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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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As a VC, I have sat through many presentations like this, and in most cases the service is actually interesting and compelling. However in the majority of these presentations there is little or no focus on how much it will cost to acquire customers. For more on the topic of Viral Growth, refer to my blog post on that topic here.)

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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7 Secret Weapons For Entrepreneurial Success

YoungUpstarts

Sometimes it can require months — or even longer — of relationship-building to acquire major clients with large-scale revenue possibilities. Content doesn’t have to “go viral” to benefit your business. She’s also a well-respected speaker having delivered dozens of social media presentations to businesses, colleges, trade groups, etc.

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Your B2B Demand Generation Funnel: How to Create One and Mistakes to Avoid

ConversionXL

Sales intelligence platform Cognism cut their lead generation efforts by 90% in 2021. Then they increased their revenue from $2M to $6M in six months. In this article, you’ll learn how to build a demand generation funnel that fuels the pipeline, shortens the sale cycle, and generates revenue.

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Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior | For Entrepreneurs

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The company has just missed its quarterly revenue forecast. Lets take an example, and look at how they might do this: They will be able to tell you that revenue is composed of deals. To compute revenue, you multiply average deal size by number of deals. Bookings is the pre-cursor to Revenue. Obvious, isn’t it?

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

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Being enterprise scale means that your representatives have regular dialogue at CXO or at least VP level with Global 2000 accounts are they are bringing in millions of revenue from those accounts every year. You have to do this; addressing real customer needs releases revenue dollars that you need to survive.

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CXL Live 2018 Recap: Top 5 Lessons from Each Speaker

ConversionXL

mobile is ~50% of revenue, shorter form works better. Flip your funnel – only 5% of revenue comes from optimisation but 92% of revenue from retention. Virality: # of users that refer your product for you: exponential growth if your K factor is greater than 1. Dropbox: first achieved growth through virality.

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