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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Compared to the million-dollar startup, they are operating at micro-scale. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. but few step back and really examine the underlying assumptions of startup finance. How does that stack up? April 15, 2009 9:20 PM Shaun said.

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Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

The best board books I've seen track nearly 20-30 key metrics (some financial, some operating) from meeting to meeting and those metrics are usually covered in the first 20-30 minutes of the meeting, setting the stage for more strategic discussion. SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? Great stuff!

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The SMB Guide To CRM In 2019

YoungUpstarts

No doubt you’re thinking about myriad administrative and organizational needs relating to accounting and finance, staffing, your product and service roadmap for the year and more. The sales-cycle will no longer be filled with fragmented or piecemeal information conducted offline on notepads and whiteboards.

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270+ Tools for Running a Business Online

mashable.com

Free CRM – This is a Web-based customer relationship management software that allows for sales force automation. Track leads and manage your sales pipeline. Simple Sales Tracking – An online sales tracking app that offers free and paid plans. Soocial – A simple contact management app and address book.

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

Cracking the Code

In my case (LucidEra -- a SaaS analytics provider focusing on sales, marketing, and financial analytics), weve found that success requires not only building some best practices for analytics into our solution, but also coming up with a repeatable and scalable way to show the customer how to use the analytics and how to interpret the results.