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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The latter are included in free cash flow whereas the former are excluded, since they’re one-time in nature and it’s possible stock is used instead of cash for acquisitions. IMO this is much ado about nothing, as any comptentent analyst can look at Groupon’s GAAP and non-GAAP metrics and get a good sense of the business.

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How to Conduct a SaaS Funnel Audit

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That’s the sound of potential customers leaking out of your sales funnel. After fighting tooth-and-nail to launch your SaaS business, the last thing you want is a leaky sales funnel to undermine all your hard work. The Metrics That Matter. MRR is probably the most critical metric for any subscription business.

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Common Growth Hacking Myths (and How Growth Actually Works)

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” April, 2012 – Andrew Chen writes Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing , which goes viral (2.4K September 2012 – Aaron Ginn, who currently does growth at Everlane , writes Defining A Growth Hacker: Three Common Characteristics to help define the term. Ads drive awareness…to drive sales. via AndrewChen.co).

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Everything You Need To Know About Creating Killer Explainer Videos

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On the eCommerce side, a 2012 report by invodo showed that over half of eCommerce buyers report feeling more confident in a purchase decision after watching a product video, and high quality videos can increase cart sizes by an impressive 174 %. While these may seem like sturdy benchmarks, don’t put too much stock in them.

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Cracking The Code: Impact of the recession on SaaS.

Cracking the Code

Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing productivity. However, if the SaaS & Cloud computing industry is doing relatively well in this downturn, the recession has severely impacted the sales&marketing productivity of these companies, with longer sales cycle, smaller deal size and limited upsells opportunity.

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

Cracking the Code

The stock was very well received, jumping 25% on its first day of trading. Today, the stock is still up 22% and the company is trading at a very healthy 4.2 sales and marketing. (10). ► 2012. (1). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan.