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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

In other words, if you can get 1000 people to come to your website consistently for under $5, then this business model works for you. You will use your fridge for a decade or more so the retention here is high. Sales cycles matter though. Sales cycle, as a consideration, also works the opposite way.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

In other words, if you can get 1000 people to come to your website consistently for under $5, then this business model works for you. You will use your fridge for a decade or more so the retention here is high. Sales cycles matter though. Sales cycle, as a consideration, also works the opposite way.

Founder 48
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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) People talk about funding funding funding, bootstrapping, etc., Fantastic post.

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