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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower

One way to approach that last question is to use this simple model: Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) How will your business reach prospects? Start by building just enough of your product to get early CAC and CLV signals (they won’t be perfect). This isn’t a simple, first-cut acquisition pipeline! What does the business do?

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Sales Kids With Grit – Web 2.0 Paper Routes

InfoChachkie

Other entry-level experiences for budding entrepreneurs included selling items marketed in comic book ads. The ad includes two coupons, under the heading “Mail One Coupon Today – Give the other to a Friend”, an example of old-school viral marketing. In bold print, the ad also states, “Send NO MONEY, We Trust You”. Boys To Men.

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo! portfolios.

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Startup Metrics

SoCal CTO

In many cases, I can break it down into: Customer Acquisition Cost – how will you reach prospects, how will you convert them and how much will it cost to convert them Customer Lifetime Value – how much will you make off of each converted customer This very simple model works for a surprising number of business models.

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Interview with Shaan Sethi, Jaanuu

socalTECH

There were lots of things we did around investment and acquisitions. The last piece, was we figured that we could disintermediate a broken, retail channel, by creating a customized, sophisticated, Web 2.0 Shaan Sethi: I think the medical market is quite different from traditional apparel. companies around the LA area.

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Where LinkedIn Works for Me

SoCal CTO

When I was looking for speakers for an event last fall on Web 2.0 , LinkedIn was a great way to reach out. When I recently was looking to find people who had experience with using social networks to reach people for what might be considered guerilla marketing efforts, again LinkedIn worked great.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development

Frank Addante

Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ▼ December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. What is the Rubicon Project? Build a SWAT team 3. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy.