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The Most Effective Early-Stage Growth Strategies for Emerging Businesses

ReadWriteStart

Growing a business is always challenging, but it’s often the hardest in the earliest stages of development. First, we need to address the core challenges of developing effective early-stage growth strategies for new businesses. Limited brand equity. What are the best tactics to accomplish these goals? Limited capital.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers.

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Is Your Startup Tracking the Right Metrics?

Up and Running

If you have pay-per-click campaigns, you need to understand how they’re doing, how much money you’re spending on them, which of your keywords if you’re using a pay-per-click campaign are working, which ones are not. You need to be really well-versed in top referrers, unique visitors, keywords.

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Social Media Analytics: Twitter: Quantitative & Qualitative Metrics

Occam's Razor

Anyone and their brother and ma-in-law can develop a tool, and they have! To all of you developers who are toiling out there, you have my love and gratitude. In this post four twitter analysis tools that while not yet fully developed show sweet signs of: 1. Be willing to put in the sweat equity. Be willing to work hard.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. The way I do it.

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14 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business?

Hearpreneur

4- Reduce churn rate by half. My big hairy audacious goal for my business by the end of this year is to reduce our churn rate by half. This is one of the biggest problems in SaaS – churn is essentially the number of customers you lose every month because they cancel their subscription.