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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

SoCal CTO

Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video. Great stuff.

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User Interface Beyond the Web Site

SoCal CTO

SEO for Startups and Negative Customer Acquisition Costs ) and, of course, the product itself. Questions to Spark Design Discussions Some interesting questions to ask about the user interface beyond the web site: What parts of your product can be effectively accomplished in the other user interface?

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A Night Of #Hackfest With BetterWorks

Tech Zulu Event

Some used Java, Ruby, jQuery while others used PHP, HTML, and CSS. Some experience developers, project managers, and even some designers. Product Design. A senior marketing director that will run online marketing, customer acquisition, and customer development efforts, 2. Development languages varied from team to team.

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Why Google Fiber? Moat-widening Endeavor & Future of Computing.

Tech Zulu Event

Component design – computers need computer chips in order to compute, and computer chips have to be designed by someone. Device design – all of the major computing components – CPU, RAM, connectivity, display, battery, etc. – need to be enclosed into a coherently designed device. Value Chain.

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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

SoCal Delicious

Analysis on viral marketing, user experience, game design, and online ads. Design-wise, here are some things to consider: What’s your “event&# hierarchy and what level of granularity do you want? Typically I would start out with a series of pretty plain HTML pages using tables that just print out SQL queries.

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

Both Sides of the Table

By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids.