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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

This is an incredible skill, one that most engineers overlook. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. So heres the question that I pose to you - our startup helps software companies develop a scalable revenue engine in the form of software-specific hardware devices.

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Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior | For Entrepreneurs

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Tagged with Metrics , SaaS , Sales & Marketing Machine. Comments By David Skok – January 31, 2010 Yoav Shapira The way you describe peeling back one layer at a time reminds me of the "5 Whys" process that Toyota invented and Eric Ries ( StartupLessonsLearned.com ) always talks about. 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.