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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. The managing partner of the firm called me the next day. we had about 25 firms contacting us – more than I could manage. Experienced and serial entrepreneurs in the content management space.

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

ReadWriteStart

But you don't have any lords and masters to answer to and the pay out goes entirely to the founders and management team. The architecture has to deal with the constant pivots and directional changes to adapt to the market needs. It is equally true for the brilliant developer who has to migrate to becoming a leader of managers.

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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.