ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

First, there are two primary aspects that have to be managed: inventory financing and customer acquisition costs. Some examples include Flipkart and Redbus in India, and Freshdiet in the US. I asked him about his customer acquisition strategy and heard the word "advertising" a lot: Facebook advertising.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2012

The startup will then look outwards in the region to expand into, either organically or via a partnership, joint venture or acquisition. As a startup in Asia, the top 2 markets to start from are China , and India. Singapore ) where if you become No.1 Regional from day one (RD1). Consumer Facing B2C.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Parallel6 is already clocking over $1 million in revenue and is looking to enhance its customer acquisition and also raise some financing. Then Prashant Singh from Bangalore, India, discussed Statisco Economic Analytics , a risk management technology for managing company balance sheets, interfacing with their ERP systems.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

First is that there are, perhaps, a thousand people in the world of entrepreneurship who know what they are doing when it comes to dealing with issues like financing, positioning, market sizing, customer validation, customer acquisition and other seemingly obvious topics that all entrepreneurs need to deal with.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

Chris is primarily trying to assess his customer acquisition strategy, which requires that people see the game being played. His customer acquisition strategy, however, needs a lot of work. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2011

We started this week's One Million by One Million roundtable with a discussion of online advertising trends, looking at them from the perspective of cost-effective customer acquisition and brand building, as well as entrepreneurial opportunities. You can find more on the topic on my blog at Top 10 Online Advertising Trends For The Decade.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

and SEO as two of the most effective and affordable customer acquisition strategies. First up, Raj Sheth from Bangalore, India, presented Recruiterbox , a SaaS recruitment management tool for small businesses, with co-founders Raghu Kancherla and Girish Redekar. and an affiliate program would also help with customer acquisition.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Her main questions were around customer acquisition and financing. As far as customer acquisition is concerned, we discussed, again the power of organic search engine optimization. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Class 3: Our guest speaker for session 3 was Anja Manuel , former State Department official, founding partner of Rice, Hadley, Gates and Manuel and author of This Brave New World : India, China and the United States. So, it’s incumbent on us to think about the ramifications of these acquisition decisions. Lessons Learned.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 15, 2012

Acquisitions fail 70 to 90% of the time – [link]. Tough to see why young engineers think Microsoft is cool again – [link]. Will India Ever Really Be America’s Partner? What It’s Like To Be The CEO: Revelations and Reflections – [link]. Why I Have Sex With My Co-founder – [link].

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Finding money online (principally online lending) has not seen the same level of explosive growth in the US, although in Europe and India there has been real growth in microlending (including “pay day loans”) from companies ranging from Wonga to SKS Finance. Competition shifts from user acquisition to user retention.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Many popular search engines existed – Altavista, Yahoo, etc – and we never thought we would move away from all of them at once. Google simplified search for people when all the other search engines got lost in integrating news, weather, sports, features, and everything else under the sun on their home page. Take Google for instance.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 30, 2011

India and Israel pitch their businesses. First, Senthil Natchimuthu from Coimbatire, India, discussed directdialogs. The revenue models need to be revisited, and the customer acquisition strategy as well. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

First up, Vrushali Humnabadkar from Pune, India, presented Penworks, a technical documentation outsourcing service. She has, thus far, not done any other formal customer acquisition initiative. The next two customer acquisition strategies we will be expanding on are more aggressive guerrilla p.r. Photo by svilen001.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

start-ups that turn into “Unicorns” - businesses with exits via IPO or acquisition of greater than $1 Billion - emanate almost exclusively from the United States, and far more specifically from Silicon Valley. How concentrated is this phenomenon?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

PHILIPS GLOBAL CEO: ISRAEL’S “EXCELLENT ENGINEERS” Frans Van Houten, CEO of the Dutch giant Philips Global, remarked in early August that “Israel’s economic and organizational culture is consistent with Philips’ requirements…. INDIA, ISRAEL SIGN $50 MILLION ACADEMIC RESEARCH PACT.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Lloyed explores the intricate art of harnessing the community’s strength as your ultimate acquisition channe l, brand differentiator, feedback source, retention lever, and catalyst for transformative change. I'm an engineer. When I was living in the slum in India, I wanted my child to be an entrepreneur.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

