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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

Asia is smaller but growing as wealth increases in large, urban environments. After a year in the market, MakeSpace was growing rapidly and our biggest issue was CAC (customer acquisition costs) relative to payback period (when we get our marketing investment back) and relative to LTV (lifetime value).

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Bitesize Tuesday: Tracx, Innovid, Kenshoo, uTest and More Investment Rounds [recap]

VC Cafe

A number of investment rounds and acquisitions took place in recent weeks and it’s worth taking note. Kenshoo , the SEM automation startup and Sequoia’s darling, has raised a fourth round of $8-10 million from Sequoia. The round is intended to support Kenshoo’s expansion into France, Germany and Asia.

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

Cracking the Code

Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. The CLTV is the net present value of the recurring profit streams of a given customer less the acquisition cost. Cashflow is the other key metric. Philippe Botteri. Bessemer SaaS Law #2.