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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

In 2010 I deconstructed the filings for GameFly and Quinstreet. GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Filing Date: initial S-1 filed Nov 17, 2010 , updated March 9, 2011. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

The spread between your LTV and blended CPA determines either your profitability or your rate of growth, and a high valuation depends on balancing these two factors. To the extent that you have good word-of-mouth, activation or retention, these factors tend to drive down your CPA or drive up your LTV, and so are nice bonuses.

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Monetizing Social Networks: The Four Dominant Business Models and How You Should Implement Them in 2010

venturedig.com

The two major forms of this are CPC (cost per click) and CPA (cost per action or acquisition). The advertiser (IQ Quiz), will pay the Facebook developer (you) each time a user fills out their email address or phone number. How You Should Implement These Models Going into 2010: Display Ads. Mobsters 2-3.5M. Poker Palace- 1.5M.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Giving back to the community has always been something I valued, so using my CPA and JD expertise, I knew there was something I could do to make taxes less daunting. In 2010, I co-founded Community Tax LLC, a tax company dedicated to helping customers nationwide with tax preparation, bookkeeping, and accounting services.

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How to Open a Marijuana Dispensary

Up and Running

Mitch Woolhiser saw a magnificent and unusual business opportunity in the budding marijuana industry in 2010. There are a lot of rules to follow and I would strongly advise that people get help right from the get-go: a lawyer and a CPA,” says Lincoln. Outliers Collective also gears their advertising toward a more mature audience.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

A business that strives for something like this should absolutely be charging money from day one, in order to establish baselines for their two key metrics: CPA (the cost to acquire a new customer) and LTV (the lifetime value of each acquired customer). This is the simplest ecosystem and simplest driver of growth.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » The Real Reason Google May Fail

Altgate

Applied to the $54 billion global online advertising market, that means there is something like $12 billion in click fraud! These revelations will do two things: force Google to clamp down thereby eliminating 25% of their revenue and scare the hundreds of thousands of advertisers who use Google into reducing their spend. Is this so?

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