Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Past (1985-2002). After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. It was mostly timing.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 25, 2020

You will recognize the value of these for any business, even if they have not been in common use in the past. CACR (Customer Acquisition Cost Ratio). The lower the ratio, the more successful the customer acquisition campaign. CPA (Cost per Acquisition). Some of these are also applicable to non-Internet businesses.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led both the Series D and E rounds for the company, which says it has seen 100% growth year over year and a tripling in revenue over the past 18 months. The acquisition of Appetize extends SpotOn’s reach to the enterprise space in a major way.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2020

Valencia-based Whitmor/Wirenetics , a value added manufacturer and distributor of wire and cable products for the aerospace, defense, space and industrial markets, has been acquired by BJG Electronics Group. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Whitmor/Wirenetics is more than 50 years old. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2014

How can marketers make better decisions and get better results from their online marketing? Pasadena-based Smartify (www.getsmartify.com)''s CEO, Carla Bourque , recently talked to us about the company''s online marketing platform, and how it differentiates itself from a lot of other competitors in the market.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

In one industry I know well, the dominant player with 22% market share was acquired by one of the largest companies in the technology world. What if you had abandoned that market, reallocated your resources, and focused instead upon other non–competitive geographical or industry segments? Opportunity can come when least expected.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 10, 2021

In particular, over the past year, the fintech has seen “massive momentum” in the country, with more than 18 million American consumers now using Klarna, he said. Overall, Klarna is live in 20 markets, has more than 90 million global active users and more than 2 million transactions a day conducted on its platform.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 16, 2019

In a global mobile games market that is consolidating, Jam City could not be more proud to be working with JPMorgan, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Silicon Valley Bank, SunTrust Bank and CIT Group to strategically support the financing of our acquisition and growth plans,” said Chris DeWolfe, co-founder and CEO of Jam City.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

We thought it might be interesting to talk with one of the fund's managing directors, Jeb Spencer about the fund's success in technology investments, plus how it managed to raise another fund in this kind of environment, plus its unique goal of getting companies to an acquisition--and not an IPO.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. According to J2, the acquisition grows its annualized, monthly revenue run rate for cloud backup services to over $40M. j2 Global said it will open up a new office in Paddington, UK--where LiveDrive was based--as part of the acquisition. The company is led by Hemi Zucker.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 23, 2019

Now the five-year-old firm, with newly found significant capital in the bank , is attempting to replicate its success in international markets. so for us that market is critically important,” he said. “We in the past, but now we really want to focus on expanding there,” he said. 60% of all software is bought in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Past investors also included Y Combinator, where GrubMarket was part of the Winter 2015 cohort), and for some more context, GrubMarket last raised money in April 2019 , $28 million at a $228 million valuation, a source says. Its opportunity comes in the form of disruption and a gap in the market.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 22, 2016

FPS supplies protective packaging, insulation and component products to the consumer electronics, automotive, medical and other end-markets, and FCS provides valves, fittings, sensors, and related components. Platinum Equity said the acquisition is its second in Asia in the past 18 months. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. 10) Rob, why does the world need RingRevenue? .

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2010

In fact, in one instance, a dealer purchased all of our sets in order to “take them off the market.” However, as the number of non-collectors entering the sports memorabilia market in pursuit of financial gain increased, the dynamic of the industry changed and evolved in a manner similar to other mature collectible markets.

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Xconomy

JUNE 14, 2019

Is one of the bigger biopharma acquisitions of the year in trouble? This past week, antitrust regulators once again delayed Roche’s planned $4.8 The US Federal Trade Commission wants yet more information about the buyout, and overseas, the UK Competition and Markets Authority opened a separate investigation.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2018

Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Uproxx Media Group also provides branded content and video services to marketers. Culver City-based Uproxx Media Group , which operates the Uproxx entertainment and pop culture news site, has been acquired by Warner Music Group , the two said on Thursday.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 1, 2013

You will recognize the value of these for any business, even if they have not been in common use in the past. CACR (Customer Acquisition Cost Ratio). The lower the ratio, the more successful the customer acquisition campaign. CPA (Cost per Acquisition). CHURN (% customer cancelling each month).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

Many entrepreneurs never get past their first-stage focus on their innovative product, to scaling the business globally, organizing a structure to handle thousands of employees, and concentrating their focus “on the business” rather than working “in the business.” Isolate marketing from sales for maximum customer focus.

