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Startup Business Model Considerations

SoCal CTO

Fantastic post by Christian Gammill - Startup Delta Force… From a competitive perspective (e.g. all the other folks out there that will try to enter the same market) the barriers have been dropping over the last few years.

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Retooling Marketing in a B2B Company

Venture Chronicles

When you combine inbound marketing with account-based scoring, you get a very potent combination of predictable opportunity funnel that also benefits from lower customer acquisition costs. We know from this data that there are tipping points that occur in the opportunity (account) scoring that should and do cause additional sales activity.

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

What are your hypotheses around customer acquisition costs? Actually engage in “search engine marketing” (SEM)spend $20 as a team to test customer acquisition cost. Any IP you need to license? Did you learn anything different? Submit interview notes, present results in class. Did anything change about Value Proposition?

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The Direct-to-Consumer Checklist

Austin Startup

25 questions that DTC entrepreneurs should ask themselves before scaling customer acquisition So you run a direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand. You just spent a few thousand dollars on advertising and your paid customer acquisition cost (CAC) numbers tested well relative to your best guess for customer lifetime value (LTV).