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.” Utilize mergers and acquisitions to accelerate growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

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. Organizations are assigned value by how well they take advantage of the best technology, and turn information into action. Strategic proficiency.

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Technical Review Organization Coach Invest 124

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Radhika teaches entrepreneurship and innovation, and advises organizations around the world on how to build radical products that create a fundamental change instead of optimizing the status quo. Locked-in syndrome – do what worked in the past. The solution is never to forget that initial clear purpose that translates into priorities.

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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. It has made some 15 acquisitions in the last two years, including Boston Organics and EJ Food Distributor this year.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

Over the past several years we have observed a significant decrease in startups leaving SoCal,” said Greg Becker, CEO of Silicon Valley Bank. The potential impact making these changes could have is an added 200,000 new jobs and growth of $100 billion for the whole economic region.

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socalTECH

JULY 8, 2021

I think if we, as Belkin, can find a way to help the communities where we are, where we are living, by helping students grow and helping them with the challenges they face, that's a natural thing with who we are and who we've become over the past 39 or so years. Now, we just have a lot more muscle to put into that than we did in the past.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Most impressive, Amazon had Hsieh retain his role as CEO, and gave him latitude for projects like his famous book, Delivering Happiness , which spun out into a separate organization of its own; continuing to focus and build out the Zappos company culture; and testing new management paradigms such as Holacracy.

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Commerce Statistics Customer Custom 206

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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Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

MVF was founded in the UK by five friends in 2009, and has driven incredibly fast growth over the past 9 years. Over the next few months we will work closely with the team at MVF to ensure a successful transition as the organization continues to build Tech.Co Today, I’m excited to announce that Tech.Co Most importantly, we like them.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2020

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. With customer acquisition costs (CAC) rising significantly across most products, one company experimented with a few low-cost initiatives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

This strategy is called “organic growth,” yet it alone may yield only a fraction of the potential you could achieve, unless you add the additional strategies of partnerships and M&A (mergers and acquisitions). Actively pursue mergers and acquisitions. Partial acquisition. Add basic partner contracts or alliances.

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CTO Hire Startup Outsource Development Resource 91

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 2, 2013

Mark framed his comments around the culture he built at Citrix, which has been augmented (and complicated) by the significant number of acquisitions the company executed during the past decade. Have your employees internalized the values that underlying your organization's culture? Respect - Hierarchy Is Evil (But Necessary).

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs? We built a strong brand in the city and acquired a ton of organic traffic.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 12, 2014

In the third summer fest, we will be celebrating the amazing success of LA tech companies in the past year. Several large acquisitions have included Oculus being acquired by Facebook for $2B, Maker Studios acquisition by Disney for more than $500M, and more. Register for a 5-6?

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Hollywood Entertainment Content Email 81

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

And then bit by bit, we grew the organization. We’ve worked with lots of startups at different points in the funnel, starting from the ground up and working with them through various rounds of funding, all the way through acquisitions, including two by unicorns. But these days, ground up is tougher.

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Commerce Content Marketing Startup 211

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

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. Organizations are assigned value by how well they take advantage of the best technology, and turn information into action. Strategic proficiency.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Organization Coach Invest 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2015

Demand Media hosted a welcoming opening party at the Vicerory, and Media Temple organized an amazing closing party at Cross Campus with aerialists, DJ, interactive displays - and people are still talking about the delicious food. Beyond entertainment, ad tech is huge with Rubicon''s IPO and the TrueX $200M acquisition by Fox.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Belkin Entertainment Newsletter 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

And as my Media Redef feed this past week reminded me Hispanics over-index for watching movies and they share their movie experiences 26% more than non-Hispanics. We’re growing our technology team because as I’ve outlined in the past the best online video companies are a perfect mix of technology and storytelling.

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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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Metrics Startup SaaS Course 150

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Community Organizer Saul Alinsky categorized people into three classes; (i) the Haves, (ii) the Have A Little, Want Mores and, the (iii) Have Nots. Community Organizer Saul Alinsky categorized people into three classes; (i) the Haves, (ii) the Have A Little, Want Mores and, the (iii) Have Nots. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Community Organizer Saul Alinsky categorized people into three classes; (i) the Haves, (ii) the Have A Little, Want Mores and, the (iii) Have Nots. He wrote Rules For Radicals to instruct, “…the Have Nots on how to take it away” from the Haves. Mr. Alinsky preached that wealth was relatively static. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

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Entrepreneur Los Angeles Demand Organization 190

socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2014

We organize savings online. We want to create a great consumer experience, which is significantly different than cookie cutter, cut-and-paste coupon sites. They made a number of significant acquisitions in that space, My co-founders, Sammer and Chris, worked together at Internet Brands. What is Chippmunk?

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Internet Brands Content Startup Sites 257

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2010

The organization was created to teach (relatively) young professionals the “art of philanthropy.” We were given $10,000 to distribute to three or four worthy organizations of our choosing. Conversely, a contingent of the business folks proposed that we raise more money in order to make meaningful grants to multiple organizations.

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Santa Barbara Class Ideas Organization 191

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

However, savvy startups can leverage LinkedIn to create a customer acquisition and a churn reduction tool. When SimpleLegal follows its users into a new organization, there are generally no alternative solutions being used. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. Businesses typically use LinkedIn to recruit employees.

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Customer Custom Software Review Technical Review 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2019

Ian talked to us about the rewards and challenges of being an entrepreneur, plus how important it is to manage lifetime value (LTV) of a customer versus customer acquisition cost (CAC) in making a successful company. (We I worked a lot and didn't have a lot of free time, but my past time was going out. What is Discotech?

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Startup Equity Customer Custom 113

socalTECH

MAY 12, 2017

I had seen how things were working over there, and went through a number of acquisition. Ben is a commercial director, who has been in post production and production for the past seventeen years. We had lots of success reaching the GenZ and millennial audience with video content on that platform. He was perfect to go into this.

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Media Content Platform Artificial Inteligence 177

InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2010

Although this is a somewhat unusual real estate transaction, it reflects a surprisingly common scenario in the world of mergers and acquisitions, with one important distinction. If you attempt to assess the value of your company within that of a larger organization, you too will be speaking from a position of ignorance.

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Company Companies Pricing Santa Barbara 160

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2012

By recognizing the fundamental and inevitable differences among your customers, you can give your organization a strategic advantage over your product-centric competitors – who may know little to nothing about the customers who account for their success and survival. Focus on individual customer value. Remember, this is not a one-time effort.

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Customer Custom Startup Pricing 90

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. Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. In most instances news is now breaking on Twitter and then being picked up by news organizations. They had mail, IM, groups, answers, etc.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Tech.Co

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Jennifer: I am a corporate attorney who has spent that past 13 years working with entrepreneurs, venture firms, private equity firms, and high-growth, privately held companies to make acquisitions, grow their businesses and complete successful exits. What’s the most exciting thing that has happened in Cleveland in the past year?

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Startup Platform CIO Entrepreneur 70

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

It's software-as-a-service based, and we have organizations worldwide, from very small companies, to 100 employees and up, to Fortune 500 companies, across a wide variety of industries. You've seen some very impressive growth over the past few years, can you talk about how that has happened? Dave Terry: We've been very fortune.

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Software Report Startup IBM 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The huge importance of this is that when you have a high-level of loyal customers you get repeat purchases that are significantly more profitable because you’re not spending new acquisition dollars acquiring them. companies that have to spend too heavily on customer acquisition). Get Physical!

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Product Course Customer Custom 296

Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

If the data held up in wider testing, it could mean that hepatitis C could be cured someday with a short course of pills, without the flu-like symptoms that dogged regimens of the past. “It Has Vertex has learned from its past missteps? It was the evidence we’d all been looking for.”. But the drugs aren’t cures, and competition looms.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

However, when one does find its way into my email inbox, I admittedly am more energized to help the person or organization in the future. Such a disparity can strain the Donor / Donee relationship, especially if the Donor seeks reciprocity for a favor performed in the distant past. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

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Entrepreneur Help Networking Startup 210

Tech.Co

JANUARY 19, 2016

There have been plenty of sure ways in the past, email attachments, dropbox, etc. Prior to cofounding CapLinked, Jackson worked with PayPal up to the acquisition by eBay. “You’ll have to share sensitive data. The trick is, ‘how do you do it safely with security and real intentionality?’ It keeps companies safe while doing.”.

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