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Why Misunderstanding Startup Metrics Can Cost You Your Business

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If you acquire 10 customers a month at $100 per customer and this scales to 100 customers at the same price you may make assumptions about 1,000 customers that don’t hold. So if you paid $100 for a customer who converted via a Facebook ad or Google search ad (SEM) that is not your CAC. Payback Period!!!”

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). In our industry we call that a TAM (total addressable market) and I’m sure you can even Google methods for calculating a TAM.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

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No one, including the engineers who work on Google’s constantly evolving search algorithms, fully understands how to reliably and consistently boost search results via artificial means. Thus, avoid link farms, mindless keyword content and similar techniques designed to make your site more Google friendly.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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He said it was better than the Yellow Pages because he would provide pricing transparency. Google was clear that they WOULD NOT go into this business. Not because they didn’t want to do Pay-per-click (they are huge buyers of SEM) but because they didn’t want other people to know what they paid for clicks!

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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We discussed in the video why they don’t price this money but give it as convertible debt) they don’t make announcements to the market. StackOverflow – We both have a love fest for Joel Spolsky who also co-founded Fog Creek Software. Short answer: no. They also avoid Reg D. Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000.