SaaStr

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Data acquisition will become an important function within the business development domain. Entrepreneurship is hard, but you have a competitive advantage if you… Reimagine your company in a post-AI world. Some of the most valuable companies in the world started with the advent of huge technological disruption. Pursue a big vision.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 22, 2019

You can ask me about entrepreneurship, marketing, or anything else. I’ve dealt with class-action lawsuits, an FTC investigation (which I passed), and I’ve lost out on acquisitions from Fortune 1000 companies because of stupidity on my part. So today is your day to ask me any questions you have, and I will do my best to answer it.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The entire budget has been spent on R&D with nothing left for customer acquisition. SaaS is one of the fastest growing sectors of entrepreneurship. The second mistake is to overspend on the product, and underspend on customer acquisition. Is less than a third allocated to marketing and customer acquisition?

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SaaSHolic

MAY 12, 2023

Antonio Soares of Dock, a fintech company providing digital banking infrastructure, sees the significant unbanked population in Brazil and other Latin American countries as an opportunity to improve financial inclusion, making strategic acquisitions to strengthen their capabilities in this area.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 2, 2021

How will the acquisition affect you, your co-founders, investors, and other stakeholders? Further reading: How to Prepare Your Startup for Acquisition. Are you part of the acquisition package? Beware, though, your buyer has a vested interest in what you do post-acquisition and might entice you to stay with favorable terms.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 2, 2021

How will the acquisition affect you, your co-founders, investors, and other stakeholders? Further reading: How to Prepare Your Startup for Acquisition. Are you part of the acquisition package? Beware, though, your buyer has a vested interest in what you do post-acquisition and might entice you to stay with favorable terms.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 7, 2019

If you need some reassurance that a little (or a lot) of failure is just part of the process, read this piece from Autoklose to get your head straight, going beyond the often misinterpreted "glitz and glamour" that is entrepreneurship. This acquisition is a major step in furthering that goal.". In headlines. Product of the Day.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

For startups, the speaker suggests focusing on how AI can drive customer acquisition and go-to-market strategy, while for large companies, creating a vision for AI is important, as well as focusing on infrastructure and skillsets and reshaping governance to deal with security and compliance issues.

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Buffer Resources

MAY 25, 2023

“Entrepreneurship came before content creation. Since most founders are interested in marketing and customer acquisition, there's a significant overlap in content areas,” he explains. This can spark other forms of content, like a Twitter thread or a podcast discussion.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

To help out founders on the way, Astella Investimentos’ mentors provide guidance in the most crucial areas, such as customer acquisition, product development, and company training, as well as creating a roadmap for scalability and all stages of business development. Founded: 2008. Size of fund: R$65M. Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed.

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User Pilot

JUNE 13, 2022

In his blog, Brad shares his invaluable experience with investments, entrepreneurship, and life in general. Why Philosophy and Entrepreneurship? This is one of the best venture capital blogs dedicated to entrepreneurs and investors. Here are some of his must-read blog posts: Down Rounds: Deal With Reality. Brad Feld blog. SaaS growth.

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User Pilot

JULY 13, 2022

While Hacker Noon publishes good articles related to startups and entrepreneurship. The company helps start-ups in the expansion/growth stage with things like acquisition and conversion, retention and expansion, corporate development, or pricing and packaging. Hacker Noon.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2023

Some stumble into the world of entrepreneurship like DoNotPay founder Joshua Browder did. Lesson #3: Most Companies Get Their Customers From A Single Acquisition Channel If you look at Airbnb, it’s primarily SEO. So if you focus on one acquisition channel, ensure it’s the best. Brex plastered San Francisco with billboards.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 8, 2019

Don’t just focus your efforts on traffic acquisition, focus on conversion optimization. On the flip side, I monetized NeilPatel.com much earlier than Quick Sprout and, of course, I got better at marketing and entrepreneurship at the same time. It’s the area I didn’t spend enough time on early on.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

” I’m really intrigued, given your kind of ingrained entrepreneurship from birth, what do you advise those graduates and how do you think about the advice you give them? Some of that burden has to be on the organization and the talent acquisition team to go and find the talent to help make your organization more whole.

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SaaStr

MARCH 14, 2019

This is our last acquisition. We want to encourage entrepreneurship and we want to encourage people to really look at their companies. It’s a company called Business Apps. They basically make it so that it’s, for small businesses, it’s easy for small businesses to have IOS and Android apps.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 26, 2018

This led to a series of corporate acquisitions and product innovations that strengthened Amazon’s supply chain strategy and diversification efforts. . 7) Entrepreneurship 101: Who is Your Customer?, Richard Branson. Like Buffett, Virgin Group founder Richard Branson started running a business early. Free Online Courses.

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Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Understanding the sales process and acquisition Let’s go deeper into your sales process at your customer. Besides the acquisition channel and where you stand with your customer?—?e.g. signed contract or pilot started?—?you you can add the sales cycle, revenue (license vs. service), and what you have validated already.

