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Celebrating the Life and Work of Tony Hsieh

Tech.Co

It’s with profound sadness we mourn the loss of a true visionary, author, mentor, thought-leader, investor, and friend, Tony Hsieh. Under Hsieh’s leadership, Zappos revolutionized the apparel industry, and e-commerce in general, by being one of the first to prioritize customer satisfaction and service. By Frank Gruber and Jen Consalvo.

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7 Entrepreneur Stages Help You Assess Your Progress

Startup Professionals Musings

He saw the potential of e-commerce, and drove Amazon to success. An occasional discussion with a mentor won’t do it. Many well-known entrepreneurs, including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos , worked for years in bigger businesses and Wall Street before they had their awakening to untapped opportunities.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. Commerce: What is less known is just how important LA is as a commerce hub.

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TechZulu Presents 2012 Startup Forecast | Featuring Science, Tech Coast Angels, Amplify, StartEngine, upStart.LA

Tech Zulu Event

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded, advised, invested and sold numerous businesses, including application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media, Movoxx, PeopleMedia, Brizzly and Myspace. After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr.

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How to Measure & Track Marketing

Jason Nazar

Customer Acquisition Cost / Cost Per Acquisition . The customer acquisition cost or cost per acquisition is the basic marketing cost to acquire a customer. See what other startup mentors have to say about marketing tactics. For startup entrepreneurs, you can also track these metrics with Google analytics.

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How to Measure & Track Marketing

Jason Nazar

Customer Acquisition Cost / Cost Per Acquisition . The customer acquisition cost or cost per acquisition is the basic marketing cost to acquire a customer. See what other startup mentors have to say about marketing tactics. For startup entrepreneurs, you can also track these metrics with Google analytics.

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Batch 8 500 Startups Demo Day | Our Top Ten

Tech Zulu Event

This was a chance to blow open the story on their companies, to address a room full of potential investors, mentors, partners, customers, and press. Shippo is changing the game for e-commerce shipping. They’re going to be huge for private e-commerce retailers. Look out for this company.

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