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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. Jason looks at the issues around "sunk cost."

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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

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A day might include a discussion with a finance partner, an investor, a customer or a fusion partner. Our new customer acquisition has grown and our costs have plummeted. We are actually getting paid now to obtain customers, so our customer acquisition costs are now negative. Great posts.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

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Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. Logging/Auditing - do we need to log certain operations in order to help with customer support or for auditing?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. Logging/Auditing - do we need to log certain operations in order to help with customer support or for auditing?

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Investors, MVPs and Evidence of Traction

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How much is it costing you to get users? " In Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Startup Founder , I mentioned that before you build your Minimum Viable Product (MVP), you need to be really clear on your purpose. How much are you making from your users?" " And other similar questions.

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Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions

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Who's the customer? We can likely provide technical strategy help at little to no cost, but hard core development generally requires that you have found someone to do it for you for equity or that you have some capital available (think $50K+). How Does it Work? You need to send us an overview of what you are doing.

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Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions

SoCal CTO

Who's the customer? We can likely provide technical strategy help at little to no cost, but hard core development generally requires that you have found someone to do it for you for equity or that you have some capital available (think $50K+). How Does it Work? You need to send us an overview of what you are doing.