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ReadWriteStart
SEPTEMBER 10, 2010
Readers - if any of you have ideas, I am keen to hear from you, as well as help you refine them. I have raised VC money, and will continue to use that class of financing in my entrepreneurial work. Her main questions were around customer acquisition and financing. Next week, we will delve deep into cloud computing businesses.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)
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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 2, 2008
In a subscription business, maybe your attrition starts matching your acquisition, balancing like magic. Or your cost of customer acquisition just magically floats up to match your customer lifetime value. Nothing seems to matter. In an eyeballs business, you just cant seem to acquire or activate that next step-up of customers.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
undergrad could build something better as a class project. Its not what people learn in classes at MIT and Stanford that has made technology companiesspring up around them. So the acquisition came toa screeching halt while we tried to sort this out. Andyet theres a lot of money at stake.
Occam's Razor
JANUARY 30, 2012
Pro Tip: Always, always, always let the Acquisition, Behavior and Outcomes framework be your guide. You can see five different ways to look at the data in any table: Percentage, Performance, Comparison, Term Cloud and Pivot. Above is my awesome Visitor Acquisition Efficiency Analysis report (click link to get it). Weird, right?
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 16, 2008
We were trying to broaden the conversation beyond just viral customer acquisition. My readers, would really love it. Today, I was comparing notes with Ed Baker (one of the gurus of viral growth). This is so valuable for people who are trying to understand the whole meachanism. and it is explained so clearly!
VC Cafe
JANUARY 16, 2011
Its i-nigma solution comprises of a mobile multi-barcode reader application and an integrated platform for managing barcode services. Content and platform protection for smart phones, tablets, TVs, set-top boxes, e-book readers and other mobile and home entertainment devices. Established back in 2003, Comarcom Ltd. Mer Telecom. -
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