Haystack

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

2/ Consolidating Hardware And Time – Another watch-enthusiast brand — Pebble — was unceremoniously folded into Fitbit after launching in 2012 to rabid fanfare. in revenues (with 100M devices sold, about 25% still in use). That’s really impressive considering who they are competing against.

Acquisition 100

Acquisition Venture Capital Aggregator Mobile 100

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets? A lot has changed. link] leehower.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Up and Running

JANUARY 2, 2013

Customer Acquisition : This is usually one of the most skipped sections of an investor pitch and a full business plan. Your financials should easily allow you to calculate your customer acquisition costs. Your Revenue Model : Investors tend to care about this slide the most. How will you reach your customers?

Hockey Stick 164

Hockey Stick Exit Strategy Technical Review Due Diligence 164

Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

It’s been a few years now since BlackBerry made phones, and this represents its largest purchase to date (by a factor of 3) since its 2015 acquisition of Good Technology. 1/ A Pre-Seed Reminder: According to Crunchbase, PlanGrid was founded and went through Y Combinator in 2012. AutoDesk Acquires PlanGrid For $875M.

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Acquisition Artificial Inteligence Balance Sheet Cofounder 62

ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

To do that, we built a demand funnel that took us from nothing to 44X revenue growth in a single year. SiriusDecisions Rearchitected Demand Waterfall (2012). That difference cascades down the funnel, allowing you to track the ROI of your lead sources between inbound and outbound campaigns—all the way through to revenue.

Demand 101

Demand Revenue SQL B2B 101

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

We launched the larger channel back in 2012 and the smaller channel in 2019. At the eight minute mark, YouTube allows for creators to put extra ads in the content so they’ve got an incentive to show those longer videos and generate more ad revenue. This drives multi-million dollars of revenue for us.

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Channel Metrics Algorithm Video 129

Ben's Blog

APRIL 27, 2011

In that role, he championed the acquisition of a little known company named Weblogic. When Alfred presented the acquisition to BEA’s board of directors, one prominent board member said: “if you think that this company is going to pay $150M for a company with $150K in revenue, you are out of your f&%!$n’ The New Company.

Acquisition 74

Acquisition Cloud Architecture Revenue 74

Babbling VC

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Device Ident is a startup founded in 2012 and sells online fraud prevention software as well as services since January of this year. You will be responsible for their hiring and will carry responsibility for total revenue of the sales department. . Contact Roberto or drop me a line. . Your qualifications: . -3 German is expected.

Sales 65

Sales Russia Sweden France 65

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 23, 2013

Marketo filed for IPO with impressive 80% year-over-year growth in 2012, with almost $60m in revenue. of revenue, force-feeding sales pipelines with an unprofitable product. SaaS companies earn their revenue over time. time to earn back the revenue to cover all your customer acquisition expenses) 75% annual retention.

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Business Model .Net Revenue IPO 335

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

It would have been easy to explain the difference by changes in the 2010/2011 revenue growth projections but unfortunately that is not the case. revenues while large caps are trading at 6.4x. ► 2012. (1). Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more.

Software Review 101

Software Review Technical Review Valuation Europe 101

Pascal's View

DECEMBER 19, 2012

My comments on the key findings from the Shareholder Representative Services 2012 M & A Deal Terms Study are in bold: Deal sizes: although the median deal size* rose slightly to $75 million in 2012 from $70 million in 2011, deals $50 million or less grew to 42% of deals in 2012, up from 33% in 2011. That’s for sure!

Acquisition 31

Acquisition Merger Dilution Aggregator 31

www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Posted on May 31, 2012. Email Helps Get Marginal Revenue Out Of Existing Customers For Almost Nothing. May 31, 2012 at 8:21 am. #. May 31, 2012 at 9:45 am. #. May 31, 2012 at 10:52 am. #. May 31, 2012 at 11:46 am. #. May 31, 2012 at 12:10 pm. #. May 31, 2012 at 12:40 pm. #. Greatest Hits.

