Tom Tunguz

JUNE 18, 2017

Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods is notable for many reasons. Of course, there’s the magnitude $13.7B. The second is the shockwaves reverberating through the grocery industry. Costco fell 10% and Kroger almost 25% on the news. Third, the acquisition underscores the importance of physical retail even to the largest American ecommerce giant.

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Acquisition Automotive Banking Mobile 190

Brian Balfour

JUNE 20, 2017

Preface by Brian Balfour: I rarely accept guest posts on this blog, but this opportunity was too good to pass up. A couple months ago Tal Raviv (Growth PM @ Patreon) sent me a short email - "Brian, the results are in. We doubled (yeah, doubled) new creators in our onboarding." My immediate response, holy f*ing YES!!!! My second response, let's write about this.

Scale 84

Scale Onboarding Sales Hiring Acquisition 84

CloseSaaS

JUNE 21, 2017

Have you ever sent an email and been met with nothing but silence on the other end? Have you ever put in the effort to rewrite an email four or five times and still heard crickets?

Sales 52

Sales 52

Cardin Partners

JUNE 19, 2017

Preparing to sell your company requires a lot of work. Whether planned or unsolicited, when the time comes to ready the company for sale, you will be able to move much more quickly if your financial house is in already in order. The better prepared you are, the faster you can move (including interviewing advisors, and aligning on valuation expectations).

Software Review 49

Software Review Acquisition Customer Lifetime Value Market Segmentation 49

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 19, 2017

In software, we’ve moved from a world where a customer buys a piece of software to run on their own infrastructure, to a world where a customer pays a vendor to run software on the vendor’s infrastructure. With machine learning, we may see another evolution of this. Machine learning startups create models based on data provided by customers.

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Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Advertising Marketplace as a Service 186