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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

I recently sat down with Matt Coffin , the founder of LowerMyBills, which sold for $400 million but was very nearly a bankruptcy only a few years early, and talked “startups.&#. I figured if Matt was on the verge of bankruptcy and one mentor changed his trajectory, what if we had a formalized, community-wide program?

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Durant Versus Sloan – Part 1

Steve Blank

Where are the charitable foundations, business schools and hospitals named after him? Sure one guy got kicked out – which could have been avoided if he ran company well enough to keep financial control – and the other hung in there and got institutions named after him. Yet you never hear who built that company. Who was he?

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

At Flow Capital, we use HubSpot’s sequences and workflows functions to automate a bulk of our emails and internal tasks. I use Superhuman , an email app which speeds up my email processing, and also gives me background information on all of my correspondents. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc.

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How to Pitch, Plan, and Track Your Business with LivePlan [VIDEO]

Up and Running

We can definitely get a PDF version of that in the email follow-up that we send out, but you’ll also get a full copy of the recording, so that’ll be available as well. You need to think of business planning from a lean perspective, and it’s just enough to get you to the right place. It is lean. That’s it.

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9 Conversion Rate Optimization Principles to Get You Started (If You Can’t Test)

ConversionXL

On the email marketing front, Whirlpool went from four separate CTAs down to just one and improved their campaign’s click-through-rate by 42%. Before you do anything, identify exactly what your own one goal of the page or email will be. Singularity. Many landing pages contain multiple offers. They shouldn’t. Simplicity.

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The Art of Work with Jeff Goins [VIDEO]

Up and Running

I read this quote by a guy named Parker Palmer, who is an author and an activist. I submit that nobody’s craft here is checking email. It ended up losing a million dollars in the first year, and they were on the brink of bankruptcy and shutting it down because it just … The model just didn’t work.

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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

grasshopperherder.com

All names redacted.). It’s often made worse because some clever people like to name the corporations very similarly. The “name every corporate shell almost the same thing” is an incredibly common convention that makes just talking through the equity split confusing. Name (required). Email Address.