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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

So you’re interested in raising capital from a Revenue-Based Investor VC. A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors (“RBI”) are emerging. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Rational burn profile, up to 50% of revenue at close, scaling down. Bigfoot Capital.

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Is Click Fraud Devouring Your Ad Budget?

ConversionXL

When the fraud hit, that fell to just a few hundred pounds of revenue a day and a ton of wasted spend. For example, if you suddenly notice hundreds of clicks from rural Idaho—and you sell beachwear—you can block that set of addresses. Any marketing strateg y that relies heavily on PPC—or any single channel—for acquisition is at risk.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs, Angels, Incubators, Accelerators - What Are You Doing With Your Rejects?

ReadWriteStart

To give you some further context, we recently spoke with a VC in Boise, Idaho, who gets 500 deals a year. A sustainable business = (customer + revenue + profits). It would go a long way in validating his assumptions and possibly also bring in customer revenues if the value proposition really resonates. His firm invests in four.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

www.foliomag.com

Social media audiences have effectively become another universe of prospects to tap, which means measurement and tracking is essential to yielding from these visitors both direct and indirect revenue. Mergers and Acquisitions. Here, digital audience marketers chime in on the ones they’re using now, and why. Content Licensing.

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Email Marketing: Campaign Analysis, Metrics, Best Practices

Occam's Razor

For everything you do it is important to measure your effectiveness of all three phases of your effort: Acquisition. Optimal Acquisition Email Metrics. here are the metrics I’d recommend to analyze your acquisition greatness: Delivery rate = (# of emails sent – # of bounce backs) / # of emails sent. Not revenue.

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How to minimize customer acquisition costs

Duct Tape Marketing

How to minimize customer acquisition costs written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. However, if you are able to minimize Customer Acquisition Costs (CAC), you’ll have a sustainable business that does more than stay afloat. First, it helps to determine what you can afford to spend on customer acquisition.

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

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If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghoshs research. In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. start-ups fail, he says. California.