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How To Choose A Market For Your Startup Or Small Business

crowdSPRING Blog

Let’s illustrate with an example – using a fictional new online marketplace for the purchase and sale of art. The global art market is believed to be about $61 billion (2011). For example, approximately one-half of the art market worldwide is auction sales. The other half is commercial gallery sales.

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Six Nudges: Creating A Sense Of Urgency For Higher Conversion Rates!

Occam's Razor

Sometimes, by using one of the multitude of price aggregators, you can have an understanding of where your pricing is at an item level. Stretch your imagination and it is not hard to come up with some super-clever nudges that incorporate aggregate non-PII information that is public. Direct competitor comparisons. But you get the idea.

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Seven Things Your Customers Can Do Better Than You

YoungUpstarts

You take that money and invest a good portion of it in traditional sales and marketing efforts — including product developers, creative people, and salespeople, all of whom are paid to figure out what buyers want and to say good things about your company — in a quest to get even more customers. Close the sale.

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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

June 5, 2011. Filing Date: initial filing June 2, 2011. Run Rate Revenue: $2.6B (Q1 2011 annualized). Revenue Growth: 2241% YoY (2010 vs 2009), 1357% YOY (Q1 2011 vs Q1 2010). Run Rate Gross Profit: $1.1B (Q1 2011 annualized). Featured merchants (may not have tipped): 56.8K (Q1 2011), 66.3K (2010), 2.7K (2009).

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

Given that 2011 is already behind us, I’d like to take a brief time-out from the usual legal and financial wonkery to wish you and your loved ones a Happy New Year. How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? will transition to a similar system as a result of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) of 2011.)

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Cracking The Code: State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment

Cracking the Code

You could argue that it takes some time to restart the SaaS flywheel after a slow year, but an acceleration in 2010 should at least translate into a stronger 2011 guidance, which is not really the case (10/11 growth median is 18%, so barely above 2010). Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing. sales and marketing. (10). at 7:35 PM.

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Facebook Advertising / Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value

Occam's Razor

I can see the correlation, but the conclusion implies a causality that may or may not be there ("the product sales exceeded all internal projections!"). From that analysis, they could identify the incremental sales in country X compared to Y, Z and A. But not, ever, in aggregate.]. Facebook works. Newspapers!

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