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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

In 2010 I deconstructed the filings for GameFly and Quinstreet. GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Filing Date: initial S-1 filed Nov 17, 2010 , updated March 9, 2011. What They Do: Travel search engine.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." The spread between your LTV and blended CPA determines either your profitability or your rate of growth, and a high valuation depends on balancing these two factors.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

And yet… since 2010, it's generated a lot of curiosity about what we do. Our company is called Regex SEO, where regex stands for regular expression and SEO obviously for search engine optimization. Thanks to Andrew Griffith, Andrew Griffith CPA ! #30- #6- Everyone who works in sales knows its meaning.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

I think this idea is particularly appealing to those of us from an engineering background. Luckily, we also discovered that certain other metrics, like LTV and CPA were much better than we initially projected. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Recruiting: 12 Questions For Uncomfortably Hands-On SEO Interviews

searchengineland.com

More Search Engines. The engineer who can get this question is surprisingly rare, but amazingly valuable. These are two named algo updates from 2009/2010 and familiarity with them indicates some duration of hands-on search. Opinions expressed in the article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

A business that strives for something like this should absolutely be charging money from day one, in order to establish baselines for their two key metrics: CPA (the cost to acquire a new customer) and LTV (the lifetime value of each acquired customer). The level of engineering quality will vary. The level of design required will vary.

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50+ Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

With a baby on the way, me and my wife bought our first home in 2010. When I decided to leave my mobile data start-up in 2013, I remembered my mortgage experience from 2010, and found that nothing had changed – the model was broken, antiquated and inefficient. Image Credit: Nick Stamos. Thanks to Allie Danziger, Integrate ! #22

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