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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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One of the more interesting things that this model shows is how rapidly cost of customer acquisition climbs If your leads require human touch to convert them, (compare cell B23 with cell B22.) This human touch can be as light as email follow ups, or as much as inside sales people doing multiple sales calls and demos.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

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Just wrote about this at [link] Dave Hanna Sorry Kameko- digital life archiving is thriving. And most important since service models are eclipsing perpetual licensing, it makes sense to just plain make money – then all sorts of other financial instruments work better than VC. Tags: startupcto.