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14 Interesting Findings From The Startup Genome Project

YoungUpstarts

Founders overestimate the value of IP before product market fit by 255%. We found 4 different major groups of startups that all have very different behavior regarding customer acquisition, time, product, market and team. Balanced teams with one technical founder and one business founder raise 30% more money , have 2.9x

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#. Founders overestimate the value of IP before product market fit by 255%. . Hmm, now I’m getting intrigued. I wondered where he got his MBA from?

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Search Intent: How to Analyze and Optimize Your Site

ConversionXL

IP address) can provide clues to search engines, as can search history, time of year, or time of day. Those informational queries are often the highest volume terms a site targets—key drivers of awareness and acquisition. Aggregators? Blue links of aggregator sites with “Best Restaurants” lists. Geography (i.e.

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VC Optimism Returning But More Pain Ahead In Their Portfolios

Hunter Walker

” What are my major assumptions for why there’s more markdowns to come in the aggregate for the last decade of venture portfolios? Soft Acquisition Market. And fascinating new advances (and needs) in AI, climate, biology, etc are driving tech-IP driven startups. Valuations.

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Why The Media Has Been Wrong About YouTube Networks

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re thinking about building an online video network today you need to think about: Producing your own content (not just aggregating). It is the world’s best customer acquisition for video consumers to get them to come to your O&O where you can make your $25 CPMs. But the best MCNs are so much more.

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How To Survive And Profit From Radical Change

Duct Tape Marketing

And I think that we need to start thinking much more about these seemingly unlikely events and how they'll change our companies, because it turns out that well, any one of these might be unlikely and aggregate. That the life of the, in which you can monetize, uh, a new piece of IP shrinking. So I'll pick one from each second.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

Had Facebook not purchased Instagram, Facebook’s aggregate numbers likely would have dipped as millennials have largely abandoned Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat. The same can be said of Facebook and its acquisition of Oculus, along with its recent full-frontal assault against Snapchat AR filters and lenses.