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Traction for Your Startup: How to Get It & How Much is Enough

ReadWriteStart

Entrepreneur, investor and blogger Gabriel Weinberg has an excellent list of "traction verticals" that he curated earlier this year based on the dozens of interviews with fellow startup founders. The marketing equation is defined as the relationship between the customer lifetime value and the cost of acquisition," says Davis.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. Forget about traction and hockey stick growth. So, the customer acquisition is easy, because this person doesn’t need to pay money. Product second.

Founder 48
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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. Forget about traction and hockey stick growth. So, the customer acquisition is easy, because this person doesn’t need to pay money. Product second.

Founder 48