some even grow "bad" revenue just to show growth. Ultimately it matters a great deal.

Software Review 242

Software Review Technical Review Pricing Metrics 242

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

In the interests of helping you work smarter and last longer, I would like to offer my top ten list of key resource drains to avoid in early businesses and startups, based on my years of advising entrepreneurs and my own business experience: Expanding your product line too quickly for scaling. Poor communication and visibility from the top.

Outsource Development 122

Outsource Development Outsource Metrics Technical Review 122

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Happy customers quickly become your biggest advocates, today reaching far beyond friends and family, and they make traditional marketing efforts pale in comparison for growth, loyalty, and new customer acquisition costs. Old-fashioned surveys need help from new algorithms, data science, and digital bots.

Customer 114

Customer Custom Satisfaction Metrics 114

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2021

As a mentor to many entrepreneurs, I also encourage an entrepreneur exit focus early, and I really like the specific steps outlined in the classic book, “ Exit Signs ,” by Pamela Dennis, who has helped companies through this critical transition for decades. New startup founders keep all the operating metrics they need in their head.

Startup 173

Startup Entrepreneur Metrics Acquisition 173

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Yahoo has been an example of a company which expanded in all directions through 53 acquisitions, to the point where most customers were confused, and it was overtaken by Google as your main search engine. Hypermetricemia – metrics for everything. Narcissus complex – look inward to see what helps.

Metrics 133

Metrics Product Yahoo Examples 133

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.

Technical Review 131

Technical Review Case Study Mentor Software Review 131

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2021

You never have the time and resources for International expansion, acquisitions, venture capital investors, or going public. You can’t build a great company without help. Data – Define a handful of key metrics to free you from managing personalities, egos, subjective issues, emotions, and intangibles.

Entrepreneur 174

Entrepreneur Search Engine Optimization Satisfaction Social Media 174

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, we investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. And the numbers were staggering. Microsoft paid $9.00 per registered user for Hotmail. AOL paid $40.00

Metrics 207

Metrics Sites Advertising Web 207

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

You need to move to right location and get connected before you ask for help. Being in the right location helps you to maintain pace because of access to skilled and experienced people. But it is an important metric for firms in pursuit of explosive growth. Wessel measures a 39% acquisition advantage to being in-state.

Technical Review 123

Technical Review Oracle Software Review Ideas 123

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

That’s certainly one function of every board but if your board is your “brain trust” and the people you can most use as a sounding board to help you make the toughest decisions in your company and if its the one group truly privy to your most confidential information and your hardest choices then it’s a shame if you don’t get more value.

Startup 226

Startup Slides Metrics News 226

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2019

Pick a single metric that is the focus for all growth. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price. For many companies, the long game is choosing the right strategic partners and acquisitions. Less is more. Marty Zwilling.

Social Media 87

Social Media Metrics Customer Custom 87

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

They also have a very smart and efficient approach to creative development that was critical to helping us scale,” she wrote. (If Have you worked with a talented individual or agency who helped you find and keep more users? Respond to our survey and help other startups find top growth marketers they can work with!

Commerce 211

Commerce Content Marketing Startup 211

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

It’s your job as a leader to be the model high performer, quantify the team view with metrics, and expand awareness to the best outside competition and new tools. You need to be constantly assessing mergers and acquisitions, as well as divestitures. Attract, train, and reward only the best leaders.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Layoffs Social Media Metrics 124

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2017

We help the small independent rental yards. He convinced me to come out of retirement and help. You have to make sure your cost of acquisition, retention rates, and conversion metrics are all in place. Scott Cannon: I had to go back, and really get operating metrics in place to know how to look at the business.

Startup 174

Startup Metrics Customer Custom 174

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues]. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date. New funding will be applied toward user acquisition and to expand into new product categories (gourmet food, wine and new services).

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

MakeSpace (as he named it) would help you get your excess goods into low-cost warehouses. How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs? The process of “systematizing” a business quite literally involves building systems that help you to achieve scale. How profitable is my product or service?

