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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

Kauffman Fellows Report (2020): “Diverse Founding Teams generate higher median realized multiples (RMs) on Acquisitions and IPOs]. BCG (June 2018): “Startups founded and cofounded by women actually performed better over time, generating 10% more in cumulative revenue over a five-year period: $730,000 compared with $662,000.”.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs? We realized that operating a business in distributed markets presented multi-city coordination efforts that we weren’t prepared for. were more distributed. How profitable is my product or service?

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Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant

Steve Blank

The entrepreneur who founded and grew the largest startup in the world to $10 billion in revenue and got fired is someone you have probably never heard of. In the spring of 1920 with company had to go to the banks and he got an $80 million loan (about a billion dollars in 2018) to finance operations. But not for Durant.

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Product Launches: 5 Unexpected Lessons from the Real World

ConversionXL

Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. Before their launch in 2018, Woodhead faced a challenge. While those acquisition efforts worked well, not all do. Cheap acquisition is (too) cheap.

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WeWork: Blitzscaling or Blitzflailing?

Reid Hoffman

If you add together Apple, Alphabet, eBay, Facebook*, Lyft, Palo Alto Networks*, PayPal, Salesforce, ServiceNow*, Twitter, Uber, and Workday*, these twelve companies alone have a market capitalization of $3 Trillion, a little bit more than the annual GDP of the United Kingdom in 2018. Distribution. Distribution.

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LinkedIn Video Ads: Relevance, Specs, and Use Cases

ConversionXL

An eMarketer study estimated that, in 2018, 25% of U.S. The strategy, according to Google, improves ad recall (and, undoubtedly, YouTube revenues). In March 2018 , LinkedIn video ads became available to all companies. The B2B video examples below were distributed on LinkedIn or other social channels, as well as YouTube.

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Swipe debit card, get stock; In defense of the IPO; New models for SMB lending, and more

Ben's Blog

In fact, according to a 2018 study by TSYS, approximately 54 percent of Americans prefer to use debit cards, while only 26 percent prefer credit cards. According to a Fed payments study, debit card transactions were almost double that of credit cards in 2018: 87 billion debit card payments, versus 45 billion credit card payments.

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