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Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Customers?

Austin Startup

It follows up on my posts discussing why early stage startups should — or should not — move to Silicon Valley. Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Customers? Early adopters, especially those who are willing to pay for novel services, are the lifeblood of lean startups.

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How to Establish an Agency Content Strategy When Outbound Stops Working

ConversionXL

I’ve found that interviewing your existing clients is one of the best ways to create valuable content for your ideal audience. Data sources include the publications, competitors, influencers, podcasts, and communities that your audience engages with the most. Synthesize your insights in an audience analysis report.

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What Challenges Can You Face When Starting Out In eCommerce? Advice From Custom Plugs, A Multi-Million Pound Startup Company

YoungUpstarts

At the early stages of our business, we had a supplier who took £2,800 from us and never delivered the goods. This was a big knock for us, as we were in the early stages of the business and our cash flow was really tight. You need to keep your audience engaged but at the same time you cannot be available all the time.

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What Boston’s Top Consumer Tech Leaders Think About Boston’s Consumer Tech Struggles [#BostonB2C Recap]

View from Seed

Here’s Mike’s comment: Boston’s B2C problem is one of values. Said another way: More consumer transaction vs audience focus companies in #Boston #BostonB2C @robgo @bijan pic.twitter.com/NpQgVsHP2C — David Chang (@changds) July 21, 2015. Too much math, rational value, Excel. Not enough soul, emotional impact, Adobe.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models. In some ways it is similar to early stage incubators such as Y Combinator, although FI is even earlier stage, focusing on developing the founders themselves as entrepreneurs as opposed to actual companies. How did you do that?

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How to get your mobile app discovered in 2021

VC Cafe

As a VC that invests in B2C, I often try to put myself in shoes of a founder looking to grow the audience for their new app to consumers. So while ads can be an effective way to grow, spending on user acquisition before figuring out monetisation is a sure way to shorten runway for early stage startups.

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Pitch Deck Month: “Is It Working?” (aka the “Traction” Slide)

View from Seed

If in the long run your B2C business is likely to have an ad-based revenue model, the ability to acquire a large number of users at zero or extraordinarily low cost is critical. For consumer companies this is usually around user acquisition, engagement, and retention.