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10 Ways to Boost Your Startup’s Customer Acquisition

StartupNation

Having a sustainable and systematic customer acquisition strategy is an essential component of success for any organization, especially as a startup. If you have a product or service to sell, you need a customer acquisition strategy. A good strategy will help you grow in a targeted and cost-effective way to attract the right customers.

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Meilisearch lands $15M investment to grow its ‘search-as-a-service’ business

TechCrunch

CEO Quentin de Quelen tells TechCrunch that the new cash will help to expand Paris-based Meilisearch’s marketing and sales teams as the company transitions to an “enterprise-focused” strategy. Available on GitHub, the project grew to over 10 million downloads, making it among the most popular open source search projects.

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Founders Fund backs Vest, a startup out to give Latin Americans a bridge to investing in the US stock market

TechCrunch

It plans to have both the active and passive products built with the same user interface so that investors “can use both strategies in the same place, rather than having the fragmented, multi-platform experience that is the norm today,” said Polhamus, who is the former CTO of Mexican fintech Credijusto. “That’s not us.

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At Last – An Asset Class Achieving High Ownership at Low Cost

Angel Capital Association

Studios do this by using repeatable frameworks (imagine a factory) to test these ideas and back them with funding and resources in order to launch and grow powerful, scalable startups. With larger funds also come more rules and structures around the investment thesis and strategy.

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The Benefits of Starting a Business During a Recession

StartupNation

Your Guide to the Season’s Hottest Gifts from Dell: Download Now and Save up to 39% Off. It has led to the creation of new and unique strategies that have allowed us to offer clients better services. We have, for example, developed customer satisfaction frameworks where all signs of dissatisfaction are treated as complaints.

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Zilliz, the startup behind the Milvus open source vector database for AI apps, raises $60M, relocates to SF

TechCrunch

The company said that downloads have now passed the 1 million mark, compared to 300,000 a year ago, with production users growing by 300% in the same period — however, it didn’t disclose its active user numbers. On the first of these, Zilliz’s breakout product, the open-source Milvus, has boomed.

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When, If Ever, Should Profitable Bootstrapped Startups Raise Capital?

Tomasz Tunguz

You can download this model or clone it in your Google docs to play around with it. But I hope the rudimentary financial model provides founders with some initial framework for comparing two financing strategies. With those caveats, let’s continue. Again it’s very basic. Here’s the scenario.

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