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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

In addition, those humans, collectively, are the majority of America and they reside disproportionately in non-primary markets. Grew up here in the Central Valley of California, left for early work and career in college, bounced around North America for a while, returned home to start this company. It feels really, really obvious."

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How to Pitch, Plan, and Track Your Business with LivePlan [VIDEO]

Up and Running

A persona is an aggregate of all the traits that your customers have, so that it becomes your most common customer. If you were to say, who is the target market for Crocs, in America? Even if your company has been around for a while, you should identify two or three personas, who encompass all your customers.

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

Cracking the Code

The top performing SaaS companies typically achieve annual customer renewal rates above 90% - with most of the churn due to death (bankruptcies) or marriage (acquisitions) - and over 100% renewals on a dollar value basis due to up-sells into this installed base. Stay local - Prove your business in North America first. Philippe Botteri.