Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The huge importance of this is that when you have a high-level of loyal customers you get repeat purchases that are significantly more profitable because you’re not spending new acquisition dollars acquiring them. These aren’t “sample sizes” but rather full experiences for women who trust FabFitFun to curate for them. Get Physical!

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 3, 2019

October Accelerator All Access— Reduced Carbon Footprints, Curated Clothing Rentals, 3D Learning Platforms & More Capital Factory’s VIP Accelerator accepts new tech startups from across industries every month. M1neral Mineral acquisition is going through a major transformation.

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Argona

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Growth Masters is a curated collection of hacks, resources, tools, and insights designed exclusively for visionaries like you! In this newsletter, we'll share actionable strategies to fuel your business growth, enhance scalability, and elevate your growth readiness. We're thrilled to present this edition of Growth Masters !

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

Here are eight tips for creating and curating your playbook. Think about your playbook from the perspective of a new hire. What information do they need to execute a task immediately? Lay out the key challenges and expected results. In a business plan, key questions are answered in an executive summary.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2020

Rising customer acquisition costs—especially on ad platforms—have also put weaker brands with lower conversion rates out of business. This curated list should, however, save you some time and stress, and maybe even deliver a quick win—something we could all use. New apps may help you keep pace, but no app is “magical.”

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2014

These videos are not only great tutorials for founders but also provide educators with another source of well produced and curated resources. Module 5, Customer Acquisition and Archetypes. 3:35: Matching Archetypes to Acquisition. 7:35: The Biggest Mistake in Customer Acquisition. 2:53: Use MVPs to Run Experiments.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Filled with transparent discussions about bootstrapping, VC funding, acquisition offers, and what it takes to grow a fledgling company, this book is a self-described list of ‘cheat codes,’ presented thoughtfully, to help startups navigate the murky waters of starting and running a successful business.”. No time for reading?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Microsoft Surface curates content by sharing its users’ art and testimonials and responding to their posts. Create and curate content that engages your audience. And then we add a little bit of influencer marketing, we have paid marketing on top of that, and everything is interlinked.” Image source ).

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2013

Flip the Funnel : Harness your happy customers to be a volunteer sales force, deploying them as your customer acquisition team. Deliver ZMOTs : Develop a way to generate a “Zero Moment Of Truth” (ala Google), that is a shared word-of-mouth experience which reinforces one’s advertising and PR efforts; 14.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2023

With the acquisition of the requisite licenses and the meticulous adherence to compliance standards, you establish the foundational pillars upon which your brokerage stands. By aligning with these legal boundaries and ethical guidelines, you pave the path to a reputation that is built not just on ambition, but on integrity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

Social media activities span the gamut from curation to gifting, building relationships and groups, blogging, service actions, to lead conversion. This can be customer acquisition cost, revenue growth, profit, or whatever other parameters are key to your success. Pick the ones that fit your desired outcome.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 11, 2012

Or, is the idea of the album forever dead and will we just curate, edit, and filter the one important photo of the event that matters--changing the nature of photography forever?

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

and SEO as two of the most effective and affordable customer acquisition strategies. and an affiliate program would also help with customer acquisition. Nifty idea, but the business model is predicated upon selling merchandise that is curated from affiliate networks like Commission Junction. Guerrilla p.r. AskHerFriends.com.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 9, 2012

Why Startups Should Curate Content – [link]. Google’s Rules of Acquisition: How to Be an Android, Not an Aardvark – [link]. The safe career path in the future – skip college and start a company – [link]. Why entrepreneurs don’t sleep well – [link].

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Communities are incredibly hard to create and curate so they cannot simply be bolted on. Modi also says startups should invest internally to inspire employees to have empathy for each other and for their customers. Myth #2: You can bolt on community, once the commerce engine is going.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Contributors include dozens of TechStars mentors and founder alumni, including Dharmesh Shah the founder and CEO of HubSpot and the curator of the OnStartups blog and community. Common areas to address are decisions around capitalization, executive hiring and firing, share issuance (dilution), and acquisitions.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 28, 2018

Local Services Ads curates a list of providers of a particular service in a particular area (i.e. In their case study, Kenshoo noted that when Experian advertised on both Facebook and Google, they saw a 19 percent increase in total conversions, while spending 10 percent less overall per acquisition. electricians in San Francisco”).

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

Putting lean principles into NGA’s acquisition practices. As part of the Department of Defense, the NGA acquires technology and information systems through the traditional DOD’s acquisition system – which has been described as the antitheses of rapid customer discovery and agile practices.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

Putting lean principles into NGA’s acquisition practices. As part of the Department of Defense, the NGA acquires technology and information systems through the traditional DOD’s acquisition system – which has been described as the antitheses of rapid customer discovery and agile practices.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2011

The word content is confusing enough as it’s bantered around these days, but it’s also difficult for many small business owners to come up with a big picture view of the role content plays in the acquisition of clients. Strategically, the word content must mean more than a blog post or a blank sheet of paper each day.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

Social media activities span the gamut from curation to gifting, building relationships and groups, blogging, service actions, to lead conversion. This can be customer acquisition cost, revenue growth, profit, or whatever other parameters are key to your success. Pick the ones that fit your desired outcome.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Large corporations have access to huge datasets and can acquire more (pace IBM’s recent acquisition of The Weather Channel data assets for $1.5bn ). It needs to help us to discover and curate content that is relevant to us from all the noise. This involves learning context and content attributes.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

We have spent a great deal of effort to pull together some of the smartest experts in the money-raising field, and the blog is carefully curated to be useful specifically to entrepreneurs seeking funding. This added exposure can result in indications of interest (investment, acquisition, partnership, etc.)

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SiliconHills

APRIL 15, 2014

Bazaarvoice announced Tuesday its acquisition of FeedMagnet, a social media curation company in Austin, for $9 million in cash. The privately-held company, FeedMagnet, lets brands collect, curate and display consumer generated images, video and social content on their websites and other marketing properties.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

And congrats to Alex Le, cofounder of a prior investment, Serious Business, whose first game since the Zynga acquisition is CityVille.]. Measure of success: more than doubling our customer base without doubling our cost per acquisition. As games like CityVille have shown, mo’ fun usually leads to mo’ money!

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

Social media activities span the gamut from curation to gifting, building relationships and groups, blogging, service actions, to lead conversion. This can be customer acquisition cost, revenue growth, profit, or whatever other parameters are key to your success. Pick the ones that fit your desired outcome.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

This is the list that we came up with: Product that is well curated and premium, different, or hard to get elsewhere. Attractive customer acquisition dynamics (for high value services this could just be paid search and TV , for lower value services member get member campaigns and other low cost channels are likely to be important).

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This will be followed by an Investor Week starting March 9, where Techstars Austin will curate meetings with investors from all over the United States. EarBuds (Austin, TX) Jason Fox, CEO EarBuds allows people to listen along LIVE with their favorite music curators in key moments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2012

Social media activities span the gamut from curation to gifting, building relationships and groups, blogging, service actions, to lead conversion. This can be customer acquisition cost, revenue growth, profit, or whatever other parameters are key to your success. Pick the ones that fit your desired outcome.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 27, 2013

Possibly leading to more mergers and acquisitions by larger online or offline retailers. Influencers will get more prominent tools to curate beyond what Pinterest or blogs currently offers. Consolidation of niche online stores that focus on long-tail products by larger marketplaces e.g. Fab.com & Referly.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

And in order to compete against the big guys, the Deloittes, the McKinseys, the Accentures, our niche became large scale change projects, anything from mergers and acquisitions to large scale system integration work. So, my partner, my boss had a strong vision for what he wanted the firm to look like. So how do you bring the people along?

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Up and Running

MAY 3, 2012

They need to have a better understanding of the process rather than myopically focus on building something without any clear sense of the market size, the likely demand or their costs of customer acquisition. We need to insist that they set goals and milestones, create cash flow forecasts and devise ways to test their assumptions. ??

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In the 21 st century the DOD/IC community have realized that adversaries are moving at a speed that our traditional acquisition systems could not keep up with. More than 70 percent of the In-Q-Tel portfolio companies have never before done business with the government.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 5, 2018

acquisition of Jet.com in August 2016 transformed the company beyond the addition of the Jet platform. Jet.com founder Marc Lore ascended to CEO of Walmart’s US e-commerce operations, and since joining has taken the company on an e-commerce/apparel acquisition spree. POTENTIAL ACQUISITION TARGETS. Walmart’s $3.3B

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The most common arguments among ecommerce bears are that the sector is over-invested and that late-stage valuations do not map to public company comps and realistic acquisition values. Proprietary product or uniquely curated experiences. This creates opportunity for us. Operational excellence. I couldn’t agree more.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

ABM teams then began curating content and tagging it by use case, industry, and persona. Snowflake used content marketing platform Uberflip to curate and tailor content for specific accounts, using a variety of marketing tactics, including ads, email marketing, direct mail, and sponsored content.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

The internet and mobile marginalised Microsoft’s dominance of the desktop and improvements in search took away the need for Yahoo’s portal of curated links. The lesson from those businesses is that developments in technology can quickly undermine a company’s core strength.

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