Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Even with his excellent health at age 85, has he aged out of relevance to the mass market and therefore high value ad serving? What seems to be the best way to create customers and revenue may result in a business model that is out of vogue with the investment world and shortchanges you on enterprise valuation. He has over 1.2M

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Benchmarks are typically specific to stage/business model/geo. In this post I’ll focus on benchmarking resources for seed and series A in the following three categories: SaaS B2C / Consumer apps Deep tech. 500 Startups created a helpful primer on key B2C metrics. Consumer apps and services.

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B2C Technical Review Startup Retention 141

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 6, 2013

Around the time people started trading inside and outside of their village two models developed. You either took your stuff on the road and sold it door to door or you showed up somewhere near the center of town and rented a stall in the market or bazaar. photo credit: Bert Kaufmann via photopin cc. Advantages of digital marketplaces.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

The challenge is that my time and money budget for “influencing”–content creation and marketing– is minimal. Also, since I’m not trying to be a full-time marketer, I can’t use some of the standard celebrity techniques. In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. Tech stack.

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Social Media Technical Review Media Private Equity 60

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

In every start-up, finding initial product-market fit is a magical moment. But once you achieve initial product-market fit and are down the Sales Learning Curve , suddenly you are faced with a new challenge: how do I scale up the sales efforts? I''ve been thinking a lot lately about scaling sales. . I''ll discuss each one below.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2019

Direct-to-consumer brands are also a major part of the online retail market. We had a chance to sit down with Tim and get his thoughts on how the direct-to-consumer business model is changing the retail game. We’re trying to find new ways to add value to our customers across all aspects of the business.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 7, 2019

For the vast majority of products—whatever your target market — people are willing to wait about two days. Your business’s operations have changed. Incorporate Amazon sales into a subscription box business model. Ecommerce businesses of all sizes must find a way to demonstrate and provide value to the shopping audience.

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eCommerce Software Review Technical Review Audience 77

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. 2) Market . Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

eld of marketing and sales for Ciba- Geigy Pharmaceuticals before co-founding Noven Pharmaceuticals in 1986. Her responsibilities included: strategic counseling, business modeling and deal negotiation for the various for medical startups in the portfolio and is a limited partner at NGT3 Medical Accelerator in Israel.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

TripAdvisor may be one of the most fascinating companies I know and so I was excited to dig into their business model as part of my series on scaling. TripAdvisor is more of a classic consumer Internet success story, but with even more powerful network effects and an amazing business model. Henry Harteveldt, Forrester.

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Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Personally, I think it’s a lazy question, but I think the founders would appreciate hearing your thoughts about what it takes for a founder or a founding team to say, “I’m going to go after a large, dominant business.”. Is it market understanding, is it experience, is it a particular set of personality traits?

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Cofounder Differentiation Search Advertising 69

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Personally, I think it’s a lazy question, but I think the founders would appreciate hearing your thoughts about what it takes for a founder or a founding team to say, “I’m going to go after a large, dominant business.”. Is it market understanding, is it experience, is it a particular set of personality traits?

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Cofounder Differentiation Search Advertising 69

The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

This is in part because these businesses are unencumbered by legacy constraints that had previously been hardwired into the companies and industries these startups are trying to disrupt. One such business model is the “online marketplace,” an entirely new business category not possible (at scale) before the Internet.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software. For example, you can provide a solution to automate marketing, but if the customer doesnt know some key best practices for how to effectively market online, then its unlikely that theyll get a lot of value out of a marketing automation solution. Posted by Philippe Botteri.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 1, 2013

Turns out, for whatever reason – cultural, business model, leadership, even bad luck – many incumbents have yet to figure out what to do with software, always on connectivity, and technology. 20 years since Mosaic , if they haven’t figured it out – they probably will never figure it out. E-commerce is the canary in the coal mine.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

I set out to address the environmental hazard of single use plastic bags and all the waste they were (and still are) by introducing a better solution, ECOBAGS®, to the market; a reusable bag made both ethically and sustainably. It was becoming a business model destined to fail. 8-Provide high-quality personalized marketing.

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Entrepreneur Czech Republic Retention B2C 114

ConversionXL

AUGUST 1, 2017

Yet still, marketers devote very little in terms of resources to optimizing for loyalty. First, increasing customer loyalty doesn’t just fall within marketing – it’s an enterprise wide responsibility. Of course, neither of those ads would be likely to win any awards from marketers focused on the cleverness of advertising copy.”.

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Customer Retention B2C Programming 114

ConversionXL

AUGUST 1, 2017

Yet still, marketers devote very little in terms of resources to optimizing for loyalty. First, increasing customer loyalty doesn’t just fall within marketing – it’s an enterprise wide responsibility. Of course, neither of those ads would be likely to win any awards from marketers focused on the cleverness of advertising copy.”.

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Customer Retention B2C Programming 91

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Spacecom is offering a wide range of Pan African satellite services, including: Cellular backhaul, Rural telephony, Broadband VSAT networks, e-government, e-learning, e- health, Direct To Home (DTH) Multi-channel platforms, DSNG, Video Distribution & Contribution. Ceedo Technologies. Established back in 2003, Comarcom Ltd.

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