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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

They will manage the steps necessary to identify, select, and integrate your software and IT vendors, including third party product dependencies, email, network, wiki, intranet, project management, and telecommunications. Acquisitions at HomeAway were uniquely challenging as they were primarily business driven decisions.

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

Start your blog/wiki/journal. Update your blog/wiki/journal. What are your hypotheses around customer acquisition costs? Update your blog/wiki/journal. Actually engage in “search engine marketing” (SEM)spend $20 as a team to test customer acquisition cost. Update your blog/wiki/journal.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?) Bring your questions.

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Paul Graham on fundraising

Startup Lessons Learned

Its the same with acquisitions. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. No one wants to buy you till someone else wants to buy you, and then everyone wants to buy you. The key to closing deals is never to stop pursuing alternatives. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Not crossing the chasm

Startup Lessons Learned

In a subscription business, maybe your attrition starts matching your acquisition, balancing like magic. Or your cost of customer acquisition just magically floats up to match your customer lifetime value. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Nothing seems to matter.

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Social shopping

BeyondVC

It leverages almost a wiki like concept so when I add a bottle of wine, it first searches its database to see if anyone else in the community has already input the data. Over time, I moved from an Excel spreadsheet to using the web to track some of my purchases and to learn more about each bottle. One of my favorite sites is Cellartracker.

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The Most Challenging Part of Becoming a Freelance Developer.

Software By Rob

Matt - 3 years as a consultant for software tools (JIRA, svn, Conference, wikis, SCons etc) #5 Balaji_Getfriday on 09.30.09 . #4 Matt Doar on 09.29.09 at 6:35 pm Writing a book helped. Having lots of contacts was good. Being a partner of a tool you customize was the best. at 6:05 pm Wow, I hadn’t thought about it that way before.