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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. The spread between your LTV and blended CPA determines either your profitability or your rate of growth, and a high valuation depends on balancing these two factors.

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12 Questions: Meet Pamela Harvey (USA)

crowdSPRING Blog

I am affiliated with local and not-so-local design firms on a contract basis, and also participate in direct-to-client projects. This package design won a local Boston area award, and I was excited about that, as well as the fact of adding value to my work as an asset to this company. And I am now officially a web designer as well.