Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

MakeSpace doesn’t need large numbers of local storage facilities near your house, so it has a greatly reduced cost structure for its facilities. Today our physical costs are less than 50% of traditional storage providers and that’s trending towards 20% with volume. MakeSpace is building the exact same systems but in reverse.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Investors my tell you that, but what they can look at your product on paper and tell what it does and they will understand if it can be built.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

It’s important to learn from your own mistakes, but it’s even smarter to learn from someone else’s mistakes, without paying their high price in time lost, cost, and pain. Viral marketing costs real money, and your support staff and hosting systems cost even more. Bypasses intellectual property as not worth the cost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

For example, “We just patented a new battery technology that will cut your smartphone charge time and cost in half.” If possible, quantify these in non-technical business terms, such as dollars saved or replacement costs over time. Use non-fuzzy terms to quantify customer value. Description of the business entity you plan to form.

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Business Plan Product Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch 423

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Even non-profits need revenue to cover their costs, and continue to provide services. Too many entrepreneurs put all their resources in one big make-or-break effort they can’t measure, or they count on word-of-mouth and viral marketing, which are totally unpredictable. Find a strategic partner to accelerate growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

They know how to capitalize on social media, viral marketing, events, and the new tools of the trade. The best sales people in any company are highly focused, and self-motivated by the commissions they can earn by closing a few big deals. They are always ready to move on to the next big opportunity as markets change.

Angel Investor 267

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

It seems to me that there is abundant proof in the marketplace of the financial returns to both large and small businesses, the low cost of entry, and the ubiquity of social networks. Read everything you can about viral marketing. Then continue to measure and learn what works, at what cost. What’s the problem?

Social Media 289

Social Media Small Business Media Technical Review 289

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Even non-profits need revenue to cover their costs, and continue to provide services. Too many entrepreneurs put all their resources in one big make-or-break effort they can’t measure, or they count on word-of-mouth and viral marketing, which are totally unpredictable. Find a strategic partner to accelerate growth.

Forecast 304

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. They need a combination of capital and experience to separate from the rest of the pack – the low cost of starting a business means it is even more vital to become the market leader more quickly.

Venture Capital 347

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TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

One way to approach that last question is to use this simple model: Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) How will your business reach prospects? And how much will it cost to win them? Apply costs to each channel. And most importantly, how does it make money? How will you convert them? We need to make sure we have these numbers.

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Metrics Startup Retention Acquisition 260

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Estimate your costs, including a 50 percent gross margin, as a lower bound on a price. Here again is your chance to make pivots for almost no cost. It allows you to test costs, quality and pricing in a few stores or a single city, with minimum jeopardy and maximum speed for recovery and corrections.

Technical Review 220

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Traditional video had very high costs of distribution due to limited time slots of broadcast TV (we only had enough spectrum to support 3-4 channels). Much of network television can cost $100,000 / minute to produce. Content can go viral – the highest quality stuff is shared. Much of it already is. Not so fast.

Video 339

Video Technical Review Distribution Aggregator 339

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2014

Even non-profits need revenue to cover their costs, and continue to provide services. Too many entrepreneurs put all their resources in one big make-or-break effort they can’t measure, or they count on word-of-mouth and viral marketing, which are totally unpredictable. Find a strategic partner to accelerate growth.

Startup 283

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

Measuring viral adoption is obviously important. The next step after measuring the customers you’re adding is to add the “cost to acquire” by channel. In the early phases if you can’t acquire customers cost effectively enough you’ll need to diagnose why and how to fix it. Now you can two levels to get your cost-to-acquire down.

Metrics 346

Metrics Startup Acquisition SEM 346

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

We spend a lot of time trying to get people focused on building products that have viral components and why that has to be measured and constantly tested. The more the supply of dollars spent in your channel the higher the cost-to-acquire new customers.

Technical Review 384

Technical Review Hockey Stick SEM Channel 384

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

” How many times have you heard someone agree that “it would be great if someone did X,” but when show them someone did do X, but it costs $39.99, they don’t buy? Marketing and sales spend is nil, so there has to be a reason it spreads by word of mouth, ideally virally as a natural result of using the product itself.

Bootstrapping 294

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

These acts can often be start of a viral growth curve in the enterprise. Enterprise products that present a high-value daily utility for the people involved can have a high virality potential.

Fractional CTO 154

Fractional CTO Software Review Viral Sales Cycle 154

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2011

I recently had the pleasure of spending an hour with Jon Steinberg, president of Buzzfeed , a company who focuses on helping media companies make their content go viral. But of course we also focused on making content go viral. There’s no cost!&#. I guess this video won’t go viral, then! Can we do 10 variants?

Viral 354

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

How much is it costing you to get users? " In Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Startup Founder , I mentioned that before you build your Minimum Viable Product (MVP), you need to be really clear on your purpose. How much are you making from your users?" " And other similar questions.

