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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

dominated by a few very large incumbents who control much of the distribution or are you going into a market that is “fragmented” where nobody controls the industry. They might struggle to hire a-players because, well, would you go work at Public Storage to build their software capabilities?

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. For example, its always nice to have someone constantly optimizing your SEM accounts, driving down your CPA. But its not really viral growth, even when its exponential.

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How to Use Growth Hacking to Increase Revenue 20x in Just 12 Months

Up and Running

I strongly believe that the first few hires of a startup should belong to the growth department, whether they’re marketers, community managers, or salespeople (selling your product is the best way to learn how to improve it). Google AdWords or SEM (expensive). Video ads: Fail. Retargeting through display and video ads: Success.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

Eric -- I was very impressed by your two part video series, which rarely occurs these days. ► April (11) Video update on the Startup Visa Act Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 Four myths about the Lean Startup Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Sneak preview, Grockit The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0

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Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Startup Lessons Learned

► April (11) Video update on the Startup Visa Act Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 Four myths about the Lean Startup Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Sneak preview, Grockit The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0 No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Thank you very much for the video. ► April (11) Video update on the Startup Visa Act Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 Four myths about the Lean Startup Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Sneak preview, Grockit The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0 Sure, Id be delighted to. Expo SF (May.

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Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now

Startup Lessons Learned

► April (11) Video update on the Startup Visa Act Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 Four myths about the Lean Startup Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Sneak preview, Grockit The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0 No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. Expo SF (May.