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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

After a year in the market, MakeSpace was growing rapidly and our biggest issue was CAC (customer acquisition costs) relative to payback period (when we get our marketing investment back) and relative to LTV (lifetime value). That marketing can be PR or SEO or influencer distribution or other forms of “unpaid” marketing.

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10 Tips for Making your Startup More Attractive for Investors [Presentation]

VC Cafe

Launch48 is a new kind of micro-incubator taking place over the course of a weekend, which enables entrepreneurs to pitch their concept in one minute, in order to find team mates who are interested in pursuing the idea. It’s nice to have protected IP, but that will mostly matter later on in the event of an acquisition.

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VC value add: trends and challenges

The Equity Kicker

Note: I haven’t included accelerator programmes or incubators. Founder Collective: hired a journalist to help their portfolio with PR. Balderton Capital: have a head of PR and content, a data scientist, and a talent and development analyst. These are just the ones I know. Frontline Ventures: have a head of platform.

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5 of the most famous (and effective) growth hacks of all time

The Next Web

He mentors young startups at Singapore Management University and True Incube Thailand , a 500 Startups Partner. If a big corporation is pushing a new product, you might expect them to take out TV ads, online ads, maybe hire a PR agency and set up big distribution partnerships. Why does it work? Users like free money, whodathunk!

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

socialmatchbox.com

These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees. If you post up an ad to an online job board asking for someone to join your very high risk early stage startup company the odds of getting someone who decent are slim to none. . Ycombinator © 2010 Social Matchbox, - WordPress Themes by DBT. .

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The Importance of Partnership Agreements, NDAs, and Security: Lessons from HBO’s “Silicon Valley”

Up and Running

The forever-failing-upward “Big Head” had just opened his own incubator with some of the $20 million he received as severance from tech giant Hooli, and is eventually talked into partnering with fellow incubator Erlich Bachman, who brings little to the table beyond his desire to glom onto the success of others.

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5 Ways To Make Sure Your Online Store Is Holiday-Ready In 2014

YoungUpstarts

People who’ve already shopped at your store may be following you on Facebook or Twitter, but engaging with them isn’t going to drive new customer acquisitions. As a local business, advertising and PR firms might be out of reach. But you need to be mindful about your approach.

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