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25 Entrepreneurs Share Their #1 Goal for 2020

Hearpreneur

Often entrepreneurs and business owners create their New Year’s Resolutions around their business. We asked entrepreneurs to share their biggest goals and what they were looking forward to in 2020. #1- We have so far nailed all other aspects of our business and churn remains the only battle we have yet to win. 17- Branding.

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Why Misunderstanding Startup Metrics Can Cost You Your Business

Both Sides of the Table

Perhaps the most misused terms I see these days from entrepreneurs involve CAC (customer acquisition costs) and LTV (life time value) and a lack of understanding these critical components is driving many companies to premature failure. So I spend an inordinate amount of time with entrepreneurs focused on payback. LTV is imprecise.

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25 Entrepreneurs Share Their #1 Goal for 2020

Hearpreneur

Often entrepreneurs and business owners create their New Year’s Resolutions around their business. We asked entrepreneurs to share their biggest goals and what they were looking forward to in 2020. #1- We have so far nailed all other aspects of our business and churn remains the only battle we have yet to win. 17- Branding.

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

It’s why Canva can call itself a multibillion-dollar platform and how ConvertKit pulled itself up to compete with goliaths like MailChimp and Campaign Monitor. 500 Startups founder and entrepreneur Dave McClure created this model as a way for growth hackers to optimize the speed of their sales and marketing efforts in generating results.

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What I’ve Learned About Venture Funding

Both Sides of the Table

We love capital efficiency until we love land grabs until we abhor over funding until we get huge payouts and ring the bell for more funding until we attract every non-VC on the planet to invest in startups until it crashes and we start the cycle all over again none the wiser. Our perspectives on the topic wax and wane with market cycles.

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Focus on awareness and metrics are keys to success

Up and Running

For example, Oxford Entrepreneurs now claims to be the largest student society at Oxford. These entrepreneurs soon find out it is not. But for these entrepreneurs this is a minor detail. Prioritizing what to do is something many entrepreneurs are less qualified to do. But the noise. They can figure these things out later.

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

maplebutter.com

If you’re an Entrepreneur, you can do it from any place in the world. How important is education when I know I want to be an entrepreneur? Non of this academic stuff. When you are a young entrepreneur and you have a project (say a new age TV show) and you need to raise capital for the project. Just start today, cool?