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socalTECH

JULY 11, 2012

What does the landscape of social media marketing look like, in the wake of Salesforce.com's acquisition of Buddy Media? In the past month alone, some of the worlds largest enterprise technology companies have acquired social media marketing start-ups accumulating a total spending of close to $2.2 billion dollars.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

First off, on our original article, we identified a number of people in the industry we specifically said did not qualify for the list -- because they had successfully exited companies in the past and who are proven entrepreneurs. award acquisition merger exit enterepeneur socaltech50' So then, how did our actual list do? READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

They are frustrated by the past decade of subpar returns for the sector. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. And by the C round it seems like investors feel more confident in setting a fair market value. The Funding Problem.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Los Angeles-based j2 Global Communications announced today that it has acquired C Infinity , an Ireland-based online data backup and hosting services targeting the business market. The acquisition is the third one in the online data storage space for j2 Global in the past year. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2012

We thought it would be insightful for our readerswho are usually looking to get acquired by other companieson what the thought process of those large companies making those acquisitions are. For a company like yours, what goes into your acquisition strategy and what thoughts went behind the Anue acquisition?

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Berkonomics

JUNE 4, 2015

This week, our guest post is by David Steakley, a past President of the Houston Angel Network, and a reformed management consultant. Subscription businesses typically take longer to get to profitability, because costs of developing the product or service, and customer acquisition costs, are front-loaded, while revenue is back-loaded.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2014

We know the perceptions you have of our market from our past. We have a large number of highly talented engineers and entrepreneurs now developing companies in our local market. AOL committed to keeping the team in LA after the acquisition and in building a deeper technology team in town.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. Every business and brand has unique requirements to fit into their market environment. Strategic proficiency. Leadership brand development.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

There has been a lot of public debate over the past several weeks about whether it’s a good thing to be “gross margin positive” or not and commentary always reminds me that some people at startups don’t quite understand financial metrics or even how to think about which ones are healthy. Customer acquisition cost.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Indeed, part of the reason for the financing is to accelerate the pace of its acquisitions and investments into new game development studios, according to chief executive, Walter Driver. “The barrier to entry from independent studios is to find product-market fit,” says Driver.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2021

For example, a few years ago, the company Beepi had a vision to build a new market for buying and selling used cars, but became overly focused on fundraising to grow fast, and ignored many customer complaints. Locked-in syndrome – do what worked in the past. Thus you are driven to short-term growth fixes versus radical change.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 13, 2016

In one industry I know well, the dominant player with 22% market share was acquired by one of the largest companies in the technology world. Email readers, continue here…] What if you had abandoned that market, reallocated your resources, and focused instead upon other non–competitive geographical or industry segments?

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 21, 2023

Other common scenarios that we’ve seen: Scaling and new markets: Your company and product are established, and now you’re scaling or going after new markets. Keeping up with the competition: You’re a market leader in a fast-growing field. These are classic inflection points for a development team.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

However, three local startups-- OpenX , Steelhouse , and Thrive Market all have pushed past the $100M mark in the last few months with public announcements. OpenX and Steelhouse are in the online advertising industry, and Thrive Market is an e-commerce company focused on organic food. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

We caught up with co-founder and COO Alexander Israel late yesterday, ahead of the announcement, to have a quick chat with him about the acquisition and his experience--along with co-founder Sam Friedman--of starting up and selling his company. How'd the acquisition come about? The acquisition really has brought things to fruition.

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socalTECH

MAY 16, 2019

We're going after the fat middle of the market. However, there's this huge middle area, where people are looking for account executives, customer success reps, account managers, enterprise reps, that is a big market. How did you start Sales Insider from your past company, Central Desktop, after you sold it?

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