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Email Software Review Software Campaign 54

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 11, 2012

That didn't quite work out--while Zynga does represent over 10% of Facebook's revenue, Zynga continued to grew, went public at a multi-billion dollar valuation, and just bought a significant mobile foothold with OMGPOP. Splitting up functionality across different apps was only a matter of time. Core Feature or Fad?:

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Acquisition Curation Mobile Valuation 122

gigaom.com

JULY 10, 2012

9, 2012, 3:50pm PT. Lingo licenses Watson’s core speech technology for its language servers (though that relationship will likely end after the Nuance acquisition closes), and Research in Motion’s QNX is working with Watson’s API to develop a conceptual connected car assistant. Monday, July 9 2012. Tuesday, July 10 2012.

API 50

API Technical Review Artificial Inteligence RSS 50

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2016

When we invested in FullContact in 2012, they were a small team with a big vision to create One Address Book To Rule Them All. They followed this up with two acquisitions – first Conspire and then Profoundis. The classically rollup strategy was much more focused on acquiring revenue.

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Management Acquisition Revenue Technology 70

Rob Go

DECEMBER 28, 2011

61M in Q3 revenue, up 28% YoY. Ebay’s third largest acquisition in the last 3 years. The company is expected to do around $500M in revenue in 2011 and has seen 50%+ growth YoY the past two years. Onwards to 2012! Tripadvisor: An amazing entrepreneurial story. Spun out of Expedia and listed on the NASDAQ at a $3.5B

Technical Review 54

Technical Review Boston Software Review IPO 54

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Macro conversions are the primary goal of your website, to convert user traffic into revenue. On the other side of the coin, micro conversions are actions a user completes that are either on the path to revenue-generating macro conversions or not directly related to revenue-generation at all. 1) Revenue per visitor.

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Metrics Acquisition Conversion Revenue 121

Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

Given the predictability of SaaS GAAP revenues on a quarterly basis, the fact that the 08/09 projections were unchanged is not a surprise. Given that the revenues are not growing very fast, this means that most of the companies have reduced their sales force and focused on productivity improvement. ► 2012. (1).

Software Review 63

Software Review Technical Review Cloud Forecast 63

Agile VC

AUGUST 9, 2012

We also know lots of valid reasons why the company could be valued at far less than it once was including: Stalled Growth – revenue essentially flat over the last 4 quarters. Same is true when you look at actual cash in and out the door… Zynga’s operations generated $146M in positive cashflow in 1H 2012.

Stock 160

Stock LBO .Net Valuation 160

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

February 2, 2012. Filing Date : February 1, 2012. How They Make Money : Facebook’s primary revenue stream is of course selling advertising on Facebook.com, which in total accounts for 85% of revenue. Financial Snapshot : 2011 Revenue: $3.71 2011 YoY Revenue Growth: 88%. 2011 YoY Revenue Growth: 88%.

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IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Snapchat may be a company with no revenue and an unrealistic valuation, but it is changing the way people think of messaging. Snapchat made waves earlier this year when the company reportedly rebuffed a $3 billion acquisition attempt from Facebook and $4 billion from Google. Or it could be the next Facebook. Time will tell.

Startup 60

Startup Cofounder San Francisco Software Review 60

View from Seed

JUNE 13, 2019

I know some of the investors in Chewy prior to the PetSmart acquisition, but I am not a shareholder nor do I intend to purchase shares in the IPO. revenue business still growing >50% YoY? Chewy now has over 10 million customers, repeat purchases by existing customers account for approximately 90% of their revenue today.

Leadership 214

Leadership .Net Revenue Acquisition 214

Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

If, on the other hand, there is some near term prospect of cash flow (say within six months or a year) but no ability to repay in the meantime, then the entrepreneur may try and find a way to finance his “pre-revenue period” using friends and family money that accepts a somewhat lower payment in recognition of a relationship beyond just investing.

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Finance Bootstrapping Startup Equity 83

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. So it is unsurprising that an over-funding environment and the commensurate returns hangover would have lasted until about – well – 2012.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Up and Running

JANUARY 5, 2018

acquisition of Jet.com in August 2016 transformed the company beyond the addition of the Jet platform. Jet.com founder Marc Lore ascended to CEO of Walmart’s US e-commerce operations, and since joining has taken the company on an e-commerce/apparel acquisition spree. POTENTIAL ACQUISITION TARGETS. Walmart’s $3.3B

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Acquisition Hawaii Partner Non-Compete 94

VC Adventure

JANUARY 31, 2014

Or if you want to compare how they did in 2012 to 2013, just read Rand’s post Announcing Moz’s 2012 Metrics, Acquisition of AudienceWise, & Opening of Our Portland Office. And while Sarah and Rand were disappointed in their off-plan performance of 33% revenue growth, GAAP revenue of $29.3

Portland 93

Portland Acquisition Metrics Revenue 93

The Equity Kicker

MAY 21, 2013

Following Yahoo’s $1.1bn acquisition of Tumblr Pandodaily published an article asking why Tumblr and Foursquare, New York’s top consumer web startups, haven’t had the same success as Twitter and Facebook.

