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What if your business runs out of money?   

Berkonomics

Speaking of which, those companies with cash in the bank and cash available are the ones to scoop up the bargains, from suppliers and in acquisitions especially during tough times. It seems that the first subject that comes up in such assignments is the health of the competition. Such bargains; so little time.

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

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The huge importance of this is that when you have a high-level of loyal customers you get repeat purchases that are significantly more profitable because you’re not spending new acquisition dollars acquiring them. companies that have to spend too heavily on customer acquisition). I don’t use the word ‘spectacular’ lightly.

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

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I think Twitter made a minor gaffe by announcing their Blackberry app and their acquisition of Atebits (Tweetie) before the Chirp conference. And I saw a lot of this first hand in Salesforce’s acquisition of my company, Koral, which was a content management company. We will be direct and forthright.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

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He is very hands-on and helpful – especially for any company looking into customer acquisition. o CPM model gave him control over the information in the acquisition cycle so he focused on that. - o Put a timeframe/money – competition in the picture. He told them it was now or never.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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IdeaLab has created 75 companies, leading to 8 IPOs, 35 or so acquisitions and more than 5 companies worth in excess of $1 billion. I brought up the fact that I find many larger companies abusing the patent system to slow down smaller competitors which is actually anti competitive. We had a nice discussion on this topic.

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Cymer, ASML Get US DOJ Acquisition Approval

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ASML and Cymer said the now expect the transaction to close in the first half of the year, pending approvals under competition laws in South Korea and Japan. cymer asml semiconductor lithography light sources merger acquisition laser' READ MORE>>.

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Introducing Trust, and the Importance of Product-Founder Fit

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Photo by Vanna Phon on Unsplash Customer acquisition is the lifeblood of many startups from e-commerce to gaming to marketplace companies, among others. But if you ask anyone in the ecosystem of customer acquisition?—?founders, and you’ll hear the same thing: customer acquisition (CAC) is getting harder and more expensive.

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