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Cracking The Code: BlablaCar - Travel Revolution

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 16, 2012

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. sales and marketing. (10). software. (10). ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010!

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Cracking The Code: State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment

Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Friday, March 12, 2010. State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. So, here is the first edition, including the recent Q4 2009 earnings and the updated 2010 forecast.

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Cracking The Code: SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble?

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. It would have been easy to explain the difference by changes in the 2010/2011 revenue growth projections but unfortunately that is not the case. Cracking The Code on Facebook.

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Cracking The Code: Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your.

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and Cloud Computing business. Labels: Cloud Computing , SaaS , sales and marketing. Cracking The Code on Facebook. software. (10).

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Software Review Technical Review Cloud Europe

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Cracking The Code: Happy New Year 2010!

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 14, 2010

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Thursday, January 14, 2010. Happy New Year 2010! Cracking The Code on Facebook. sales and marketing. (10). software. (10). ▼ 2010. (5). at 5:00 PM.

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How to Conduct an SEO Audit for Your Business Website on a Budget

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This means that you’re missing out on web traffic, which means you’re missing out on sales. Metrics : Website visitor data. For example, once you’ve linked these two tools, then in Analytics you’ll be able to review keyword rankings, click-through rates, impressions, and the landing pages that are ranking in Google. Cost: Free.

SEO

SEO Technical Review Metrics Analytics

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Cracking The Code: A Quick & Funny Summary of AdTech

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Sunday, November 07, 2010. Cracking The Code on Facebook. sales and marketing. (10). software. (10). ▼ 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment.

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Cracking The Code: Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. For SaaS companies, we found that MRR is the best metric on which to base sales commissions. Thursday, January 22, 2009.

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Cracking The Code: In search of Europe's next tech stars.

Cracking the Code

AUGUST 3, 2011

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. sales and marketing. (10). software. (10). ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010!

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Cracking The Code: A funny perspective on Google innovation.

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Wednesday, February 24, 2010. Cracking The Code on Facebook. sales and marketing. (10). software. (10). ▼ 2010. (5). Happy New Year 2010! at 6:01 PM.

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Cracking The Code: Impact of the recession on SaaS.

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing productivity. equivalent to a one year payback on your sales&marketing investment. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

If engineers want more time to spend making their old code more pretty, they are invited to do so on the weekends. The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.) The current code is spaghetti, but the new code will be elegant. Its become "legacy code" and part of the problem.

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Cracking The Code: United Breaks Guitar and more!

Cracking the Code

JULY 10, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. sales and marketing. (10). software. (10). ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010!

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Cracking The Code: Laughing Out (c)Loud

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Labels: SaaS , software , Venture Capital. Cracking The Code on Facebook. sales and marketing. (10). software. (10). ► 2010. (5). Happy New Year 2010!

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Cracking The Code: Hard times.

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 27, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. sales and marketing. (10). software. (10). ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010!

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Cracking The Code: Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud.

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Unveilling of the Bessemers 10 laws of Cloud Computing and SaaS - Winter 2010 Release. Study the Sales Learning Curve and Only Invest behind Success (more.) Build Employee Software.

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Cracking The Code: Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop.

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 7, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. sales and marketing. (10). software. (10). ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010!

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Cracking The Code: New SaaS 13 Index: Welcome to LogMeIn.

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. sales and marketing. (10). software. (10). ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010!

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Cracking The Code: Getting through the downturn: a few thoughts.

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Thursday, November 13, 2008. Getting through the downturn: a few thoughts for SaaS companies planning their 2009 budget. With this decline, the average EV/08 rev. multiple fell down to ~2.2x

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Cracking The Code: Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII.

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. sales and marketing. (10). software. (10). ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010!

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Cracking The Code: Made to Stick!

Cracking the Code

JUNE 23, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. sales and marketing. (10). software. (10). ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010!

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Use agile budgeting to manage your cash

David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Instead of budget approvals, monitor key metrics and give managers more flexibility. The next most important set of metrics are sales by category; working capital (cash and other current assets, less current liabilities); EBITA; and gross margin. Traditional budgets can be destructive and a huge waste of time.

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Agile Management Forecast Silicon Valley

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Cracking The Code: Happy New Year 2008!

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Happy New Year to you, Cracking-the-code reader! and online gaming companies and 2/3 looking at the software and SaaS industry. Intego is the leading Security Software Suite for Mac.

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SuperMac War Story 5: Strategy versus Relentless Tactical.

Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Metrics – Mine is Bigger Than Yours The first thing SuperMac needed to do was to change how our potential color desktop publishing customers viewed our products versus our competitors’ products. As hokey as it is, when confronted with uncertainty or unknowns, human beings like to be reassured by comparative metrics.

Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS Software Review

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Cracking The Code: Cracking the SMB code

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 2, 2006

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking the SMB code. Small and Medium businesses have been the holy grail of High tech and software companies for quite some time now, but the quest is far from ending. "If

Software Review

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Cracking The Code: Launch of the SaaS 13 Index!

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. It includes NetSuite, SuccessFactors, Vocus, SalesForce, Taleo, DemandTec, LivePerson, Constant Contact, Concur, Ultimate Software, Salary.com, Omniture and Kenexa. Labels: SaaS , software.

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Cracking The Code: VC lifestyle

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 5, 2007

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. sales and marketing. (10). software. (10). ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010!

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Cracking The Code: Global warming: a plague for humanity?

Cracking the Code

MARCH 30, 2007

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. sales and marketing. (10). software. (10). ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010!

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Cracking The Code: Zune vs. Ipod

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 7, 2006

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Labels: anecdotes , sales and marketing. Cracking The Code on Facebook. sales and marketing. (10). software. (10). ► 2010. (5). Happy New Year 2010!

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McKinsey highlight #1 - Cracking The Code - Yes

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 9, 2006

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. I guessed the measuring spoon was not used diligently. Cracking The Code on Facebook. sales and marketing. (10). software. (10). ► 2010. (5). Happy ending?

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Cracking The Code: Betting on the right guy

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. sales and marketing. (10). software. (10). ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010!

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Cracking The Code: Popular Media: the key to viral marketing

Cracking the Code

MARCH 23, 2007

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Labels: internet , sales and marketing. Cracking The Code on Facebook. sales and marketing. (10). software. (10). ► 2010. (5). Happy New Year 2010!

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Cracking The Code: Get your own helicopter for $50!

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. sales and marketing. (10). software. (10). ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010!

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Cracking The Code: Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Sandhill.com Podcast : 40mn podcasts on Enterprise software. This is the only podcast I found on Enterprise software. Cracking The Code on Facebook. sales and marketing. (10).

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Cracking The Code: Don't click on this link!

Cracking the Code

APRIL 18, 2007

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. sales and marketing. (10). software. (10). ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010!

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

But there is more to technical debt than just the interest payments that come due. In particular, try these three things: Invest in technical debts that may never come due. Yet there is one silver lining when it does happen: we wind up throwing out working code , debt-riddled and elegantly designed alike.

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Create Structure out of the Gate and You’ll Thank Yourself Later

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

His most recent company, Filtrbox, participated in the inaugural Techstars class (Techstars Boulder 2007) and was a win for all parties involved; Filtrbox was acquired in 2010 by Jive Software (NASDAQ: JIVE). For the first the months, the team meets often and strategizes on what they want to build while some code gets written.

Burn Rate Equity Software Review Early Stage

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Focus on the output metrics of that part of the product, and you make the problem a lot more clear. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle. Code To make split-testing pervasive, it has to be incredibly easy.

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Continuous Deployment

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Cracking The Code: Why I disagree with Tony Zingale on the future.

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. The theme was "the future of software". He is a great speaker and I enjoyed the speech, but after 40mn, I was still waiting to hear about the future of software.

Software Review

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Twitter Link Roundup #59 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Arming & Aiming: How to handle sales objections at a startup – [link]. Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior – [link]. 11 Ways Your Startup Can Deliver Support That Will Increase Sales – [link]. Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior – [link]. – [link].

Social Media Small Business Design Media

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

billion for a company with less than $50 million in sales. For instance, I’ve been warned when being introduced by other entrepreneurs not to trust certain older VCs due to their disposition towards using young startups to do their friends favors, prove a point, gain some insight, etc. Warning sign? At best. ~ Is 20 years enough?

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital

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Cracking The Code: Getting the most of your online marketing: the In.

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. sales and marketing. (10). software. (10). ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Monday, February 12, 2007.

Software Review

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10 Reasons Why Your Marketing Plans Don’t Work

Up and Running

JUNE 27, 2018

Take, for instance, a 2010 marketing snafu by Gap. If you want to create a solid end-to-end marketing plan, make sure that you review your strategies and align them with your current customer’s expectations. Is it increasing sales by 20 percent per quarter? Strategies for various stages in the sales cycle.

Marketing Social Media Campaign Sales Cycle

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. If you use software like LivePlan, you can create this initial “lean plan” in under an hour and then spend your time where it really matters—on validating your idea. The business model.

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