Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

…” I’ll write soon on my views of why I believe Instagram took off as a social network and what I think comes next. Instagram happens to be one of the few social networks I regularly use along with Twitter. Your $200 million “small acquisition” is a cool 60% of all of their cash. Christin goes on.

Venture Capital 316

Venture Capital Pricing Social Network Acquisition 316

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2017

According to a recent social media industry report , 92 percent said that social media is important to their businesses, and more than half report it helped them improve sales. Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign.

Media 59

Media Marketing Social Media Resource 59

socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2011

It's been a very busy for coupon and deal sites over the past few months, with a giant, $950M round of funding for Groupon, and the acquisition of at least three locally headquartered coupon and deal sites--LogicBuy.com, NextCoupons.com, and DealPerk--in the last month. More recently, we've been focused on deal overload.

Sites 217

Sites Content Sales Demand 217

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. Don’t try to tackle all 20 major categories of digital social media at once. Traditional marketing is sales-focused, one-way push. The tools and measurements are the same for both.

Social Media 103

Social Media Media Marketing Startup 103

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Every business should look at its cost of customer acquisition (COCA) and return on investment (ROI) twice a year and after each campaign. Don’t try to tackle all 20 major categories of digital social media at once. Traditional marketing is sales-focused, one-way push. The tools and measurements are the same for both.

Media 92

Media Social Media Marketing Resource 92

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.

Customer 164

Customer Custom Advertising SEM 164

InfoChachkie

JULY 26, 2010

At the time we established these Alliances, our annual sales were less than $20 million and our market value was approximately $60 million or one-fifth of one percent of total capitalization of our Alliance members. Revenue – We generated significant fees, over and above our product sales, from our members. Road Rules.

Entrepreneur 168

Entrepreneur Santa Barbara Startup Conference 168

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. We index towards those categories, and we do really well. How big is YP? READ MORE>>.

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

I''ve grown from driving part of the technology within the company, to driving all of the product development side, and also picking up product management and business development, around traffic acquisition and third party products. We index towards those categories, and we do really well. How big is YP.com? READ MORE>>.

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Most begin by doing the product development, marketing and sales alone, but struggle making the transition to hiring and coaching others, defining repeatable processes and focusing on future strategy. For example, there once was a social network called Friendster , often credited with starting the social networking boom way back in 2002.

Social Network 59

Social Network Startup Demand Entrepreneur 59

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We have built SocialStay for scale so I think the ‘chasm’ is both a function of time and sales. Yeah, I have made plenty of mistakes in this category in the past. You don’t need much… But what you do need is sales. We are focused on low friction adoption, meaning we don’t make it difficult to adopt for hotels and venues.

Startup 233

Startup Design Mobile Social Network 233

socalTECH

MAY 28, 2015

If you are having trouble with your wireless network, or your printer, or moving photos from your iPhone to your PC, we're there to help you with any problems like that. It's not some brand new category where you're a startup hoping to find paying customers. I think the big challenge is going to be customer acquisition.

Demand 100

Demand Technical Support Startup Seed Funding 100

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

For lack of a better word, it's really social shopping--not in the way of using social networking to drive sales, but because moms are social, to allow them to share information regularly online. When raising money, you look to meet with people using your network. How long has the site been around?

Software Review 200

Software Review Commerce Startup Sites 200

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014. Community Home Loans: FOR SALE. Upstate NY Retreat For Sale. Investment Land For Sale. NC Mountain Golf Living.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.). After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Both Sides of the Table

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. Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date. Social network app developer and ad network.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217