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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

He tells the story of how he was out of cash, stressed out, nobody in LA or Silicon Valley would give him money, he had finally found an investor in Minneapolis but his venture bank was going to shut him down for breaking a “covenant&# in their agreement by not having enough cash in the bank. He told them it was now or never.

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If CAC is the New Rent, How should You Operate Differently?

View from Seed

For example, it might be most efficient to reach 25-year-olds living in NYC on Instagram these days; to reach 40-year-old moms with two kids living in Minneapolis, you might want to be seen next to their go-to grocery stores (which they frequent 3x/week). 1] For simplicity, we’re just going to focus on new customer acquisition (vs.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter January 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

It operates in 140 countries worldwide. Perrigo, a maker of over-the-counter drugs and infant formulas, agreed to buy the assets of Minneapolis-based Paddock Laboratories for $540 million in cash. billion in 2010, has made 14 acquisitions over the last six years, the largest of which was PBM Holdings Inc., Intel Israel Ltd.’s