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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

For technology vendors and models, see Venture capitalists eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments. . Customer Development. A VC can build out relations with the innovation groups at the Global 2,000, which turn into lead-gen for portfolio companies selling to the Global 2,000.

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Lead Generation – A Complete System

Duct Tape Marketing

Lead Generation – A Complete System written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Leads are the lifeblood of every business. Clients are actually the lifeblood, however, without leads there are no clients, but that’s a topic for another post. Lead generation is essentially a game of channels more than tactics.

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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

Talented product developers. Even PhD analytics eggheads. No one can truly understand your customers or genuinely share their interests unless she is a customer herself. Finally, it began experimenting with content delivery, and was among the first firms to exploit the power of video to tell customer stories.

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How To Create Customer Personas With Actual, Real Life Data

ConversionXL

By diving into your website’s Google Analytics you can round out your personas with quantitative findings. With the new advanced segmentation features from Google Analytics, businesses can more accurately determine individual user behavior on their websites. New versus repeat customers. Frequent customers.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product. The Ultimate Combination of Startup Business Development Methods - ArcticStartup , November 16, 2010 I've been a huge fan of Steven Blank's Customer Development methodology for a long time. Where is it?

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Microcopy: Tiny Words That Make A Huge Impact On Conversions

ConversionXL

Yes, it will probably make your user experience more persuasive, but your time will be much better spent focusing on identifying your target market , customer development , and data driven traffic acquisition. Case Study 4 – 11% Increase For Mortgage Lead Generation. That being said….

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Microcopy: The Tiny Phrases With An Explosive Impact On Conversions

ConversionXL

Yes, it will probably make your user experience more persuasive, but your time will be much better spent focusing on identifying your target market , customer development , and data driven traffic acquisition. Case Study 4 – 11% Increase For Mortgage Lead Generation. That being said….