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St. Louis Startups Strut Their Stuff

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On Wednesday, a group of 13 companies presented to 50 investors, looking to raise an aggregate of $16 million in capital. The companies were all part of Capital Innovators, an accelerator venture fund that has been operating since last fall. To be successful, a venture needs this laser focus.

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Conversion: The Most Important Internet Metric of All (Revisited)

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No other metric so holistically captures as many critical aspects of a web site – user design, usability, performance, convenience, ad effectiveness, net promoter score, customer satisfaction – all in a single measurement. Unfortunately, conversion improvements typically are the aggregate gain of 100 tiny improvements, not one silver bullet.

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What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?

Both Sides of the Table

Just as I was getting the swing of things the world shifted beneath my feet and the stock market went into a free fall and venture capital all but shut down for nearly a year. For start, there are many types of businesses that are large or complex “considered purchases” that have higher close rates over the phone than on a web form.

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Startup Resources

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Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Amazon Web Services. Web Tools: Hereâ??s We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Twilio : Need to call/txt get a phone number from your web/mobile application? Domains.Co.

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

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Would that help retention and NPS (Net Promote Score)? Also, take a look at this critically important data point , also aggregated by Professor Jay Ritter. Do you think those customers would find that interesting and compelling? Would they be loyal? Damn straight it would. of VC-backed companies vs Buyout-backed companies.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

We faced this same problem in entrepreneurship and venture capital, but we are getting past it. And anytime you strike a deal for digital distribution of any content, insist that your creators be given real-time access to the big-picture metrics: not just downloads, but engagement, retention and replay. ideas (e.g. Expo SF (May.