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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

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.” You have an “Elvis Presley like moment” where you realize the next generation is already consuming different media than our tastes might appreciate. Content is a “hits driven business” and therefore you can only invest in platforms not media. But you don’t need to spend money on SEM.

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Startup Business Model Considerations

SoCal CTO

Fantastic post by Christian Gammill - Startup Delta Forceā€¦ From a competitive perspective (e.g. all the other folks out there that will try to enter the same market) the barriers have been dropping over the last few years.

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Why The Haters are Wrong About Growth Hacking

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In essence Muhammad thinks the “growth hacking” is a charlatan term for online marketing that consists of a bunch of everyday tasks that all online businesses should be doing: SEO, SEM, Content Marketing, Social Media, Referral Marketing, etc. “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?

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

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Guest article by Richie Hecker, Founder of Bootstrapper Media. Thus, you need to enable new ways to create a scalable customer acquisition process. A good example of growth hacking was Andrei Marinescuā€™s role as head of customer acquisition for Hulu. Itā€™s the whole conversion flow. About Richie Hecker.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable ā€“ An Investment Thesis

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By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. This no doubt led to the acquisition of AdMob by Google and Quattro by Apple.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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After a year in the market, MakeSpace was growing rapidly and our biggest issue was CAC (customer acquisition costs) relative to payback period (when we get our marketing investment back) and relative to LTV (lifetime value). You may have paid marketing: SEM, Social Media Ads, Banner Ads, email lists, etc.

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