thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

From big brands creating campaigns on Facebook to group buying sites like Groupon to subscription services such as Birchbox and Shoedazzle to highly curated specialty sites such as Fab.com , 2011 saw large increases in consumers buying online. eCommerce/Social Commerce: New models continue to evolve as ecommerce rebounded this past year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

Even then, the business and leadership efforts to solicit and manage donations cost real money, and may be more difficult than the marketing and sales jobs of most startups. Thus it’s hard to attract top-notch talent, premium locations, and first-class marketing campaigns. unless it relies wholly on donations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2014

Even then, the business and leadership efforts to solicit and manage donations cost real money, and may be more difficult than the marketing and sales jobs of most startups. Thus it’s hard to attract top-notch talent, premium locations, and first-class marketing campaigns. unless it relies wholly on donations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Even then, the business and leadership efforts to solicit and manage donations cost real money, and may be more difficult than the marketing and sales jobs of most startups. Thus it’s hard to attract top-notch talent, premium locations, and first-class marketing campaigns. unless it relies wholly on donations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Even then, the business and leadership efforts to solicit and manage donations cost real money, and may be more difficult than the marketing and sales jobs of most startups. Thus it’s hard to attract top-notch talent, premium locations, and first-class marketing campaigns. unless it relies wholly on donations.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JULY 2, 2020

Many people volunteer to build schools or teach English in Africa or Central America. If you’re pursuing a job in tech, San Francisco or Seattle may be your dream, but the cost of living is high. For example, if your employer approves you to work remotely for one month biannually, you could travel overseas to volunteer.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

It cost billions, cost years and distract from the core mission trying to create your own code ecosystem. For example, somewhere in Africa, an AI-driven solar battery plant can broker energy between villages AI-based power plants and bid/ask based on “efficiency credits” with no human involvement.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 24, 2012

“Our startups get tons of hands-on support – much more than they’d get almost anywhere else in the world,” says Lorcan O’Sullivan, manager of Enterprise Ireland , one of the latest of the many campaigns by governments around the globe to attract startups to their shores and inject new life into their local economies.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 21, 2020

On January 29th, the Gates Foundation pledged $10 million “to help frontline responders in China and Africa accelerate their efforts to contain the global spread.”. Even as reports of a new viral outbreak in China started popping up during the first weeks of 2020, most people were slow to pay sufficient attention to the developing threat.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 9, 2010

When you run an ad campaign, you don’t want to minimize the cost per click, you want to minimize the cost per acquisition. Managing an ad campaign is an time consuming art. You can gain dramatic productivity by using campaign generators, but you still need to monitor your campaign and tweak them (and your website).

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 9, 2010

When you run an ad campaign, you don’t want to minimize the cost per click, you want to minimize the cost per acquisition. Managing an ad campaign is an time consuming art. You can gain dramatic productivity by using campaign generators, but you still need to monitor your campaign and tweak them (and your website).

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

I lived there for 9 years before my father got offered a great opportunity and we moved to South Africa for a three year contract. Design fees are at a 1993 level, despite salary increases and operation costs. So I worked closely with the CD, and came up with a great new design and campaign, that took off really well.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

I lived there for 9 years before my father got offered a great opportunity and we moved to South Africa for a three year contract. Design fees are at a 1993 level, despite salary increases and operation costs. So I worked closely with the CD, and came up with a great new design and campaign, that took off really well.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2021

African Mission Healthcare partners with Christian missionary physicians and hospitals in Africa to bring care to the African poor in three ways — in the provisioning of clinical care, training and infrastructure (which could be power, water, housing or any number of other things). Our answer: Mt. Please join us!

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2015

The startup culture is rampant today, especially in emerging national economies like Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. These services are more cost-effective than regular telecom services and do not require implementation of physical infrastructure. Cloud telephony services fall into this category. What is cloud telephony?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2015

If it would take too long (more than 4-6 weeks), you need to re-evaluate the cost of your time. Never start a marketing campaign without a dedicated landing page. Amy Africa: Selling on a 2” x 4”: Proven Techniques for Mobile Optimization. The concept of regret: the cost of trying to figure out which variation is best.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Opinion: Noonan: The Romney Campaign Needs a New CEO. Low Cost Franchises. Opinion: Noonan: The Romney Campaign Needs a New CEO. JAIRO PUENTES asks… Q: What is the best way to cut Medicare and Medicaid costs and provide affordable healthcare to most Americans? Bicyclists of a Feather Flock Together. Pennsylvania.

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Mike Michalowicz

MARCH 8, 2013

From an HR standpoint, GiftZip.com cuts down the costs associated with buying plastic cards, eliminates the need to hold a burdensome inventory, and allows instantaneous incentivizing via email. Three-month memberships cost $35.99 Give your client a lottery ticket (it only costs you a buck) and they just may be the lucky winner.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

From an HR standpoint, GiftZip.com cuts down the costs associated with buying plastic cards, eliminates the need to hold a burdensome inventory, and allows instantaneous incentivizing via email. Three-month memberships cost $35.99 Give your client a lottery ticket (it only costs you a buck) and they just may be the lucky winner.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

From an HR standpoint, GiftZip.com cuts down the costs associated with buying plastic cards, eliminates the need to hold a burdensome inventory, and allows instantaneous incentivizing via email. Three-month memberships cost $35.99 Give your client a lottery ticket (it only costs you a buck) and they just may be the lucky winner.

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VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2011

. “The affirmation reflects the resumption of the downward trend in public deficits and debt, the robust outlook for Israeli growth, and a strengthening in the sovereign’s external balance sheet,&# said Purvi Harlalka, director at Fitch’s Middle East and Africa Sovereign Ratings Group. AMDOCS TO AQCUIRE CANADIAN BRIDGEWATER.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Short story #2: Predictive Modeling, Quantifying Cost of Inaction. I can find the biggest pools of customers who share a behavior and go back and optimize my campaign strategy, my content strategy and indeed my overall digital strategy. Short story #2: Predictive Modeling, Quantifying Cost of Inaction. Just move the blue dot.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2020

A lot of people know her work for years with the apes in Africa. ” So, it actually cost me a lot of money because I turned down a speech. Because, I mean, for the very simple reason that you could hit people much more often with a podcast than you can with an email, MailChimp campaign. Guy Kawasaki: Okay.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Upsell a product that cost 60% less. Use repetition of key benefits or value proposition in your sales copy and ad campaigns many times. Effective advertising and political campaigns do that (“Geico can save you 15% or more …”). Test subjects where asked to collect donations for a dire situation in Africa.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

The "drip drip drip" of data he was seeing from countries that were hit first told him what was coming, and he made it his mission to start a campaign for masks -- Masks4All. Which means that for me to get the policy changed here, I actually had to become an advocate and a campaigner. That's just not enough to move the dial on policy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

At the time, he was advising the campaign while also serving as Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Revolution, a DC-based VC firm created to fund startups led by diverse founders all over the country. We ultimately put 10,000 people on the ground in West Africa to fight the disease there. And then we had a U.S.

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