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Reduce Your Server Response Time for Happy Users, Higher Rankings

ConversionXL

Even a one-second delay can cost an ecommerce site $25,000–$125,000 per year …or more! Ultimately, there are dozens of potential factors that may slow down the response of your server: slow application logic, slow database queries, slow routing, frameworks, libraries, resource CPU starvation, or memory starvation. Image source ).

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Debating the Tech Bubble with Steve Blank: Part I

Ben's Blog

In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000. Firstly, the cost of running an internet application has fallen 100-fold. In 2000, I was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, where the price for a customer running a redundant version of a basic internet application was approximately $150,000 per month.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

Siebel took off the most important features from the Database Marketing Systems and combined them with contact management solutions software. In early 2000, the diffusion of Personal Computers transformed the way users made decisions and the paradigm buyer/seller changed again. Et voilà: the first CRM. SaaS Stack Scalability.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. We paid 10% of the normal costs for the software and that money was for software support. A 90% disruption in cost spawns innovation – believe me.

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Investing in Downturns

VC Adventure

First, the overall trends, which show both a steady increase of returns post the 2000 bubble and show the specific increases post 9/11 and post the 2008 market crash. Marketing expenses are lower and customer acquisition costs typically are reduced.

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Transforming Corporate Mobility with Car Sharing Software

The Startup Magazine

Aside from the environmental advantages, car sharing is a cost-effective option for company employees to use vehicles. Corporate software can integrate with other programs, such as the corporate database. Founded in 2000, by 2010, the company’s fleet already had 8,000 cars. Evaluate the cost of the program.

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Beyond Lead Gen: How To Optimize B2B Sales Enablement

ConversionXL

Examples: Database apps like data.com , Hoover’s , Zoominfo , Prospect intelligence apps like Linkedin Sales Navigator and Charlie App. Cost per lead. A 2015 global study of 2000 B2B buyers and sellers by Accenture shows that B2B buyers have high expectations for engagement. cost per download. Examples: Domo , Tableau.

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