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Is Your SaaS Go-to-Market Strategy Tsunami-Proof?

ConversionXL

Tidal Wave 2: Startups are more expensive to grow. Just take a look at these three channels: Facebook : 171% Increase in Cost per Thousand Impressions, or CPM ( 2017 ). Twitter : 20% Increase in CPM ( Q4 2017 ). LinkedIn : 44% Increase in CPM ( Q2 2017 ). A high-touch sales process can balloon customer acquisition costs.

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How to Create a Demand Funnel (for 44X Revenue)

ConversionXL

We had built the world’s largest open-data community but—like so many startups—didn’t have a clear product-market fit. . To have the future we wanted, we needed to shift away from monetizing our open-data community and toward enterprise sales. But since we were still a young startup, we deferred customer expansion tracking. .

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LinkedIn Video Ads: Relevance, Specs, and Use Cases

ConversionXL

The strategy, according to Google, improves ad recall (and, undoubtedly, YouTube revenues). LinkedIn began beta testing video ads in October 2017. Compared to the B2C world, B2B attribution faces two challenges: Sales often take place offline. The sales cycle may last for months, or more than a year.

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Startup firms partnering with government? Really?

Austin Startup

By Mary Scott Nabers | 10/30/2017 Startup companies of all types are hot topics today. They excite investors because some offer great revenue potential. Neither investors nor entrepreneurs like long sales cycles. Small businesses are the backbone of the nation and an essential part of every regional economy.

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How I invest as a pre-seed investor?

Hippoland

I’ll give you an example with my own startup LaunchBit and how our understanding of the problem and the customer became more refined over time: V1: Helping online marketers get customers profitably. Almost all of the companies we invested in in 2017 had customers even if they didn’t have much of a product. But the execution is hard.

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How I invest as a pre-seed investor?

Hippoland

I’ll give you an example with my own startup LaunchBit and how our understanding of the problem and the customer became more refined over time: V1: Helping online marketers get customers profitably. Almost all of the companies we invested in in 2017 had customers even if they didn’t have much of a product. But the execution is hard.