Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 9, 2013

For example Belkin’s wifi-enabled plugtop “actually makes your house worse” Even the software of the market leader, Apple, is be terrible: “iTunes should die” , “iOS6 Maps is Awful” and as Bijan wrote, every one of the core iOS apps has been replaced with third party software.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

A lot of the things that we ultimately did when I was running Global Payments from 2013 to 2023, a lot of things that we ultimately did were not even like a glint in my eye back in 2009, 2010 when I was just thinking about coming over. By the way, that’s super important for acquisitions, but also super important for divestitures.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

million in 2013 to $115.9 I would love to say, “Oh, I wrote this software, and I put two servers on AWS, and put a credit card form up, and the money just kept flowing in.” It’s like, “We could work on acquisition costs,” which we did. million in 2014.). or 3, the LTV to CAC. ” What do we do?

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SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

Now, I have some background with luck because in between some long stints with other companies, seven years at Eventbrite and 15 years at Ticketmaster before, I spent five years of my life playing poker for a living and learned an awful lot about luck and positive outcomes as well. First off, in 2013 we made our first acquisition.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

What’s their acquisition channel? I’m going to get the numbers wrong, I think Amazon has 10,000 open positions out in AWS. Even compared to where Pipedrive was in 2013, it did less. There was a moment in time when I didn’t have that much to do 2013, 2014, and I was an angel investor, but really a mentor.

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Unbounce

JULY 30, 2019

November and December are all about volume, so every dollar you can save when it comes to your cost-per-acquisition can have a significant impact on your bottom line. A mystery box takes an awful lot of the pressure off visitors looking for a meaningful gift. This is why planning is so important. Jonathan Naccache, Webistry.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The acquisition process [21:55]. And really, when I actually lived in Austin in early 2019, and everybody was talking about the TrendKite acquisition and about the impact that you all made even before you and I met. But in April of 2013, we were less than a month away from running out of money. The acquisition process [21:55].

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