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. End of story.

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Metrics Startup SaaS Course 150

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2010

One of the questions we get most from entrepreneurs is how companies reach an exit event, and the thinking that goes into acquisitions. What's the story behind the acquisition? Quinn Curtis: We had recently signed Webroot as a licensee of our software, as an OEM partner. With any startup, that's always something you think about.

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San Diego IP Acquisition Web 145

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Limited financial resources make it challenging for these companies to invest in sophisticated security mechanisms or full-fledged IT departments – a fact that hackers and cyber attackers use to their full advantage. They foster customer trust, which is essential in driving growth and customer acquisition.

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Startup Framework Statistics Customer 40

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. 10 New York City startups we’re crazy about. Acquisition. 5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California. I assumed that the people of Los Angeles were disingenuous attention whores and didn’t know anything about technology.”. Whats Hot Menu.

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Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

There is excitement about the possibilities of real change and an infectious “naive optimism” about how everything is possible. He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse.

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Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), probably won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. Wessel measures a 39% acquisition advantage to being in-state.

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Technical Review Oracle Software Review Ideas 123

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2020

Today's interview is with Ruben Schultz, the co-founder of Swoop (www.swoopapp.com), a new startup which develops software for limousine, party bus, and other transportation providers. What's Swoop all about? So, operators both are getting software to run their businesses, as well as new leads. in a seed funding round.

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SaaS Startup Tool Doc 113

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Curious to learn more about the pain and joys of bootstrapping a business, I sat down with Jim Semick, the company’s Co-Founder and Chief Strategist. Who is Mr. Semick and what is ProductPlan all about? We build product roadmap software – it’s a SaaS company based here in Santa Barbara, California. It’s chaotic.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 19, 2015

Instead of paying upfront for expensive software and customized solutions, businesses can now realize cost advantages by purchasing scalable cloud services. Critical software programs for accounting, email, and productivity are just a small sample of the cloud services that are available to small businesses in today’s world.

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Competition Technology Social Media Tips 40

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

It was especially fun for me because we got the chance to talk about the VC industry and how entrepreneurs should think about the VC industry in addition to discussing deals. Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g.

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Clearstone Venture Capital ReachLocal Google 236

Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out.

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Artificial Inteligence San Diego Framework Venture Capital 40

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : Lynda.com is: “The best, new, online way to learn how to use your software. Tell us a bit about lynda.com’s mission and how it has impacted strategic decisions, such as raising outside funding, entering new markets, etc. Our website is the best place to learn more about us. Hello Kitty!”.

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Entrepreneur Training Startup Web 245

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : Lynda.com is: “The best, new, online way to learn how to use your software. Tell us a bit about lynda.com’s mission and how it has impacted strategic decisions, such as raising outside funding, entering new markets, etc. Our website is the best place to learn more about us. Hello Kitty!”.

Entrepreneur 245

Entrepreneur Training Startup Web 245

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), probably won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. Wessel measures a 39% acquisition advantage to being in-state.

Startup 97

Startup Technical Review Oracle Software Review 97

Tech.Co

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In this #StartupsEverywhere , series, we talked with Aaron Slodov, Jennifer Stapleton, and Steve McHale, leaders in the Cleveland startup ecosystem about why there's more of a draw to downtown. Another driver of success in Cleveland are the individuals who really go the extra mile to connect entrepreneurs to the resources they need.

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Startup Platform CIO Entrepreneur 70

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2017

In emerging markets and the developing world, access to banking, capital, and financial resources is fare more difficult than here in the U.S., The company's CEO and founder, Shivani Siroya , talked to us recently about the startup and what it's doing. Shivani Siroya: Across the world, about 2.5

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” To grow faster businesses need resources in today’s financial period to fund growth that may not come for 6 months to a year.

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

billion acquisition ( disclosed last November ) by the private equity firm CVC Capital Partners and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Petco also operates an administrative support center for finance, human resources, and other corporate functions in San Antonio, TX. Including the latest round, Petnet has raised a total of $21.5

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San Diego Los Angeles Mobile Equity 52

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Pull Quote: “If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do you will have the best experience of your life. We all make important, complicated decisions in our life and having accurate, objective data about our choices allow us to find and compare products that meet our needs. How do you stand out?”.