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Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Understanding the sales process and acquisition Let’s go deeper into your sales process at your customer. Besides the acquisition channel and where do you stand with your customer?—?e.g. signed contract or pilot started?—?you you can add the sales cycle, revenue (license vs. service), and what you have validated already.

Enterprise 52

Enterprise Acquisition Investment Communication 52

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Ever wonder who was responsible for the acquisition of the domain ICE.com for more than $3 million? And again, they require no upfront investment. Get started with Domain Booth here. . #4 4 – Grit Brokerage — The Best For A Broker With Notable Sales. Look no further than Grit Brokerage.

Payment Services 144

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 24, 2020

Technology entrepreneurship is a global phenomenon. However, California startups’ share of acquisitions has declined meaningfully from 30% to 19%. So much has happened in the last decade. We’ve seen the rise of massive startups in Europe, South America, China, Israel.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As you can probably see, I’m not a fashionista (laughs), but I love entrepreneurship, and I love media in general. It’s all about distributing content on many platforms like web and mobile, monetizing, driving adoption, driving acquisition at the lowest possible cost, driving lifetime value. That’s how it happened.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

She is active on LinkedIn, where she helps SaaS companies optimize their customer acquisition, demand generation, product positioning , and growth plans. He is known for his knowledge and expertise in SEO, SaaS demand, and paid customer acquisition. Ben Murray. You can follow him on his social media handles where he is active.

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Backlinkfy

JANUARY 17, 2019

In this digital age most companies have an online presence and the process of acquisition of new customers has moved over from brick and mortar stores to online discoverability.

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Mobile Technology Business Cloud 40

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 20, 2020

ADP’s team of experts is ready to help reduce your risk and everyday burden, regardless if you’re just looking for a helping hand with administrative tasks or facing an acquisition, merger, or an at-risk termination. So, no matter the situation, ADP has you covered.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

How burnout led to Kevin’s entrepreneurship [5:00]. How burnout led to Kevin’s entrepreneurship [5:00]. He took them through their acquisition with Vista Equity Partners, and he’s just been amazing to bat around ideas. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. Show Agenda and Timestamps. Paying it forward [23:00].

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Neil Patel

MARCH 17, 2020

This isn’t entrepreneurship and this isn’t marketing. For example, even though we saw big dips in the number of people searching for things like flights or hotels, we didn’t see a drastic drop in CPC but we did see a big increase in cost per acquisition. Not only is it wrong but it is also very short-sighted.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

He was on the computer science side, I was getting an MBA, and we were in an entrepreneurship class that mixed the students from different backgrounds. Jaleh Rezaei: I honestly think it’s the CMO or the head of acquisition. He was classmates with me at Stanford. Harry Stebbings: Totally.

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Kellblog

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Consider ServiceMax who, roughly speaking, was left at the altar by Salesforce with a product built on the Salesforce platform and business plan most thought predicated on an acquisition by Salesforce. That team survived that devastating shock and later sold the company for $900M. 2] And ergo presumably reduces risk-taking in the process. [3]

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SaaStr

MAY 17, 2019

As for Godard, he founded his first business, BigMachines, in 2000, a business he scaled to $50m in revenue and over 300 people up until it’s acquisition to Oracle 11 years later for $400m. A business he scaled to 50 million dollars in revenue and over 300 people up until its acquisition to Oracle 11 years later for 400 million dollars.

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Outseta

APRIL 14, 2020

You’ve built a successful business and have a repeatable customer acquisition process that you’ve already demonstrated can scale with access to more capital. Think SpaceX. You’re not building rockets to send into space with your savings. The only thing holding you back is more money to fuel growth.

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Mucker Capital

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

While earning a degree in economics and entrepreneurship from the University of Wisconsin, he picked up a few ideas about how to bring the family business into the digital era of online ordering. s Fairfax Avenue since his great-grandfather founded the eatery in 1931.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

There is a wide range of loan types available through Lendio’s network of lenders, including: Startup loans Term loans Commercial mortgages Short term loans SBA loans Merchant cash advances Business lines of credit Business credit cards Equipment financing Accounts receivable financing Business acquisition loans.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

We particularly like how deeply insightful the software can be for talent acquisition thanks to its analytical reporting and progress tracking features. In other words, it’s a holistic, cloud-based HR management system that facilitates all processes of the recruiting cycle. Prominent Features.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Prior to its July 2002 acquisition by Novell, SilverStream was a public company that had reached a revenue run rate in excess of $100M, with approximately 800 employees and offices in more than 20 countries around the world. Does David agree, “entrepreneurship does not get easier with time, it just gets different”?

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Neil Patel

APRIL 22, 2021

In fact, acquisition is estimated to cost anywhere between five and 25 times more than retaining existing customers. By surveying your customers, identifying the issues they’re facing, and overcoming them, you stand a better chance of keeping them. Improving retention is cheaper than chasing new customers.

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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2017

For instance, if you normally track Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) as a KPI, you may not notice when Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) drastically increases. You may also want to analyze metrics you don’t normally prioritize. Let’s move on to other ways of reigniting stalled growth that aren’t as obvious… Increase NPS scores.

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