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5 Considerations For Driving Growth In A New Business

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s only been in the last decade or two, that social media companies, like Facebook and Twitter, have achieved market valuations in billions of dollars (unicorn status), while clearly sacrificing revenue to gain users. Long-term stability requires revenue growth and profit. High customer loyalty and high team passion.

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5 Strategies For Balancing Revenue Versus User Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s only been in the last decade or two, that social media companies, like Facebook and Twitter, have achieved market valuations in billions of dollars (unicorn status), while clearly sacrificing revenue to gain users. Long-term stability requires revenue growth and profit. High customer loyalty and high team passion.

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Should Entrepreneurs Grow Revenue Or User Count?

Startup Professionals Musings

Its only been in the last 10 years that social-media companies, such as Facebook and Twitter, have achieved market valuations in billions of dollars, while clearly sacrificing revenue to gain users. The concept of free goods and services to get you hooked, financed by deep pockets or advertising, seems marginally ethical to many.

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5 Reasons Startups Need Revenue As Well As Users

Startup Professionals Musings

It’s only been in the last ten years that social media companies, like Facebook and Twitter, have achieved market valuations in billions of dollars, while clearly sacrificing revenue to gain users. The concept of free goods and services to get you hooked, financed by deep pockets, or advertising, seems marginally ethical to many.

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

Both Sides of the Table

If this figure is accurate – it’s certainly a very large business even when you look at net revenues. It’s clear that many companies are going to need to understand “authority&# in the social media era. Its net income for the 2009 period is $11.66 Net income was around $1.4 businesses.

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4 New Customer Loyalty Rules Drive Business Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Most existing metrics and analytics for measuring customer satisfaction and loyalty, including the popular Net Promoter Score (NPS), don’t distinguish between recommend messages to others (word-of-mouth), detract messages or no message at all. Marketing-driven customer acquisition. Word-of-mouth driven customer acquisition.

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Customer Experience Controls Business Growth Today

Startup Professionals Musings

Most existing metrics and analytics for measuring customer satisfaction and loyalty, including the popular Net Promoter Score (NPS), don’t distinguish between recommend messages to others (word-of-mouth), detract messages, or no message. Marketing-driven customer acquisition. Word-of-mouth driven customer acquisition.