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Reflections On 2019: Peter Cowen, Sutton Capital Partners

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Leaseville, the pioneer in the virtual lease-to-own (LTO) space demonstrated strong metrics on its new product this year and is now poised to scale significantly. With customer acquisition costs (CAC) rising significantly across most products, one company experimented with a few low-cost initiatives. Two lessons learnedand relearned!

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Putting the band back together, ExactTarget execs reunite to launch MetaCX

TechCrunch LA

Scott McCorkle has spent most of his professional career thinking about business to business software and how to improve it for a company’s customers. If customers are doing the things i want them to be doing through my product. “It is API embeddable and we have a full user experience layer.”

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

There were startups and a software industry but barely. And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers.

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How To Take Your Business Idea From Dream To Reality

Startup Professionals Musings

Before you know it, you will have a ten-slide pitch that you can use to gauge interest from potential customers, as well as friends, family, and early investors. Set target date milestones and metrics to gauge progress. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 01-09-2019.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

There is nothing more pure than building a product, putting it out in the world and seeing paying customers using your product and in some cases loving it. He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse.

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