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Recognising good growth

The Equity Kicker

Adding users via channels that will never become economic. High churn rates. High return rates. This morning I thought I would say more about what that means, starting with characteristics of unsustainable growth: Adding users who are unlikely to engage (e.g. incentivised traffic, users recruited under false pretences).

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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. (To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.).

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Turing Distinguished Leader Series: With Partner David Zhang, TVC

ReadWriteStart

You know, a lot of times, what we hear is: “Hey, what does the company do is $5 billion of equity value is $10 billion.” And we’ll go out and ensure we’re getting our stuff out through the channels.” The churn rate increased, and then the stock plummeted by 70 percent. At least that was the thinking.

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How to Write a Business Plan

Up and Running

You don’t need to be on every social media channel, but you do need to be on the ones that your customers are on. Every industry has different distribution channels and the best way to create your distribution plan is to interview others in your industry to figure out what their distribution model is. Social Media. Strategic Alliances.

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Social Media Analytics: Twitter: Quantitative & Qualitative Metrics

Occam's Razor

Twitter is amongst new media channels that are challenging how we communicate, with whom we communicate and perhaps most fundamentally how we (Marketers) influence people. Sadly execution and analysis of these new social media channels has been hobbled by old world thinking. My new book Web Analytics 2.0 Twitter is not that.

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

maplebutter.com

Ideally you can pay them based + equity so that you’ll get their attention and focus on the project. I just launched a small online retail business last week, and feel a bit lost about marketing ideas and how to get the most out of social media channels. How can I lower my apps churn rate? Offer equity to a programmer?

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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. Thanks to Margo Benge, The Creator’s Channel ! #12- Thanks to Scott Cuthbert, Safeopedia.com ! #4- Photo Credit: Adam Hempenstall. 12- Raising $500,000 in pre-seed capital.