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[Company] 500 Startups Blowing up startups with design, data and distribution [In more detail] Successful startups don’t just need great coders and designers, they require scalable and cost-effective customer acquisition. At 500 Startups we specialize in online distribution techniques for search, social, mobile, and email platforms to help our startups get eyeballs and new customers. In particular we focus on solutions for Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube, Android, and Apple iOS, and by day many of our super mentors work as mild-mannered reporters at these very same companies. [Principals] Dave McClure Christine Tsai Enrique Allen [Differentiators] 
Design. Great products start with a great user experience—one that makes customers happy and brings them back for more. We help startups design functional solutions, not just pretty pictures. Data. Successful startups can make informed product and marketing decisions, know how much customers are willing to pay, and what it costs to acquire them. We help startups learn how to define and measure customer-driven metrics. Distribution. Startups need scalable, cost-effective customer acquisition. We specialize in distribution for search, social, and mobile platforms such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Apple, and Android.
April | 2011 | Austin Center for Design
Differentiators