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Algorithm Metrics Viral Venture Capital 264

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2020

One key to expanding a business is by reducing costs. Expensive traditional campaigns could be greatly reduced and converted into a simple low-cost video production. In this day and age of social media sharing, it’s possible to reach millions of viewers if your video goes viral. Offers Impressive Return On Investment.

Video 246

Video Marketing Social Media Mobile 246

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

In addition to the service where you can watch old videos being very compelling, the fact that Jamie has provided this service at such an affordable cost has been a large part of the appeal. When Jamie wanted to sign on Shaq as the company spokesperson it also cost money. so he went on. link] What does this all mean for the future?

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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. AI is changing the game in consumer tech.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review B2C Generative AI IPO 78

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 10, 2011

Pet owners who like the cards will look on the back to see how to order some of their own, and suddenly you have a viral marketing campaign that cost you lots of initial legwork calling vets but not a lot of money. Maybe, maybe not, but this gets the ball rolling. Working the pain in B2B.

Software Review 232

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Changes are more easily made to any step of the process and the costs of rework are far lower. There are principally three engines of growth in any startup.

Lean 193

Lean Technical Review North America Startup 193

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2021

There are increasing efforts in the industry to create MVPs to validate your app, make it go viral, and collect customer feedback with minimal investments. Additionally, it also takes care of compliance, guarantees a powerful off-chain feature that can scale beyond blockchain’s limitations, and zeroes out transaction costs.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2012

It’s far more complicated right now to keep a bad experience from hurting your business, viral marketing can fire back. Businesses will have to perform at maximum, avoiding mistakes at all costs before they happen. Avoid at all costs using symmetry in your cover photos.

Social Media 231

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2016

As a result, repeating any of the following 10 mistakes outlined here won’t get you any credit for intelligence and learning and will cost you dearly in your funding credibility and real cash. A startup with happy and highly motivated employees will provide a better customer experience resulting in viral customer growth.

Intellectual Property 120

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Estimate your costs, including a 50 percent gross margin, as a lower bound on a price. Here again is your chance to make pivots for almost no cost. It allows you to test costs, quality and pricing in a few stores or a single city, with minimum jeopardy and maximum speed for recovery and corrections.

Business Model 120

Business Model Technical Review Advisory Board Software Review 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Even non-profits need revenue to cover their costs, and continue to provide services. Too many entrepreneurs put all their resources in one big make-or-break effort they can’t measure, or they count on word-of-mouth and viral marketing, which are totally unpredictable. Find a strategic partner to accelerate growth.

Forecast 161

Forecast Stock Options Technical Review Metrics 161

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

It seems the focus on “virtual&# goods has been both the demo of the consumer as well as the fact that by definition virtual goods have almost no marginal costs to the seller so giving a huge slice to the carrier (and Zong) isn’t a problem since actual costs are ~ $0. 15mm in Series A.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Cofounder Spain San Diego 270

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2016

They know how to capitalize on social media, viral marketing, events, and the new tools of the trade. The best sales people in any company are highly focused, and self-motivated by the commissions they can earn by closing a few big deals. They are always ready to move on to the next big opportunity as markets change.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Angel Investor Social Media LLC 120

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2015

They know how to capitalize on social media, viral marketing, events, and the new tools of the trade. The best sales people in any company are highly focused, and self-motivated by the commissions they can earn by closing a few big deals. They are always ready to move on to the next big opportunity as markets change.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Angel Investor Social Media LLC 120

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2016

But with rising cost of living, it’s not really the best place to start a brand-new business. These cities won’t cost you an arm and a leg, but you’ll find that there is still plenty of opportunities in their local software development industry. Many tech companies earn success by going viral.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2016

It’s important to learn from your own mistakes, but it’s even smarter to learn from someone else’s mistakes, without paying their high price in time lost, cost, and pain. Viral marketing costs real money, and your support staff and hosting systems cost even more. Bypasses intellectual property as not worth the cost.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Startup Angel Investor Viral 120

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2015

It’s important to learn from your own mistakes, but it’s even smarter to learn from someone else’s mistakes, without paying their high price in time lost, cost, and pain. Viral marketing costs real money, and your support staff and hosting systems cost even more. Bypasses intellectual property as not worth the cost.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Angel Investor Viral Distribution 120

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

In 1995, while in high school, Seth wanted to start a business scanning paper documents for companies, but realized it was a non-starter when he learned that a scanner costs $4k. Meebo gained traction because there’s was viral component when users wanted to tell their friend. Why did you pursue an MBA at Stanford?

Connecticut 286

Connecticut Cofounder Silicon Valley Web 286

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Customers buy solutions with value that's quantifiable to them today, meaning value which, compared to existing offerings, is half the cost or offers twice the productivity. As an entrepreneur, make sure you understand your direct and indirect costs, staffing requirements, margins and metrics to make sure these elements are in place.

Exit Strategy 120

Exit Strategy Technical Review Distribution Viral 120