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Completing your first capital raise: ten lessons for startups

NZ Entrepreneur

Kiwi inventory forecasting software StockTrim achieved international sales in the UK, Australia and US immediately after launching in 2017. Learn how to respond if your audience doesn’t understand your business concept. After hearing the Mega Distribution story, people came up and said, ‘That’s exactly what happened in my business.’

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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

Startup Lessons Learned

These are things that if you get right, you can optimize your way into a big, sustainable audience. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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The truth about FMCG in Australia

Start Up Blog

But few are faced with challenges as deep and far reaching as the FMCG industry in Australia. Innovate radically to invent new ways to distribute consumer goods. We can no longer buy an audience on demand. Advertising is becoming less cost effective as audience attention fragments. Every industry has its challenges.

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Reduce Your Server Response Time for Happy Users, Higher Rankings

ConversionXL

You should choose a host with servers geographically close to your target audience. A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a group of geographically distributed servers that work together to deliver online content faster. If your website is hosted in the United States, but a user in Australia wants to access it, the SRT might be 0.2

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7 Must Have Features If You Sell Products Online

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

You’re a crazy person if you have a product to sell and you don’t look at the World Wide Web as one of your top priority distribution channels. Many of the items I purchased are impossible to buy anywhere in Australia from physical stores, while others I just prefer to buy online because it’s cheaper.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

What those sites have in common (despite their very different audiences) is that something is causing their customers to become addicted to their product, and so no matter how they acquire a new customer, they tend to keep them. For example, you often hear eBay or Neopets described as having viral growth, but I dont think thats correct.