Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2019

With the real data from that surge, you need to take a hard look at business model realities, cost of customer acquisition, inventory costs, and other key metrics. Suddenly you face new overhead, with hiring, office space, benefits, and new advertising campaigns. Document processes and metrics for economies of scale.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Created in 2014 and acquired by Dentsu in 2019, MuteSix was recommended to TechCrunch by Rhoda Ullmann, VP Consumer at Sense, a Boston-based startup building a home energy monitor. But then Facebook became a more crowded platform, and the same happened with Google: more advertisers, higher CPM and a more competitive environment.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

How long does it take me to pay back my original customer acquisition costs? We weren’t in enough cities to do national advertising campaigns yet we weren’t centralized enough to benefit off of our central marketing traction. No prizes for guessing what some of MakeSpace’s innovations will be in 2018 and 2019.

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