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What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?

Both Sides of the Table

I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. Invoca is now doing 10s of millions in recurring revenue and is growing > 75% year-over-year but it took the first 3 years to really build out the technology and acquire our initial enterprise clients. Over the past 2.5

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9 Case Studies That’ll Help You Reduce SaaS Churn

ConversionXL

This equates to a loss of revenue, which requires more and more signups from new customers just to replace what you are organically losing every month. I have seen this happen at a few startups I’ve worked with by expanding revenue from the current product, plus up-sell and cross-sell opportunities , but that will be a future post.

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

Would that help retention and NPS (Net Promote Score)? Also, take a look at this critically important data point , also aggregated by Professor Jay Ritter. It took courage for Zach Nelson and the team at Netsuite to also use a Dutch Auction in 2007. Do you think those customers would find that interesting and compelling?

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