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Who wants to start a user-acquisition startup?

by stephengillie 13y ago

Felix21 13y ago
Acquiring users for other startups? Is that the business model you envision?
- deleted 13y ago
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dangrossman 13y ago
https://elasticsales.com/ https://elasticsales.com/
pg 13y ago
We've funded several startups doing components of that. It's hard to do in the general case. Essentially, every startup is a user-acquisition startup in its own domain, and it's hard to beat the good ones at their specialty.
- dominotw 13y ago
  But the domains can be divided into general classes of users. If jawbone can recruit me for it UP band then withings can also recruit me for its body analyzer. Not all startups in health segment have do its own health conscious user recruiting. There is a lot of overlap between products and I am sure there is some market for a generic user recruitment.
  - 1337biz 13y ago
    My suspicion is that you don't want generic users. You want users who are going to stick with your product for a while and not jump from one train to another. Without them thinking that your product stands out changes are pretty low that they are going to talk with somebody else about it.
- Nimi 13y ago
  I'm wondering: Maybe a consultancy is a possible solution?
omegant 13y ago
It sounds more like a consulting company than a startup. Then, I suppose it would end being an startup..
petercooper 13y ago
Upon seeing those words, I realized that's what a lot of media startups are. For example, my companies runs a variety of e-mail newsletters and most of our advertisers are other companies looking to acquire users/customers. We've had advertisers run a single ad with us and pick up 1000 e-mail addresses on their landing pages, etc. That seems quite close to a practical user-acquisition startup even if the intent isn't there.. It does give me some ideas on extra ways to sell the value to potential advertisers though(!) :)
krmmalik 13y ago
The elasticsales link looks interesting. I've heard alot of people have had good results from betali.st Though i submitted my startup over 2 months ago and havent heard anything back.
anandkulkarni 13y ago
https://www.leadgeni.us https://www.leadgeni.us

Who wants to start a user-acquisition startup?

Felix21 13y ago

Acquiring users for other startups? Is that the business model you envision?

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dangrossman 13y ago

https://elasticsales.com/ https://elasticsales.com/

pg 13y ago

We've funded several startups doing components of that. It's hard to do in the general case. Essentially, every startup is a user-acquisition startup in its own domain, and it's hard to beat the good ones at their specialty.

dominotw 13y ago
But the domains can be divided into general classes of users. If jawbone can recruit me for it UP band then withings can also recruit me for its body analyzer. Not all startups in health segment have do its own health conscious user recruiting. There is a lot of overlap between products and I am sure there is some market for a generic user recruitment.
- 1337biz 13y ago
  My suspicion is that you don't want generic users. You want users who are going to stick with your product for a while and not jump from one train to another. Without them thinking that your product stands out changes are pretty low that they are going to talk with somebody else about it.
Nimi 13y ago
I'm wondering: Maybe a consultancy is a possible solution?

omegant 13y ago

It sounds more like a consulting company than a startup. Then, I suppose it would end being an startup..

petercooper 13y ago

Upon seeing those words, I realized that's what a lot of media startups are. For example, my companies runs a variety of e-mail newsletters and most of our advertisers are other companies looking to acquire users/customers. We've had advertisers run a single ad with us and pick up 1000 e-mail addresses on their landing pages, etc. That seems quite close to a practical user-acquisition startup even if the intent isn't there.. It does give me some ideas on extra ways to sell the value to potential advertisers though(!) :)

krmmalik 13y ago

The elasticsales link looks interesting. I've heard alot of people have had good results from betali.st Though i submitted my startup over 2 months ago and havent heard anything back.

anandkulkarni 13y ago

https://www.leadgeni.us https://www.leadgeni.us