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Startup Metrics

SoCal CTO

In many cases, I can break it down into: Customer Acquisition Cost – how will you reach prospects, how will you convert them and how much will it cost to convert them Customer Lifetime Value – how much will you make off of each converted customer This very simple model works for a surprising number of business models. Great stuff.

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User Interface Beyond the Web Site

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SEO for Startups and Negative Customer Acquisition Costs ) and, of course, the product itself. In fact, if Ning cared about making a really powerful tool for distribution discussion, it would allow the discussion to range across all of the channels with each user controlling the flow of the messages.

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