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“Fantastic” beats “efficient”

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Customers gleefully avoid the Blockbuster none-of-these-look-good-just-pick-one-already-zombie-walk — and NetFlix just put Blockbuster out of business — but is this a workable business model? Turning a profit at a growing company is nearly impossible regardless of business model.

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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

Scalable Startup

Plus, there are tons of expenses like servers, bandwidth, office space, travel and the time of many professionals. Red Hat was one of the first of these types of companies bridging open source with big finance, leveraging Linux support into a profitable business, also leveraging the enterprise.

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Why I Am Cutting Costs And Changing Business Models

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Not all of them affect every industry, but from my point of view based on the business model I have followed for the last few years, they are all very relevant. When Amazon S3 came out (another service specifically for delivering large files based on Amazon’s cloud hosting technology) I switched over to that service.

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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

I host on Hostforweb **. I use this to host my presentations , which are all embedded at teten.com. I don’t have bandwidth to engage in substantial conversations on Twitter. . This is hosted by NFX. I typically publish essays in a major media venue, and then cross-post it on my blog. Google Drive **. Plus it’s free. .

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

The best drivers apply the brakes just ahead of the curve (they take out excess costs), turn hard toward the apex of the curve (identify the short list of projects that will form the next business model), and accelerate hard out of the curve (spend and hire before markets have rebounded). Progressive. Image source ).

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Deep dive: Cancellation rate in SaaS business models

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

For example, quick cancels are often due to situations things like “I decided I didn’t want a blog after all” or even “My son used my credit card to set up my website but I’m not going to pay for hosting.” “LTV” means “the total revenue you’ll get from a customer over its lifetime.”

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: PurePlus

Austin Startup

Producing uneaten food squanders a whole host of resources: seeds, water, energy, land, fertilizer, hours of labor, financial capital, and generates greenhouse gases at every stage. In fact, the food we waste is responsible for roughly 8% of global emissions, so wasting less food presents a key opportunity to address climate change.