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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. Great stuff. This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video.

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

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Once you build it, they will now ask you about the key metrics that they need proven in order to see if you really are a good investment. The real reason to build an MVP is to do early tests of key Startup Metrics for the business. " Once you have the metrics defined, it focuses your effort. To prove/disprove a hypothesis.

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Investors, MVPs and Evidence of Traction

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If you do build the MVP and show it to them, they will ask you about your metrics. They really want metrics, not a product. The real question you should be asking is "When I've built this product and show you the following metrics, would you invest?"

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Document Your MVP for a Developer

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In fact, let me provide an important warning: If you create these documents, don't have input from a technical resource, take it to a development shop and they provide you a price. So, just get down what you can in a form that works for you. Go find a new technical resource. I don't expect you to provide all of these things.

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Interview with Tara Weingarten, VroomGirls

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I love cars--I grew up in SoCal, and my father was really into cars, and didn't have sons. Tara Weingarten: We had no metrics when we started, and even now, we had a big week with 1900 uniques on one day. We did a bunch of research into services like TrueCar, and how they presented things, played with those services, and so on.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Presenting Companies at Caltech

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Months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. Crowd Seats gets you in the crowd for your favorite games with ticket prices 50-90% off face value! Price: $25 (Early Bird). The time has finally arrived!

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Let’s Get Weird, a SXSW Interactive Recap (2014)

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It’d been a big year in tech, and the different supporting parts of team TZ – so what better way to kick off the festivities with an inaugural train-bound journey, courtesy of the good people at Amtrak. Erin Chase – Favado , combining price comparisons with grocery shopping. Hustle hard, ride in comfort.