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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video. Great stuff.

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Why Google Fiber? Moat-widening Endeavor & Future of Computing.

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Computers still need web browsers to power HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and many other core web technologies. At the time of acquisition, the press primarily asserted that Google bought Motorola to help protect Android’s legal intellectual property in court. More to come on this in part 2. The post Why Google Fiber?

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. I know in 2010 this doesn’t seem obvious to everybody but it’s my judgment.