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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Education Multimodal ability – apps that allow users to “input” questions, topics, or ideas in all forms (audio, image, text, and even video) and get a response in the media type that helps them learn best. Electric Vehicles – Lower battery costs powering adoption mean EV sales could reach 74 million in 2030.

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Apple Vision Pro – Tech in the Search of a Market

Steve Blank

Marketing and capital expenses (new factory, high R&D expense) were predicated on consumer-scale sales. We’ll sell them the CDROM drives as well.” (The Kodak CDROM drives were the size of professional audio equipment and depending on the model, costing $600-$1000 in today’s dollars.) (And Or jet engine maintenance.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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7 Ways To Improve Return On Your Marketing Investment

Startup Professionals Musings

Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. For new product startups, search engine marketing (SEM) is still one of the most cost-effective and scalable lead-generation approaches. Email marketing.

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5 Services You Haven’t Thought About Outsourcing

YoungUpstarts

While there are some services that are commonly outsourced, such as customer support and software engineering, there are actually hundreds of other tasks that can be effectively done by outsourcers, thereby helping to scale your business. Transcribing video and audio content.

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How to Track and Improve Ecommerce Customer Acquisition Effectiveness

ConversionXL

Measuring customer acquisition for peak effectiveness How to calculate ecommerce customer acquisition cost Calculate much your customers are worth: LTV MRR, churn rates, and other factors that affect your LTV/CAC ratios Find and fix customer acquisition funnel leaks 5 customer acquisition strategies to increase sales and loyalty (with examples) 1.

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Shrewd Ideas For Effective Web Design

YoungUpstarts

The Platt College web design department explains that website design can include audio, video, text, graphics and animation. Your website should also provide search engine optimization (SEO). Google is the largest search engine on the web. Consider investing in web design to increase sales for your business.

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