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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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Business Model I would like to propose that in addition to team, product, and market, there is actually a fourth, equally important, core element of startups, which is the need for a viable business model. These new business models focused heavily on how buying behavior has changed because of the power of the web.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. Page 4: Business Model. Page 3: Competition. Page 5: Financials.

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It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem

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Startups rarely survive by guessing, and can only create products and business models based on facts about their target market. Fabulis.com was initially intended to to be a social network for gay men. Problem was, Facebook, Yelp and Groupon were gay enough where a dedicated social network wasn’t entirely necessary.

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Why an investor rejection isn't a knock on you

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1) Your idea is undifferentiated Investors see thousands of businesses a year. And, your idea is 50th social networking site of the week. 3) Your business model seems flawed OR is not the right fit I talked a lot about unit economics and sales cycles in my last post. We are currently a small fund.

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Why an investor rejection isn't a knock on you

Hippoland

1) Your idea is undifferentiated Investors see thousands of businesses a year. And, your idea is 50th social networking site of the week. 3) Your business model seems flawed OR is not the right fit I talked a lot about unit economics and sales cycles in my last post. We are currently a small fund.