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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

Similarly, customer introductions are invaluable in the early days, but become less valuable once a company has a fully-formed go to market function.”. A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. aggregates resources from all the VCs. Customer Development.

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Search Intent: How to Analyze and Optimize Your Site

ConversionXL

Those informational queries are often the highest volume terms a site targets—key drivers of awareness and acquisition. Aggregators? Blue links of aggregator sites with “Best Restaurants” lists. Customers use search engines from initial consideration through the purchase—and past it. A manual process works. The lesson?

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

In this time, building a successful business meant building a company that had paying customers quarter after quarter. It did not mean building a startup into a company to flip or hype on the market with no earnings or revenue, but building a company that had paying customers. They taught you about customers, markets and profits.

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

Both Sides of the Table

In fact, I encouraged my favorite IM aggregator client, Digsby , to go the opposite direction and become a Twitter client also. And aside from having great market power (the main reason for Twitter to own the client and the customer) advertising is one of the primary reasons that I believe Twitter needs to own the client applications.

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How to Handle Mobile “Moneyball Syndrome” & Cross-Device Attribution

ConversionXL

From here, you can run tests and use those results to strategize the best solutions for your customers. Marketers should also be looking at acquisition (visits, unique visitors, pageviews), behavior (pages per visit, time on site, bounce rate), and revenue (if you’re eCommerce). Aggregate Audience Data.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

It’s seems very likely that the growth in time spent in app per user was driven not by the early majority, but by the late majority and laggards (see below chart below from the famous book Crossing the Chasm about how to think about which customers are adopting a given product). 2 years ago my grandmother didn’t have Facebook.

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Benchmarking Performance: Your Options, Dos, Don'ts and To-Die-Fors!

Occam's Razor

Any big changes in your marketing/customer acquisition strategy over the last time period (more money doing Search, less money in Email, elimination Facebook as it does not work, etc., Any big shifts in investment (marketing, customer experience, team sizes, tools). Outcomes of the conversations with your Finance team and Sr.

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