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Entrepreneur Competition Software Review Course 232

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

The startup was co-founded by former Zynga GM Reed Shafnner and Viddy co-founder Chris Ovitz , who spoke to us about how their prior experience in the social gaming and consumer Internet world is helping the company create an entirely different kind of job site. The other piece, is user acquisition. The company recently landed a $7.9M

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Design Sites Cornerstone OnDemand Startup 174

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The acquisitions are meant to make the firm’s marketing platform better. The firm is a software-as-a-service marketing automation platform which is used by clients to create, deploy and manage online lead nurturing marketing campaigns and can be integrated with salesforce.com, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics CRM and SugarCRM.

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Platform Marketing Social Media Web 56

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

We all make important, complicated decisions in our life and having accurate, objective data about our choices allow us to find and compare products that meet our needs. With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? You can build software a lot quicker and cheaper as well.

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Blogging Entrepreneur Software Review Course 219

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities?—?with Marc Benioff was the master at community building and he knew that it was far better to let his customers stand up and talk about how they were using Salesforce in front of prospects. This had a dual purpose?—?the this is classic community management.

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Software Startup Tool Platform 234

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). If you’re not even spending any time thinking about what your market could be you’re simply being lazy and unprepared.

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Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. Wessel measures a 39% acquisition advantage to being in-state. It’s very important.

Startup 109

Startup Technical Review Oracle Software Review 109

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

The startup is headed by Robert Flynn --a former VC, and co-founder of Liquid Audio, and most recently head of Modern Feed, the company that is now Clicker--who talked with us about his new company. Can you talk about your background, for those who aren't familiar with what you've done? What is Aggregage? at that time.

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Startup Content Advertising Sites 162

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.

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Customer Custom Advertising SEM 164

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. Wessel measures a 39% acquisition advantage to being in-state. It’s very important.

Sites 59

Sites Startup Technical Review Oracle 59

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. Wessel measures a 39% acquisition advantage to being in-state. It’s very important.

Startup 102

Startup Technical Review Oracle Entrepreneur 102

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

About Plug.DJ. We discuss user acquisition, scaling issues, and get a great glimpse (and receive some invaluable lessons) into the challenges and inspiration behind Plug.DJ’s rocketship growth. Same with work – it was painful to not be able to talk to people about the music I loved. LA-local Plug.DJ

Startup 107

Startup Product Sites Tool 107

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. This means not having to worry about spending extra time negotiating and collecting superfluous paperwork at the storage facility. It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship. Silver Sponsor.

CalTech 91

CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. Purpose of an MVP and Defining the Right MVP I've really not talked as much about this in my blog even though its hugely important. It had a passionate group of 50 people attending. WordPress is pretty easy to hack.

Technical Review 338

Technical Review CTO Hire CTO Coach Software Review 338

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2012

You have to take the risk, but keep your wits about you. Your goal is “ coopetition ” - to find a way to partner with your competitor in such a way that both parties can substantially benefit from the other's resources - without stealing customers or damaging anyone's credibility.

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Company Companies Startup Examples 96

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2011

You have to take the risk, but keep your wits about you. Your goal is “ coopetition ” - to find a way to partner with your competitor in such a way that both parties can substantially benefit from the other's resources - without stealing customers or damaging anyone's credibility.

Startup 90

Startup Examples Customer Custom 90

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

As a startup, you need to use your limited resources to excel at a few core things for your best customers, in order to stand out and get the momentum going. He talks in detail about ten of the key challenges that Facebook faced in their growth, to move from a tiny social media upstart to one of the most successful companies in the world.

Startup 144

Startup Social Media Metrics Customer 144

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr. The Hybrid Group is passionate about making useful things with technology. Idealab also continues to partner with leading venture capital firms and other strategic investors to provide the resources to maximize the potential of these companies.

Idealab 77

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

We'll use all the panel members' experiences to tell a "how to story" about bootstrapping to million. Software Labs: Petri Dishes for Tech Innovation. Making Decisions as a Resource Starved Dev Team. Most entrepreneurs fail because they start the business the only way they know how - thinking about. Michael Coté, RedMonk.

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Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69