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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

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Mix it up with different agencies, people run out or creativity/contacts. Point: don’t waste your time on people that don’t “get” what you are doing]] People were not returning his call, he would call people 50 times but no reply, • Used to drive to work in pain in chest but could not let others know what is going on.

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Want to know why charging $12 / year converts higher than $9.99?

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Your goal is to increase the top end of the funnel (more people using the free product) and increase the rate of conversion to paid. They realized for them this was dumb because people didn’t want to use up their credits so viral adoption wasn’t happening quickly enough. Advice, coaching, intros?

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How NZ entrepreneurs can up their capital raising game

NZ Entrepreneur

So I splashed out and bought a gigantic pack of pick ‘n’ mix. The corollary to this, of course, is having the intelligence to distinguish good advice from bad, and having the strength to push back if it’s inconsistent with the vision, conditions or values of the business. I killed it, everyone did.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. There were chat rooms, discussion groups, dating, classified ads – you name it.

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Transcript of Redpoint Office Hours with Stripe’s Chief Corporate Advisor and former COO, Claire Hughes Johnson and Redpoint Managing Director, Tomasz Tunguz

Tomasz Tunguz

I imagine everyone at this point has used a Zoom Webinar, so we don’t need a full demo, but just so you know, please use the chat to connect with your fellow attendees. So I definitely used it with the self-driving cars team, and got feedback like, was this accurate? Tomasz Tunguz: Oh, interesting. Mine, I edit constantly.