Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Good entrepreneurs are all about managing change, but too many forget that they have to change themselves as their dream evolves from a startup to a scalable business. Many entrepreneurs gave grown to prefer the relative quiet and isolation of their garage, and their ability to set their own schedule. It’s a big change.

Social Network 59

Social Network Startup Demand Entrepreneur 59

socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2014

We organize savings online. All of them offer the same kind of coupon information for a store or category, but many of those sites that show up have very poor results. They made a number of significant acquisitions in that space, My co-founders, Sammer and Chris, worked together at Internet Brands. What is Chippmunk?

Internet Brands 257

Internet Brands Content Startup Sites 257

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category.

Advertising 284

Advertising Invest RSS CPC 284

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2013

Most entrepreneurs struggle with financial projections, not wanting to commit to numbers they can’t deliver, and having no clue what investors might consider reasonable. Most entrepreneurs, with no experience, believe that they can make good money with lower margins than competitors. But don’t go crazy with this number. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 97

Startup Equity Entrepreneur Venture Capital 97

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2014

Most entrepreneurs struggle with financial projections, not wanting to commit to numbers they can’t deliver, and having no clue what investors might consider reasonable. Most entrepreneurs, with no experience, believe that they can make good money with lower margins than competitors. But don’t go crazy with this number. Marty Zwilling.

Equity 99

Equity Venture Capital Invest Pricing 99

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

That''s relevant, because of our third piece, where we have been hired by traditional media companies, to basically provide them a turnkey, outsources content acquisition team. The same category as Fullscreen and Maker, but, unlike those companies, we''re not rolling up other channels. One of thing we did, is we became a MCN.

Media 235

Media Content Startup IP 235

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

Jody--an experienced entrepreneur who was most recently co-founder of a firm he sold to the Virgin Group, and has been involved with such firms as Lycos, Buydirect.com, and Xoom--told us the story of EcoMom, plus how he connected with McClure on the investment. Jody Sherman: I've been an entrepreneur since I got out of the military.

Software Review 200

Software Review Commerce Startup Sites 200

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. Unattributed – There is no such thing as organic customers. Thus, include these unattributed customers in your overall calculation of customer acquisition costs.

Customer 164

Customer Custom Advertising SEM 164

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He invented the category of sponsored search. At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. Mostly, Google just had way better organic results (“the loss leader&# ) so it was always preferred by consumers.

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

Frank Addante

MAY 22, 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.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development Advertising 40

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million. Enter Facebook.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318