Cracking the Code

MAY 25, 2010

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. As an Eloqua customer and just getting done reading the Bessemer’s Top 10 Laws of Cloud Computing and SaaS and am working on being able to share it potential clients. software. (10).

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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. Cracking The Code on Facebook. software. (10). ► 2012. (1). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Tuesday, December 01, 2009. at 12:41 PM.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 31, 2012

How Do You Define a Loyal Customer? How Much Information Should you Give VCs for Due Diligence? How Do You Define a Loyal Customer? Social Media Customer Service is a Failure – Frank Eliason, Citibank [link]. 75 Professional Free Fonts from 2012 to Spice up Your Typography – [link]. – [link].

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 2, 2011

While answering those three questions can be difficult, keep in mind that just about every business owner has some business plan in place for when they open up, with that plan being reviewed and retooled over time to make sure the company is meeting its goals. When reviewing your business plan, keep the information as detailed as possible.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. .” One needs to be in during bull markets and bear markets. Year in, year out.

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 13, 2007

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Software 2.0: How the use of internet is transforming the software industry. To win in this new space, software companies need new marketing skills. Friday, April 13, 2007.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Software as a Service (SaaS), the most mature of these segments, is comprised of end user applications like Salesforce.com. Forget everything you learned about software channels.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2022

Paul is the founder and CEO of Marketing AI Institute, and the founder of PR 20/20, HubSpot’s first partner agency. He is the author of The Marketing Performance Blueprint (Wiley, 2014) and The Marketing Agency Blueprint (Wiley, 2012); and the creator of the Marketing AI Conference (MAICON). Marketing AI Institute. Connect on LinkedIn.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 9, 2017

I realized I had a passion for cleaning, for making my customers smile and seeing how rewarding it was to help those who needed it. I knew I could streamline my cleaning process where it benefited the customer and my team. Be determined, be diligent, be continuously learning, and be unafraid or what anyone else thinks.

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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. The company had the chance of selling a very sticky product to large customers paying upfront, so there was no need to improve the sales bonuses based on cash collection and multi-year contracts.

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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

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Focus on Customers not Competitors – [link]. Bonnstetter | Harvard Business Review – [link]. Focus on Customers not Competitors – [link]. Nine Ways Successful People Defeat Stress | Heidi Grant Halvorson -Harvard Business Review – [link]. Losers exist. Don’t hire them | Pando Daily – [link].

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. So where does Salesforces profitability stands today compared to the most successful on premise public software companies? traditional software is like cocaine--youre hooked.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2012

Online Ad Spending to Surpass Print for First Time in 2012 - [link]. Mobile-Ad Spending Projected to Reach $2.61B in 2012 - [link]. Why Startups Shouldn’t Hire PR Firms – [link]. I don’t agree w/ @benkunz – obscure price increases that trick customers are not brilliant – [link]. – [link].

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Mostly, I sell software. ” What does “execute arbitrary code” mean? Literally, it means that the attacker can choose to have your server execute any code they can dream up.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

Are you trying to build buzz, but don’t have the cash to launch a full-fledged PR campaign? I emphasize that the best PR you can build is through satisfied customers with high Net Promoter scores. In other words, you should focus first on a great product/service, and only after you’ve achieved that worry about PR.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Is The Only Purpose of Customer Service To Change Feelings? Startup (and Small Business) Tips: Ask Your Customers For Feedback. Startup (and Small Business) Tips: Ask Your Customers For Feedback. The Most Memorable Quotes (I Could Capture) From Startup School 2012 | The Art of Ass-Kicking – [link]. – [link].

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Cracking the Code

JULY 6, 2007

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. However, SaaS companies are trading today at an average of 5-6x trailing revenues (salesforce leading the pack with 8.7x), while traditional software companies are in the 2-3x range.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 9, 2012

Tips On Surviving Technical Due Diligence – [link]. Customer Validation: What To Do Post Product/Market Fit – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 14 Best Web Design Trends of 2012 – [link]. – [link].

