The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

SEO – Search Engine Optimization for Online Marketing Concept. Next, they optimize the content with keywords to rank highly in the Google search engine results page (SERP). These search engine optimization (SEO) skills are absolutely essential for digital marketers. With PPC, impressions cost nothing.

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Technical Review PPC SEM Marketing 78

Berkonomics

JANUARY 5, 2023

If the target company can show a ten percent EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization), then the acquisition team should be able to create a way to make the resulting acquisition yield forty percent EBITDA after re–engineering the combined entity. That’s quite a goal to achieve. The second rule: The 20/20 rule.

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Acquisition .Net Retention Sales 62

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

The cost of entry has never been lower. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites, for example, cost a million dollars to set up. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year. Now the price is closer to $100 if you are willing to do the work yourself. Start simple.

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Startup eCommerce Hosting Bootstrapping 252

Hunter Walker

MARCH 2, 2018

.” It’s shorthand for the concept than businesses which are primarily bits (not atoms) have some very attractive characteristics: fixed development costs, economies of scale in deployment & servicing, and “winner take most” markets with pricing power.

Software Review 92

Software Review Software Technical Review .Net 92

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

In all of these new product and cost-focused new trends, a big problem has emerged that all of these movements have not addressed. Let’s start with how much value you think you’ll create for your customer if they use your product in terms of hours saved, costs avoided, extra sales, better conversion rates or whatever.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Companies are relying on the engineering talent provided by remote, distributed, or as we call them , boundaryless teams. For some time now, it has been possible to outsource engineering labor to other countries. They’re low cost and capable of delivering specific — but mostly basic — engineering services.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. Production costs have fallen more than 90%. Distribution costs have, too. You can’t change media consumption patterns easily.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

The cost of entry has never been lower. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year. This costs nothing, and allows you to safely collect money from customers all around the world.

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Hosting Bootstrapping .Net Social Network 248

View from Seed

APRIL 20, 2022

A vast supply of previously untapped labor joined the global workforce, allowing businesses to employ factory workers in China, software engineers in Ukraine, and call center reps in the Philippines. . The long persistence of Moore’s Law has produced ever greater computing and digital storage capacity at ever lower cost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

The cost of entry has never been lower. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year. This costs nothing, and allows you to safely collect money from customers all around the world.

eCommerce 196

eCommerce Hosting Bootstrapping .Net 196

Transformify

JUNE 9, 2023

Let's take a look at the ten countries with the highest net income per capita , and the types of jobs that tend to pay the most in each destination. In 2022, property cost 87% more in Luxembourg than the EU average. It's also renowned for its high salaries and expensive living costs.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

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. Don’t cast your net too far and wide. What motivates them to solve their problems? Activation.

Retention 113

Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Yet once the software is coded, it can be reproduced millions of times at virtually no cost. Most of the costs incurred by Microsoft in developing new versions of Windows involve paying engineers to write software codes. These costs are largely fixed.

Technical Review 170

Technical Review United States Software Review China 170

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

He presented a system where your search results would be ranked based on companies bidding for placement and where merchants would be charged on a “cost per click” basis (CPC). It may surprise you to learn that LA graduates more engineers than anywhere else in the country. Where do all of these engineers end up?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Full scale generative text engines : GPT-3/ Open AI – launched only in May 2020 by OpenAI , GPT-3 quickly made waves as the largest neural network ever created. The experience of creating music has always been human-centric, but technology is now able to offer AI beats, vocals and text-to-speech engines that sound increasingly human.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Audio Video 199

ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

The entrepreneurs can reduce their operational costs significantly – by utilizing advanced technologies like autonomous vehicles, drones, and robots for courier delivery. Tactics like influencer marketing, organizing business events, publishing press releases, and search engine optimization (SEO) must be implemented.

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Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Demand Social Media 163

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

That’s why in order to reimagine the way humans consume protein, Aryé Elfenbein and Justin Kolbeck created WildType , an engineered protein company. What would you say is the biggest “cost” in our current situation? The cost doesn’t have to be monetary. They’ve been hard at work creating lab grown salmon for consumption.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Pam is best known for her book Escape from Cubicle Nation, and she recently wrote a new book called – The Widest Net: Unlock Untapped Markets and Discover New Customers Right in Front of You – launching in November 2021. 3:16] Your book The Widest Net seems to go against a little bit of conventional wisdom. [3:16] Like this show?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2012

If you don't know any “high net worth” individuals, use your advisors to find them. Exchanging equity for services is worth negotiating with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Find a customer who would benefit greatly from getting your product first, and be willing to advance you the cost of development.

Technical Review 257

Technical Review Bootstrapping Venture Capital Incubator 257

Transformify

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Several factors are driving this growth: a skills shortage in specific fields and industries, low entry costs, and the flexibility of independent contractors. Due to the increased demand for their services and expertise, many software engineers and programmers have noticed a surge in their net worth growth.

