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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Do It: Build email list of consumers interested in local deals (mainly via paid search & social network ads), sell coupon programs to merchants via telesales. 4) Unique Reporting of Accounting: Much has been made in the press that Groupon has chosen to report alternative non-GAAP metrics in addition to GAAP accounting.

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How One Startup Combines Boston’s B2B Sense with the Valley’s Social Media Style

View from Seed

This is a guest post by Alignable CMO Dan Slagen about the missed opportunity the company has identified in social networking, and why they’ve chosen to build the business on the East Coast. This chart shows the current number of users on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook versus the entire TAM of SMBs here in North America.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years.

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The Science of Familiarity: How to Increase Conversions by Being Completely Unoriginal

ConversionXL

In North America, if your name is John, people will be more trusting of you than if your name were Zesiro. Consider the social networks… And news sites… How to Use Familiarity to Increase Conversions. If the name of your company is easy to pronounce, shares are likely to perform better.

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Successful Remote Work Through Asynchronous Management

Duct Tape Marketing

But the biggest thing that you have to think about is when you think about your social circle, it's fundamentally around your work, particularly during your working years. And one of the things that I find super confusing is we don't have arranged marriages in North America, but we seem to have arranged friendships.

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30 Entrepreneurs Share What Makes Their Business Unique

Hearpreneur

At Zeeto we’ve created a reporting platform to track our key metrics and daily financial progress and give all employees viewing access. Additionally, giving away smart outstanding products results info Free “Word of mouth” sharing in social networks which gives the brand additional impressions and exposure.

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6 User Onboarding Flow Examples (With Critiques)

ConversionXL

According to a 2014 State of SaaS report from Compass , SaaS is a $10B industry in North America. A trial-to-paid conversion rate or mobile user-to-customer conversion rate type metric is a good start. For example, Facebook has a seven friends in ten days metric. via Inbound.org). If not, you have some work to do.

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