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Product Launches: 5 Unexpected Lessons from the Real World

ConversionXL

View this post on Instagram Watch our detachable soles being made near Milan #mahabis #soles #shoes #factory #milan #italy #videooftheday #instadaily #ig #sneakers #kicks #design #fashion #yellow A post shared by mahabis (@mahabis) on Apr 10, 2014 at 5:53am PDT. While those acquisition efforts worked well, not all do.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money?

ReadWriteStart

First, there are two primary aspects that have to be managed: inventory financing and customer acquisition costs. I asked him about his customer acquisition strategy and heard the word "advertising" a lot: Facebook advertising. Well, all that costs money, I would like to see a more cost-effective customer acquisition strategy.

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The Great Internet Stock Correction of 1997, or 1999, or …

Feld Thoughts

No one was interested in Internet stocks, let alone one that was being tortured by the SEC for accounting disclosure on a bunch of acquisitions of tiny companies. At the end of June I went to Italy for a week vacation with my wife Amy and my parents. Suddenly the IPO market window closed. We went out at $10 and traded up to $15.

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Speed in Sales at Startups

Austin Startup

The Ferrari Museum in Modena, Italy The defining characteristic of the Silicon Valley startup is speed. It is so important that not a week goes by without a successful investor/founder extolling the benefits of moving quickly. Sam Altman recently tweeted : Move faster. Slowness anywhere justifies slowness everywhere. 2021 instead of 2022.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

When I was younger, my family and I would always go on holiday to Italy in the summer time. When the decision was made to rebrand during the acquisition, I called on my team to determine what our new identity was going to be going forward. Thanks to Aleksandar Ratkovic, Neparno 10 ! #5- 5- Family inspired.

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How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k

www.thestartup.eu

Posted by Stefano Bernardi On June - 21 - 2010 It’s a known fact that seed capital is very scarce in Italy. TheStartup.eu Home RSS About Contact Advertise Partners How to bootstrap a Startup with less than $10k. Meet Tipsandtrip. Tipsandtrip was born from an idea of social media consultant Juliette Bellavita and Blogo.it

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When And How To Pick Your Next Launch Country

Cracking the Code

You need to have identified acquisition channels (SEM, Facebook, offline…) at a reasonable cost with payback typically in less than nine months. For example, in my experience, what works in France tends to also work well in Italy and Spain, but the U.K. This should give you a good idea of what to expect. can be an outlier.

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