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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Do you have any thoughts on scalable customer acquisition in cases where a decent bit of knowledge work has to be invested into each customer? This unit of progress is remarkable in several ways. April 15, 2009 3:48 PM Knowist said.

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

Cracking the Code

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. Cashflow is the other key metric. Philippe Botteri. Bessemer SaaS Law #2.