Acquisition 113

Acquisition Advertising Revenue Web 113

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 27, 2012

Last week, Vancouver's GROW 2012 conference convened some all-stars of the startup scene, stirring together corporate leads from Indiegogo, Eventbrite, Zite, Paypal, Cheezburger Inc. Too many startups create a great product and try to figure out a revenue model later, says Urban Airship 's Scott Kveton. Building A Great Product Is Not.

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Silicon Valley Portland Startup Seattle 155

The Equity Kicker

JULY 3, 2012

The aQuantive acquisition came hot on the heals of Google’s $3.1bn acquisition of Doubleclick and was clear evidence of Microsoft’s ambitions to be a serious player in online advertising. Yesterday Microsoft announced the write off of $6.2bn of the $6.3bn it paid for interactive ad company aQuantive in 2007.

Exit Strategy 96

Exit Strategy Acquisition Advertising Metrics 96

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

While poised with a limited number of transactions this year, the world of public Cloud Computing and SaaS companies has been marked by two events in the past few months: the acquisition of Omniture by Adobe and the high profile IPO of LogMeIn, a leading provider of PC remote access and support with a very interesting freemium model.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review IPO Cloud 48

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

On the heels of seeing the 10% influencer base increase the referrals process yielded, the team at Intellifluence pushed to create a brand-to-brand referral program as well, intent on creating user acquisition flywheels wherever possible. Photo Credit: Matt Daigle. There is so much for me to be proud of in 2019!

Entrepreneur 127

Entrepreneur Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 127

Agile VC

AUGUST 22, 2011

Salesforce is trying to create a platform both through internal efforts on Force.com and acquisitions (e.g. Even Amazon isn’t a platform… yes they have AWS but it accounts for <3% of their revenue and isn’t terribly profitable given the capex & opex currently going into growing it. Google of course has Android.

Silicon Valley 113

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Startup Syndication 113

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

March 8, 2012. For SaaS or other recurring revenue businesses these figures might be on a bookings basis rather than GAAP revenue, but conceptually they’re similar. Bill Gurley’s post last year does a great job analyzing why some businesses are valued at 10x+ revenue and most aren’t. trailing revenue.

IPO 100

IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

ConversionXL

APRIL 11, 2014

According to Forrester research analyst Sucharita Mulpuru , product recommendations are responsible for an average of 10-30% of eCommerce site revenues. . Way back in 2006, Amazon reported that 35% of it’s revenues were as a direct result of it’s cross sales and upselling efforts. image source .

eCommerce 118

eCommerce Revenue Software Review Technical Review 118

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 2, 2013

Multi-channel attribution was the flavor of the month for every month in 2012. And just as in 2012 magic pills will be scarce, FUD will be plentiful, and vendors will promise the moon. Did you realize your acquisition was distinct on mobile? What lessons can be applied to all other visitors? MCF Assisted Conversions Report.

Analytics 160

Analytics Search Campaign eCommerce 160

ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

billion smartphone users in 2012. Marketers should also be looking at acquisition (visits, unique visitors, pageviews), behavior (pages per visit, time on site, bounce rate), and revenue (if you’re eCommerce). billion smartphone users in 2012. According to Dazeinfo research , there were about 1.13 in 2013 to 1.43

Mobile 48

Mobile Technical Review Software Review Metrics 48

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Ramp up your email acquisition NOW. Last holiday season, 28% of shoppers used their mobile phones to visit a retailer’s website and, with the rate in which smartphones use is increasing, it will be no surprise when this year’s figure exceeds 2012’s by a wide margin. Now is the time for small online businesses to prepare.

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Sales Social Media Mobile Campaign 164