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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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Exploring A Brave New World Of Domain Names, With Rightside

socalTECH

We have lots of companies like Namechief, Dreamhost, and Google, as well as lots of others, who use our APIs under the cover to provide domain names to their customers. Our focus is really making the new domain name process easy, both from the wholesale perspective and our APIs, as well as for all customers.

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A Chat with Chris Tragos of Jetpack

socalTECH

The HTML5 platform that we use is also available as a self service tool to customers. We offer up customers a high impact creative which is not bounded by the box. As a result, our customers see a much higher percentage of engagement, more than 5 percent, versus the standard ad creative, which is a very small percentage of that.

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Should Our Schools Teach Latin or HTML?

Eric Greenspan

I now make a living knowing WordPress, CSS, HTML and of course search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing. So it makes me wonder, should our schools teach Latin or HTML? Learning Latin has its uses; learning HTML, technology and other future skills, can make them a living and help them solve world problems. Marketing maniac.

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ProProfs | An Online Tool for All

Tech Zulu Event

ProProfs uses every advantage of HTML 5 to let users drag and drop almost every file and lets ProProfs do all the work. Even users who don’t have PowerPoint or a certain video player can view or edit any of those files through ProProfs by the magic of HTML 5. It is giving them more business and a growing customer base.

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Girls Who Code Celebrates Graduates of First LA Summer Immersion Program

Tech.Co

The course embeds classrooms in technology companies and universities, and the girls learn everything from robotics to mobile development to computer languages such as HTML and CSS. The Summer Immersion Program is a seven week long intensive computer science course for girls who are sophomores or juniors in high school.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? What’s their specific need / pain? Tell me about the business.

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