Acquisition Bootstrapping Developer Sales Cycle 
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 16, 2011
They charge $9, $29 and $59 per agent per month and I am eager to see bootstrapped, scrappy Freshdesk morph their pricing structure to aggressively compete with them. Guttula, Bizosys' CEO, and Karana founded the company with the goal to "simplify software development." RightNow's per agent price starts at $110 per agent per month.
Hippoland
AUGUST 8, 2018
One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. But, if they are not, it’s very hard to use paid acquisition to generate that type of traffic for under $5. Sales cycles matter though.
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Hippoland
AUGUST 8, 2018
One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. But, if they are not, it’s very hard to use paid acquisition to generate that type of traffic for under $5. Sales cycles matter though.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule. And what of the product development team? Build tools for the sales team that reduce the time investment required for each sale.
ReadWriteStart
NOVEMBER 16, 2010
The big enterprise software companies almost all bootstrapped their way to profitability before they got their first external investors (typically via an IPO). The transition from a founder who does all the sales to a scalable sales team is really, really hard and many ventures fail at this transition.
Hippoland
FEBRUARY 12, 2018
When you’re talking with an investor, I’d say in general, he/she has biases towards the customer acquisition methods that has made him/her money before. But, it’s not so high such that only a small number of people can pay for it, so you don’t have to get the sales process perfect as a first-time entrepreneur or be a super salesperson.
Hippoland
FEBRUARY 12, 2018
When you’re talking with an investor, I’d say in general, he/she has biases towards the customer acquisition methods that has made him/her money before. But, it’s not so high such that only a small number of people can pay for it, so you don’t have to get the sales process perfect as a first-time entrepreneur or be a super salesperson.
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