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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.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 19, 2009
On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. Consumer approach to software for business users.
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View from Seed
JUNE 11, 2019
I’ve found that the lead investor will end up doing 90% of the work for a startup (or will cause 90% of the pain if you get the decision wrong). This can be helpful for businesses that have long sales cycles, ones that are in unpopular market segments, or are located in geographies without ample downstream series A capital.
Hippoland
AUGUST 8, 2018
One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. In other words, if you can get 1000 people to come to your website consistently for under $5, then this business model works for you. Sales cycles matter though.
Hippoland
AUGUST 8, 2018
One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. In other words, if you can get 1000 people to come to your website consistently for under $5, then this business model works for you. Sales cycles matter though.
www.forentrepreneurs.com
FEBRUARY 2, 2010
Blog About Log in Register Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior Great companies are almost always run by great management teams. Sales and marketing funnel – summary metrics We will also want to look at some metrics that cover the entire sales and marketing funnel from top to bottom.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue?
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