Remove category partnerships
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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

SoCal CTO

Our new customer acquisition has grown and our costs have plummeted. We are actually getting paid now to obtain customers, so our customer acquisition costs are now negative. A negative customer acquisition cost! I’m going to be using that as an example for a long time!

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Interview with Scott Grimes, Stackin

socalTECH

We curate the best products within each category of finance. Right now, we have two categories, banking, where we've partnered with Neobank to provide better solutions to our audience, digital solutions which are cheaper and help them savemoney. Scott Grimes: A lot of it is for new user acquisition.

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Here’s Why We Fell in Love with Draft

Both Sides of the Table

My partner Greg Bettinelli is an avid sports fan who throughout his career has developed an expert understanding in online ticketing (at eBay has was a champion of the StubHub acquisition) and online marketing. Online games had now become a monster industry and mobile was a huge driver through casual gamers.

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Interview with Bong Koh, LifeCrowd

socalTECH

We break it down by a number of vertical categories, including Indulgent--all about food, wine, and alcohol; Active--outdoor athletic endeavors; and Creative, which is arts and crafts. Finally, we have an Eclectic category, which are interesting activities which don't fit into any of those other buckets.

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7 Good Entrepreneurial Habits That Turn Bad

Startup Professionals Musings

You need to nurture non-organic growth partnerships and acquisitions to maximize your valuation. The smart ones in this category know when it’s time to bring in an outside more experienced CEO, or step aside voluntarily when investors start demanding new management disciplines and metrics.

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Create An Industry Alliance Entrepreneurs: Need Friends On The Startup Playground

InfoChachkie

This last category proved to be especially lucrative. The conferences also served to enhance our stature and influence within the medical device industry, which drove sales and business development partnerships. Sexy enough to garner public relations coverage and breathe new life into otherwise staid product categories.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs? Richard was CMO for PAX labs a market leader in the e-cigarette category and he ran marketing for Bonobos, an innovative apparel company bought by Walmart for more than $300 million. How profitable is my product or service?

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