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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

especially about churn rates and your high CACs last quarter relative to the previous year. She was one of the lead engineers at Uber. I asked you to send over some cohort data and I did get 30 minutes to go through it the other night. I developed a list of questions to ask you next time we speak?—?especially Was that a blip?

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Fast Growing Startups Focus on Customers

The Startup Magazine

Startups have only one way of thriving, and that is through growth. Every startup company that grows very fast understands the complexity that comes when scaling operations. There are various reasons as to why fast-growing startups spend time monitoring their customer success rate. What fast growing startups should do.

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Why Misunderstanding Startup Metrics Can Cost You Your Business

Both Sides of the Table

There has been a lot of public debate over the past several weeks about whether it’s a good thing to be “gross margin positive” or not and commentary always reminds me that some people at startups don’t quite understand financial metrics or even how to think about which ones are healthy. And of course ultimately on profitability.

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Twitter Link Roundup #199 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt I) | by Mike Samson - crowdspring.co/164zLP9. 3 Early Fails That Nearly Killed Our Startup - crowdspring.co/16EQKG0.

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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

At the time we were planning a workshop for B2B tech startups from the IMEC accelerator (Ghent, Belgium) and had a chance to interview many of the companies that had signed up. And while this was a good start, a significant position of these companies were early-stage startups. MQL cost significantly increased.

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

Startups need to survive and thrive on a shoestring budget, which is why it’s based on rapid experimentation. After this initial success, Airbnb then reverse-engineered Craiglist forms with a tool that allowed users to repost their listings: By communicating benefits and removing barriers to success, they gave users a reason to get involved.

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When Customers Make You Smarter

Steve Blank

Among the 28 startups in the Digital Health cohort is Tidepool. Kent Quirk was director of engineering at Playdom and director of engineering at Linden Labs. And they realized that the use of the Tidepool software could reduce the device companies’ customer churn rate by at least 1%. A Five-sided Market.

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