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2017

Pick a single metric that is the focus for all growth. Today’s world is full of metrics leading to business growth, including customer logins, revenue per customer, retention, and average solution price. For many companies, the long game is choosing the right strategic partners and acquisitions. Less is more.

Competition 65

Competition Social Media Metrics Customer 65

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.

Software Review 100

Software Review Startup Metrics Content 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2011

To help it along, we developed some software which makes it easy to create a mobile experience, which corresponds to a QR code you can place on any, real world object. We recently completed a pilot with William Morris and Disney, around Hannah Montana, where we helped print QR codes for 10,000 CD stickers, 2500 posters, and digital signage.

Startup 220

Startup West Hollywood Metrics Entertainment 220

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Some of the products I’ve helped validate and launch include GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting and AppFolio. Our software helps companies save time, improve their communication, and ultimately build better products faster. I think in the end it’s helped us build a better product because we are resource-constrained. Semick: They are.

Venture Capital 115

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2017

Some might be looking for some liquidity, they might want to sell their app outright, or it could be they want to cut a deal on the publishing side, and get some helping out with advertising and monetization. We are making changes to the user interface, to help limits things like attrition and other things we're trying to avoid.

Media 153

Media Mobile Startup Acquisition 153

SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 1, 2007 Entreprenuer Network Great post by Ben Kuo - The Importance of the “Network&# to Entrepreneurs - the informal connections between people in the technology industry here who have a vested interest in helping entrepreneurs take their companies to the next level.

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Networking CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire 150

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

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. Essentially, we help them learn how to get more with less, and also how to consider new investments in things like social media, mobile marketing, or video.

Social Media 235

Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

You need to move to right location and get connected before you ask for help. Being in the right location helps you to maintain pace because of access to skilled and experienced people. But it is an important metric for firms in pursuit of explosive growth. Wessel measures a 39% acquisition advantage to being in-state.

Startup 97

Startup Technical Review Oracle Software Review 97

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

It definitely pays to get some help with your first step into social media, since first impressions often become lasting ones. Use business metrics and tools to tune your efforts. Always gauge progress by business indicators, like customer acquisition cost and customer satisfaction. Do your homework before you begin.

Social Media 99

Social Media Media Tool Startup 99

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

That is, once you invest in a company, you''re a shareholder, and you help that company for the course of its life. We try to help the companies get to a place where we would, as investors, also want to invest in them. A prototype is one, but it could also be customer acquisition testing they''ve done.

Incubator 187

Incubator Southern California Startup Ideas 187

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

As a mentor to many entrepreneurs, I also encourage an entrepreneur exit focus early, and I really like the specific steps outlined in the new book, “ Exit Signs ,” by Pamela Dennis, who has helped companies through this critical transition for decades. New startup founders keep all the operating metrics they need in their head.

Startup 98

Startup Entrepreneur Metrics Acquisition 98

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

We have a number of startups (or pre-startups) that we are helping get launched. Any thoughts on my recent post Startup Metrics ? The Startup Metrics post is a good example of what I call “holocognics.” Startup Metrics discusses what a Startup needs to consider before “going live.” That's great.

Startup 150

Startup SEO Pepperdine Blogging 150

SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Disclosure: we helped build the system that is behind these.) Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

socalTECH

AUGUST 31, 2009

Hamet is now helping True Ventures look at investments in Southern California, and we thought it would be worthwhile to talk to him about the firm's new interest here, his role, plus his insights into where the advertising industry is now. I like it because most entrepreneurs like helping other entrepreneurs, and I can relate to that.

Southern California 164

Southern California Venture Capital Advertising Entrepreneur 164

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2015

You never have the time and resources for International expansion, acquisitions, venture capital investors, or going public. You can’t build a great company without help. Data – Define a handful of key metrics to free you from managing personalities, egos, subjective issues, emotions, and intangibles.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Search Engine Optimization Satisfaction Social Media 111