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Introducing Trust, and the Importance of Product-Founder Fit

Both Sides of the Table

Photo by Vanna Phon on Unsplash Customer acquisition is the lifeblood of many startups from e-commerce to gaming to marketplace companies, among others. that’s where the customers are. But if you ask anyone in the ecosystem of customer acquisition?—?founders, no surprise?—?that’s founders, marketers, investors?

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Every Online User Platform Needs Revenue To Survive

Startup Professionals Musings

That means it solves a real problem for real customers who are ready and able to spend real money. The number of current potential customers is large and growing. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. Even the popular Snapchat is still struggling to generate revenue and profit.

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How To Set A Balance Of User Growth Vs Profitability

Startup Professionals Musings

That means it solves a real problem for real customers who are ready and able to spend real money. The number of current potential customers is large and growing. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. Even Snapchat is now trying hard to generate revenue.

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4 Ways To Make Profits Part Of Your Growth Strategy

Startup Professionals Musings

That means it solves a real problem for real customers who are ready and able to spend real money. The number of current potential customers is large and growing. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. Even Snapchat is now trying hard to generate revenue.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

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While many tech startups do this intuitively (say, SnapChat thinking it would be much better if our photos out partying disappeared) it still happens. Product is simply about defining a physical good or service that would be valued by consumers of the product more than existing alternatives based on functionality, quality and/or price.

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Why The Next Generation of Online Video Companies Will be Vertical

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Founded in Los Angeles by Latinos to address the growing demand for short-form online video for Millennials it is probably single-handedly improving the diversity of the tech industry as the employee base is overwhelmingly Latino and proud. And now the unscripted (aka reality) producers and talent want to work with you.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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Jonah was working on his masters thesis and he asked Nike to produce a customized shoe with the word “Sweatshop” on it. Jonah said that didn’t map to his views on the history of the media business or to his own experiences at BuzzFeed where he contents that he is being paid to produce content by companies like Facebook and Snapchat.

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