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6 Growth Challenges That Every Good Startup Will Face

Startup Professionals Musings

Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. Scrappy guerilla marketing based on personal contacts and word-of-mouth campaigns gives way to more expensive customer acquisition using advertising, trade shows, and a marketing agency.

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6 Reasons Your Hockey Stick Growth Curve Can Go Flat

Startup Professionals Musings

Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. Scrappy guerilla marketing based on personal contacts and word-of-mouth campaigns gives way to more expensive customer acquisition using advertising, trade shows, and a marketing agency.

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Where LinkedIn Works for Me

SoCal CTO

When I recently was looking to find people who had experience with using social networks to reach people for what might be considered guerilla marketing efforts, again LinkedIn worked great. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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Is Your Business Ready For Curves In The Road Ahead?

Startup Professionals Musings

Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. Scrappy guerilla marketing based on personal contacts and word-of-mouth campaigns gives way to more expensive customer acquisition using advertising, trade shows, and a marketing agency.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Microsoft's $100K India Startup Challenge Grant

ReadWriteStart

Our discussion today was around prioritization of the next few critical steps around customer acquisition and validation. We discussed guerilla p.r., As for business model, Jigar wants to sell services like refilling cards. Report Bee. Then Balaganesh S., product reviews through blogs, as well as SEO, blogs, and social media marketing.

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6 Growth Slowdowns That Can Quickly Lead To Disaster

Startup Professionals Musings

Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. Scrappy guerilla marketing based on personal contacts and word-of-mouth campaigns gives way to more expensive customer acquisition using advertising, trade shows, and a marketing agency.

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6 Growth Barriers Most Startups Don’t See Coming

Startup Professionals Musings

Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. Scrappy guerilla marketing based on personal contacts and word-of-mouth campaigns gives way to more expensive customer acquisition using advertising, trade shows, and a marketing agency.