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7 Reasons Smart Startups Establish 'Coopetition'

Startup Professionals Musings

Every smart startup starts with a focus on a unique advantage, such as owning a distribution channel. It leads to referral agreements and affiliate marketing. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/11/2015. Complementary advantages can expand both markets. A competitor may have complementary strengths.

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

Up and Running

Between January 2015 and January 2016, we grew our platform Slidebean from $1K to $20K in monthly recurring revenue. This is what our hiring landscape looked like over the past year: Pre-2015, we hired three founders: 1x hustler in charge of strategic growth hacking. 1x hacker in charge of product/development.

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Entrepreneurs Bring Propriety Software to Influencer Marketing

Hearpreneur

Influencer collaborations: Clients will contract an influencer to leverage their social expertise in creating a piece of content but will also have them distribute it to their organic following. November 2013 – InstaElite launches first-ever influencer affiliate network for Instagram. Influencers do not post the content.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. There are many ways to market a SaaS product—from paid advertising and affiliate partnerships, through active outreach to media outlets, and content marketing.

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Crushing It With Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Best Metrics, Reports

Occam's Razor

It is 2015. In this case, a simple distribution of overall search traffic and the amount that is coming via paid search. It shows Traffic Share and distribution of the share. You had to rely on 300 surveys filled out by badgering people on street corners or when they are having dinners at home. One last one remains, geography.

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