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14 Interesting Findings From The Startup Genome Project

YoungUpstarts

The report was co-authored by Berkeley and Stanford faculty members along with other contributors including Steve Blank , the Sandbox Network and blackbox teams. Founders that learn are more successful. Startups that have helpful mentors, track metrics effectively, and learn from startup thought leaders raise 7x more money and have 3.5x

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

The email continued, &# The problem I’m working on is that many founders are either making uninformed decisions or inefficiently learning the new skills they need. The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#.

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How to Create a Demand Funnel (for 44X Revenue)

ConversionXL

In that unannounced meeting, Brett Hurt, our CEO and co-founder, laid it out for us. It wasn’t quite a flip from B2C to B2B, but it was close. Profitwell says overall Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) is up nearly 50% over the past five years for B2B and B2C companies. Lesson 2: Make your funnel airtight.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #18: The strength of natural network effects

Austin Startup

I encourage startup founders or anyone interested in social commerce to read it: [link] When you think about Big Data Applications (a term coined in 2012 by Raj De Datta in this TechCrunch article ), Bazaarvoice is one as Raj points out in his article. B2C startups we’ve invested in like ROIKOI and Thread are tapping into network effects?—?and

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Growth Story: How learning app Blinkist became one of Europe’s fastest growing startups

The Next Web

Growth Story is a new four-question format we’re doing about startups finding and influencing a defining metric that helped really grow their company. This week the CEO and co-founder of Blinkist, Holger Seim, shares valuable insights into growing a subscription-based B2C service.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models. It sounds interesting.

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How to Establish an Agency Content Strategy When Outbound Stops Working

ConversionXL

For example, here’s how we’d describe a segment of the app development agency’s audience: Existing Startup Founder: Sometimes, founders will already have an MVP or prototype. Agency founders and marketers race for sales appointments before establishing a relationship. Lastly, you’ll want to decide how you’ll measure success.

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