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eranki.tumblr.com

JULY 13, 2012

July 12, 2012. Another thing that became increasingly useful was to have thousands of custom stats aggregated over thousands of servers graphed. If there is a way to do this, it would also be cool to have markings on the graph that point to events you can annotate such as code push, or AWS outage. Apr 8 2012 14:33:59 POST.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 13, 2012

Good suggestions from @stoweboyd on handling customer service questions and issues – [link]. Good suggestions from @stoweboyd on handling customer service questions and issues – [link]. When Reviewing A New Idea, Never Forget Its First Impression – [link]. PR to come to grips with Data (or not) – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

Five Tips To Improve Employee Performance Reviews – [link]. Good suggestions on handling customer service questions and issues – [link]. Mark Cuban on Why You Should Never Listen to Your Customers – [link]. Five Tips To Improve Employee Performance Reviews – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2013

In 2012 | TechCrunch – [link]. Five of Steve Jobs’s Biggest Mistakes | Peter Sims-Harvard Business Review – [link]. 12 big brands & celebrities that crowdsourced in 2012 | The Next Web – [link]. Amazon Set To Sell Advertisers On Its Customer Purchasing Data – [link]. Forrester: U.S.

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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. Popular Media is a hosted, web-based technology platform that enables customers to quickly create, optimize, and scale viral marketing programs - and it seems to work pretty well.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 23, 2012

One Customer Doesn’t Make a Market – [link]. One Customer Doesn’t Make a Market – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Web Design Trends You Should Adopt in 2012 – [link]. I hope they have an elevator! – [link].

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software. at 11:09 AM.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2012

What Job Are Your Customers Hiring Your Products To Perform? Why You Should Want to Pay for Software, Instagram Edition | The Atlantic - [link]. Bonnstetter-Harvard Business Review - [link]. What Job Are Your Customers Hiring Your Products To Perform? Top Marketing # FAILs of 2012 - [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

You can find this, and 26 other science fictions that became science facts in 2012, in the Other section below. Will 2013 Be Harder For Startups Than 2012? (by Favorite Book Cover Designs of 2012 | NYT – [link]. Popular Web Design Trends from 2012 | Speckyboy – [link]. Dave McClure – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The Top 10 Reasons your Home Page Video fails at Converting Customers – [link]. How to Build Trust in a Virtual Workplace | Harvard Business Review – [link]. 1 Enemy of Creativity: Fear of Failure | Harvard Business Review – [link]. 35 Adobe Illustrator Tutorials Released in September 2012 – [link].

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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.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 16, 2012

The #1 Thing That Creates Loyal Customers – [link]. Want to Win The Competition For Customers? Want to Win The Competition For Customers? The #1 Thing That Creates Loyal Customers – [link]. 75 Professional Free Fonts from 2012 to Spice up Your Typography – [link]. – [link]. – [link].

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 30, 2013

On average, during Black Friday 2012, social traffic converted 77% higher than normal. A new Forrester report titled “The Purchase Path of Online Buyers In 2012? Social media can give your company many benefits – it can increase awareness, introduce you to new people, help with customer service (real time customer service!),

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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. software. (10). ► 2012. (1). Monday, February 12, 2007. Getting the most of your online marketing: the In & Out of SEM/SEO. Add RSS feed.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

What Zappos Can Teach You About Becoming Irresistible to Customers – [link]. What Zappos Can Teach You About Becoming Irresistible to Customers – [link]. Seven observations on the 2012 Super Bowl ads – [link]. Report: Search Ad Spend To Rise 27% In 2012 – [link]. Got Early Startup Competition?

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

10 Ways to Convert More Customers With Psychology [INFOGRAPHIC] – [link]. How ‘Gamification’ Can Make Your Customer Service Worse | Wired – [link]. 10 Ways to Convert More Customers With Psychology [INFOGRAPHIC] – [link]. The Big Decision: Stay Small or Try to Grow – [link].

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 10, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Lets call this ratio the Customer Acquisition Cost ratio or CAC ratio. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software. Cracking The Code on Facebook. software. (10).

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