InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Greathouse: I know it’s difficult to estimate, but how much further along do you think you would be from a customer acquisition and revenue generating standpoint if you had taken in a few million in investment dollars? Semick: We’re a very metrics driven company, and we have been from the beginning. Semick: Thanks John, it was fun!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

And finally, Scott demonstrated his internal management tool for managing the metrics of his business. Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. If you’re an entrepreneur make sure you watch the video for that segment alone. It’s awesome.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

In my experience, here are some of the key elements of that “second-stage” of entrepreneurship: Move from small investors to major venture capital. Explosive growth to an enterprise normally requires a scalable sales model, a well-documented process with incentives, training, and metrics for tracking and management.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. They are, in fact, great news for traditional venture capitalists. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2021

You never have the time and resources for International expansion, acquisitions, venture capital investors, or going public. Data – Define a handful of key metrics to free you from managing personalities, egos, subjective issues, emotions, and intangibles. Conventional strategies don’t seem to work for you.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2015

Nowhere is this more obvious than eCommerce where many companies juice growth through massive over-spending on customer acquisition only to hit a break wall when consumers don’t love the brand and keep coming back once the heroine-induced traffic disappears. Not vanity metrics. Push yourself hard to be honest with yourself.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2020

Socaltech has partnered with Sutton Capital Partners with their Recurring Revenue Conference for several yars. While it was a good year for our merger and acquisition practice in the SaaS and fintech space, our most exciting news is in our merchant banking sector where we invest in and advise growth companies often for several years.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 31, 2009

Speaking of NextMedium, can you tell us how that worked out, and how you ended up in venture capital? Hamet Watt: I really enjoy having one foot in the VC camp, and one in the entrepreneurial camp. I think to some extent, you get to meet more entrepreneurs being associated with a VC. There's a natural fraternity.

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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?” Do you imagine eventually raising VC and trying to build a faster growing company?” They raised $5 million in venture capital to fund growth.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

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. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

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. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

What I really liked in my conversations with The Hive is that they are willing to work with and fund ventures that would never get VC dollars. Theres many good companys that will never turn into a $100M VC kind of company. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

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. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

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. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

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. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2015

You never have the time and resources for International expansion, acquisitions, venture capital investors, or going public. Data – Define a handful of key metrics to free you from managing personalities, egos, subjective issues, emotions, and intangibles. Conventional strategies don’t seem to work for you.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

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.” A few years ago “venture capital” was a revenue model. You are writing about the essentials of business.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. As an early-stage VC I love this phase. How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs? I truly enjoy working with innovators who dare to take on the system and I embrace the unknown with them.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I do think the way we work with companies is a little different from other programs, in that we view it much more like the wasyI personally think about investing and venture capital. A prototype is one, but it could also be customer acquisition testing they''ve done. There''s many forms of data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2016

You never have the time and resources for International expansion, acquisitions, venture capital investors, or going public. Data – Define a handful of key metrics to free you from managing personalities, egos, subjective issues, emotions, and intangibles. Conventional strategies don’t seem to work for you.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

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. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. Topics we discussed in the first 45 minutes of the video include: What is VC like in NY? Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2015

Or are you seriously underestimating key metrics like customer acquisition costs (an extremely common mistake)? Your financial model is only as robust as the inputs (your assumptions) built into it. Do your financial projections assume you have next to no competitors?

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MARCH 25, 2016

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. But this isn’t likely to be a VC-backable business (which to be clear is totally ok). Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. Market Size.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2015

To get some insight into the growing world and business of e-sports, we caught up with Clinton Foy , a local venture capital investor at Crosscut Ventures in Los Angeles. Medium and long term, I am excited to see how this involves into a true sport, bigger on every scale and metric than the NBA or NFL. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

But in my experience as an entrepreneur and now spending my time amongst investors I can generalize that almost all VC investments in early stage technology & Internet investments come down to just four key factors. And VC’s are tough customers. I’ve talked before about how to build long-term relationships with VCs.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 24, 2010

For instance, when a venture capital partner votes for a follow-on investment in exchange for the future support of one of her investments, idea cronyism is at work. Evaluate each of the following metrics on a scale of 1 – 10. For instance, a particular idea might be scored as follows: Speed : 8 – relatively fast.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

I just went out to a VC conference out in New York, and what I'll say is -- it was just too damn easy. There were companies at the VC conference starving for money, but I think we could have raised $20M like nothing. But, we're not focused on an exit--we're focused on profitability, which is a key metric for management.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Our metrics show that when people watch chips, they increase their tendency to want to watch that feature length film. From there, I did a couple of internships in the venture capital world, including with Hummer Winblad in San Francisco. We represented Google in the acquisition of YouTube.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Often board members themselves don’t do the work to say “what metrics would we like to see.” Any great board member should tell you, “please don’t create any performance metrics or materials that analyze the business that you’re not already creating for your own management’s use.” Sometimes they don’t even know.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

We make it trivial to quickly aggregate and monitor your key metrics in real-time! TriNet also offers a set of Strategic Services that match companies at every point in their lifecycle, including such offerings as Talent Acquisition, Performance Management, and Employee Development. SuperDemo: Bill Gross.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. We found a way to make our venture capital last when it shouldn’t have, at around the same time one of my all time favorite New Yorker cartoons was published on this topic.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

First, let me recommend reading a previous blog, called omg I’m just a startup, I can’t do those fancy metrics. Once you create a small list of these queries, then you can start to formalize the ideas into specific metrics that you track daily. User acquisition via each method you use. Aggregate metrics.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

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. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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