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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

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But even with that webinar’s success, we still had a lot of education to do in order to get people to understand what we did and even how we saw marketing in general, which we needed to do to generate demand and sales. So our early goals were to continue to grow significantly month over month. We got 300. Where do you start?

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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To compute the cost to acquire a customer, CAC, you would take your entire cost of sales and marketing over a given period, including salaries and other headcount related expenses, and divide it by the number of customers that you acquired in that period. (In SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world?

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

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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. Posted by Philippe Botteri.