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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

The most innovative B2C companies are lead generation machines, leveraging search engine optimization (SEO), viral marketing, Search Engine Marketing (SEM), email marketing, and other technically-advanced methods. Stay local - Prove your business in North America first. Yet many B2B companies don’t have a clue.

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The 10 laws of SaaS unveiled at Bessemer CEO Summit

Cracking the Code

Prove your business in North America first. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. ► 2006. (7). Channels are very hard for SaaS companies to build, so don’t base your plan on SI’s and traditional ISV’s. You will need to sell directly for a long time. Stay local. Save Asia for post-IPO.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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I was at a startup AND I developed an evented I/O server with pluggable protocol handlers AND it was capable of handling the c10k problem AND I did this back in 2006 with C# on.NET 2.0 If I were at a startup… no wait. AND… I still hesitate when I see a lot of.NET experience on a candidate’s resume. March 27, 2011 at 9:56 pm.

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