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Software Review Software Developers Software Development Demand 52

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

There’s more to achieving better ranks in search engines than meets the eye. Scale down on marketing costs. As a growing business, you already know the need and importance of cutting down on marketing costs. Thus, you won’t end up closing shop just as soon as you started. Comply with SEO. Please don’t worry!

eCommerce 288

eCommerce Marketing SEO .Net 288

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Cost per click: Track ad spending to improve performance Where to track CPC 12. Customer acquisition cost: Prevent reckless spending Where to track CAC 13. Traffic from non-paid results on search engines. Traffic from paid search ads on search engines. landing pages or search engines).

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Metrics Analytics Marketing Acquisition 105

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Where lead generation casts a wide net, ABM uses a spear to target and catch the best fish. To return to our earlier analogy, it’s using a net to catch large schools of fish. A lot of research can be done for free using current data and online sources like search engines, social media, websites, and industry publications.

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Lead Generation Marketing Sales Cycle Campaign 94

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 23, 2018

Hint: You need to be running a good business for the referral engine to work. That $5 per discount could net out to $25 in new revenue for each customer… or more. That costs you sales, costs you customers, or (even in the best scenario) means you’ll have to manage backorders, which take up employee’ time and make customers wait.

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Revenue Small Business Technical Review .Net 174

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The company once had the market’s highest churn rate and lowest Net Promoter Score (NPS). Issues such as changes in design, unexpected costs, and your checkout process can all impact conversions. Cost per click (CPC). Learn how to correct Google Ads mistakes that cost you money. Customer acquisition cost (CAC).

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Analytics Metrics Channel Campaign 106

YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2015

The sheer volume of cost-per-whatever models can be simply overwhelming for some companies. The cost of hiring an agency, of course, can easily be out of reach for smaller businesses and newer vendors without thousands of dollars to spend each month to secure their place in the digital world. Here’s how it works.

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Advertising Application Development SEO Channel 100

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 17, 2011

I put in these particular elements because I did a study of the reasons people cancel at WP Engine , and these are the main reasons for cancellation. For a quality-service company like WP Engine a high cancellation rate is a sign of terminal cancer even if acquisition rates are also increasing, so this metric isn’t useful to us.

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Business Model Metrics Engineer Technical Review 245

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2011

He was one of the first to realize that people can register a name and return it without cost after a free trial. Domains cost between $7 and $15 per year at GoDaddy.com or Register.com , if nobody already owns it. First you have to find the current owner, using Domain Tools , or other lookup functions available on the net.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2011

If you don't know any “high net worth” individuals, use your advisors to find them. Exchanging equity for services is worth negotiating with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Find a customer who would benefit greatly from getting your product first, and be willing to advance you the cost of development.

Technical Review 233

Technical Review Bootstrapping Startup Venture Capital 233

David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

I highlight endogenous social impact because many of my portfolio companies might give money to charity or provide low-cost pricing to nonprofits, but that’s not what I think of as an impact company; they’re tacking on social impact on top of their core business, whatever that is. . Net Promoter Score from Founders we back.

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Venture Capital Partner Technical Review Cofounder 60

ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2020

You still need to: Create quality content on relevant topics that users search for; Make sure search engines can access it; Establish your site as an authority. Enterprise sites are typically bigger, which adds emphasis on technical accessibility, but the basics remain: Can search engines efficiently access your content? Conclusion.

SEO 121

SEO Technical Review Software Review XML 121

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

I could spend that time on Facebook, but at the cost of not writing. During this period, I helped Hewlett-Packard save on the order of ten million dollars a year on customer support costs, roughly a 100x return on my salary. By remaining truly focused on the few most important things, we can be far more effective than we are otherwise.

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Technical Review Technical Cofounder Software Review Cofounder 195

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 27, 2023

#13- STEM accessibility Photo Credit: Dr Mark Coster As a scientist who left his job after 20 years in academia to found a website dedicated to STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) toys and activities, to make STEM accessible was my main motivation. Thanks to Matt Connelly, IHATEIRONING ! #20-

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Entrepreneur Jordan Software Review Technical Review 106

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 22, 2016

If the target company is able to show a ten percent EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization), then the acquisition team should be able to create a way to make the resulting acquisition yield forty percent EBITDA after re–engineering the combined entity. That’s quite a goal to achieve.

Acquisition 48

Acquisition Retention .Net Sales 48

Gust

JUNE 17, 2012

If you don’t know any “high net worth” individuals, use your advisors to find them. Exchanging equity for services is worth negotiating with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. These resources would likely include office space, consulting, and even a cash investment. Angel investors. Venture capital.

Technical Review 164

Technical Review Bootstrapping Venture Capital Incubator 164

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Netflix developed a sophisticated recommendation engine early on to avoid having people cancel because they couldn’t find relevant content, despite the huge catalog of shows. And you might be a little generous about getting them to re-up if your variable costs are low. The customer doesn’t know how to use your site.

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Customer Technical Review Retention Acquisition 173

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2020

Be your own ally, and make your motivation and passion the main engine of your business. Don’t be caught in the nets of the limits of expertise. T – Time-bound: Is it Time-based, Time/cost-effective, timely, and time-sensitive? To get started in business, you have to be rigorous and have proper methods.

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