www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Automating processes with APIs, creating a large e-mail subscriber base, SEO and viral strategies are of course extremely valuable to any start-up. His core focus is communications, PR, performance marketing and SEM. Online marketeers that know tricks to expand the user base of start-ups, usually on a relatively small budget.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’ve introduced a new class at Stanford to teach engineers, scientists and other professionals how startups really get built. Jon Feiber of Mohr Davidow Ventures and Ann Miura-Ko of Floodgate are co-teaching the class with me (and Alexander Osterwalder is a guest lecturer.) In contrast, startups search for a business model. (Or

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

As a private company, you have a VERY high cost of capital (well above 10%), whether you raise venture capital, angel money, friends and family investments, bank financing, or all of the above. There have been many promising SaaS startups that stepped on the gas too early and were wiped out as a result. Venture Capital.

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