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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

This is roughly comparable to PRNewswire’s distribution service. A more sophisticated way to do this: calculate your internal ratios , e.g., your Customer Acquisition Cost and Lifetime Value. – A site sanitizer service to ensure that potential clients can see a company’s site. RJMetrics ); technology (e.g.,

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 17: Tiffani Bell and Clay Hebert

Steve Blank

Tiffani was also a 2014 Code for America Fellow working with the City of Atlanta. It ultimately failed because she was focused on engineering the product, but didn’t validate the rest of her business model (product/market fit, distribution channel, customer acquisition, etc.).

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Epicor Software Buys ShopVisible

SiliconHills

Austin-based Epicor Software has bought ShopVisible, which makes cloud-based retail order management software, based in Atlanta. Epicor Software makes software for retail, manufacturing and distribution businesses. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The company has more than 20,000 customers in 150 countries. “We

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My XOXO Talk

Bryce Dot VC

For $100,000 we actually don’t take any equity in your company unless you raise more venture capital, at which point we’ll convert into that round of funding or if you sell the company, we’ll have a small piece of that acquisition. If you continue to make those distributions it flips- 80 percent to the creator and then 20 percent to us.