Next, Abinash Karana from Bangalore, India, pitched 10Screens , a software for capturing specs for software projects using visual screen shot mapping and workflow definitions. I pointed him to specific modules within the 1M/1M curriculum to beef up his customer acquisition strategy, Value Proposition and Positioning description, etc.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2010

However, Deborah is looking for ways to sell her low carbon footprint green house technology to producers, and is in conversations with producers in Senegal and India. This also makes it much more lucrative for him in the event that an acquisition happens in the medium term.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Lead Engineer 0.5 - 1. 5+ years Experience Engineer 0.33 - 0.66. Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 - 0.33. Along the way, I was hired full time (I believe about 8 months after I started), a coder from India was hired and another contractor was added to the team. Title Range (%). CEO 5 - 10. Board Member 1.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

This would do two things: contain the complexity of the systems Taariq has to work with right out of the gate, and help him go to market through the sales and marketing team of the analytics software vendors providing the core engine. CricketWeekly. Finally, Adarsh Jain from Delhi pitched CricketWeekly. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

To replace them, employers spend $11,500 average per healthcare employee acquisition cost (20% of the annualized salary plus hiring incentives is considered customary for acquisition cost). A customer acquisition strategy that is pragmatic, and. Bureau of Labor and Statistics - 37.5% Distribution Channel for Product Companies.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

Jeff also described a compelling in-game offer-based customer acquisition model that is proving quite effective for him. The majority of the discussion around this venture was around additional customer acquisition methods. Brainscape. He asked questions about what investors are looking for: more free users or fewer paying users?

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

With competitors in the US often 10 times bigger, they’d become an acquisition target. We had a good product that worked well in France, so we expanded it across Europe between 2011 and 2014, before moving to a more global scale, launching in Russia, Mexico, and India. When would you go for an acquisition versus an organic launch?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. is it really that the only people who can build great startups are engineers? Engineers don’t always have the best business ideas.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Justin is looking for a more efficient customer acquisition model, and my suggestion to him was to look into using distributors, instead of trying to do all the development and then also all the distribution himself. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

I also advised Antonio to defer his investor road show and even customer acquisition programs until this basic positioning exercise is in place. Cristina currently has a couple of large customers in pilot mode, and is starting to show metrics on how much improvement IDES can deliver over existing analytics engines. IDES Technologies.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2011

Mike's customer acquisition strategy is weak at this point, and he also has a rather broad strategy in approaching this market. Kelly has a lot of gaps in her customer acquisition strategy, as well as positioning, and she is seeing customers from commercial and residential clients. Photo by Bessarro. Discuss.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Today, HealthTab announced the acquisition of Q&A site Avvo Health specifically to increase the number of doctors within its network, doubling it to 30,000. The acquisition also brings a database of :hundreds of thousands of doctors and dentists across the country,” information that HealthTap previously licensed.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Google PPC is a key channel for customer acquisition for many e-commerce and online businesses, yet keywords have become quite competitive, and the costs of campaigns for certain keywords tend to be extremely high. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. As usual, then, I worked with three entrepreneurs working on specific businesses. Photo by yirsh.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Google App Engine. great web customer acquisition tutorials. Search Engine Optimization Tools. Google App Engine â?? We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

We discussed a numbers of customer acquisition methods to do so. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant, writes the blog Business Strategy for Entrepreneurs and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020. We also discussed Dan's options vis-à-vis channel partners. Social Pulse.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

In fact, in college I used to joke that Electrical and Computer Engineers could write better code that Computer Scientists (not something I would argue about as voraciously now). Occipital — makers of the Structure Sensor for 3-D data acquisition. You make a change, compile, and voila you can see the effect of what you did.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Hey while I have you on the phone, what do you think I should call my enterprise level encryption engine?” And asking opinions is fine, but more often than not the people you ask are not in your demographic: “Hi Mom. Things are good, thanks.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 6, 2010

I hope that before you go for massive web analytics glory that your use your wonderful powers first to make sure your site and customer acquisition strategy does not suck. What's the difference between US traffic and India? Pete lists in this delightful checklist: 25-point Website Usability Checklist. There are so many ideas.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

The top performing SaaS companies typically achieve annual customer renewal rates above 90% - with most of the churn due to death (bankruptcies) or marriage (acquisitions) - and over 100% renewals on a dollar value basis due to up-sells into this installed base. upfront acquisition cost, making the CLTV equal to $2.5-$0.7= means a $0.7

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