A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
Your product is designed with natural tripwires to trigger other pricing ( Freemium model ), or not (business model left as an exercise to your future self). Requires venture funding because you have no income, and if you’re successful you’ll need lots of people and tech to run the business.
Seeing Both Sides
JULY 11, 2013
Across our portfolio and in my own entrepreneurial experience, I have seen three main sales models work successfully in scaling B2B sales: 1) Enterprise; 2) Telephone; and 3) Developer-driven. The typical quota for a sales rep varies by type of business model (SaaS vs. perpetual), product gross margin (e.g.,
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Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 22, 2019
I mean there’s probably 2000 words on that page, but then links off to in a very logical way. So for example, a B2B national company that sells say like software as opposed to a B2C local company that does I don’t know, basement waterproofing. That’s the whole business model and it works really well.
Seeing Both Sides
AUGUST 16, 2012
TripAdvisor may be one of the most fascinating companies I know and so I was excited to dig into their business model as part of my series on scaling. TripAdvisor is more of a classic consumer Internet success story, but with even more powerful network effects and an amazing business model. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.
The Next Web
DECEMBER 8, 2013
This is in part because these businesses are unencumbered by legacy constraints that had previously been hardwired into the companies and industries these startups are trying to disrupt. One such business model is the “online marketplace,” an entirely new business category not possible (at scale) before the Internet.
ConversionXL
APRIL 22, 2015
It’s proven to work across industries and business models. B2B and B2C. SaaS, ecommerce, lead gen, affiliate models. A rough ballpark would be 2000-3000 pageviews per design screen. It doesn’t matter which vertical you’re in, you can use it to find great insights to lead to better test hypotheses.
online.wsj.com
SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. Overall, nonventure-backed companies fail more often than venture-backed companies in the first four years of existence, typically because they dont have the capital to keep going if the business model doesnt work, Harvards Mr. Ghosh says.
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