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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

He is very hands-on and helpful – especially for any company looking into customer acquisition. Big thank you to Darius Vasefi , of EyeOnJewels for the write up. 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.

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Venture investors and startup execs say they don’t need Elizabeth Warren to defend them from big tech

TechCrunch LA

Warren’s plan called for regulators to be appointed to oversee the unwinding of several acquisitions that were critical to the development of the core technology that make Alphabet’s Google and the social media giant Facebook so profitable… and Zappos. — Balaji S.

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7 Plan Elements That Separate Businesses From Hobbies

Startup Professionals Musings

Opportunity segmentation and competitive environment. List key competitors and alternatives, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantages, such as patents and trademarks. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive. This is your elevator pitch hook, which you must be able to deliver in 30 seconds.

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Don’t Try to “Pull an Instagram.” Here’s Why …

Both Sides of the Table

…” I’ll write soon on my views of why I believe Instagram took off as a social network and what I think comes next. You are either bought for stock or for equity. Your $200 million “small acquisition” is a cool 60% of all of their cash. It’s understandably on everybody’s mind these days.

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What is the Right Amount of Money to Raise at a Startup?

Both Sides of the Table

there may be major competitive changes in the market that makes your next funding round hard (e.g. And how do you think the next person who’s thinking about writing you a check going to feel about that sort of cavalier attitude with their money? you may hit unexpected bumps in the road yourself making the next round tough.

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Interview with Clark Landry, Maple Media

socalTECH

It's very exciting to find these apps, and once we make those acquisition and changes, see if our expectations and projections are meeting up with what happens in reality, once we actually own the application. It seem that now, versus a few years ago, it's a lot more competitive to try to get out and acquire a user profitably for an app.

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Non-millennial Bootstrapping – These 50-Something Entrepreneurs Rejected VC $ And Nailed It

InfoChachkie

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. We focus very much on finding employees who are a cultural fit and we share equity when appropriate.