Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

Sales and distribution channel activity will be analyzed, as well as cost of customer acquisition, to make an independent assessment of your financial projections. A smart investor will take an independent final reading in the market on barriers to entry, active competition, demographics, and price sensitivity.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Customer acquisition cost (CAC) is an important metric for any ecommerce business. Put simply, you need a healthy customer acquisition cost for your business to succeed. It’s up to every ecommerce business to find the middle ground between investing too little in customer acquisition and spending beyond your means.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

” He advocates for people who test all channels, use quantitative methods and commit to growth as one’s “true north.” For me growth hacking is not only about the meat & potatoes stuff but about continually testing new channels for growth. I recommend hiring or appointing a growth hacker.”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

Customer Acquisition. If you can break this down by channel that you’ve acquired them from this is obviously better. The next step after measuring the customers you’re adding is to add the “cost to acquire” by channel. Those two things together would lower your acquisition costs nearly in half to $6.11. lowering $1.50

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Metrics Startup Acquisition SEM 346

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

For example, when you think about distribution channels, revenue streams, or the relationship with the customer, ask customers what they expect. Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even. Leverage your customer conversations to predict and validate your business model.

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Angel Investor Technical Review Incubator Business Model 359

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Beardbrand currently has two different YouTube channels, one with 1.6 We launched the larger channel back in 2012 and the smaller channel in 2019. These channels combined are generating hundreds of thousands of views a day, none of which we pay for. Giant channel examples are Smarter EveryDay , Mark Rober , and MKBHD.

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Channel Metrics Algorithm Video 129

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Customer acquisition drives sales and profit margins and it needs to be measured and balanced together with the customers’ lifetime value (LTV). This article explains how businesses can resist one of the top startup killers known as high customer acquisition costs (CAC). We will go through 5 key strategies for lowering CAC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Sales and distribution channel activity will be analyzed, as well as cost of customer acquisition, to make an independent assessment of your financial projections. A smart investor will take an independent final reading in the market on barriers to entry, active competition, demographics, and price sensitivity.

Technical Review 296

Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Bankruptcy 296

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Dave McClure’s conversion metrics visualize where different conversion optimization opportunities lie—including those for acquisition. Acquisition focuses on how to grab attention in a very crowded content environment. This feedback can improve your acquisition strategies , your value proposition , and your processes on every level.

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Acquisition Software Review PPC Analytics 111

The Startup Magazine

JULY 5, 2020

Use the multi-channel approach. Once you are done setting your priorities, you need to pick the best channels for promoting your products or services. You waste great content if you are unable to distribute it across all audience touch points, so make sure you include all relevant channels that your current marketing budget allows.

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Customer Marketing Reputation Software Review 192

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that you’ve gotten to know your potential channel and customers, regardless of how much money you’re going to make, will you enjoy working with these customers for the next 3 or 4 years? Or is it something that can grow to a size that will result in an acquisition or some liquidity event? (see 0:30 in the video below).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

For example, when you think about distribution channels, revenue streams, or the relationship with the customer, ask customers what they expect. Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even. Leverage your customer conversations to predict and validate your business model.

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Startup Angel Investor Technical Review Incubator 296

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally.

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Artificial Inteligence Offshore Merger Technical Review 315

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

Set specific targets on the sales channels and marketing initiatives you need, including the use of social media, brand building, franchising, trade shows, affiliates, and distributors. The options here include going public (IPO), merger/acquisition, liquidate, or no exit, just paying off investors. Budget time and dollars for each.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2014

For example, when you think about distribution channels, revenue streams, or the relationship with the customer, ask customers what they expect. Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even. Leverage your customer conversations to predict and validate your business model.

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Entrepreneur Startup Angel Investor Technical Review 283

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2019

For example, when you think about distribution channels, revenue streams, or the relationship with the customer, ask customers what they expect. Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even. Leverage your customer conversations to predict and validate your business model.

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Startup Angel Investor Technical Review Incubator 245

ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

A marketing playbook helps you achieve brand consistency across channels and campaigns. A marketing playbook is a reference guide that outlines how a business will manage its marketing on a particular channel or campaign. What’s inside will differ depending on the channel or marketing campaign. Content channels.

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Campaign CTO Marketing Social Media 149

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally.

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Entrepreneur Offshore Merger Technical Review 263

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

You’ll also learn how to apply growth marketing to five key channels and how to plan and execute experimentation. It’s about identifying the channels and tactics that work best for your organization and then maximizing marketing efforts by confirming the best moves through experimentation. What is growth marketing? And what it isn’t).

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Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

As part of our growth plan, we’ve realized a need to create new business channels and expand existing ones,” Gurfinkel said in a statement. The benefits of using DataRails can clearly be seen in the rapid customer acquisition the company is experiencing and the overall excitement for the product among users.”

