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Top Hat Raises $22.5M Series C in a Tough Vertical: What Can We Learn from their Success

Version One Ventures

And selling to institutions requires a long sales cycle. Top Hat had an early and continuous focus on revenue; they have been operating profitably since their launch in 2009. Generally speaking, Ed Tech has proven to be a tough vertical, primarily due to the fact that it’s hard to charge consumers (students) directly.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

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In the case of Freshdesk, their main competitor, Zendesk, is operating with a San Francisco - Copenhagen cost-structure and will find it harder to compete with this strategy. Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009.

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The SMB Guide To CRM In 2019

YoungUpstarts

Easy does it: The right CRM can work magic, serving as a single platform that can span across the entire breadth of an organization — sharing information and providing value for customer service, sales, product development, management, operations and more. Time to Act With Analytics.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? Compared to the million-dollar startup, they are operating at micro-scale. April 14, 2009 3:09 PM Eric Santos said. April 14, 2009 4:03 PM Dave McClure said.

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It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem

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I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. The most common mistake startups make is assuming they can operate the same way big companies do, and expect success with little to no feedback from potential customers. Most startups fail. 6 Comments. April Dunford.

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Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior | For Entrepreneurs

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The best board books I've seen track nearly 20-30 key metrics (some financial, some operating) from meeting to meeting and those metrics are usually covered in the first 20-30 minutes of the meeting, setting the stage for more strategic discussion. SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? All rights reserved.

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

Cracking the Code

In my case (LucidEra -- a SaaS analytics provider focusing on sales, marketing, and financial analytics), weve found that success requires not only building some best practices for analytics into our solution, but also coming up with a repeatable and scalable way to show the customer how to use the analytics and how to interpret the results.