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7 Lessons They Don’t Teach You In Crowdfunding School

Startup Professionals Musings

Project your costs as diligently as your revenues. On the other hand, if your solution is aimed at boomers or requires in-depth technical knowledge, crowdfunding may be futile. Keep all IP details close to the vest. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 02/17/2016.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

Revenue needs to grow 20x, and margins must expand dramatically. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. Let’s look at each figure.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

It was 2016. Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. That’s why I set out to start my own health-tech company, an online pharmacy called Honeybee Health, that used a direct-to-consumer model to give patients access to affordable medications without insurance or middlemen.

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Startup Benchmarks

VC Cafe

When you start with an honest and diligent effort to determine the truth of your situation, the right decisions often become self-evident.” — Jim Collins , author of Good to Great. In this post I’ll focus on benchmarking resources for seed and series A in the following three categories: SaaS B2C / Consumer apps Deep tech.

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Is Click Fraud Devouring Your Ad Budget?

ConversionXL

Some networks are highly sophisticated, and organisers disguise their IP addresses. If you conduct some intricate research (detailed below), you may be able to identify the IP address of competing businesses. Loads of PPC platforms ( Google Ads included) allow you to blacklist IP addresses. . Competing businesses.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. In 2016 alone, 300+ “machine intelligence” (AI + ML) startups in Europe raised over €1.4 Venture Capital investments in AI, Europe 2016 (Source: Dealroom ).

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Progressive Web Apps: What Do Marketers Need to Know?

ConversionXL

Often, marketing creativity encounters technical limitations. In any case, you need to see past the shiny objects in web design pitches and know how PWA technology will (or won’t) help you achieve your marketing goals. A web page can load only so fast. UX is constrained by browsers. You may simply be a voice in the room. What are PWAs?

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