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Interview with Ian Chen, Co-founder and CEO, Discotech

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Ian talked to us about the rewards and challenges of being an entrepreneur, plus how important it is to manage lifetime value (LTV) of a customer versus customer acquisition cost (CAC) in making a successful company. (We We also recently posted a video version of this interview). The big driver for us was the guest list.

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Want To Trip Out? This Entrepreneur Can Hook You Up

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How has this reality impacted your customer acquisition strategies? I realize WA''s corporate culture strives to provide an authentic travel experience to your customers, but how do you go beyond marketing jive and turn the platitudes into a truly unique product? Kutay: "An important question and one that I''ve focused on a lot.

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Yelp Acquires SeatMe For About $12.7 Million

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The deal will see Yelp connect more restaurants and bars to customers through online bookings. According to Jeremy Stoppelman, Yelp co-founder and chief executive officer,”I am excited to welcome SeatMe’s employees and customers to Yelp. SeatMe has developed a truly compelling product for restaurants and bars of any size.”

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Steven Blank Kills It at Greycroft CEO Summit

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We’re here for Greycroft’s CEO Summit – a gathering of the CEO’s of their portfolio companies with guest speakers covering topics including how to build your team, PR, customer development, etc. I’m going to save that for a future blog post. It is the key to “customer development” that Steve Blank talks about.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. Enjoyed this post? Putting customers first. Legendary customer support.

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Entrepreneurs: The Funding Landscape Has Changed.

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Guest post by Sara Mackey. Dave’s Note: This is the first time we’ve had a guest author on the BERKONOMICS site. She has worked with start up companies for nearly a decade in helping with the development of business plans and securing financing.

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My Life as a CEO (and VC): Chief Psychologist

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I’ve had a post in my head for months – maybe longer – about the role of a CEO. It originally appeared on TechCrunch as a guest post but just in case you missed it there. I finally got around to writing it having read Fred Wilson’s post about what a CEO does.