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Your B2B Demand Generation Funnel: How to Create One and Mistakes to Avoid

ConversionXL

This value-based model bringing all the right customers to their yard is called demand generation. In this article, you’ll learn how to build a demand generation funnel that fuels the pipeline, shortens the sale cycle, and generates revenue. Like SEO, demand generation is a long game.

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Pricing determines your business

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Price is not an exercise in maximizing some micro-economic supply/demand curve, slapped post-facto onto the product. Marketing and sales spend is nil, so there has to be a reason it spreads by word of mouth, ideally virally as a natural result of using the product itself. $10/mo simple enough to be self-service).

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

As I ask questions to understand the thinking, what usually comes out is something vague along the lines of web marketing, and/or viral growth with no numbers attached. A quick look around all the B2C startups shows that, although viral growth is often hoped for, in reality it is extremely rare.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

As always, there are exceptions: if you build a viral consumer product (such as an Instagram) where people are just coming to your site / app in droves at no cost to you, then you’ve got a great business. 2) B2B startups have high margins. Sales cycles matter though. B2B companies can have great unit economics.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

As always, there are exceptions: if you build a viral consumer product (such as an Instagram) where people are just coming to your site / app in droves at no cost to you, then you’ve got a great business. 2) B2B startups have high margins. Sales cycles matter though. B2B companies can have great unit economics.

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270+ Tools for Running a Business Online

mashable.com

Nuospace – On demand collaboration software that provides online document management, allows you to edit pages in your browser, and offers tools to engage your colleagues. RightNow – RightNow is an on-demand customer relationship management program that integrates sales, service, marketing, feedback and voice functions.

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

Cracking the Code

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Philippe Botteri.