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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower

How does it meet customers’ needs? One way to approach that last question is to use this simple model: Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) How will your business reach prospects? Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) How much money will your business generate from each converted customer? What does the business do?

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Startup Metrics

SoCal CTO

In many cases, I can break it down into: Customer Acquisition Cost – how will you reach prospects, how will you convert them and how much will it cost to convert them Customer Lifetime Value – how much will you make off of each converted customer This very simple model works for a surprising number of business models.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

- SoCal CTO , January 13, 2010 5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 9 Reasons Why Many Smart People Go Nowhere - Life Beyond Code , March 29, 2010 No Accounting For Startups - Steve Blank , February 22, 2010 Startup Advice In Exactly Three Words - #StartupTriplets - OnStartups , January (..)

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others.

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Where LinkedIn Works for Me

SoCal CTO

When I was looking for speakers for an event last fall on Web 2.0 , LinkedIn was a great way to reach out. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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5 Phases Of Every Startup That Regulate Your Success

Startup Professionals Musings

For additional growth, most companies expand the product portfolio to cater to more customers, and sell more to existing customers. This is the end game for an industry, and many companies, characterized by mergers and acquisitions to a few dominant players. You need the global outlook, even though digitalization and Web 2.0

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Interview with Shaan Sethi, Jaanuu

socalTECH

There were lots of things we did around investment and acquisitions. The last piece, was we figured that we could disintermediate a broken, retail channel, by creating a customized, sophisticated, Web 2.0 I had the opportunity to work with such aspirational brands as Lululemon and Underarmor. companies around the LA area.

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