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Not crossing the chasm

Startup Lessons Learned

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.

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Product design debt versus Technical debt

andrewchenblog.com

Technical debt Most of my readers are probably familiar with the concept of technical debt, but just to re-summarize from this great article on the topic : The first kind of technical debt is the kind that is incurred unintentionally. Anyway, let’s dive into this topic more, starting with technical debt. Listen to your customers.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Harvard professor Noam Wasserman and WSJ small-business editor Vanessa OConnell took reader questions about avoiding start-up pitfalls on Sept. California.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. The project was so low cost they did not even want to bother with it. Thus why I decided to wait until the market allowed for low cost investment. Cant wait for more posts on Techcrunch [link] ?

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

Its i-nigma solution comprises of a mobile multi-barcode reader application and an integrated platform for managing barcode services. Our solutions provide peace of mind, improve quality of life and save costs to users and service providers. Allot Communications. 4G/LTE and WiMax networks and provide full cell awareness. .

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Crushing It With Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Best Metrics, Reports

Occam's Razor

Regular readers of the blog know of my deep love for competitive intelligence analysis. If you are in Croatia, you might not have very good CI data for your country (you'll have to make do with relaxing on your world-class beaches that are the envy of the world!). My first blog post on the topic of CIA was on 14th Aug 2006!

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Startup Resources

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Add a class name to buttons, forms, quotes, etc. Earth Class Mail. great web customer acquisition tutorials. tells you how much adwords cost. online web site class for novices. free, distributed source code control management system. Event platforms. Eventbrite. Women Focus. Girls in Tech. Ajaxload.info.