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10 Rosh Hashanah Resolutions for Startup Founders

VC Cafe

It doesn’t matter if your company is B2B or B2C, as Y Combinator puts it, you need to build stuff people want, and obsess about making it as user friendly, friction free and smooth as possible. A founder should know (more or less) what milestones she can achieve with the current round (in terms of product, revenue, etc).

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You Shouldn’t Have to Pay to Talk To Your Own Customers

Austin Startup

One, a focus on great customer care has become, in the era of Zappos, not just a requisite checkbox, but an opportunity for differentiation, and a primary means of acquiring and retaining users (customer care as a revenue generator, not just a cost center). And as a user, speak up!

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Industry With The Most Optimist Future

Hearpreneur

Digital transactions are now moving beyond B2C transactions & venturing into B2B, P2P, cross-border remittances, & more. Digital marketing has opened many doors for businesses to earn higher revenues and have a name in the international market. Besides the digital boom cannot be sustained without the fintech industry.

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Increase Repeat Purchases with Cohort Analysis

ConversionXL

Overall acquisition costs for both B2C and B2B have gone up by 50% in the past five years. Cohort analysis can be done for revenue, churn, viral word of mouth, support costs, or any other metric you care about. In my daily work with ecommerce brands, I see two types of companies: The first type focuses on acquisition and conversion.

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Data Visualization Inspiration: Analysis To Insights To Action, Faster!

Occam's Razor

This example is about the very sad reality of the Ebola epidemic and the sadder still inaction by governments (like ours). I'm sure that information like this played a key role in getting our government, and likely others, to jump and take action when they did. Let's look at some more. Thank goodness for predictive models.

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The Courage to Monetize

Austin Startup

What seems to be the best way to create customers and revenue may result in a business model that is out of vogue with the investment world and shortchanges you on enterprise valuation. If you bill for your technology services on a percentage of ad spend, you are guaranteed to look like an agency that deserves a revenue multiple of 1–2X.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghoshs research. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law.