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8 Parameters To Bracket New Venture Funding Requests

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the big questions that every entrepreneur struggles with is how much funding they should request from investors in the first round. They know from forums such as Shark Tank on TV that asking for either too much or too little will derail credibility in the eyes of the investor, and leave the entrepreneur with no money and a struggling startup.

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Don’t Repeat My Worst Entrepreneurial Mistakes

YoungUpstarts

Making the transition from corporate life to becoming an entrepreneur took more tenacity than Beth Bell could have ever expected. She shares three of her entrepreneurial mistakes. The post Don’t Repeat My Worst Entrepreneurial Mistakes appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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How to Measure Ecommerce Customer Acquisition Cost (+ Tips to Reduce it)

ConversionXL

Customer acquisition cost (CAC) is an important metric for any ecommerce business. It tells you how much you need to earn per customer to run a profitable company. Put simply, you need a healthy customer acquisition cost for your business to succeed. It’s up to every ecommerce business to find the middle ground between investing too little in customer acquisition and spending beyond your means.

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How to Create Effective Lead Magnets that Boost Conversions (17 Lead Magnet Examples)

crowdSPRING Blog

Discover what makes an effective lead magnet and learn how lead magnets can attract and convert prospects to boost sales.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Multi-Armed Bandit: When to Do Bandit Tests Instead of A/B Tests

ConversionXL

When should you use bandit tests, and when is A/B/n testing best? Though there are some strong proponents (and opponents) of bandit testing, there are certain use cases where bandit testing may be optimal. Question is, when? First, let’s dive into bandit testing and talk a bit about the history of the N-armed bandit problem. Table of contents What is the multi-armed bandit problem?

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Job Applicant Turned Down Your Offer? How To Ask Them To Refer a New Candidate for the Role.

Hunter Walker

The Art of Asking “If Not You, Who Should I Talk To?”. I failed. You see, there was a really talented Consumer Product Manager at Google that I was trying to get over to YouTube. He’d decided to leave Mountain View and work on a new startup, but I thought there was an opening. Maybe he was running away from the increasingly process-driven and bureaucratic nature of the PM role?

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain the Role a Coach Plays in Their Business

Hearpreneur

Business coaches are instrumental people in the start and growth of one’s business. Right from writing your story, attracting/retaining clients, and the survival of your business. They can help sharpen your skills and take up a lot more roles. Many entrepreneurs attribute their success to the mere factor that they had a business coach guide them through the process.

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Everything You Need to Know About Covered Calls

Women Entrepreneurs Can

A covered call is an options strategy where the investor holds a long position in an underlying asset and writes (sells) call options on that asset to generate income from the premiums. The covered call is one of the most popular options strategies because it enables the trader to earn income from their existing long position while still providing some upside protection in case the price of the underlying asset increases.