socalTECH

JULY 1, 2009

NetVersant offers sales, support and consulting services to enterprise customers in the area of unified communications and business voice-over-IP services, throughout the United States. Tags: altura netversant avaya merger acquisition telecom. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Headquartered in Everett, Wash.,

IP 100

IP Acquisition Sales Services 100

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? That led naturally to dialog around M&A, and we recently close the acquisition on the 6th of July. Quinn, thanks for the time.

San Diego 145

San Diego IP Acquisition Web 145

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments. You mentioned that you've been growing the company recently, and made a recent acquisition? Did the TV stimulate search?

Social Media 235

Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

The business model, is people use this to do better marketing and sales targeting when they sell their own products. The company has grown very rapidly and well for a startup, but we're now at the point where sales is the name of the game. That took quite a bit of investment in organic growth and acquisitions.

Santa Barbara 113

Santa Barbara High Tech Outsource Development Startup 113

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. If you hire 6 sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business for 4-6 months. “COGS” represents the amount that each sale costs you.

Startup 418

Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Dominating business-to-consumer sales, Amazon seems ready to take over the world of business-to-business too. In its first year, Amazon Business generated $1 billion in sales. – Are you great at partnerships and acquisitions? [ This article is co-authored by Stephanie Woerner. ]. – Ensure great customer experience.

Organization 91

Organization Customer Custom Study 91

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

- OnlyOnce , September 6, 2010 Ten Slides Make a Killer Investor Presentation - Startup Professionals Musings , May 19, 2010 We’re Living In The Dark Ages Of Social Media - rosskimbarovsky.com , August 9, 2010 How to Enchant Your Customer - How to Change the World , November 23, 2010 Don’t Let Your Ignorance Stop You - Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by (..)

Startup 378

Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

Xconomy

JULY 19, 2016

This has been evident with recent acquisitions beyond Symantec and Blue Coat – Avast and AVG, Cisco and CloudLock , IBM and Resilient Systems , and most recently Carbon Black and Confer. More than any other IT segment, compelling technology and defensible IP are a critical piece of any security solution.

Symantec 40

Symantec IBM IBM Acquisition 40

InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

As an entrepreneur and startup investor, I have helped create companies which achieved two IPOs which collectively raised over $100 million, as well as two acquisitions which totaled $385 million. 1) Expect Independent Channel Sales Reps To Perform Missionary Sales. Rationale: I cannot afford to hire a direct sales force.

Startup 242

Startup Outsource Development Outsource Sales 242

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

We want money to make some acquisitions (investors would prefer to fund M&A if they know specific deals – not to encourage bad behavior. Gross margin (GM) is the amount of profit you make per sale of your product or service taking into account your total costs of selling that product or service.

Startup 383

Startup Company Companies .Net 383

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. This is often in the 5-7% range.

Venture Capital 242

Venture Capital Mission Ventures Capital Help 242

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

I agree with YouTube (that they provide more (hosting, ad sales, etc.) It is the world’s best customer acquisition for video consumers to get them to come to your O&O where you can make your $25 CPMs. Give access to music that is legal, avoiding lawsuits and ensuring revenue isn’t captured by other IP owners.

Networking 366

Networking Media Content Customer 366

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He has raised more than $200 million on behalf of his companies and led more than 30 acquisitions. Pierce also led the acquisition of Xfire from Viacom. and negotiated the company’s successful acquisition by Logitech, Inc., He began his career as a media, entertainment and IP attorney.

Startup 111

Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2011

As we did not require users to sign in, we were forced to correlate IP addresses with company names, which, in 1999, was an inexact and very manual science. We then sorted these email addresses by company and initiated targeted sales campaigns wherever we identified a critical mass of users. No Help From BuddyHelp.

Customer 162

Customer Custom Technical Support Startup 162

InfoChachkie

MARCH 8, 2011

Listing a variety of bread-and-butter IP protection tactics would not have been as compelling. Deeper Meaning – Rather than directly answering the question, I offered an esoteric response, which clarified that the Winkelvoss brothers created nothing of value to “protect.” John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School.

Writing 150

Writing Social Network Ideas Entrepreneur 150

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

User acquisition via each method you use. Block IP address. Block IP address. Block IP address. Block IP address. Block IP address. Block IP address. System performance and uptime. Aggregate metrics. Engagement. Content creation? Ads and monetization? Pricing and revenue? Block username. Block email.

Startup 29

Startup IP Email Report 29