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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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How One Startup Combines Boston’s B2B Sense with the Valley’s Social Media Style

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This is a guest post by Alignable CMO Dan Slagen about the missed opportunity the company has identified in social networking, and why they’ve chosen to build the business on the East Coast. These companies are all over the map: B2B, B2C, SaaS, ecommerce, healthcare, SMB-focused, enterprise-focused, etc. 1 Hacker Way.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 3) Raise capital.

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Why Free Plans Don't Work

Software By Rob

If not, getting a lot of users who are not willing to pay and still expect free support as well, is very demanding and may affect the service you’re able to provide to your *real* users (who are paying). Business software is different and shouldn’t be treated in the same way as B2C. #6 Atle Iversen on 08.18.10

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

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Established location-based services to enable the CSP offer B2B and B2C services based on mobile positioning, tracking & locating, turn-by-turn navigation and mobile local search. IPgallery’s deployed converged communication solutions include core network centric solutions and Value Added Services for residential and business subscribers.

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Startup Tools

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No-brainer for B2B companies but also for B2C companies (making special advertising deals for example) Reply steveblank , on June 8, 2011 at 9:05 am said: Martin, Any suggestions? Reply Martin Henk , on June 8, 2011 at 6:13 am said: Impressive list, but missing a key ingredient: Sales management tools.