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Maximizing Your Digital Marketing Channel Mix

YoungUpstarts

To ensure potential consumers have the right visibility into the innovative offer you are seeking to deliver, you must find a way to awaken latent demand. Through a practice called Network Targeting , we can use social networks to serve up programmatic advertising showing their friends’ endorsements of our products.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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A quick look around all the B2C startups shows that, although viral growth is often hoped for, in reality it is extremely rare. Far more common is a need to acquire customers through a series of steps like SEO, SEM, PR, Social Marketing, direct sales, channel sales, etc. that will cost the company significant amounts of money.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Philippe Botteri.