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Invest in Lines, not Dots

Both Sides of the Table

You’ll be able to give them an update on key hires, pilot customers, key tech innovations – whatever. Note that “performance&# on my chart is a loose term for my definition of perceived progress that can take the form of product, customer adoption, employees, investors, press or whatever. Quick coffees, whatever.

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Start-ups are all Naked in the Mirror

Both Sides of the Table

We also had facilities in Dublin, Ireland where our company was initially founded. We hadn’t even thought about having a customer support line or who would staff it. Our customers were generally happy but they were pushing us hard for promised features. Let your compass be based on your customers. You should.

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My Life as a CEO (and VC): Chief Psychologist

Both Sides of the Table

Once you’ve been around for a few years, attracted some great people, landed real, paying customers and raised venture capital you’ve likely got a talented team around you. My first company was founded in Ireland, headquartered in England and had country operations in the UK, France & Germany.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How Do You Catalyze A Region's Entrepreneurship?

ReadWriteStart

Today, at the roundtable, we had a discussion around the topic, especially in the context of specific geographies that were represented at the session: Dublin, Ireland, and Kolkata, India. The bulk of our discussion today was around scaling and customer acquisition strategies. It is no longer Silicon Valley's exclusive domain.

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How to get creative with your domain name registration

The Next Web

is a UK-based startup that has just launched globally , making its social fundraising platform available to charities to the US, Canada, Ireland and Australia. Great restaurants and new customers find us in the App Store, in the press, and on Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare.”. A good luck charm, perhaps? Believe.in. Believe.in

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Overcoming The Top 4 iBeacon Liabilities

YoungUpstarts

At this point, 46% of apps get punted to the trash, making apps the key stumbling block—you either use a generic app that does not create a custom experience and risk getting deleted quickly, or invest on developing and maintaining customized apps for iOS, Android, and Windows that will keep shoppers from deleting it.

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9 Case Studies That’ll Help You Reduce SaaS Churn

ConversionXL

David Skok, who is a must read for all startups , explains that as a SaaS company grows, the size of the subscribers/customers/users who no longer do business with the company will also, organically, grow. How Groove Reduced Churn by 71% By Defining “Why” Customers Quit. While users who remained customers logged in 4.4

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