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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How Do You Catalyze A Region's Entrepreneurship?

ReadWriteStart

Today, at the roundtable, we had a discussion around the topic, especially in the context of specific geographies that were represented at the session: Dublin, Ireland, and Kolkata, India. The bulk of our discussion today was around scaling and customer acquisition strategies. It is no longer Silicon Valley's exclusive domain.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

The value ascribed by subsequent investors (in a secondary); buyers (acquisition); or the public markets (IPO). Zack Mueller, Attorney, Ireland Stapleton Pryor & Pascoe, PC , points that almost “no one, from LPs to entrepreneurs to attorneys, has much experience with these instruments. Yes, typically preferred equity.

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

in Ireland—despite being behind a paywall. Paywalls, by default, are a barrier to organic acquisition—they stop some users from accessing some content. At the same time, organic traffic, for many news sites, isn’t the primary acquisition source, in part because most news-related queries are new and never searched before.

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Why I invest outside the Silicon Valley

Hippoland

Lastly, M&A is also still big here – the tech companies who are doing big acquisitions are in the Bay Area (though this is changing too). Intercom and Talkdesk, which both have European founders have HQs in San Francisco but also significant offices in Ireland and Portugal. 3) So, where should you start a company today?

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Why I invest outside the Silicon Valley

Hippoland

Lastly, M&A is also still big here – the tech companies who are doing big acquisitions are in the Bay Area (though this is changing too). Intercom and Talkdesk, which both have European founders have HQs in San Francisco but also significant offices in Ireland and Portugal. 3) So, where should you start a company today?

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9 Case Studies That’ll Help You Reduce SaaS Churn

ConversionXL

How Telefonica Ireland Uses Business Intelligence To Reduce Churn. Before 2007, O2 Ireland, part of Telefonica Europe , had a ton of disparate data and very little insight as to what it all meant. Make changes to your acquisition, onboarding, support, and more to drive that score up for each and every customer. The Research.

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Branching out: Why you shouldn’t limit your startup to just one location

The Next Web

The team opened up a second office for US sales and support in Plano, TX, while the engineering team and CEO stayed in Ireland. The product of an acquisition, the company now serves as the headquarters for its FieldLocate product. FieldAware now have an office in Fort Worth.