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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

Scalable Startup

There’s a lot of buzz about the Amazon acquisition of TWITCH this week. Plus, there are tons of expenses like servers, bandwidth, office space, travel and the time of many professionals. They kind of invented this business model. Sun Microsystems and others almost made it happen, but they were only semi-free.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

The best drivers apply the brakes just ahead of the curve (they take out excess costs), turn hard toward the apex of the curve (identify the short list of projects that will form the next business model), and accelerate hard out of the curve (spend and hire before markets have rebounded). Progressive. Image source ). are moot.”.

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Deep dive: Cancellation rate in SaaS business models

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

For a company laser-focussed on accelerating the number of active users, it might be actually worth having high cancellation rates if it meant an even higher acquisition rate. ” For a simple subscription business model the formula is easy to write but hard to compute : [LTV] = [monthly revenue] × [number of months in lifetime].

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I’ve Built Multiple Growth Teams. Here’s Why I Won’t Do It Again.

ConversionXL

I use a more restrictive definition: A growth team is a product tech team that’s focused on acquisition instead of core product features. I’ve found that one engineer isn’t quite enough bandwidth to keep up with a full-time designer and growth manager. With funnels like this, a growth team can drive core business growth.

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How to Flip Your Startup in 5 Steps

ReadWriteStart

Unlike Lean startups, their priority isn't to learn in order to create a scalable business model. The idea is to build a hit that would make the founder(s) an appealing and quick talent acquisition (sometimes referred to as an acq-hire). Instead, their goal is to create a promising product. Think of yourself as a VC. Discuss.

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

CellGuide’s technology offers a cost-effective host-based GNSS solution for mobile, wireless and other mass-market consumer devices. Operators and customers to easily migrate for HSPA+ and LTE based networks with improved bandwidth connectivity and provide richer value added services packages. IXI Mobile. - Mer Telecom. -

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