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Hiring Software Review Customer Israel 172

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 22, 2024

This approach ensures that every tactic and channel contributes to the company’s long-term goals. 12:00] Acquisition and Retention A fractional CMO should focus on both customer acquisition and retention. Alright, acquisition and retention. this responsibility falls squarely on the shoulders of a Fractional CMO.

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Leadership Technical Review Retention Campaign 88

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Acquisitions can quickly increase your market share and bring in new customers. New markets include geographic regions, new customer segments, or new channels to reach your customers (digital or physical). New channels. Building new revenue streams in an untapped channel, like content marketing or email marketing.

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Marketing Framework Metrics Channel 115

Up and Running

MAY 6, 2020

These days, “recruitment” is only one part of the talent acquisition process. . But now the future of recruiting must be driven by a strategic talent acquisition plan that focuses on planning according to business objectives and growth projections. If your company doesn’t yet have a talent acquisition plan in place, start there.

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Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Acquisition 115

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Channel-level expertise: An understanding of how the channels work (e.g., Where Airbnb recognized the value in another platform, Dropbox doubled down on the strength of its product as a distribution channel. Acquisition. Focus on the channels that offer the best ROI. SEO, email marketing, Facebook advertising).

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Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Facebook’s ~$20 billion acquisition of WhatsApp, a 5-year-old startup that had $10 million in revenue, made no sense until you realized that Facebook was paying to acquire 300 million new users.). This means that liquidity for today’s investors often doesn’t require the long, patient scaling of a profitable company. The founders.

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Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 281

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Everyone has their own definition of momentum (user numbers, revenue, channel partners, biz dev deals, whatever). So NEVER talk about early exits, quick flips, tuck-in acquisitions, previous interest shown by acquirers, etc., But if you identify investors with whom you’d like to work here’s my advice: 1.

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Early Stage Startup Venture Capital Seed Stage 360

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2020

Here are simple, effective ways to stay successful in the new customer experience battleground: Connect all communication channels. Online, always reply to comments, tags, and notifications either thanking customers or providing them with a channel to discuss things further. Value customer lifetime.

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Customer Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Retention 162

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Click-Through Rate Definition The Conversion Rate Formula: How to Calculate Conversion Rate Bounce Rate: Everything You Want to Know and More How To Calculate and Increase Customer Lifetime Value PPC Click-Through-Rate: What it Means and How to Use It (and Improve It) How to Track and Improve Ecommerce Customer Acquisition Effectiveness.

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Metrics Analytics Marketing Acquisition 105

VC Cafe

MARCH 16, 2025

High User Acquisition Costs: The landscape for acquiring new users has become increasingly complex and expensive. The flattening of the mobile adoption curve and Apple’s deprecation of its Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) have elevated customer acquisition costs significantly.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review B2C Generative AI IPO 78

ReadWriteStart

MAY 26, 2022

Although you might be content with your organization’s current communication methods, you can probably find ways to streamline communication between leaders and employees or facilitate more open discussions between different channels. You’ll need Site Reliability Management (SRE).

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Software Japan Agile Employee 171

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally.

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Engineer Entrepreneur Offshore Merger 219

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

IdeaLab has created 75 companies, leading to 8 IPOs, 35 or so acquisitions and more than 5 companies worth in excess of $1 billion. The Wedding Channel. And when I say this I don’t mean they funded billion dollar companies – they literally created them. Shopping.com. Commission Junction. Cars Direct / Internet Brands.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2018

These would include cost of customer acquisition, cost of leads, sales channel, cost of goods, and pricing strategy. One important measure of traction would be a metric on how many of the key business model elements have been proven, with actual data or multiple experiments. Quantify progress against generic growth constraints.

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Advisory Board Technical Review Metrics Business Model 199

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Focusing on the entire customer journey—not just acquisition—and improving each step along the way ensures that customers continue to buy from you, now and in the future. Meaning: C = Customers (traffic x conversion rate) CLV = Customer revenue – (CAC + cost of serving that customer) CAC = Customer Acquisition Cost G = Growth.

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Customer SMS Retention Acquisition 132

View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

For this reason, we’ve partnered with Guild members who have experience across different kinds of customers, business models, and distribution channels. Reforge provides master classes for experienced practitioners around growth and customer acquisition. by Valore) and founder of Viximo (acq. by Tapjoy).

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Operations Cofounder Technical Review Angel Investor 176

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

The main B2C benchmarks have to do with traction: growth in user acquisition, user retention/churn, monetisation, as well as the effectiveness of consumer marketing + virality. Example of Baremetrics revenue per user benchmarks. Consumer apps and services. 500 Startups created a helpful primer on key B2C metrics.

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B2C Technical Review Startup Retention 141

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2020

That type of content ticks all the boxes that search engines—most companies’ dominant distribution channel—reward. Ask Kaleigh: “What’s the most underrated networking channel?”. For well-funded companies, it’s a quick way to build a content machine that publishes three or four long-form articles a week.

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Analytics Acquisition Channel B2C 161