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7 Ways To Preclude The Most Common Investor Rejection

Startup Professionals Musings

First of all, a definition. Traction is evidence that your product or service has started that “hockey- stick” adoption rate which implies a large market, a valid business model, and sustainable growth. Free and freemium products need a solid base. Customer acquisition cost.

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How Much Traction is Enough for Investors?

Startup Professionals Musings

First of all, a definition. Traction is evidence that your product or service has started that “hockey- stick” adoption rate which implies a large market, a valid business model, and sustainable growth. Free and freemium products need a solid base. Customer acquisition cost.

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

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People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. portfolios. Do so at your peril.

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10 Metrics To Drive Your Annual Business Review

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs have no trouble focusing on how to build a product, and the good ones know how to find and nurture those first critical customers. Cost of customer acquisition. Customer acquisition cost is calculated by dividing total acquisition expenses by total new customers over a given period. Operating productivity.

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5 Reasons Growth Hacking is THE Most Important Function of a Startup

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According to Patrick Vlaskovits another proselytizer of the term, “Growth hacking comes after the early stage chaos and post-product-market-fit.”. If you build it, they may not come : So, you’ve launched your product, and people use it and seem to like it. It’s the whole conversion flow.

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Workpop: Using UX And Design To Power The Next Career Site

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There''s a huge demand for a limited supply of employees, in particularly, there a large demand for product developers, and there''s a shortage of experienced people. If you look at the career sites and pages out there right now, they look like they were built a decade ago. Chris Ovitz: Definitely. How did you two meet?

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Interview with Jennifer Sargent, HitFix

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There was an opportunity to capture htose advertiser dollars, and do it by serving up a product that was compelling to both advertisers and consumers. That makes the model for content work a little better than just breaking news, where someone just comes in for one page and leaves. Investment banking was a great training ground.

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